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Määritelmät
Verbit
- To give up, surrender, or yield (e.g. a weapon), usually by placing it on the ground.
- To intentionally take a fall while riding a motorcycle, in order to prevent a more serious collision.
- To specify, institute, enact, assert firmly, state authoritatively, establish or formulate (rules or policies).
- To stock, store (e.g. wine) for the future. See also lay by.
- To sacrifice, especially in the phrase "to lay down one's life."
- (intransitive, nonstandard, proscribed) To lie down; to place oneself in a reclined or horizontal position, on a bed or similar, for the purpose of resting.
- (nautical, dated) To draw the lines of a ship's hull at full size, before starting a build.
Esimerkit
- The police urged the gunman to lay down his weapon.
- Lay down your arms.
- He laid down his brand-new Harley-Davidson to avoid the oncoming bus.
- Let's lay down the rules right at the beginning, so we are consistent.
- You've got to lay down the law with that boy.
- I feel a bit ill, so I'm going to go lay down for a while.
- He lay down in his bed until he felt better.
- Just lay the book down on the table, and I'll look at it later.
- Lay down the law, the rules
- The painter lay down a thick coat of paint on the wall.
- I need to lay down after working all day.
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