lay

(transitive)To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position.

to lay a book on the table; to lay a body in the grave

A shower of rain lays the dust.

(archaic, transitive)To cause to subside or abate.

Đồng nghĩa: becalm, settle down

(transitive)To prepare (a plan, project etc.); to set out, establish (a law, principle).

(transitive)To install certain building materials, laying one thing on top of another.

lay brick; lay flooring

(transitive)To produce and deposit (an egg or eggs).

The hen laid an egg.

Did dinosaurs lay their eggs in a nest?

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

I'll lay that he doesn't turn up on Monday.

(transitive)To deposit (a stake) as a wager; to stake; to risk.

(slang, transitive)To have sex with.

to get laid

Đồng nghĩa: lie by, lie with, sleep with, Formal terms, bed, coit, coitize, dight, enjoy, feague, go in unto, go to bed with, have, know, lie by, lie with, love, mount, occupy, penetrate, season, seduce, sleep with, take, Any of Thesaurus:copulate + "with", Informal and slang terms, ball, bang, bauf, beep, be with, bone, boff, boink, bonk, boom-boom, dick, diddle, dig out, do, doink, drill, eff, expletive deleted, fill, frack, frak, frick, frig, fuck, get into someone's pants, get over on, get up in, give someone one, give someone the time, go with, have one's way with, have one's wicked way with, hit, hump, jape, jump, jump someone's bones, knob, knock, knock off, know someone in the biblical sense, lay, love up, make, nail, plough, plug, poke, pork, pound, prig, pump, ravage, ream, rock, roger, root, run through, rut, sard, schlong, screw, see to, service, shaft, shag, shelve, slay, slip it to, smash, smush, stallionize, swive, tap, tup, wap

(transitive)To state; to allege.

to lay the venue

(transitive)To point; to aim.

to lay a gun

(transitive)To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them.

to lay a cable or rope

(transitive)To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone.

(countable, uncountable)Arrangement or relationship; layout.

the lay of the land

(countable, uncountable)A share of the profits in a business.

While the Pequod lay at Nantucket, Peleg put Ishmael down for the three hundredth lay.

(countable, uncountable)The direction a rope is twisted.

Worm and parcel with the lay; turn and serve the other way.

(colloquial, countable, uncountable)A casual sexual partner.

What was I, just another lay you can toss aside as you go on to your next conquest?

(colloquial, countable, uncountable)An act of sexual intercourse.

(archaic, countable, slang, uncountable)A place or activity where someone spends a significant portion of their time.

(countable, uncountable)The laying of eggs.

The hens are off the lay at present.

(countable, obsolete, uncountable)A layer.

1766, Thomas Amory, The Life of John Buncle, Esq., London: J. Johnson and B. Davenport, Volume 2, Section 1, p. 16, footnote 1, […] in one particular it exceeds the fen birds, for it has two tastes; it being brown and white meat: under a lay of brown is a lay of white meat […]

(countable, obsolete, uncountable)A basis or ground.

(countable, obsolete, uncountable)(thieves' cant, obsolete) A pursuit or practice; a dodge.

A lake.

A ballad or sung poem; a short poem or narrative, usually intended to be sung.

1925 The Lay of Leithien, poem by J.R.R. Tolkien, Anglo-Saxon Professor.

Not belonging to the clergy, but associated with them.

They seemed more lay than clerical.

a lay preacher; a lay brother

Đồng nghĩa: laical

Non-professional; not being a member of an organized institution.

(card games) Not trumps.

a lay suit

(obsolete)Not educated or cultivated; ignorant.