lay

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
发音 lā

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Arrangement or relationship; layout. countable,uncountable
    — He spoke of a flower or tree in each of the fifteen poems. A simple shape, a color, the design of a hedge, the lay of a limb inspired him in these songs to and about his loves.
  2. A law. obsolete
    — A woman worthy of immortall prayse, / Which for this Realme found many goodly layes
  3. A meadow; a lea. obsolete
    — Having destroyed all old lays, I have no other hay than clover.
  4. A ballad or sung poem; a short poem or narrative, usually intended to be sung.
    — I strive, with wakeful melody, to cheer The sullen gloom, sweet Philomel! like thee, And call the stars to listen: every star Is deaf to mine, enamour'd of thy lay.
  5. A lake.
  6. An obligation; a vow. obsolete
    — they bound themselues by a sacred lay and oth to fight it out to the last man
  7. A lyrical, narrative poem written in octosyllabic couplets that often deals with tales of adventure and romance.
    — 1945: "The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun" by JRR Tolkien Sad is the note and sad the lay, but mirth we meet not every day.
  8. A share of the profits in a business. countable,uncountable
    — While the Pequod lay at Nantucket, Peleg put Ishmael down for the three hundredth lay.
  9. The direction a rope is twisted. countable,uncountable
    — Worm and parcel with the lay; turn and serve the other way.
  10. A casual sexual partner. colloquial,countable,uncountable
    — Over the years she'd tried to tell himself that his uptown girl was just another lay.
  11. An act of sexual intercourse. colloquial,countable,uncountable
    — Listening to this dismissal of his work, [Tennessee] Williams thought to himself of Wilder, “This character has never had a good lay.”
  12. A place or activity where someone spends a significant portion of their time. archaic,countable,slang,uncountable
    — I shall be on that lay nae mair
  13. The laying of eggs. countable,uncountable
    — The hens are off the lay at present.
  14. A layer. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — […] lay in the bottom of an earthen pot some dried vine leaves, and so make a lay of Pears, and leaves till the pot is filled up, laying betwixt each lay some sliced Ginger […]
  15. A basis or ground. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — On this lay or ground we should also add the finishing colours.
  16. A pursuit or practice; a dodge. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — FIDLAM BENS. Thieves who have no particular lay, whose every finger is a fish-hook; fellows that will steal any thing they can remove.
动词 v.
  1. To don or put on (tefillin (phylacteries)). Judaism,transitive
  2. simple past of lie (“to be oriented in a horizontal position, situated”) form-of,past
    — The baby lay in its crib and slept silently.
  3. To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position. transitive
    — to lay a book on the table; to lay a body in the grave
  4. To cause to subside or abate. archaic,transitive
    — The cloudes, as things affrayd, before him flye; / But all so soone as his outrageous powre / Is layd, they fiercely then begin to shoure […]
  5. To prepare (a plan, project etc.); to set out, establish (a law, principle). transitive
    — Even when I lay a long plan, it is never in the expectation that I will live to see it fulfilled.
  6. To install certain building materials, laying one thing on top of another. transitive
    — lay brick; lay flooring
  7. To produce and deposit (an egg or eggs). transitive
    — The hen laid an egg.
  8. To bet (that something is or is not the case). transitive
    — I'll lay that he doesn't turn up on Monday.
  9. To deposit (a stake) as a wager; to stake; to risk. transitive
    — I dare lay mine honour / He will remain so.
  10. To have sex with. slang,transitive
    — to get laid
  11. To state; to allege. transitive
    — to lay the venue
  12. To point; to aim. transitive
    — to lay a gun
  13. To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them. transitive
    — to lay a cable or rope
  14. To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone. transitive
  15. To place (new type) properly in the cases. transitive
  16. To apply; to put. transitive
    — The news article laid emphasis on the unusually young age of the criminals.
  17. To impose (a burden, punishment, command, tax, etc.). transitive
    — The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
  18. To impute; to charge; to allege. transitive
    — God layeth not folly to them.
  19. To present or offer. transitive
    — to lay an indictment in a particular county
  20. To produce and deposit an egg or eggs. intransitive
    — It [the Houdan breed] bears confinement well, can be kept on any soil, is very hardy, lays well, its flesh is all that can be desired, and it is a nonsitter.
  21. To subside or abate. intransitive
    — I believe the wind is laying and perhaps we will not have a snow. If it turns cold without snow, we can have the hog killed.
  22. To take a position; to come or go. intransitive
    — to lay forward; to lay aloft
  23. To lie: to rest in a horizontal position on a surface. intransitive,proscribed
    — I found him laying on the floor.
形容词 adj.
  1. Not belonging to the clergy, but associated with them.
    — They seemed more lay than clerical.
  2. Non-professional; not being a member of an organized institution.
    — It is true that in adopting the short view many of the younger economists have not merely taken over the lay notions bodily.
  3. Not trumps.
    — a lay suit
  4. Not educated or cultivated; ignorant. obsolete

词形变化

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词汇关系

近义词
laic laical laicist laicistic lay
反义词
clerical secular
衍生词
allay a wild goose never laid a tame egg belay best laid plans bricklay cable-laid cable-laid rope forelay forlay get laid hawser-laid hawser-laid rope interlay laid back laid-back laid-off laid up lay about lay a finger on lay a foundation lay a glove on lay a hand on lay an anchor to the windward lay an egg lay aside lay at someone's door lay a venue lay away lay back layback lay bare lay bare one's soul lay behind lay-bye lay-by lay by lay by the heels lay chase lay chilly lay claim lay-down lay down lay down on lay eggs lay eyes on layflat lay for lay hands on lay hold of lay hold on lay hold upon lay in lay-in lay in ashes laying on of hands lay in lavender lay into lay it on lay it on thick lay low lay odds layoff lay off lay-off lay on lay one down lay one's account lay one's cards on the table lay one's eyes on lay one's hands on lay one's head lay one's tongue to lay on the line lay on the table lay on with a trowel lay open lay-out lay out layover lay over lay pipe lay rubber lay salt on someone's tail layshaftay lay siege lay some skin on lay something at the door of lay something at the feet of lay store by lay the dust lay the groundwork lay the hammer down lay the pipe lay the smack down lay the table lay the wood laytime lay to lay to heart lay to rest lay tracks layup lay up lay-up lay up in lavender lay waste mislay offlay onlay outlay pipelay plain-laid prelay re-lay relay shroud-laid the best laid plans of mice and men go oft astray the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry twice-laid underlay unlay uplay water-laid waylay well-laid laystall overlay by the lay cross lay dub-lay flatlay inlay lay analysis layless lay of the land Mattydale lay off the lay orlay same day lay laity lay brother lay clerk layclerk lay day lay figure layfolk lay investiture lay judge lay-led lay lord layman layperson lay person lay preacher lay reader lay rector layship lay speaker lay vicar laywoman
相关词
lazy laity

词源

词源 1
Inherited 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”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian lääse (“to lay; to lie”), West Frisian lizze (“to lay, to lie”), Cimbrian leng (“to lay”), Dutch leggen (“to lay”), German legen (“to lay”), Limburgish lègke (“to lay”), Luxembourgish leeën (“to lay”), Yiddish לייגן (leygn, “to lay”), Danish lægge (“to lay”), Faroese, Icelandic leggja (“to lay”), Norwegian Bokmål legge (“to lay”), Norwegian Nynorsk legga, legge, leggja, leggje (“to lay”), Swedish lägga (“to lay”), Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌲𐌾𐌰𐌽 (lagjan, “to lay”), Old French laier, laiier, laire (“to leave”), Albanian lag (“troop, band, war encampment”).
词源 2
Inherited from Middle English lay, laye, laie, ley, leye, which may have multiple origins:
* Potentially from *læġ-, an unattested variant stem of Old English lagu m (“sea, flood, water, ocean”), if transferred to a-stem inflection (compare Old English dæġ-, dag- (“day”) > Middle English day, daw-); compare plural Middle English lawes and lauen. If so, inherited from Proto-West Germanic *lagu (“water, sea”), from Proto-Germanic *laguz (“water, sea”), from Proto-Indo-European *lókus (“water, body of water, lake”).
* Alternatively, borrowed from Old French lai, from Latin lacus (“lake, hollow, hole”), also from Proto-Indo-European *lókus.
* Alternatively, borrowed from leg-, a stem of Old Norse lǫgr, from Proto-Germanic *laguz. Compare Icelandic lögur (“liquid, fluid, lake”).
All of these theories make it a doublet of loch, Looe, and lough.
词源 3
Inherited from Middle English lay, from Old French lai, from Latin lāicus, from Ancient Greek λαϊκός (laïkós). Doublet of laic.
词源 4
Etymology tree
Old English læġ
English lay
Inherited from Old English læġ.
词源 5
Inherited from Middle English lay, from Old French lai (“song, lyric, poem”), from Frankish *laih (“play, melody, song”), from Proto-Germanic *laikaz, *laikiz (“jump, play, dance, hymn”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyg- (“to jump, spring, play”). Akin to Old High German leih (“a play, skit, melody, song”), Middle High German leich (“piece of music, epic song played on a harp”), Old English lācan (“to move quickly, fence, sing”). See lake (“to play”). Contrast German Lied and Lied.
词源 6
From Middle English lay, laye, laiȝe, leyȝe, from Old English lǣh, lēh, northern (Anglian) variants of Old English lēah (“lea”). More at lea.
词源 7
Inherited from Middle English lay, lai, laye, ley, lei, borrowed from Old French lei (“law”). Possibly also from or influenced by the etymologically unrelated Middle English lawe (“law”) (with variants including laige, laiȝh, læȝe), from Old English lagu (“law”). More at law.
词源 8
Semantic loan from Yiddish לייגן (leygn, “to put, lay”).
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