laying

Noun

Meaning

of Lay

The act of one who, or that which, lays.

The act or period of laying eggs; the eggs laid for one incubation; a clutch.

The first coat on laths of plasterer's two-coat work.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

setting positioning putting put down placing egg laying place make position building design put rest plant press
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Antonyms

forbidding dividing arising separating refraining abstaining
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Hypernyms

birth birthing parturition giving birth

Phrases with the word

laying to rest laying down gun-laying laying down of arms egg-laying mammals laying taxes

Anagrams

gainly Ayling Lingya

Examples

What is dying? Just what it is to put off a garment. For the body is about the soul as a garment; and after laying this aside for a short time by means of death, we shall resume it again with more splendor. John Chrysostom

Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship. Jonathan Swift

Death belongs to life as birth does. The walk is in the raising of the foot as in the laying of it down. Rabindranath Tagore

If you spit laying down it will only come back in your mouth. Amharic Proverb

The Wealthy man has even his crow laying him eggs. Bulgarian Proverb

The laying hen says: give me feed to fill my beak and I'll give you eggs. Sicilian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

Layia Layia platyglossa layin laying claim laying down laying down of arms