OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 2916

lay

/leɪ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
laico • lego • profano
Non-professional; not being a member of an organized institution.
He hasn't caught a mouse since he was a slip of a kitten. Except when eating, he does nothing but sleep. […] It's a sort of disease. There's a scientific name for it. Trau- somethi…
It is true that in adopting the short view many of the younger economists have not merely taken over the lay notions bodily.
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 2915

lay

/leɪ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
acostar
To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position.
A shower of rain lays the dust.
to lay a book on the table; to lay a body in the grave
poner
To prepare (a plan, project etc.); to set out, establish (a law, principle).
Even when I lay a long plan, it is never in the expectation that I will live to see it fulfilled.
poner
To install certain building materials, laying one thing on top of another.
lay brick; lay flooring
acostarse • tirar • yacer
To have sex with.
'It's because he's a no-good son of a bitch who thinks it is smart to lay his friends' wives and brag about it.'
to get laid
aovar • ovar • poner
To produce and deposit an egg or eggs.
I never kill a pullet but keep to lay the next year.
It [the Houdan breed] bears confinement well, can be kept on any soil, is very hardy, lays well, its flesh is all that can be desired, and it is a nonsitter.