adjective
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(of paper) Marked with parallel lines, as if ribbed, from wires in the mould.
verb
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To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position.
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A shower of rain lays the dust.
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To cause to subside or abate.
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To prepare (a plan, project etc.); to set out, establish (a law, principle).
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To install certain building materials, laying one thing on top of another.
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lay brick; lay flooring
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To produce and deposit an egg.
example
Did dinosaurs lay their eggs in a nest?
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To bet (that something is or is not the case).
example
I'll lay that he doesn't turn up on Monday.
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To deposit (a stake) as a wager; to stake; to risk.
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To have sex with.
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To take a position; to come or go.
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to lay forward; to lay aloft
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To state; to allege.
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to lay the venue
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To point; to aim.
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to lay a gun
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(ropemaking) To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them.
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to lay a cable or rope
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To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone.
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To place (new type) properly in the cases.
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To apply; to put.
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To impose (a burden, punishment, command, tax, etc.).
example
to lay a tax on land
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To impute; to charge; to allege.
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To present or offer.
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to lay an indictment in a particular county; to lay a scheme before one
verb
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To don or put on (tefillin (phylacteries)).
Examples of laid in a Sentence
She laid her head on his shoulder.
He finished and laid out his clothing and weapons in neat piles for the next day then stood at the bed.
He laid the blanket out and sat.
Once the carpet was laid, it would be ready for occupants.
Then laid out his clothes for the evening and crawled into bed for a catnap.
Jackson laid his head back and closed his eyes.
Jule's gaze dropped to the blanket-covered body laid carefully on the living room floor.
Rinsing the razor, he laid it aside and wiped his face with the towel.
For Christ's sake let me alone! cried the wounded man, but still he was lifted and laid on the stretcher.
When chestnuts were ripe I laid up half a bushel for winter.
Han had laid out a few maps on the table near his desk.
She laid her head on his chest and wept.
He laid the suits across the bar and poured two drinks.
Round the house was a garden newly laid out.
She fed them and gathered the few eggs they had laid after she gathered them yesterday.
Tammy wrapped an arm around Lisa's neck and laid a soft curly head on her shoulder.
This expression suggested that she had resolved to endure her troubles uncomplainingly and that her husband was a cross laid upon her by God.
The caterers set up tables, and workers laid the dance floor.
Three bodies were laid out in a row beside it.
Like I told you, when the twins found out half the state was after their ass, they laid low—for a long time, couple of months.
The footman, who was distributing leaflets with Kutuzov's cantata, laid one before Pierre as one of the principal guests.
When the night arrived, to quote their own words--He laid us on the bed with himself and his wife, they at the one end and we at the other, it being only planks laid a foot from the ground and a thin mat upon them.
So perfect is this instinct, that once, when I had laid them on the leaves again, and one accidentally fell on its side, it was found with the rest in exactly the same position ten minutes afterward.
Those broad, reddish hands, with hairy wrists visible from under the shirt cuffs, laid down the pack and took up a glass and a pipe that were handed him.
The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us.
When I was building, one of these had its nest underneath the house, and before I had laid the second floor, and swept out the shavings, would come out regularly at lunch time and pick up the crumbs at my feet.
Carmen laid her head on his chest.
Once when a boy gave him a pair of doves which he had snared, St. Francis had a nest made for them, and the mother bird laid her eggs in it.
She recognized that others used their lips; she "saw" her father reading a paper and when he laid it down she sat in his chair and held the paper before her face.
It seemed that from such a basis of truth and frankness as the poor weak-headed pauper had laid, our intercourse might go forward to something better than the intercourse of sages.
When was the last time you got laid?
Pretend it hasn't been five years since you've gotten laid, Jessi, and relax.
Long time not to get laid.
Yet you haven't gotten laid in four years.
Good. I'm hungry and haven't gotten laid in three days.
This treaty, however, was kept from public knowledge, and Ashley helped Charles to hoodwink parliament by signing a similar treaty on the 2nd of February 1672, which was laid before them as the only one in existence.
But although the Munchkin was hardly tall enough to come to Zeb's shoulder he was so strong and clever that he laid the boy three times on his back with apparent ease.
Though the woodchoppers have laid bare first this shore and then that, and the Irish have built their sties by it, and the railroad has infringed on its border, and the ice-men have skimmed it once, it is itself unchanged, the same water which my youthful eyes fell on; all the change is in me.
Przebyszewski and his corps had laid down their arms.
They laid on me the duty of Rhetor.
So they re-introduced it as chick-wheels so the honeys along the beach could scoop out the surfers and maybe get laid.
He retrieved a jar from the small refrigerator and laid it next to a surgical knife, a large rubber tube, and a huge syringe.
Both were on the courses he laid out for them, though that was not always an indication his preferred outcome was inevitable.
God, he thought, as he laid back his aching head, get me through the next few hours and maybe they'll all be gone!
He laid back down, leaving a space between them.
When Elisabeth opened the door and he laid eyes on her, all conflicted thoughts were replaced with raw emotion.
She gently bit into the meat and when she had eaten most of it, pulled the bone from his hand and laid on the floor chewing on it.
Katie frowned. In the course of a day, Gabe had gone from emotional to unaffected when discussing Death. He was distracted, and she felt like she was talking to someone completely different. Blaming herself for taking his mind off of their survival, she fell silent and followed him. Briars and branches caught her pant legs, and she found herself slowing to push more and more of the jungle's flora out of the way. Gabe, too, began to struggle with the bramble, and she noticed the jungle no longer laid their path before him. Instead of clearing away to allow them passage, it stayed where it was, obstructing them.
She laid her head on Alex's shoulder as he held her close.
She laid the phone on the tombstone and knelt beside her mother's grave, closing her eyes.