LAY
Definition:
- [noun] a narrative song with a recurrent refrain
Synonyms: ballad
- [noun] a narrative poem of popular origin
Synonyms: ballad
- [verb] put into a certain place or abstract location; "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point"
Synonyms: put, set, place, pose, position
- [verb] put in a horizontal position; "lay the books on the table"; "lay the patient carefully onto the bed"
Synonyms: put down, repose
- [verb] prepare or position for action or operation; "lay a fire"; "lay the foundation for a new health care plan"
- [verb] lay eggs; "This hen doesn't lay"
- [verb] impose as a duty, burden, or punishment; "lay a responsibility on someone"
- [adjective] concerning those not members of the clergy; "set his collar in laic rather than clerical position"; "the lay ministry"; "the choir sings both sacred and secular music"
Synonyms: laic, secular
- [adjective] not of or from a profession; "a lay opinion as to the cause of the disease"
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Related Words:
- insert, enclose, inclose, stick in, put in, introduce
- docket
- cock
- postpose
- prepose
- step
- replace, put back
- stratify
- plant
- intersperse
- nestle, snuggle
- pile
- arrange, set up
- superimpose, superpose, lay over
- superpose
- park
- ensconce, settle
- emplace
- emplace
- ship
- underlay
- trench
- pigeonhole
- shelve
- jar
- repose
- stick, put forward
- sign
- middle
- parallelize
- butt
- recess
- reposition
- throw, thrust
- tee, tee up
- rack up
- coffin
- bed
- appose
- set down, put down, place down
- sow, sough, seed
- misplace
- juxtapose
- set down
- bottle
- bucket
- barrel
- ground
- pillow, rest
- misplace, mislay, lose
- upend
- seat, sit, sit down
- lay, put down, repose
- stand, stand up, place upright
- recline
- plant, set
- install, instal, put in, set up
- situate, fix, posit, deposit
- ladle
- poise
- lean
- clap
- rest
- perch
- load
- cram
- set
- siphon
- position
- glycerolize, glycerolise
- space
- marshal
- settle, settle down
- throw
- imbricate
- rail
- lay
- blow
- bury, entomb, inhume, inter, lay to rest
- rebury
- spawn
- minstrelsy
- Edda
