Lay

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil 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”

2. fiil To cause to subside or abate.

   “The cloudes, as things affrayd, before him flye; / But all so soone as his outrageous powre / Is layd, they fiercely then begin to shoure […]”

3. fiil 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.”

4. fiil To install certain building materials, laying one thing on top of another.

   “lay brick; lay flooring”

5. fiil To produce and deposit (an egg or eggs).

   “The hen laid an egg.”

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

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

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

   “I dare lay mine honour / He will remain so.”

8. fiil To have sex with.

   “to get laid”

9. fiil To state; to allege.

   “to lay the venue”

10. fiil To point; to aim.

    “to lay a gun”

11. fiil 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”

12. fiil To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone.
13. fiil To place (new type) properly in the cases.
14. fiil To apply; to put.

    “The news article laid emphasis on the unusually young age of the criminals.”

15. fiil To impose (a burden, punishment, command, tax, etc.).

    “to lay a tax on land”

16. fiil To impute; to charge; to allege.

    “God layeth not folly to them.”

17. fiil To present or offer.

    “to lay an indictment in a particular county”

18. fiil To produce and deposit an egg or eggs.

    “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.”

19. fiil To subside or abate.

    “I believe the wind is laying and perhaps we will not have a snow. If it turns cold without snow, we can have the hog killed.”

20. fiil To take a position; to come or go.

    “to lay forward; to lay aloft”

21. isim Arrangement or relationship; layout.

    “the lay of the land”

22. isim A share of the profits in a business.

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

23. isim The direction a rope is twisted.

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

24. isim A casual sexual partner.

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

25. isim An act of sexual intercourse.

    “Listening to this dismissal of his work, [Tennessee] Williams thought to himself of Wilder, “This character has never had a good lay.””

26. isim A place or activity where someone spends a significant portion of their time.

    “I shall be on that lay nae mair”

27. isim The laying of eggs.

    “The hens are off the lay at present.”

28. isim A layer.

    “[…] lay in the bottom of an earthen pot some dried vine leaves, and so make a lay of Pears, and leaves till the pot is filled up, laying betwixt each lay some sliced Ginger […]”

29. isim A basis or ground.

    “On this lay or ground we should also add the finishing colours.”

30. isim A pursuit or practice; a dodge.

    “FIDLAM BENS. Thieves who have no particular lay, whose every finger is a fish-hook; fellows that will steal any thing they can remove.”