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"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "allay"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "a wild goose never laid a tame egg"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "belay"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "best laid plans"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "cable-laid"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "cable-laid rope"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "forelay"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "get laid"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "hawser-laid"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "hawser-laid rope"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "laid-back"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "laid back"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "laid-off"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "laid up"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay about"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay a finger on"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay a foundation"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay a glove on"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay a hand on"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay an anchor to the windward"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay an egg"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay aside"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay at someone's door"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay a venue"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay away"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay back"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay bare"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay bare one's soul"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay behind"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay-by"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay by"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay-bye"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay by the heels"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay chase"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay chilly"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay claim"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay-down"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay down"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay eggs"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay eyes on"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay for"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay hands on"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay hold of"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay hold on"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay hold upon"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay-in"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay in"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay in ashes"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "laying on of hands"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay in lavender"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay into"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay it on thick"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay low"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay odds"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay off"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay-off"
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "layoff"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay on"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay one down"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay one's account"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay one's cards on the table"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay one's eyes on"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay one's hands on"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay one's tongue to"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay on the line"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay on the table"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay on with a trowel"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay open"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay out"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay-out"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay over"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay pipe"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay rubber"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay salt on someone's tail"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay siege"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay some skin on"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay something at the feet of"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay store by"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay the dust"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay the groundwork"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay the hammer down"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay the pipe"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay the smack down"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay the table"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay to"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay to heart"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay to rest"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay tracks"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay up"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay-up"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay up in lavender"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "lay waste"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "offlay"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "plain-laid"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "re-lay"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "shroud-laid"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "the best laid plans of mice and men go oft astray"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "twice-laid"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "water-laid"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "well-laid"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "overlay"
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*legʰ-"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "root"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "leyen"
},
"expansion": "Middle English leyen",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "leggen"
},
"expansion": "leggen",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "leċġan",
"t": "to lay"
},
"expansion": "Old English leċġan (“to lay”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gmw-pro",
"3": "*laggjan"
},
"expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *laggjan",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*lagjaną",
"4": "",
"5": "to lay"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *lagjaną (“to lay”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*ligjaną",
"t": "to lie, recline"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *ligjaną (“to lie, recline”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*legʰ-",
"t": "to lie, recline"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lie, recline”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fy",
"2": "lizze",
"3": "",
"4": "to lay, to lie"
},
"expansion": "West Frisian lizze (“to lay, to lie”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "leggen",
"3": "",
"4": "to lay"
},
"expansion": "Dutch leggen (“to lay”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "legen",
"3": "",
"4": "to lay"
},
"expansion": "German legen (“to lay”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nb",
"2": "legge",
"3": "",
"4": "to lay"
},
"expansion": "Norwegian Bokmål legge (“to lay”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nn",
"2": "leggja",
"3": "",
"4": "to lay"
},
"expansion": "Norwegian Nynorsk leggja (“to lay”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "lägga",
"3": "",
"4": "to lay"
},
"expansion": "Swedish lägga (“to lay”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "is",
"2": "leggja",
"3": "",
"4": "to lay"
},
"expansion": "Icelandic leggja (“to lay”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sq",
"2": "lag",
"3": "",
"4": "troop, band, war encampment"
},
"expansion": "Albanian lag (“troop, band, war encampment”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English leyen, leggen, from Old English leċġan (“to lay”), from Proto-West Germanic *laggjan, from Proto-Germanic *lagjaną (“to lay”), causative form of Proto-Germanic *ligjaną (“to lie, recline”), from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lie, recline”).\nCognate with West Frisian lizze (“to lay, to lie”), Dutch leggen (“to lay”), German legen (“to lay”), Norwegian Bokmål legge (“to lay”), Norwegian Nynorsk leggja (“to lay”), Swedish lägga (“to lay”), Icelandic leggja (“to lay”), Albanian lag (“troop, band, war encampment”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "lays",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "laying",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "laid",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "laid",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "en-conj",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "lay",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"infinitive"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "lays",
"2": "laying",
"3": "laid"
},
"expansion": "lay (third-person singular simple present lays, present participle laying, simple past and past participle laid)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"old": "1",
"past": "laid",
"past_2sg_old2": "laidest"
},
"name": "en-conj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "to lay a book on the table; to lay a body in the grave",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "A shower of rain lays the dust.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1735, author unknown, The New-England Primer; as reported by Fred R. Shapiro, The Yale Book of Quotations, Yale University Press, 2006, pages 549–550",
"text": "Now I lay me down to sleep, / I pray the Lord my Soul to keep. / If I should die before I ’wake, / I pray the Lord my Soul to take.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position."
],
"id": "en-lay-en-verb-9IHa8~oH",
"links": [
[
"position",
"position"
],
[
"rest",
"rest"
],
[
"horizontal",
"horizontal"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive)",
"To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "waḍaʕa",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "وَضَعَ"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"code": "ary",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "nəʕʕəs",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"tags": [
"Moroccan-Arabic"
],
"word": "نعّس"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"code": "bn",
"lang": "Bengali",
"roman": "rakha",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "রাখা"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "slagam",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "слагам"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "postavjam",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "поставям"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "ajeure"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "fàng",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "放"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "zhì",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "置"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "fàngzhì",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "放置"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "lægge"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "leggen"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "leggja"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "laskea"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "asettaa"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "panna"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "laittaa"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "coucher"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "poser"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "mettre"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "pór"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "poñer"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "deitar"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "legen"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"code": "got",
"lang": "Gothic",
"roman": "lagjan",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "𐌻𐌰𐌲𐌾𐌰𐌽"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"code": "mba",
"lang": "Higaonon",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "hidaga"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "fektet"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "rebah"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "posare"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "porre"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"alt": "おく",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "oku",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "置く"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"alt": "うむ",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "産む"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "nupda",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "눕다"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "eopdeurida",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "엎드리다"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"code": "ltg",
"lang": "Latgalian",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "likt"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "likt"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"code": "li",
"lang": "Limburgish",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"tags": [
"Maastrichtian"
],
"word": "lègke"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"code": "mi",
"english": "into a flat position",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "whakatāpapa"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "whakatakoto"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"code": "mi",
"english": "into a flat position",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "whakapapa"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "panga"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"code": "gun",
"lang": "Mbyá Guaraní",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "nhono"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"code": "nap",
"lang": "Neapolitan",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "cuccà"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "couochi"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "legge"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "colcar"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "jaire"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "lecgan"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "āleċġan"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"code": "roa-opt",
"lang": "Old Portuguese",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "deitar"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "kłaść"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "położyć"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "deitar"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "culca"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "klastʹ",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "класть"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "položítʹ",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "положи́ть"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ukládyvatʹ",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "укла́дывать"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "uložítʹ",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "уложи́ть"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"code": "sa",
"lang": "Sanskrit",
"roman": "dadhāti",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "दधाति"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "položiti"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"code": "so",
"lang": "Somali",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "jiifin"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"code": "dsb",
"lang": "Lower Sorbian",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "połožyś"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"code": "dsb",
"lang": "Lower Sorbian",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "połožowaś"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "acostar"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "lägga"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "waang",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "วาง"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "yatırmak"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "klásty",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "кла́сти"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "ložýty",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "ложи́ти"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"code": "wa",
"lang": "Walloon",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "coûtchî"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "leygn",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "לייגן"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "avekleygn",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "אַוועקלייגן"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"code": "zza",
"lang": "Zazaki",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "ravısten"
},
{
"_dis1": "47 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 8 15 2 0 0 0 8 11",
"code": "nmn",
"lang": "ǃXóõ",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "ʻǃnàhã"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, book II, canto viii, verse xlviii",
"text": "The cloudes, as things affrayd, before him flye; / But all so soone as his outrageous powre / Is layd, they fiercely then begin to shoure […]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1662, Sir Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two World Systems, Dialogue 2",
"text": "But how upon the winds being laid, doth the ship cease to move?",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1849, Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H., canto XCVI",
"text": "He faced the spectres of the mind\nAnd laid them: thus he came at length\nTo find a stronger faith his own;\nAnd Power was with him in the night,\nWhich makes the darkness and the light,\nAnd dwells not in the light alone,\nBut in the darkness and the cloud",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1895, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “The Yellow Sign”, in The King in Yellow",
"text": "Tessie lay among the cushions, her face a gray blot in the gloom, but her hands were clasped in mine and I knew that she knew and read my thoughts as I read hers, for we had understood the mystery of the Hyades and the Phantom of Truth was laid.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To cause to subside or abate."
],
"id": "en-lay-en-verb-2eYJWiTL",
"links": [
[
"subside",
"subside"
],
[
"abate",
"abate"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive)",
"(archaic) To cause to subside or abate."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "becalm"
},
{
"word": "settle down"
}
],
"tags": [
"archaic",
"transitive"
],
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{
"_dis1": "0 83 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "archaic: to cause to subside or abate",
"word": "laannuttaa"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2006, Clive James, North Face of Soho, Picador, published 2007, page 48",
"text": "Even when I lay a long plan, it is never in the expectation that I will live to see it fulfilled.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To prepare (a plan, project etc.); to set out, establish (a law, principle)."
],
"id": "en-lay-en-verb-0T3iyJgM",
"links": [
[
"prepare",
"prepare"
],
[
"set out",
"set out"
],
[
"establish",
"establish"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive)",
"To prepare (a plan, project etc.); to set out, establish (a law, principle)."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "1 6 31 18 4 7 6 0 0 3 2 5 6 3 2 3 3 1 1",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "ostavjam",
"sense": "to leave something somewhere",
"word": "оставям"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 6 31 18 4 7 6 0 0 3 2 5 6 3 2 3 3 1 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to leave something somewhere",
"word": "jättää"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 6 31 18 4 7 6 0 0 3 2 5 6 3 2 3 3 1 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to leave something somewhere",
"word": "ablegen"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 6 31 18 4 7 6 0 0 3 2 5 6 3 2 3 3 1 1",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to leave something somewhere",
"word": "lasciare"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 6 31 18 4 7 6 0 0 3 2 5 6 3 2 3 3 1 1",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to leave something somewhere",
"word": "panga"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 6 31 18 4 7 6 0 0 3 2 5 6 3 2 3 3 1 1",
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "to leave something somewhere",
"word": "legge igjen"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 6 31 18 4 7 6 0 0 3 2 5 6 3 2 3 3 1 1",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to leave something somewhere",
"word": "deixar"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 6 31 18 4 7 6 0 0 3 2 5 6 3 2 3 3 1 1",
"code": "zza",
"lang": "Zazaki",
"sense": "to leave something somewhere",
"word": "vıradayen"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 4 29 15 2 7 2 3 1 3 4 11 1 2 2 2 2 9 1",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "slagam",
"sense": "to prepare groundwork, table etc.",
"word": "слагам"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 4 29 15 2 7 2 3 1 3 4 11 1 2 2 2 2 9 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to prepare groundwork, table etc.",
"tags": [
"general"
],
"word": "valmistaa"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 4 29 15 2 7 2 3 1 3 4 11 1 2 2 2 2 9 1",
"code": "fi",
"english": "groundwork",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to prepare groundwork, table etc.",
"word": "laskea"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 4 29 15 2 7 2 3 1 3 4 11 1 2 2 2 2 9 1",
"code": "fi",
"english": "table",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to prepare groundwork, table etc.",
"word": "kattaa"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 4 29 15 2 7 2 3 1 3 4 11 1 2 2 2 2 9 1",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to prepare groundwork, table etc.",
"word": "disporre"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 4 29 15 2 7 2 3 1 3 4 11 1 2 2 2 2 9 1",
"code": "no",
"english": "lay a plan",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "to prepare groundwork, table etc.",
"word": "legge"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 4 29 15 2 7 2 3 1 3 4 11 1 2 2 2 2 9 1",
"code": "no",
"english": "lay a table",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "to prepare groundwork, table etc.",
"word": "dekke"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 4 29 15 2 7 2 3 1 3 4 11 1 2 2 2 2 9 1",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to prepare groundwork, table etc.",
"word": "preparar"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 4 29 15 2 7 2 3 1 3 4 11 1 2 2 2 2 9 1",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to prepare groundwork, table etc.",
"word": "dispor"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 4 29 15 2 7 2 3 1 3 4 11 1 2 2 2 2 9 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nakryvátʹ",
"sense": "to prepare groundwork, table etc.",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "накрыва́ть"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 4 29 15 2 7 2 3 1 3 4 11 1 2 2 2 2 9 1",
"code": "ru",
"english": "table",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nakrýtʹ",
"sense": "to prepare groundwork, table etc.",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "накры́ть"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 4 29 15 2 7 2 3 1 3 4 11 1 2 2 2 2 9 1",
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "to prepare groundwork, table etc.",
"word": "položiti"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 4 29 15 2 7 2 3 1 3 4 11 1 2 2 2 2 9 1",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to prepare groundwork, table etc.",
"word": "poner"
}
]
},
{
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"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "lay brick; lay flooring",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To install certain building materials, laying one thing on top of another."
],
"id": "en-lay-en-verb-JdlolCrR",
"links": [
[
"install",
"install"
],
[
"material",
"material"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive)",
"To install certain building materials, laying one thing on top of another."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "1 2 2 60 1 6 1 1 0 2 2 8 1 1 2 2 2 6 1",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "polagam",
"sense": "to install certain building materials",
"word": "полагам"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 2 60 1 6 1 1 0 2 2 8 1 1 2 2 2 6 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to install certain building materials",
"tags": [
"general"
],
"word": "tehdä"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 2 60 1 6 1 1 0 2 2 8 1 1 2 2 2 6 1",
"code": "fi",
"english": "bricks",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to install certain building materials",
"word": "muurata"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 2 60 1 6 1 1 0 2 2 8 1 1 2 2 2 6 1",
"code": "fi",
"english": "tiles",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to install certain building materials",
"word": "laatoittaa"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 2 60 1 6 1 1 0 2 2 8 1 1 2 2 2 6 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to install certain building materials",
"word": "legen"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 2 60 1 6 1 1 0 2 2 8 1 1 2 2 2 6 1",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to install certain building materials",
"word": "posare"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 2 60 1 6 1 1 0 2 2 8 1 1 2 2 2 6 1",
"code": "ltg",
"lang": "Latgalian",
"sense": "to install certain building materials",
"word": "kluot"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 2 60 1 6 1 1 0 2 2 8 1 1 2 2 2 6 1",
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "to install certain building materials",
"word": "klāt"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 2 60 1 6 1 1 0 2 2 8 1 1 2 2 2 6 1",
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "to install certain building materials",
"word": "legge"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 2 60 1 6 1 1 0 2 2 8 1 1 2 2 2 6 1",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to install certain building materials",
"word": "assentar"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 2 60 1 6 1 1 0 2 2 8 1 1 2 2 2 6 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ukládyvatʹ",
"sense": "to install certain building materials",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "укла́дывать"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 2 60 1 6 1 1 0 2 2 8 1 1 2 2 2 6 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "uložítʹ",
"sense": "to install certain building materials",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "уложи́ть"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 2 60 1 6 1 1 0 2 2 8 1 1 2 2 2 6 1",
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "to install certain building materials",
"word": "položiti"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 2 60 1 6 1 1 0 2 2 8 1 1 2 2 2 6 1",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to install certain building materials",
"word": "poner"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 2 60 1 6 1 1 0 2 2 8 1 1 2 2 2 6 1",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to install certain building materials",
"word": "döşemek"
},
{
"_dis1": "1 2 2 60 1 6 1 1 0 2 2 8 1 1 2 2 2 6 1",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "ukladáty",
"sense": "to install certain building materials",
"word": "уклада́ти"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "the hen laid an egg",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "Did dinosaurs lay their eggs in a nest?",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To produce and deposit an egg."
],
"id": "en-lay-en-verb-kI2tKpbG",
"links": [
[
"egg",
"egg"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive)",
"To produce and deposit an egg."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "2 3 3 2 43 1 26 2 2 1 1 3 3 2 2 2 2 0 1",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "waḍaʕa",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "وَضَعَ"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 3 2 43 1 26 2 2 1 1 3 3 2 2 2 2 0 1",
"code": "ary",
"lang": "Arabic",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"tags": [
"Moroccan-Arabic"
],
"word": "بيّض"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 3 2 43 1 26 2 2 1 1 3 3 2 2 2 2 0 1",
"code": "bn",
"lang": "Bengali",
"roman": "paṛa",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "পাড়া"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 3 2 43 1 26 2 2 1 1 3 3 2 2 2 2 0 1",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "snasjam",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "снасям"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 3 2 43 1 26 2 2 1 1 3 3 2 2 2 2 0 1",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "xiàdàn",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "下蛋"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 3 2 43 1 26 2 2 1 1 3 3 2 2 2 2 0 1",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "chǎnluǎn",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "产卵"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 3 2 43 1 26 2 2 1 1 3 3 2 2 2 2 0 1",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "snést"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 3 2 43 1 26 2 2 1 1 3 3 2 2 2 2 0 1",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "snášet"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 3 2 43 1 26 2 2 1 1 3 3 2 2 2 2 0 1",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "leggen"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 3 2 43 1 26 2 2 1 1 3 3 2 2 2 2 0 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "munia"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 3 2 43 1 26 2 2 1 1 3 3 2 2 2 2 0 1",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "pondre"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 3 2 43 1 26 2 2 1 1 3 3 2 2 2 2 0 1",
"code": "fur",
"lang": "Friulian",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "ovâ"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 3 2 43 1 26 2 2 1 1 3 3 2 2 2 2 0 1",
"code": "fur",
"lang": "Friulian",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "pondi"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 3 2 43 1 26 2 2 1 1 3 3 2 2 2 2 0 1",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "pór"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 3 2 43 1 26 2 2 1 1 3 3 2 2 2 2 0 1",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "poñer"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 3 2 43 1 26 2 2 1 1 3 3 2 2 2 2 0 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "legen"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 3 2 43 1 26 2 2 1 1 3 3 2 2 2 2 0 1",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "tojik"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 3 2 43 1 26 2 2 1 1 3 3 2 2 2 2 0 1",
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "munnia"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 3 2 43 1 26 2 2 1 1 3 3 2 2 2 2 0 1",
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "vallaa"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 3 2 43 1 26 2 2 1 1 3 3 2 2 2 2 0 1",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "deporre"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 3 2 43 1 26 2 2 1 1 3 3 2 2 2 2 0 1",
"alt": "うむ",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "umu",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "生む"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 3 2 43 1 26 2 2 1 1 3 3 2 2 2 2 0 1",
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "dēt"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 3 2 43 1 26 2 2 1 1 3 3 2 2 2 2 0 1",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "whānau"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 3 2 43 1 26 2 2 1 1 3 3 2 2 2 2 0 1",
"code": "zdj",
"lang": "Ngazidja Comorian",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "huusa"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 3 2 43 1 26 2 2 1 1 3 3 2 2 2 2 0 1",
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "pondre"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 3 2 43 1 26 2 2 1 1 3 3 2 2 2 2 0 1",
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "legge"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 3 2 43 1 26 2 2 1 1 3 3 2 2 2 2 0 1",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "toxm gozârdan",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "تخم گذاردن"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 3 2 43 1 26 2 2 1 1 3 3 2 2 2 2 0 1",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "składać"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 3 2 43 1 26 2 2 1 1 3 3 2 2 2 2 0 1",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "złożyć"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 3 2 43 1 26 2 2 1 1 3 3 2 2 2 2 0 1",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "botar"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 3 2 43 1 26 2 2 1 1 3 3 2 2 2 2 0 1",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "pôr"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 3 2 43 1 26 2 2 1 1 3 3 2 2 2 2 0 1",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "oua"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 3 2 43 1 26 2 2 1 1 3 3 2 2 2 2 0 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "otkládyvatʹ",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "откла́дывать"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 3 2 43 1 26 2 2 1 1 3 3 2 2 2 2 0 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "otložítʹ",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "отложи́ть"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 3 2 43 1 26 2 2 1 1 3 3 2 2 2 2 0 1",
"code": "sm",
"lang": "Samoan",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "tu'ufua"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 3 2 43 1 26 2 2 1 1 3 3 2 2 2 2 0 1",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "zniesť"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 3 2 43 1 26 2 2 1 1 3 3 2 2 2 2 0 1",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "znášať"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 3 2 43 1 26 2 2 1 1 3 3 2 2 2 2 0 1",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "poner"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 3 2 43 1 26 2 2 1 1 3 3 2 2 2 2 0 1",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "lägga"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 3 2 43 1 26 2 2 1 1 3 3 2 2 2 2 0 1",
"code": "tet",
"lang": "Tetum",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "tolun"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 3 2 43 1 26 2 2 1 1 3 3 2 2 2 2 0 1",
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "kài",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "ไข่"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 3 2 43 1 26 2 2 1 1 3 3 2 2 2 2 0 1",
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "waang-kài",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "วางไข่"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 3 2 43 1 26 2 2 1 1 3 3 2 2 2 2 0 1",
"code": "to",
"lang": "Tongan",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "fakatō"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 3 2 43 1 26 2 2 1 1 3 3 2 2 2 2 0 1",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "yumurtlamak"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 3 2 43 1 26 2 2 1 1 3 3 2 2 2 2 0 1",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "klásty",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "кла́сти"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 3 2 43 1 26 2 2 1 1 3 3 2 2 2 2 0 1",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "nestý",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "нести́"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 3 2 43 1 26 2 2 1 1 3 3 2 2 2 2 0 1",
"code": "vec",
"lang": "Venetian",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "ponder"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 3 2 43 1 26 2 2 1 1 3 3 2 2 2 2 0 1",
"code": "vec",
"lang": "Venetian",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "pondar"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 3 2 43 1 26 2 2 1 1 3 3 2 2 2 2 0 1",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "đẻ trứng"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 3 2 43 1 26 2 2 1 1 3 3 2 2 2 2 0 1",
"code": "wa",
"lang": "Walloon",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "ponre"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 3 3 2 43 1 26 2 2 1 1 3 3 2 2 2 2 0 1",
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "dodwy"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "I'll lay that he doesn't turn up on Monday.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To bet (that something is or is not the case)."
],
"id": "en-lay-en-verb-HHfPCh7u",
"links": [
[
"bet",
"bet"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive)",
"To bet (that something is or is not the case)."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide",
"text": "He laid a hundred guineas with the laird of Slofferfield that he would drive four horses through the Slofferfield loch, and in the prank he had his bit chariot dung to pieces and a good mare killed.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To deposit (a stake) as a wager; to stake; to risk."
],
"id": "en-lay-en-verb-h36~z9kM",
"links": [
[
"wager",
"wager"
],
[
"stake",
"stake"
],
[
"risk",
"risk"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive)",
"To deposit (a stake) as a wager; to stake; to risk."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "0 8 5 3 4 16 41 4 4 2 1 2 1 2 2 2 3 1 0",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "zalagam",
"sense": "to wager",
"word": "залагам"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 8 5 3 4 16 41 4 4 2 1 2 1 2 2 2 3 1 0",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "basiram se",
"sense": "to wager",
"word": "басирам се"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 8 5 3 4 16 41 4 4 2 1 2 1 2 2 2 3 1 0",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "deržátʹ parí",
"sense": "to wager",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "держа́ть пари́"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 8 5 3 4 16 41 4 4 2 1 2 1 2 2 2 3 1 0",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "bítʹsja ob zaklád",
"sense": "to wager",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "би́ться об закла́д"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "to get laid",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1944, Raymond Chandler, The Lady in the Lake, Penguin, published 2011, page 11",
"text": "'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.'",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To have sex with."
],
"id": "en-lay-en-verb-pqiUiagB",
"links": [
[
"have sex",
"have sex"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive)",
"(slang) To have sex with."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "lie by"
},
{
"word": "lie with"
},
{
"word": "sleep with"
},
{
"word": "copulate with"
}
],
"tags": [
"slang",
"transitive"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "0 1 1 1 1 1 1 87 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to have sex with",
"word": "maata"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 1 1 1 1 1 87 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to have sex with",
"word": "panna"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 1 1 1 1 1 87 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to have sex with",
"word": "flachlegen"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 1 1 1 1 1 87 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 0",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to have sex with",
"word": "giacere"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 1 1 1 1 1 87 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 0",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to have sex with",
"word": "deitar-se com"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 1 1 1 1 1 87 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 0",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "peresypátʹ",
"sense": "to have sex with",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "пересыпа́ть"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 1 1 1 1 1 87 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 0",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "perespátʹ",
"sense": "to have sex with",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "переспа́ть"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 1 1 1 1 1 87 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 0",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to have sex with",
"word": "acostarse"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 1 1 1 1 1 87 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 0",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to have sex with",
"word": "tirar"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 1 1 1 1 1 87 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 0",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to have sex with",
"word": "yacer"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 1 1 1 1 1 87 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 0",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to have sex with",
"word": "ligga"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 1 1 1 1 1 1 87 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 0",
"code": "zza",
"lang": "Zazaki",
"sense": "to have sex with",
"word": "cısanen"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Law",
"orig": "en:Law",
"parents": [
"Justice",
"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "to lay the venue",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To state; to allege."
],
"id": "en-lay-en-verb-9YmniHqO",
"links": [
[
"law",
"law#English"
],
[
"state",
"state"
],
[
"allege",
"allege"
],
[
"John Bouvier",
"w:John Bouvier"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive)",
"(law) To state; to allege."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
],
"topics": [
"law"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Military",
"orig": "en:Military",
"parents": [
"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "to lay a gun",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To point; to aim."
],
"id": "en-lay-en-verb-pYlHKvzC",
"links": [
[
"military",
"military"
],
[
"point",
"point"
],
[
"aim",
"aim"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive)",
"(military) To point; to aim."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
],
"topics": [
"government",
"military",
"politics",
"war"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "to lay a cable or rope",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them."
],
"id": "en-lay-en-verb-4eaFNJXj",
"links": [
[
"strand",
"strand"
],
[
"rope",
"rope"
],
[
"cable",
"cable"
],
[
"twist",
"twist"
],
[
"unite",
"unite"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive)",
"(ropemaking) To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
],
"topics": [
"arts",
"crafts",
"hobbies",
"lifestyle",
"nautical",
"ropemaking",
"transport"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Printing",
"orig": "en:Printing",
"parents": [
"Industries",
"Business",
"Economics",
"Society",
"Social sciences",
"All topics",
"Sciences",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone."
],
"id": "en-lay-en-verb-rF-q0spL",
"links": [
[
"printing",
"printing#Noun"
],
[
"form",
"form"
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"3": "",
"4": "to lay"
},
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"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nn",
"2": "leggja",
"3": "",
"4": "to lay"
},
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"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "lägga",
"3": "",
"4": "to lay"
},
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"name": "cog"
},
{
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"1": "is",
"2": "leggja",
"3": "",
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},
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"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sq",
"2": "lag",
"3": "",
"4": "troop, band, war encampment"
},
"expansion": "Albanian lag (“troop, band, war encampment”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English leyen, leggen, from Old English leċġan (“to lay”), from Proto-West Germanic *laggjan, from Proto-Germanic *lagjaną (“to lay”), causative form of Proto-Germanic *ligjaną (“to lie, recline”), from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lie, recline”).\nCognate with West Frisian lizze (“to lay, to lie”), Dutch leggen (“to lay”), German legen (“to lay”), Norwegian Bokmål legge (“to lay”), Norwegian Nynorsk leggja (“to lay”), Swedish lägga (“to lay”), Icelandic leggja (“to lay”), Albanian lag (“troop, band, war encampment”).",
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{
"form": "lays",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "laying",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
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"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "laid",
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"past"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "en-conj",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
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"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"infinitive"
]
}
],
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{
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"3": "laid"
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}
],
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{
"args": {
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"past": "laid",
"past_2sg_old2": "laidest"
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],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
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{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "to lay a book on the table; to lay a body in the grave",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "A shower of rain lays the dust.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1735, author unknown, The New-England Primer; as reported by Fred R. Shapiro, The Yale Book of Quotations, Yale University Press, 2006, pages 549–550",
"text": "Now I lay me down to sleep, / I pray the Lord my Soul to keep. / If I should die before I ’wake, / I pray the Lord my Soul to take.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position."
],
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[
"position",
"position"
],
[
"rest",
"rest"
],
[
"horizontal",
"horizontal"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive)",
"To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with archaic senses",
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, book II, canto viii, verse xlviii",
"text": "The cloudes, as things affrayd, before him flye; / But all so soone as his outrageous powre / Is layd, they fiercely then begin to shoure […]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1662, Sir Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two World Systems, Dialogue 2",
"text": "But how upon the winds being laid, doth the ship cease to move?",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1849, Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H., canto XCVI",
"text": "He faced the spectres of the mind\nAnd laid them: thus he came at length\nTo find a stronger faith his own;\nAnd Power was with him in the night,\nWhich makes the darkness and the light,\nAnd dwells not in the light alone,\nBut in the darkness and the cloud",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1895, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “The Yellow Sign”, in The King in Yellow",
"text": "Tessie lay among the cushions, her face a gray blot in the gloom, but her hands were clasped in mine and I knew that she knew and read my thoughts as I read hers, for we had understood the mystery of the Hyades and the Phantom of Truth was laid.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"To cause to subside or abate."
],
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[
"subside",
"subside"
],
[
"abate",
"abate"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive)",
"(archaic) To cause to subside or abate."
],
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{
"word": "becalm"
},
{
"word": "settle down"
}
],
"tags": [
"archaic",
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2006, Clive James, North Face of Soho, Picador, published 2007, page 48",
"text": "Even when I lay a long plan, it is never in the expectation that I will live to see it fulfilled.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"To prepare (a plan, project etc.); to set out, establish (a law, principle)."
],
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[
"prepare",
"prepare"
],
[
"set out",
"set out"
],
[
"establish",
"establish"
]
],
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"(transitive)",
"To prepare (a plan, project etc.); to set out, establish (a law, principle)."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with usage examples",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "lay brick; lay flooring",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To install certain building materials, laying one thing on top of another."
],
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[
"install",
"install"
],
[
"material",
"material"
]
],
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"(transitive)",
"To install certain building materials, laying one thing on top of another."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with usage examples",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "the hen laid an egg",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "Did dinosaurs lay their eggs in a nest?",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To produce and deposit an egg."
],
"links": [
[
"egg",
"egg"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive)",
"To produce and deposit an egg."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with usage examples",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "I'll lay that he doesn't turn up on Monday.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To bet (that something is or is not the case)."
],
"links": [
[
"bet",
"bet"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive)",
"To bet (that something is or is not the case)."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide",
"text": "He laid a hundred guineas with the laird of Slofferfield that he would drive four horses through the Slofferfield loch, and in the prank he had his bit chariot dung to pieces and a good mare killed.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To deposit (a stake) as a wager; to stake; to risk."
],
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[
"wager",
"wager"
],
[
"stake",
"stake"
],
[
"risk",
"risk"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive)",
"To deposit (a stake) as a wager; to stake; to risk."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English slang",
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "to get laid",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1944, Raymond Chandler, The Lady in the Lake, Penguin, published 2011, page 11",
"text": "'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.'",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To have sex with."
],
"links": [
[
"have sex",
"have sex"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive)",
"(slang) To have sex with."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "lie by"
},
{
"word": "lie with"
},
{
"word": "sleep with"
},
{
"word": "copulate with"
}
],
"tags": [
"slang",
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with usage examples",
"English transitive verbs",
"en:Law"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "to lay the venue",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To state; to allege."
],
"links": [
[
"law",
"law#English"
],
[
"state",
"state"
],
[
"allege",
"allege"
],
[
"John Bouvier",
"w:John Bouvier"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive)",
"(law) To state; to allege."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
],
"topics": [
"law"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with usage examples",
"English transitive verbs",
"en:Military"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "to lay a gun",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To point; to aim."
],
"links": [
[
"military",
"military"
],
[
"point",
"point"
],
[
"aim",
"aim"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive)",
"(military) To point; to aim."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
],
"topics": [
"government",
"military",
"politics",
"war"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with usage examples",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "to lay a cable or rope",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them."
],
"links": [
[
"strand",
"strand"
],
[
"rope",
"rope"
],
[
"cable",
"cable"
],
[
"twist",
"twist"
],
[
"unite",
"unite"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive)",
"(ropemaking) To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
],
"topics": [
"arts",
"crafts",
"hobbies",
"lifestyle",
"nautical",
"ropemaking",
"transport"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English transitive verbs",
"en:Printing"
],
"glosses": [
"To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone."
],
"links": [
[
"printing",
"printing#Noun"
],
[
"form",
"form"
],
[
"imposing stone",
"imposing stone"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive)",
"(printing) To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
],
"topics": [
"media",
"printing",
"publishing"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English transitive verbs",
"en:Printing"
],
"glosses": [
"To place (new type) properly in the cases."
],
"links": [
[
"printing",
"printing#Noun"
],
[
"type",
"type"
],
[
"case",
"case"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive)",
"(printing) To place (new type) properly in the cases."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
],
"topics": [
"media",
"printing",
"publishing"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with usage examples",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "The news article laid emphasis on the unusually young age of the criminals.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To apply; to put."
],
"links": [
[
"apply",
"apply"
],
[
"put",
"put"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive)",
"To apply; to put."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with usage examples",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "to lay a tax on land",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To impose (a burden, punishment, command, tax, etc.)."
],
"links": [
[
"impose",
"impose"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive)",
"To impose (a burden, punishment, command, tax, etc.)."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English transitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To impute; to charge; to allege."
],
"links": [
[
"impute",
"impute"
],
[
"charge",
"charge"
],
[
"allege",
"allege"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive)",
"To impute; to charge; to allege."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "ascribe"
},
{
"word": "attribute"
}
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with usage examples",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "to lay an indictment in a particular county",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "I have laid the facts of the matter before you.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To present or offer."
],
"links": [
[
"present",
"present"
],
[
"offer",
"offer"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive)",
"To present or offer."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with usage examples",
"en:Nautical"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "to lay forward; to lay aloft",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To take a position; to come or go."
],
"links": [
[
"nautical",
"nautical"
],
[
"position",
"position"
],
[
"come",
"come"
],
[
"go",
"go"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive)",
"(nautical) To take a position; to come or go."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
],
"topics": [
"nautical",
"transport"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English proscribed terms",
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "I found him laying on the floor.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1969 July, Bob Dylan, “Lay Lady Lay”, in Nashville Skyline, Columbia",
"text": "Lay, lady, lay. / Lay across my big brass bed.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1974, John Denver, “Annie’s Song”, Back Home Again, RCA",
"text": "Let me lay down beside you. / Let me always be with you."
}
],
"glosses": [
"To lie: to rest in a horizontal position on a surface."
],
"links": [
[
"lie",
"lie"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive)",
"(proscribed, see usage notes) To lie: to rest in a horizontal position on a surface."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive",
"proscribed"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/leɪ/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-eɪ"
},
{
"homophone": "lei"
},
{
"homophone": "ley"
},
{
"homophone": "le"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-lay.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/90/En-us-lay.ogg/En-us-lay.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/90/En-us-lay.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
},
{
"enpr": "lā"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "waḍaʕa",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "وَضَعَ"
},
{
"code": "ary",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "nəʕʕəs",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"tags": [
"Moroccan-Arabic"
],
"word": "نعّس"
},
{
"code": "bn",
"lang": "Bengali",
"roman": "rakha",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "রাখা"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "slagam",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "слагам"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "postavjam",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "поставям"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "ajeure"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "fàng",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "放"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "zhì",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "置"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "fàngzhì",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "放置"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "lægge"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "leggen"
},
{
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "leggja"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "laskea"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "asettaa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "panna"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "laittaa"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "coucher"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "poser"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "mettre"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "pór"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "poñer"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "deitar"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "legen"
},
{
"code": "got",
"lang": "Gothic",
"roman": "lagjan",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "𐌻𐌰𐌲𐌾𐌰𐌽"
},
{
"code": "mba",
"lang": "Higaonon",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "hidaga"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "fektet"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "rebah"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "posare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "porre"
},
{
"alt": "おく",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "oku",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "置く"
},
{
"alt": "うむ",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "産む"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "nupda",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "눕다"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "eopdeurida",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "엎드리다"
},
{
"code": "ltg",
"lang": "Latgalian",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "likt"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "likt"
},
{
"code": "li",
"lang": "Limburgish",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"tags": [
"Maastrichtian"
],
"word": "lègke"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"english": "into a flat position",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "whakatāpapa"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "whakatakoto"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"english": "into a flat position",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "whakapapa"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "panga"
},
{
"code": "gun",
"lang": "Mbyá Guaraní",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "nhono"
},
{
"code": "nap",
"lang": "Neapolitan",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "cuccà"
},
{
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "couochi"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "legge"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "colcar"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "jaire"
},
{
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "lecgan"
},
{
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "āleċġan"
},
{
"code": "roa-opt",
"lang": "Old Portuguese",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "deitar"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "kłaść"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "położyć"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "deitar"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "culca"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "klastʹ",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "класть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "položítʹ",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "положи́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ukládyvatʹ",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "укла́дывать"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "uložítʹ",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "уложи́ть"
},
{
"code": "sa",
"lang": "Sanskrit",
"roman": "dadhāti",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "दधाति"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "položiti"
},
{
"code": "so",
"lang": "Somali",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "jiifin"
},
{
"code": "dsb",
"lang": "Lower Sorbian",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "połožyś"
},
{
"code": "dsb",
"lang": "Lower Sorbian",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "połožowaś"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "acostar"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "lägga"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "waang",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "วาง"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "yatırmak"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "klásty",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "кла́сти"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "ložýty",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "ложи́ти"
},
{
"code": "wa",
"lang": "Walloon",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "coûtchî"
},
{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "leygn",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "לייגן"
},
{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "avekleygn",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "אַוועקלייגן"
},
{
"code": "zza",
"lang": "Zazaki",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "ravısten"
},
{
"code": "nmn",
"lang": "ǃXóõ",
"sense": "to place something down in a position of rest",
"word": "ʻǃnàhã"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "archaic: to cause to subside or abate",
"word": "laannuttaa"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "ostavjam",
"sense": "to leave something somewhere",
"word": "оставям"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to leave something somewhere",
"word": "jättää"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to leave something somewhere",
"word": "ablegen"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to leave something somewhere",
"word": "lasciare"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to leave something somewhere",
"word": "panga"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "to leave something somewhere",
"word": "legge igjen"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to leave something somewhere",
"word": "deixar"
},
{
"code": "zza",
"lang": "Zazaki",
"sense": "to leave something somewhere",
"word": "vıradayen"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "slagam",
"sense": "to prepare groundwork, table etc.",
"word": "слагам"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to prepare groundwork, table etc.",
"tags": [
"general"
],
"word": "valmistaa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"english": "groundwork",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to prepare groundwork, table etc.",
"word": "laskea"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"english": "table",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to prepare groundwork, table etc.",
"word": "kattaa"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to prepare groundwork, table etc.",
"word": "disporre"
},
{
"code": "no",
"english": "lay a plan",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "to prepare groundwork, table etc.",
"word": "legge"
},
{
"code": "no",
"english": "lay a table",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "to prepare groundwork, table etc.",
"word": "dekke"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to prepare groundwork, table etc.",
"word": "preparar"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to prepare groundwork, table etc.",
"word": "dispor"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nakryvátʹ",
"sense": "to prepare groundwork, table etc.",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "накрыва́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"english": "table",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nakrýtʹ",
"sense": "to prepare groundwork, table etc.",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "накры́ть"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "to prepare groundwork, table etc.",
"word": "položiti"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to prepare groundwork, table etc.",
"word": "poner"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "polagam",
"sense": "to install certain building materials",
"word": "полагам"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to install certain building materials",
"tags": [
"general"
],
"word": "tehdä"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"english": "bricks",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to install certain building materials",
"word": "muurata"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"english": "tiles",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to install certain building materials",
"word": "laatoittaa"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to install certain building materials",
"word": "legen"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to install certain building materials",
"word": "posare"
},
{
"code": "ltg",
"lang": "Latgalian",
"sense": "to install certain building materials",
"word": "kluot"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "to install certain building materials",
"word": "klāt"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "to install certain building materials",
"word": "legge"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to install certain building materials",
"word": "assentar"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ukládyvatʹ",
"sense": "to install certain building materials",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "укла́дывать"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "uložítʹ",
"sense": "to install certain building materials",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "уложи́ть"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "to install certain building materials",
"word": "položiti"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to install certain building materials",
"word": "poner"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to install certain building materials",
"word": "döşemek"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "ukladáty",
"sense": "to install certain building materials",
"word": "уклада́ти"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "waḍaʕa",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "وَضَعَ"
},
{
"code": "ary",
"lang": "Arabic",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"tags": [
"Moroccan-Arabic"
],
"word": "بيّض"
},
{
"code": "bn",
"lang": "Bengali",
"roman": "paṛa",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "পাড়া"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "snasjam",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "снасям"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "xiàdàn",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "下蛋"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "chǎnluǎn",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "产卵"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "snést"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "snášet"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "leggen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "munia"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "pondre"
},
{
"code": "fur",
"lang": "Friulian",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "ovâ"
},
{
"code": "fur",
"lang": "Friulian",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "pondi"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "pór"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "poñer"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "legen"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "tojik"
},
{
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "munnia"
},
{
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "vallaa"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "deporre"
},
{
"alt": "うむ",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "umu",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "生む"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "dēt"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "whānau"
},
{
"code": "zdj",
"lang": "Ngazidja Comorian",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "huusa"
},
{
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "pondre"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "legge"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "toxm gozârdan",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "تخم گذاردن"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "składać"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "złożyć"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "botar"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "pôr"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "oua"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "otkládyvatʹ",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "откла́дывать"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "otložítʹ",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "отложи́ть"
},
{
"code": "sm",
"lang": "Samoan",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "tu'ufua"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "zniesť"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "znášať"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "poner"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "lägga"
},
{
"code": "tet",
"lang": "Tetum",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "tolun"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "kài",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "ไข่"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "waang-kài",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "วางไข่"
},
{
"code": "to",
"lang": "Tongan",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "fakatō"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "yumurtlamak"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "klásty",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "кла́сти"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "nestý",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "нести́"
},
{
"code": "vec",
"lang": "Venetian",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "ponder"
},
{
"code": "vec",
"lang": "Venetian",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "pondar"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "đẻ trứng"
},
{
"code": "wa",
"lang": "Walloon",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "ponre"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "to deposit an egg",
"word": "dodwy"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "zalagam",
"sense": "to wager",
"word": "залагам"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "basiram se",
"sense": "to wager",
"word": "басирам се"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "deržátʹ parí",
"sense": "to wager",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "держа́ть пари́"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "bítʹsja ob zaklád",
"sense": "to wager",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "би́ться об закла́д"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to have sex with",
"word": "maata"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to have sex with",
"word": "panna"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to have sex with",
"word": "flachlegen"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to have sex with",
"word": "giacere"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to have sex with",
"word": "deitar-se com"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "peresypátʹ",
"sense": "to have sex with",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "пересыпа́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "perespátʹ",
"sense": "to have sex with",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "переспа́ть"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to have sex with",
"word": "acostarse"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to have sex with",
"word": "tirar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to have sex with",
"word": "yacer"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to have sex with",
"word": "ligga"
},
{
"code": "zza",
"lang": "Zazaki",
"sense": "to have sex with",
"word": "cısanen"
}
],
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}
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"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1808, John Curwen, Hints on the Economy of Feeding Stock and Bettering the Condition of the Poor",
"text": "Having destroyed all old lays, I have no other hay than clover.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A meadow; a lea."
],
"links": [
[
"meadow",
"meadow"
],
[
"lea",
"lea"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) A meadow; a lea."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/leɪ/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-eɪ"
},
{
"homophone": "lei"
},
{
"homophone": "ley"
},
{
"homophone": "le"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-lay.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/90/En-us-lay.ogg/En-us-lay.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/90/En-us-lay.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
},
{
"enpr": "lā"
}
],
"word": "lay"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 1-syllable words",
"English causative verbs",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English irregular verbs",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms calqued from Yiddish",
"English terms derived from Middle English",
"English terms derived from Yiddish",
"English terms inherited from Middle English",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English terms with homophones",
"English three-letter words",
"English verbs",
"Rhymes:English/eɪ",
"Rhymes:English/eɪ/1 syllable"
],
"etymology_number": 7,
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"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "laige"
},
"expansion": "Middle English laige",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "læȝe"
},
"expansion": "læȝe",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "lawe",
"t": "law"
},
"expansion": "Middle English lawe (“law”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "law"
},
"expansion": "law",
"name": "m"
}
],
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"forms": [
{
"form": "lays",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {},
"expansion": "lay (plural lays)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
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{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses"
],
"glosses": [
"A law."
],
"links": [
[
"law",
"law"
]
],
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"(obsolete) A law."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses"
],
"glosses": [
"An obligation; a vow."
],
"links": [
[
"obligation",
"obligation"
],
[
"vow",
"vow"
]
],
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"(obsolete) An obligation; a vow."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/leɪ/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-eɪ"
},
{
"homophone": "lei"
},
{
"homophone": "ley"
},
{
"homophone": "le"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-lay.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/90/En-us-lay.ogg/En-us-lay.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/90/En-us-lay.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
},
{
"enpr": "lā"
}
],
"word": "lay"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 1-syllable words",
"English causative verbs",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English irregular verbs",
"English lemmas",
"English terms calqued from Yiddish",
"English terms derived from Yiddish",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English terms with homophones",
"English three-letter words",
"English verbs",
"Rhymes:English/eɪ",
"Rhymes:English/eɪ/1 syllable"
],
"etymology_number": 8,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "yi",
"3": "לייגן",
"t": "to put, lay"
},
"expansion": "Calque of Yiddish לייגן (leygn, “to put, lay”)",
"name": "calque"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Calque of Yiddish לייגן (leygn, “to put, lay”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "lays",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "laying",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "laid",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "laid",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "lays",
"2": "laying",
"3": "laid"
},
"expansion": "lay (third-person singular simple present lays, present participle laying, simple past and past participle laid)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
"word": "gooseberry lay"
},
{
"word": "kinchin lay"
},
{
"word": "snaffling lay"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English transitive verbs",
"en:Judaism"
],
"glosses": [
"To don or put on (tefillin (phylacteries))."
],
"links": [
[
"Judaism",
"Judaism"
],
[
"don",
"don"
],
[
"put on",
"put on"
],
[
"tefillin",
"tefilla"
],
[
"phylacteries",
"phylactery#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Judaism, transitive) To don or put on (tefillin (phylacteries))."
],
"tags": [
"Judaism",
"transitive"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/leɪ/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-eɪ"
},
{
"homophone": "lei"
},
{
"homophone": "ley"
},
{
"homophone": "le"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-lay.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/90/En-us-lay.ogg/En-us-lay.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/90/En-us-lay.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
},
{
"enpr": "lā"
}
],
"word": "lay"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-22 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (fc4f0c7 and c937495). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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