| lay | 1. To cause to lie down, to be prostrate, or to lie against something; to put or set down; to deposit; as, to lay a book on the table; to lay a body in the grave; a shower lays the dust. "A stone was brought, and laid upon the mouth of the den." (Dan. Vi. 17) "Soft on the flowery herb I found me laid." (Milton) 2. To place in position; to establish firmly; to arrange with regularity; to dispose in ranks or tiers; as, to lay a corner stone; to lay bricks in a wall; to lay the covers on a table. 3. To prepare; to make ready; to contrive; to provide; as, to lay a snare, an ambush, or a plan. 4. To spread on a surface; as, to lay plaster or paint. 5. To cause to be still; to calm; to allay; to suppress; to exorcise, as an evil spirit. "After a tempest when the winds are laid." (Waller) 6. To cause to lie dead or dying. "Brave Caeneus laid Ortygius on the plain, The victor Caeneus was by Turnus slain." (Dryden) 7. To deposit, as a wager; to stake; to risk. "I dare lay mine honor He will remain so." (Shak) 8. To bring forth and deposit; as, to lay eggs. 9. To apply; to put. "She layeth her hands to the spindle." (Prov. Xxxi. 19) 10. To impose, as a burden, suffering, or punishment; to assess, as a tax; as, to lay a tax on land. "The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all." (Is. Iiii. 6) 11. To impute; to charge; to allege. "God layeth not folly to them." (Job xxiv. 12) "Lay the fault on us." (Shak) 12. To impose, as a command or a duty; as, to lay commands on one. 13. To present or offer; as, to lay an indictment in a particular county; to lay a scheme before one. 14. To state; to allege; as, to lay the venue. 15. To point; to aim; as, to lay a gun. 16. To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc) in their proper places and twist or unite them; as, to lay a cable or rope. 17. To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone. To place (new type) properly in the cases. To lay asleep, to put sleep; to make unobservant or careless. To lay bare, to make bare; to strip. "And laid those proud roofs bare to summer's rain." (Byron) To lay before, to present to; to submit for consideration; as, the papers are laid before Congress. To lay by. To save. To discard. "Let brave spirits . . . Not be laid by." (Bacon) To lay by the heels, to put in the stocks. To lay down. To stake as a wager. To yield; to relinquish; to surrender; as, to lay down one's life; to lay down one's arms. To assert or advance, as a proposition or principle. To lay forth. To extend at length; (reflexively) to exert one's self; to expatiate. To lay out (as a corpse). To lay hands on, to seize. To lay hands on one's self, or To lay violent hands on one's self, to injure one's self; specif, to commit suicide. To lay heads together, to consult. To lay hold of, or To lay hold on, to seize; to catch. To lay in, to store; to provide. To lay it on, to apply without stint. To lay on, to apply with force; to inflict; as, to lay on blows. To lay on load, to lay on blows; to strike violently. To lay one's self out, to strive earnestly. "No selfish man will be concerned to lay out himself for the good of his country." (Smalridge) To lay one's self open to, to expose one's self to, as to an accusation. To lay open, to open; to uncover; to expose; to reveal. To lay over, to spread over; to cover. To lay out. To expend. To display; to discover. To plan in detail; to arrange; as, to lay out a garden. To prepare for burial; as, to lay out a corpse. To exert; as, to lay out all one's strength. To lay siege to. To besiege; to encompass with an army. To beset pertinaciously. To lay the course To check the motion of (a vessel) and cause it to be stationary. To lay to heart, to feel deeply; to consider earnestly. To lay under, to subject to; as, to lay under obligation or restraint. To lay unto. Same as To lay to (above). To put before. To lay up. To store; to reposit for future use. To confine; to disable. To dismantle, and retire from active service, as a ship. To lay wait for, to lie in ambush for. To lay waste, to destroy; to make desolate; as, to lay waste the land. Synonym: See Put, and the Note under 4th Lie. Origin: OE. Leggen, AS. Lecgan, causative, fr. Licgan to lie; akin to D.leggen, G. Legen, Icel. Leggja, Goth. Lagjan. See Lie to be prostrate. 1. Of or pertaining to the laity, as distinct from the clergy; as, a lay person; a lay preacher; a lay brother. 2. Not educated or cultivated; ignorant. 3. Not belonging to, or emanating from, a particular profession; unprofessional; as, a lay opinion regarding the nature of a disease. Lay baptism, time allowed in a charter party for taking in and discharging cargo. Lay elder. See Elder, 3, note. Origin: F. Lai, L. Laicus, Gr. Of or from the people, lay, from, people. Cf. Laic. 1. That which lies or is laid or is conceived of as having been laid or placed in its position; a row; a stratum; a layer; as, a lay of stone or wood. "A viol should have a lay of wire strings below." (Bacon) The lay of a rope is right-handed or left-handed according to the hemp or strands are laid up. See Lay. The lay of land is its topographical situation, especially. Its slope and its surface features. 2. A wager. "My fortunes against any lay worth naming." 3. A job, price, or profit. A share of the proceeds or profits of an enterprise; as, when a man ships for a whaling voyage, he agrees for a certain lay. 4. A measure of yarn; a les. See 1st Lea . The lathe of a loom. See Lathe. 5. A plan; a scheme. Lay figure. A jointed model of the human body that may be put in any attitude; used for showing the disposition of drapery, etc. A mere puppet; one who serves the will of others without independent volition. Lay race, that part of a lay on which the shuttle travels in weaving. 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| layer | 1. One who, or that which, lays. 2. [Prob. A corruption of lair] That which is laid; a stratum; a bed; one thickness, course, or fold laid over another; as, a layer of clay or of sand in the earth; a layer of bricks, or of plaster; the layers of an onion. 3. A shoot or twig of a plant, not detached from the stock, laid under ground for growth or propagation. 4. An artificial oyster bed. See: Lay to cause to lie flat. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| layer of Bechterew | A band of horizontal myelinated fibres in the most superficial part of the third layer of the isocortex. Synonym: Bechterew's band, layer of Bechterew, line of Bechterew, line of Kaes. (05 Mar 2000) |
| layer of piriform neurons | The layer of Purkinje cells between the molecular and granular layers of the cerebellar cortex. Synonym: stratum neuronorum piriformium, ganglionic layer of cerebellar cortex, layer of piriform neurons, Purkinje's layer, stratum gangliosum cerebelli. (05 Mar 2000) |
| layer of rods and cones | The layer of the retina next to the pigment layer and containing the visual receptors. See: retina, granular layers of retina, neuroepithelial layer of retina. Synonym: bacillary layer. (05 Mar 2000) |
| layered closure | <surgery> A sutural closure where the subcutaneous tissue is closed separately using an absorbable suture and the skin is closed in an additional layer. (27 Sep 1997) |
| layering | <botany, technique> A propagation method by which adventitious roots are caused to form on a stem while it is still attached to the parent plant. (09 Oct 1997) |
| layers of cerebellar cortex | The thin gray surface layer of the cerebellum, consisting of an outer molecular layer or stratum moleculare, a single layer of Purkinje cells (the ganglionic layer), and an inner granular layer or stratum granulosum. Synonym: cortex cerebelli. (05 Mar 2000) |
| layers of cerebral cortex | The outer portion of the brain, consisting of layersof nerve cells and the pathways that connect them. The cerebralcortex is the part of the brain in which thought processes take place.In Alzheimer's disease, nerve cells in the cerebral cortex die. (22 May 1997) |
| layers of retina | Light sensitive layer of the eye. In vertebrates, looking from outside, there are four major cell layers: (i) the outer neural retina, which contains neurons (ganglion cells, amacrine cells, bipolar cells) as well as blood vessels, (ii) the photoreceptor layer, a single layer of rods and cones, (iii) the pigmented retinal epithelium (PRE or RPE), (iv) the choroid, composed of connective tissue, fibroblasts and including a well vascularised layer, the chorio capillaris, underlying the basal lamina of the PRE. Behind the choroid is the sclera, a thick organ capsule. In molluscs (especially cephalopods such as the squid) the retina has the light sensitive cells as the outer layer with the neural and supporting tissues below. See: retinal rods, retinal cones, rhodopsin. (18 Nov 1997) |
| layers of skin | See: epidermis, dermis. (05 Mar 2000) |
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single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance; "slices of hard-boiled egg on a bed of spinach" a relatively thin sheetlike expanse or region lying over or under another level: 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" a hen that lays eggs thin structure composed of a single thickness of cells make or form a layer; "layer the different colored sands"
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A DVD is constructed of several layers of different materials. There are up to four data containing layers and the player can play two of these layers in sequence without the disk's being removed and turned over. Each layer can hold approximately two hours of NTSC video. To play "the other layer" the player's laser beam is refocused slightly. ...
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To separate discrete levels from the total of a given item, based on time, specific batch identifier, or some other factor. On-hand inventory is sometimes layered to isolate the specific timing of the costs that created the total.
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In image-editing software, a constituent part of an image that can be manipulated independently of other parts.
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The plane of a DVD disc on which information is recorded in a pattern of microscopic pits. Each substrate of a disc can contain one or two layers.
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| lay | a narrative poem of popular origin |
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| lay | a narrative song with a recurrent refrain |
| lay | put into a certain place or abstract location |
| lay | put in a horizontal position |
| lay | lay eggs |
| lay | prepare or position for action or operation |
| lay | impose as a duty, burden, or punishment |
| lay | not of or from a profession |
| lay | concerning those not members of the clergy |
| lay | feather one's nest |
| lay | save up as for future use |
| lay | demand as being one's due or property |
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