lay
suomi-englanti sanakirjalay englannista suomeksi
laatia, asettaa, tehdä
munia
maallikko-
laulu
panna, laittaa
balladi
sijoittaa
periä
Verbi
Substantiivi
lay englanniksi
To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position.
(ux)
(RQ:King James Version)
(quote-book)
(RQ:Churchill Celebrity)
(RQ:Christie Autobiography)
(syn)
To prepare (a plan, project etc.); to out, establish (a law, principle).
To install certain building materials, laying one thing on top of another.
To produce and deposit an egg.
To bet (that something is or is not the case).
(RQ:Shakespeare Winter's Tale)
{{quote-text|en|year=1902|author=John Buchan|title=The Outgoing of the Tide
To sex with.
To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them.
To impose (a burden, punishment, command, tax, etc.).
(RQ:Shakespeare Coriolanus)
To lie: to rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
(RQ:Austen Mansfield Park)
{{quote-book|en|year=1969|month=July|author=Bob Dylan|chapter=Lay Lady Lay|title=Nashville Skyline|location=Columbia
1974, John Denver, “Annie’s Song”, ''Back Home Again'', RCA:
- Let me lay down beside you. / Let me always be with you.
Arrangement or relationship; layout.
(quote-journal)
A share of the profits in a business.
(RQ:Melville Moby-Dick)
{{quote-book|en|year=1996|author=JoAnn Ross|title=Southern Comforts|pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=YcHp02_Ou00C&pg=PA166|page=166|publisher=MIRA|year_published=1996|isbn=9780778315254
{{quote-book|en|year=2000|author=R. J. Kaiser|title=Fruitcake|pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=X-Ds57eXf_4C&q=%22his+favorite+lay%22|page=288|publisher=MIRA|year_published=2000|isbn=1551666251
{{quote-book|en|year=2011|author=Kelly Meding|title=Trance|pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=eIIuwj2mbH8C&pg=PA205&dq=%22just+another+lay%22|pages=205–206|publisher=Pocket Books|isbn=9781451620924
An act of intercourse.
{{quote-book|en|year=1993|author=David Halberstam|title=The Fifties|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=Of2GI6Qgjc0C&pg=PT26|publisher=Open Road Integrated Media|year_published=2012|isbn=9781453286074
(quote-song)|title=Nancy Boy|passage=Does his make-up in his roomDouse himself with cheap perfumeEyeholes in a paper bagGreatest lay I ever had
{{quote-book|en|year=2009|author=Fern Michaels|title=The Scoop|pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=vk40d79EZGAC&pg=PA213|pages=212–213|publisher=Kensington Books|isbn=9780758227188
{{quote-book|en|year=2011|author=Pamela Yaye|title=Promises We Make|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=KmyBuTwTWCIC&pg=PT50&dq=%22is+a+good+lay%22|publisher=Kimani Press|year_published=2011|isbn=9780373861996
A place or activity where someone spends a significant portion of their time.
(RQ:Scott Heart of Midlothian)
(RQ:Dickens Bleak House)
A layer.
{{quote-book|en|year=1677|author=Hannah Woolley|title=The Compleat Servant-Maid|location=London|publisher=T. Passinger|page=5|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A66839.0001.001
{{quote-book|en|year=1718|author=Joseph Addison|title=Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703|location=London|publisher=J. Tonson|chapter=Sienna, Leghorne, Pisa|page=300|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004846589.0001.000
{{quote-text|en|year=1724|author=Thomas Spooner|title=A Compendious Treatise of the Diseases of the Skin|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004800562.0001.000|chapter=2|page=20|location=London
1766, (w), ''The Life of John Buncle, Esq.'', London: J. Johnson and B. Davenport, Volume 2, Section 1, p.(nbs)16, footnote(nbs)1,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004885860.0001.002
- (..) 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 (..)
{{quote-book|en|year=1859|author=George Washington Matsell|title=Vocabulum: Or, The Rogue's Lexicon. Comp. from the Most Authentic Sources|page=31
{{quote-text|en|year=1975|author=H. R. F. Keating|title=A Remarkable Case of Burglary
A lake.
Not belonging to the clergy, but associated with them.
Non-professional; not being a member of an organized institution.
(quote-book) It's a sort of disease. There's a scientific name for it. Trau- something. Traumatic symplegia, that's it. This cat has traumatic symplegia. In other words, putting it in simple language adapted to the lay mind, where other cats are content to get their eight hours, Augustus wants his twenty-four.
Not trumps.
Not educated or cultivated; ignorant.
(infl of) (qualifier)
A ballad or sung poem; a short poem or narrative, usually intended to be sung.
{{quote-text|en|year=1742|author=Edward Young|title=The Complaint: or Night-Thoughts on Life, Death & Immortality|section=Complaint: or Night-Thoughts on Life, Death & Immortality/Night I|Night I
(quote-text)
(RQ:Tennyson In Memoriam)
1925 ''The Lay of Leithien'', poem by J.R.R. Tolkien, Anglo-Saxon Professor.
A lyrical, narrative poem written in octosyllabic couplets that often deals with tales of adventure and romance.
1945: "The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun" by JRR Tolkien
- Sad is the note and sad the lay, but mirth we meet not every day.
A law.
(RQ:Spenser Faerie Queene)
An obligation; a vow.
{{RQ:Pliny Holland Historie of the World
to carry
to pass
sail (gloss)
(alt form): (infl of)
garlic (gloss)
to shake