{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "leɪ" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/lay.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/lay.mp3" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "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”).", "From Middle English laie, lawe, from Old English lagu (“sea, flood, water, ocean”), from Proto-West Germanic *lagu (“water, sea”), from Proto-Germanic *laguz (“water, sea”), from Proto-Indo-European *lókus (“water, body of water, lake”). Cognate with Icelandic lögur (“liquid, fluid, lake”), Latin lacus (“lake, hollow, hole”).", "From Middle English lay, from Old French lai, from Latin laicus, from Ancient Greek λαϊκός (laïkós). Doublet of laic.", "See lie. This word was influenced by the present tense verb lay.", "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.", "From Middle English lay, laye, laiȝe, leyȝe, from Old English lǣh, lēh, northern (Anglian) variants of Old English lēah (“lea”). More at lea.", "From Middle English laige, læȝe, variants of Middle English lawe (“law”). More at law.", "Calque of Yiddish לייגן‎ (leygn, “to put, lay”)." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(transitive) To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position.\nto lay a book on the table;   to lay a body in the grave\nA shower of rain lays the dust." }, { "mean": "(transitive, archaic) To cause to subside or abate.\nSynonyms: becalm, settle down" }, { "mean": "(transitive) To prepare (a plan, project etc.); to set out, establish (a law, principle)." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To install certain building materials, laying one thing on top of another.\nlay brick;  lay flooring" }, { "mean": "(transitive) To produce and deposit an egg.\nthe hen laid an egg\nDid dinosaurs lay their eggs in a nest?" }, { "mean": "(transitive) To bet (that something is or is not the case).\nI'll lay that he doesn't turn up on Monday." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To deposit (a stake) as a wager; to stake; to risk." }, { "mean": "(transitive, slang) To have sex with.\nSynonyms: lie by, lie with, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with" }, { "mean": "(nautical) To take a position; to come or go.\nto lay forward;  to lay aloft" }, { "mean": "(law) To state; to allege.\nto lay the venue" }, { "mean": "(military) To point; to aim.\nto lay a gun" }, { "mean": "(ropemaking) To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them.\nto lay a cable or rope" }, { "mean": "(printing) To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone." }, { "mean": "(printing) To place (new type) properly in the cases." }, { "mean": "To apply; to put." }, { "mean": "To impose (a burden, punishment, command, tax, etc.).\nto lay a tax on land" }, { "mean": "To impute; to charge; to allege.\nSynonyms: ascribe, attribute" }, { "mean": "To present or offer.\nto lay an indictment in a particular county\nI have laid the facts of the matter before you." }, { "mean": "(intransitive, proscribed, see usage notes) To lie: to rest in a horizontal position on a surface.\nI found him laying on the floor." } ] }, { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Arrangement or relationship; layout.\nthe lay of the land" }, { "mean": "A share of the profits in a business." }, { "mean": "The direction a rope is twisted.\nWorm and parcel with the lay; turn and serve the other way." }, { "mean": "(colloquial) A casual sexual partner.\n\nWhat was I, just another lay you can toss aside as you go on to your next conquest?" }, { "mean": "(colloquial) An act of sexual intercourse." }, { "mean": "(slang, archaic) A place or activity where someone spends a significant portion of their time." }, { "mean": "The laying of eggs.\nThe hens are off the lay at present." }, { "mean": "(obsolete) A layer." }, { "mean": "(obsolete) A basis or ground." } ] }, { "name": "Further_reading", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "“lay”, inThe Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN." } ] }, { "name": "Noun_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "A lake." } ] }, { "name": "Adjective", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Not belonging to the clergy, but associated with them.\nThey seemed more lay than clerical.\na lay preacher; a lay brother" }, { "mean": "Non-professional; not being a member of an organized institution." }, { "mean": "(card games) Not trumps.\na lay suit" }, { "mean": "(obsolete) Not educated or cultivated; ignorant." } ] }, { "name": "Verb_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "simple past tense of lie when pertaining to position.\nThe baby lay in its crib and slept silently." }, { "mean": "(proscribed) To be in a horizontal position; to lie (from confusion with lie)." } ] }, { "name": "Alternative_forms", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "lai" } ] }, { "name": "Noun_3", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "A ballad or sung poem; a short poem or narrative, usually intended to be sung." }, { "mean": "A lyrical, narrative poem written in octosyllabic couplets that often deals with tales of adventure and romance." } ] }, { "name": "Noun_4", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(obsolete) A meadow; a lea.\n1808, John Curwen, Hints on the Economy of Feeding Stock and Bettering the Condition of the Poor:Having destroyed all old lays, I have no other hay than clover." } ] }, { "name": "Noun_5", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(obsolete) A law.\n1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 42:A woman worthy of immortall prayse, / Which for this Realme found many goodly layes" }, { "mean": "(obsolete) An obligation; a vow.\n1601, C Plinius Secundus , “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the VVorld. Commonly Called, The Natvrall Historie of C. Plinivs Secvndus. , (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: Adam Islip, published 1635, →OCLC:\nthey bound themselues by a sacred lay and oth to fight it out to the last man" } ] }, { "name": "Verb_3", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(Judaism, transitive) To don or put on (tefillin (phylacteries))." } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "동사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "추가_판독", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "형용사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "동사_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "대체_양식", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사_3", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사_4", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사_5", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "동사_3", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] } ] }, "synonyms": { "org": [ "(casual sexual partner): see also Thesaurus:casual sexual partner." ], "kor": [ "" ] } } }