"lay open" meaning in English

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      "form": "lays open",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "laying open",
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        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "laid open",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "laid open",
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        "past"
      ]
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      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Patent law",
          "orig": "en:Patent law",
          "parents": [
            "Law",
            "Justice",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
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          "_dis": "78 14 8",
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "85 8 7",
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "80 10 9",
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        {
          "_dis": "78 11 10",
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "73 18 9",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Korean translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To publish a patent for initial public review, prior to the formal application for registration."
      ],
      "id": "en-lay_open-en-verb-x2RhGiFV",
      "links": [
        [
          "patent",
          "patent#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "law",
          "law"
        ],
        [
          "patent",
          "patent"
        ],
        [
          "public",
          "public"
        ],
        [
          "review",
          "review"
        ],
        [
          "formal",
          "formal"
        ],
        [
          "application",
          "application"
        ],
        [
          "registration",
          "registration"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(patent law, Japan and South Korea) To publish a patent for initial public review, prior to the formal application for registration."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Japan",
        "South-Korea"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "intellectual-property",
        "law",
        "patent-law"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "67 26 7",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "East Asian patent publication",
          "word": "offenlegen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "67 26 7",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "kōkaisuru",
          "sense": "East Asian patent publication",
          "word": "公開する"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "67 26 7",
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "gonggaehada",
          "sense": "East Asian patent publication",
          "word": "공개하다"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "to lay oneself open to criticism",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 11, page 207:",
          "text": "The power of turning into an animal has this serious disadvantage that it lays you open to the chance of being wounded or even slain in your animal skin before you have the chance to put it off and scramble back into your human integument.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To expose or reveal (something)."
      ],
      "id": "en-lay_open-en-verb-OsBC1XhH",
      "links": [
        [
          "expose",
          "expose"
        ],
        [
          "reveal",
          "reveal"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To expose or reveal (something)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "To open (something) through cutting or scissoring."
      ],
      "id": "en-lay_open-en-verb-DfBph0Kc",
      "links": [
        [
          "open",
          "open"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To open (something) through cutting or scissoring."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "lay open"
}

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    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Japanese translations",
    "Terms with Korean translations"
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    {
      "form": "lays open",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "laying open",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "laid open",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "laid open",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
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      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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      "categories": [
        "en:Patent law"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To publish a patent for initial public review, prior to the formal application for registration."
      ],
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          "patent",
          "patent#Noun"
        ],
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          "law",
          "law"
        ],
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          "patent",
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        [
          "public",
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        ],
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          "review"
        ],
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          "formal",
          "formal"
        ],
        [
          "application",
          "application"
        ],
        [
          "registration",
          "registration"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(patent law, Japan and South Korea) To publish a patent for initial public review, prior to the formal application for registration."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Japan",
        "South-Korea"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "intellectual-property",
        "law",
        "patent-law"
      ]
    },
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
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        {
          "text": "to lay oneself open to criticism",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 11, page 207:",
          "text": "The power of turning into an animal has this serious disadvantage that it lays you open to the chance of being wounded or even slain in your animal skin before you have the chance to put it off and scramble back into your human integument.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To expose or reveal (something)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "expose",
          "expose"
        ],
        [
          "reveal",
          "reveal"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To expose or reveal (something)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To open (something) through cutting or scissoring."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "open",
          "open"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To open (something) through cutting or scissoring."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "East Asian patent publication",
      "word": "offenlegen"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "kōkaisuru",
      "sense": "East Asian patent publication",
      "word": "公開する"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "gonggaehada",
      "sense": "East Asian patent publication",
      "word": "공개하다"
    }
  ],
  "word": "lay open"
}