Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. Past tense and past participle of lay1.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Put or set down; thrown down; prostrate.
- Pressed down; pressed.
- In embroidery, stitched upon a ground. Gold and silver thread, and silk cords, are frequently treated in this way.
Wiktionary
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of lay.
- adj. of paper Marked with parallel lines, as if ribbed, from wires in the mould.
GNU Webster's 1913
- of lay.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. set down according to a plan:
Examples
“In myriad ways, his term laid bare deep and significant problems with our systems of government and politics.”
“Martin laid down the letter and worked a problem in mental arithmetic, finding the product of fifteen cents times sixty thousand to be nine thousand dollars.”
“Griffin laid out his architecture in the Planetary Society report in summer of 2004, over a year before the law passed.”
“In a speech yesterday, President Barack Obama once again laid out how he plans to address this problem:”
“The struggle of the country's trapped miners has once again laid bare the human costs of such "progress.”
The Huffington Post: Stacy Torres: How My Father Survived Chile's Mines
“Seth Godin laid out an interesting corporate evolution process today:”
“Sometimes, getting laid is more important than killing orc kings.”
"Sometimes, getting laid is more important than killing orc kings."
“Even Robert A. Heinlein never noticed the urge to get laid is greater than the drive to blast off into the ether.”
MIND MELD: Which Predictions Did Golden Age Science Fiction Get Right & Wrong?
“McCain laid out specific actions he would take against Iran, but not say how he would achieve them.”
“Sen. McCain laid out a bold vision of what he intends to accomplish during his first term in a new web ad.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘laid’.
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RELI - Genesis
Protagonists and relevant words in the Book of Creation (Source: King James Bible)
wrath, leaf, belly, prey, death, break, six, nod, dim, end, inn, judge and 1286 more...
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On with their heads!
Words that make other words with the addition of one letter at the beginning. The resulting words are tagged "behead".
men, his, yes, any, iota, limb, aged, laid, land, lead, read, word and 327 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...conferral, stateless, person, voting, right, subsidiarity, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia, Lithuania, Finland, Estonia and 2614 more...
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Things from my memory
nigger baby, mexican jumping bean, puddle jumper, mood ring, pet rock, cat scratch fever, taxman, hippie, vaseline, argyrol, mercurchrome, methiolade and 655 more...
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sputnik
canoodle, span, hasten, discombobulate, sputnik, clod, encrusted, spit-shine, zeitgeist, landslide, laid, cherish and 350 more...
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Words next
patrimony, cacophony, fearsome, coruscating, coruscating, coruscating, dolomite, dolorous, transdermal, chatty cathy, chatterbox, incessantly and 249 more...
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Place Names Of Distinction
These are all names of real places. The focus is on towns, mountains, rivers etc. but I will consider streets. Streets are even wackier so if there's enough good'uns ... yep, another list :-)
malino, yoshkar-ola, cae onan, krakatoa, gulfoss, perusia, camooweal, manangatang, utopia, bastardo, condom, zumstein and 324 more...
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Tunie: Navigator
by the Pogues, on the LP "Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash." Lyrics copyright 1985 P. Gaston (according to the Pogues website).
The canals and the bridges, the embankments and cuts,
The...railway, darkness, empire, supply, fortunes, vast, commerce, laid, mark, sleep, peace, death and 34 more...
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list of errata
self-explanatory
penchant, obligatory, avant garde, decadent, luxe, uninhibited, burnish, analog, dexterity, sensual, proliferate, murmur and 80 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for laid.
yarb It is; James were (are?) a great band. Underrated; brilliant pop songwriters. Feb 5, 2008
seanahan That's a great song. Feb 5, 2008
treeseed Something to get
Also a cool song by the band James
James is a rock band from Manchester, England, formed in 1981. After an uphill struggle throughout the 1980s, they went on to become a consistently successful act of the 1990s, scoring a string of hit singles during the decade including "Sit Down" and "Laid".
_Wikipedia Feb 4, 2008
bilby A town in Sutherland, Scotland. Feb 4, 2008
oroboros Dial in reverse. Jul 22, 2007