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How to pronounce lay in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms ballad
Type of verse form, poem
Has types edda
Type Words
Synonyms laic, secular
Derivation laity


the lay ministry.
Type Words
Synonyms put down, repose
Type of put, place, set, pose, position
Has types blow, rail, bury, rebury, inter, entomb, lay to rest, inhume


lay the books on the table.
lay the patient carefully onto the bed.
Type Words
Synonyms ballad
Type of vocal, song
Has types minstrelsy
Type Words
Synonyms place, pose, position, put, set
Type of move, displace
Has types misplace, nestle, parallelize, park, perch, pigeonhole, pile, pillow, place down, place upright, plant, poise, posit, position, postpose, prepose, put back, put down, put in, rack up, recess, recline, replace, repose, reposition, rest, seat, seed, set, set down, set up, settle, settle down, shelve, ship, sign, siphon, sit, sit down, situate, snuggle, sow, space, stand up, step, stick in, stratify, superimpose, superpose, tee, tee up, throw, thrust, trench, underlay, upend, stand, appose, arrange, barrel, bed, bottle, bucket, butt, clap, cock, coffin, cram, deposit, dispose, docket, emplace, enclose, ensconce, fix, glycerolise, glycerolize, ground, imbricate, inclose, insert, instal, install, intersperse, introduce, jar, juxtapose, ladle, lay over, lean, load, marshal, middle
Type Words
Type of impose, levy


lay a responsibility on someone.
Type Words
Type of put down, repose
Has types spawn
Derivation layer


This hen doesn't lay.
Type Words


a lay opinion as to the cause of the disease.
Type Words
Type of organise, organize, prepare, devise, machinate, get up


lay a fire.
lay the foundation for a new health care plan.

Examples of lay

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It also helps too when you hit a couple of threes and score a couple of lay-ins.
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Kowalski lay flat on Municipal Stadium's Field Turf as trainers attended to him.
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Like a lot of people, I'll let those pictures lay idle on my handset for months.
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Lay-out blinds were covered with corn stalks and slid into shoveled depressions.
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A baby, wrapped in a yellow blanket, lay beside Johnson's teenage granddaughter.
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So bad that even the kingdom of Beverly Hills has had to lay off its ambassador.
From the timesunion.com
Already, Silverman has said he will cut Avis'fleet and lay off 20% of its staff.
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Neighborhood council members threatened to lay down strips to halt the practice.
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Senate Democrats who lay claim to be environmentalists should have embraced him.
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More examples
  • Laic: characteristic of those who are not members of the clergy; "set his collar in laic rather than clerical position"; "the lay ministry"
  • Ballad: a narrative song with a recurrent refrain
  • Put: 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"
  • Ballad: a narrative poem of popular origin
  • Not of or from a profession; "a lay opinion as to the cause of the disease"
  • Put in a horizontal position; "lay the books on the table"; "lay the patient carefully onto the bed"
  • The Lay (French: le Lay) is a 120.3u00A0km (74.8u00A0mi) long river in the Vendu00E9e du00E9partement, western France. Its source is at Saint-Pierre-du-Chemin. It flows generally southwest. It flows into the Bay of Biscay between La Faute-sur-Mer and L'Aiguillon-sur-Mer, 20u00A0km (12u00A0mi) northwest of La Rochelle.
  • Laying is the skill of making equipment level. It usually involves moving equipment in small motions so that spirit levels are centralised in all planes. ...
  • (Lays) Lay's (Known as Walkers in the UK) is the brand name for a number of potato chip (crisps in UK English) varieties as well as the name of the company that founded the chip brand in 1932. Lay's chips are marketed as a division of Frito-Lay, a company owned by PepsiCo Inc. since 1965. ...