Word Finder - laying

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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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• becalm
• settle down

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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.

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Did dinosaurs lay their eggs in a nest?

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To bet (that something is or is not the case).

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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.

synonyms

• lie by
• lie with
• sleep 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.).

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to lay a tax on land

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To impute; to charge; to allege.

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• ascribe
• attribute

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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

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To don or put on (tefillin (phylacteries)).

She moved closer to him, laying her head on his chest.

He put the box behind the seat in the truck and climbed in, laying the picture beside him.

Dry your bathing suit by laying it flat on a towel or hang it in the shade.

The works sent to Clement he regarded as preliminaries, laying down principles which were afterwards to be applied to the sciences.

He, among others, prepared designs for laying out the City anew.

This trick is similar to the laying jump but is performed from the sitting position.

No matter what age or gender, anyone laying a hand on this game will be captivated.

The reproduction of tsetse-flies is highly remarkable; instead of laying eggs or being ovovivi parous the females deposit at intervals of about a fortnight or three weeks a single full-grown larva, which forthwith buries itself in the ground to a depth of several centi metres, and assumes the pupal state.

Generally washing them in a gentle cycle and then laying them flat to dry is the best technique.

If he does it correctly, touch the training icon and say "laying jump".

Collectibles - Wines in this group will be deemed worthy for laying down to age.

In the next stall the goat was laying on her side, straining... could be a problem there.

Karns suggested laying a 6-in.

The hlaford and his hiredmen are an institution not only of private patronage, but also of police supervision for the sake of laying hands on malefactors and suspected persons.

Since a sheer garment is prone to snags, you should wear gloves while washing, then roll the robe in a towel to soak up the water before laying it flat to dry.

With over fifty different increasingly destructive techniques for the Hulk to master, the player should have little difficulty laying to waste a swath of enemies.

Midway did a nice job scaling the city and laying it out well.

A large section of her members, accordingly, laying stress on this side of her tradition, prefer to call themselves " Catholics."

The adjoining Quincy market may be mentioned because its construction (1826) was utilized to open six new streets, widen a seventh, and secure flats, docks and wharf rights - all without laying tax or debt upon the city.

So, too, does it appear that ants are entirely immune to the attacks of Ichneumonidae, which destroy hosts of other insects and of spiders by laying their eggs upon their bodies.

Oscillatoriae may be mounted by laying a portion on a silver coin placed on a piece of paper in a plate, and pouring in water until the edge of the coin is just covered.

Napoleon now modified the simple plan prepared for Latouche Treville, and began laying elaborate plans by which French vessels were to slip out and sail for distant seas, to draw the British fleet after them, and then return to concentrate in the Channel.

He was born in Abana, near the Black Sea, where his father was a bridge-keeper and his mother followed the despised profession of laying out the dead.

Actively interested with Cyrus Field in the laying of the first Atlantic cable, he was president of the New York, Newfoundland & London Telegraph Company, and his frequent cash advances made the success of the company possible; he was president of the North American Telegraph Company also, which controlled more than one-half of the telegraph lines of the United States.

His talent for electrical engineering was soon shown, and his progress was rapid; so that in 1852 he was appointed engineer to the Magnetic Telegraph Company, and in that capacity superintended the laying of lines in various parts of the British Isles, including in 1853 the first cable between Great Britain and Ireland, from Portpatrick to Donaghadee.

Except in the neighbourhood of Aden, no regular surveys exist, and professional work is limited to the marine surveys of the Indian government and the admiralty, which, while laying down the coast line with fair accuracy, give little or no topographical information inland.

He then notes the application to portraiture and to painting by laying colours on the projected images.

The Comtist maintains that even if these five volumes together fail in laying down correctly and finally the lines of the new science, still they are the first solution of a great problem hitherto unattempted.

Herder's services in laying the foundations of a comparative science of religion and mythology are even of greater value than his somewhat crude philological speculations.

In his Commentaries, by laying aside the ornaments of oratory, he created the most admirable style of prose narrative, the style which presents interesting events in their sequence of time and dependence on the will of the actor, rapidly and vividly, with scarcely any colouring of personal or moral feeling, any oratorical passion, any pictorial illustration.

Other flies of this group have the inquiline habit, laying their eggs in the galls of other species, while others again pierce the cuticle of maggots or aphids, in whose bodies their larvae live as parasites.

They make burrows wherein they place insects or spiders which they have caught and stung, laying their eggs beside the victim so that the young larvae find themselves in presence of an abundant and appropriate food-supply.

Laying more stress on his position as duke of Saxony than king of Germany, he conferred great benefits on his duchy.

The story that he received the surname of "Fowler" because the nobles, sent to inform him of his election to the throne, found him engaged in laying snares for the birds, appears to be mythical.

They moult five times, becoming with each change of skin darker in colour; in about three weeks they become adult and capable of laying parthenogenetic eggs.

The influence of wind project for laying a telegraph cable between Ireland and on water-level is most remarkable in heavy storms on the flat Newfoundland.

This association offered a vigorous opposition to the movement, which succeeded only when it was too late, for obtaining alterations in the constitution limiting the power of the Emperor and laying the foundations of real parliamentary government in the Empire and in Prussia.

The opening and laying out, or, as it is generally called, "winning," of new collieries is rarely Prelimin- undertaken without a ary trial preliminary examination of coal= of the character of the workings.

The laying out of a colliery, after the coal has been won, by sinkings or levels, may be accomplished in various ways, according to the nature of the coal, its thickness and dip, and the extent of ground to be worked.

The first process in laying out the workings consists in driving a gallery on the level along the course of the coal seam, which is known as a " dip head level," and a lower parallel one, in which the water collects, known as a " lodgment level."

In Staffordshire the main levels are also known as Laying gate roads."

In laying out the mine it is customary to drive the levels or roads in pairs, communication being made between them at intervals by cutting through the intermediate pillar; the air then passes along one and returns by the other.

All his spare time was spent in studying the early Fathers with Du Vergier, and laying plans for a reformation of the Church.

That they retained the laying on of hands in their spiritual baptism was an inconsistency which their orthodox opponents did not fail to note; the human hand, argued the latter, is, like the rest of the body, no less the work of the evil creator than water, oil, bread and wine, or than the wood, metal and stone out of which altars, images and churches are made.

Instruction in the use of sights was based on the principle of securing uniformity in laying; for this reason fine sighting was discountenanced and laying by full sight enjoined.

It can be equally well used for direct or indirect, forward or back laying.

The normal method of laying these is from the fore-sight over the tangent sight to a point in rear.

The leaves are reversible, and provided with a notch at one end and a point at the other, so that they can be used for either forward or reverse laying.

The leaf of the fore-sight has a pinhole, and that of the tangent sight cross-wires for fine reverse laying.

It was ranged by varying the charge, and layed for line by means of a line and plumb bob Laying aligned on a picket.