lay down
Significado (Inglês)
- (transitive) To give up, surrender, or yield (e.g. a weapon), usually by placing it on the ground.
- To place on the ground, e.g. a railway on a trackbed.
- (transitive) To intentionally take a fall while riding a motorcycle, in order to prevent a more serious collision.
- (transitive) To specify, institute, enact, assert firmly, state authoritatively, establish or formulate (rules or policies).
- To stock, store (e.g. wine) for the future. See also lay by.
- (dated, transitive) To kill (someone).
- (euphemistic, transitive) To euthanize an animal.
- To sacrifice, especially in the phrase "to lay down one's life."
- (intransitive, proscribed) To lie down.
- (dated) To draw the lines of a ship's hull at full size, before starting a build.
- (obsolete) To place a sheet in a printing press for printing.
lie down
- (intransitive) To assume a horizontal position.
- (imperative, intransitive) To assume a horizontal position.
- (intransitive) To be lazy or remiss.
- (intransitive) To submit passively.
- (euphemistic) To have sexual intercourse (with).
Conceitos
por em prática
renunciar a
servir-se de
Sinônimos
make lie down
place down
make use of
put onto
Traduções
Etimologia (Inglês)
In summary
From Middle English leyen doun, leien doun (“to lay down”), equivalent to lay + down.
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