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Lay Up
- verb - disable or confine, as with an illness; "She was laid up with pneumonia for six weeks"
Lay-By
- noun - designated paved area beside a main road where cars can stop temporarily
Lay-Up
- noun - a basketball shot made with one hand from a position under or beside the basket (and usually banked off the backboard)
Layers
- noun - a hen that lays eggs
- a relatively thin sheetlike expanse or region lying over or under another
- an abstract place usually conceived as having depth; "a good actor communicates on several levels"; "a simile has at least two layers of meaning"; "the mind functions on many strata simultaneously"
- make or form a layer; "layer the different colored sands"
- single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance; "slices of hard-boiled egg on a bed of spinach"
- thin structure composed of a single thickness of cells
Laying
- verb - impose as a duty, burden, or punishment; "lay a responsibility on someone"
- lay eggs; "This hen doesn't lay"
- prepare or position for action or operation; "lay a fire"; "lay the foundation for a new health care plan"
- put in a horizontal position; "lay the books on the table"; "lay the patient carefully onto the bed"
- put into a certain place or abstract location; "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point"
- the production of eggs (especially in birds)
Layman
- noun - someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person
Laymen
- noun - someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person
Layoff
- noun - the act of laying off an employee or a work force
Layout
- noun - a plan or design of something that is laid out
- the act of laying out (as by making plans for something)