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DictionaryEnglish - Myanmar
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lay

/leɪ/

US pronunciation
American sound/leɪ/
lay
Syllables
1 syllable
Stress
One strong syllable
Vowel
Short i vowel
Ending
Final y vowel sound

US voice -> lay

Myanmar meaning

(v) ချသည်။ ခင်းသည်။ (adj) (က) လူပြိန်း။ လူသာမန်။ (n) သီကျူးရန်ရေးထားသော သာချင်းကဲ့သို့ ကဗျာမျိုး။ (abbr) LIE

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lay1 / leÇ / v (pt,pp laid / leÇd /)

ချသည်။ ခင်းသည်။
● Placing something in a certain position
၁။ (က) တင်သည်။ ချသည်။ လွှမ်းသည်။ ခင်းသည်။ lay the book on the table ❍ lay a blanket over the sleeping child ❍ He laid his hand on my shoulder. ❍ lay oneself down to sleep ❍ The storm laid the crops flat.
(ခ) ခင်းသည်။ (မီး)ဖို သည်။ ချသည်။ ချမှတ်သည်။ lay a carpet / cable / pipe ❍ lay the foundations of a house ❍ lay a fire (ie place wood, coal, etc ready for burning) ❍ lay the table (ie put plates, knives, forks, etc on it for a meal) ❍ lay a wreath on sb's grave ❍ lay mines / burning tyres across the road ❍ (fig ) The basis for the modern state was laid in 1945.
(ဂ) (မြင်းနားရွက်) ပေထားသည်။ The horse laid back its ears.
၂။ ~ sth (on/over sth ) ခင်းသည်။ ဖြန့်ခင်းသည်။ ဖြန့်သည်။ lay newspaper / straw every where ❍ lay strips of meat on a grill ❍ The grapes were laid to dry on racks. ❍ LIE1
● Causing somebody or something to be in a certain state
၃။ (fml ) (က) တာဝန်ပေးသည်။ အတာချသည်။ lay sb under an obligation to do sth ❍ lay a responsibility on sb.
(ခ) တင်သွင်းသည်။ lay a bill before parliament.
၄။ (ဖုန်)သိပ်စေသည်။ sprinkle water to lay the dust.
၅။ (fml ) (ကြောက်စိတ်) ငြိမ်းစေသည်၊ ပျောက်စေသည်။ lay sb's fears.
● Other meanings
၆။ ~ sth (on sth) လောင်းသည်။ ထိုး သည်။ lay a bet ❍ lay £ 100 on the favourite ❍ I'll lay you (£5) that she won't come.
၇။ (⚠ sl ) (esp passive) အမျိုးသမီးတစ်ဦးနှင့် ကာမစပ်ယှက်သည်။ hoping to get laid.
၈။ (ကြက်၊ ငှက်) ဥသည်။ new-laid eggs ❍ The cuckoo lays its eggs in other birds' nests. ❍ The hens are not laying well (ie not producing many eggs) at the moment.
၉။ (အလေး)ပေးသည်။ (စီမံကိန်း)ချသည်။ (ထောင်ချောက်)ဆင်သည်။ lay the emphasis on certain points (ie emphasize certain points) ❍ lay stress on neatness (ie stress it) ❍ Who should we lay the blame on? (ie Who should we blame?) ❍ lay plans (ie plan) to do sth ❍ lay a trap for (ie prepare to trap) sb.
n ( ⚠ sl esp sexist ) လိင်ဆက်ဆံဖက် (အမျိုးသမီး)။ an easy lay (ie a person who is ready and willing to have sex).
❏ lay about one (with sth) [PHRV ] သိမ်းကျုံးရိုက်သည်။ The police laid about them with clubs.
❏ lay sth aside [PHRV ] (fml )
၁။ ဘေးချိတ်ထားသည်။ (ဗန်း) ခေါက်ထားသည်။ lay aside one's studies / responsibilities.
၂။ (also lay sth by) ဖယ်ထားသည်။ lay some money aside for one’s old age.
❏ lay sth down [PHRV ]
၁။ ချသည်။ ပစ်ချသည်။ lay down one's pen / tools ❍ lay down one’s arms (ie stop fighting).
၂။ (fml ) စွန့်လွှတ်သည်။ lay down one’s office / duties.
၃။ ချသည်။ ခင်းသည်။ lay down foundations / a railway track.
❏ lay sth down ; lay it down that… [PHRV ] ချမှတ်သည်။ You can’t lay down hard and fast rules. ❍ It is laid down that all candidates must submit three copies of their dissertation.
❏ lay sth in [PHRV ] သိုမှီးသည်။ lay in food / coal / supplies.
❏ lay into sb/sth [PHRV ] (infml ) ထိုးနှက်သည်။ တိုက်ခိုက် သည်။ He really laid into her, saying she was arrogant and unfeeling.
❏ lay it on (thick / with a trowel) [IDM ] (infml ) ချဲ့ကားပြောသည်။ ပုံကြီးချဲ့သည်။ ပိုလွန်းသည်။ To call him a genius is laying it on a bit (too thick)!
❏ lay-off n (က) အလုပ်ပြုတ်သူ။ There have been many lay-offs among factory workers. (ခ) လုပ်ငန်းမှ ခေတ္တ နားနေရချိန်။ a six-week lay-off due to injury.
❏ lay off (sb) [PHRV ] (infml ) အသာနေစမ်း။ Lay off! You’re messing up my hair! ❍ Lay off him! Can’t you see he’s badly hurt?
❏ lay off (sth) [PHRV ] (infml ) ရှောင်သည်။ My doctor said I ought to lay off fatty foods for a while.
❏ lay sb off [PHRV ] အလုပ်ဖြုတ်သည်။ 600 employees were laid off because of the lack of new orders.
❏ lay sth on [PHRV ] (Brit infml ) စီစဉ်သည်။ တည်ခင်း သည်။ lay on a party / show / trip ❍ lay on food and drink ❍ They’ve laid on a bus to take guests to the airport.
❏ lay sb out [PHRV ] အလဲထိုးသည်။ He laid his opponent out in the fifth round.
❏ lay sth out [PHRV ]
၁။ ခင်းကျင်းသည်။ jewellery laid out in the shop window ❍ She laid out all the clothes she wanted to take with her.
၂။ (often passive) အကွက်ချသည်။ စီစဉ်သည်။ စနစ်သည်။ lay out a town / garden ❍ a well laid out magazine.
၃။ တင်ပြသည်။ lay out the options ❍ All the terms and conditions are laid out in this document.
၄။ (infml ) အကုန်အကျ ခံသည်။ I had to lay out a fortune on that car.
၅။ အလောင်းပြင်သည်။
❏ lay over [PHRV ] (US ) ခရီးတစ်ထောက်နားသည်။ We will lay over in Chicago. Compare STOP OVER
❏ lay sb up [PHRV ] (usu passive) အိပ်ရာတွင် လဲနေသည်။ She’s laid up with a broken leg/with flu.
❏ lay sth up [PHRV ]
၁။ စုဆောင်းသိုမှီးသည်။ (ပြဿနာ) ရှာသည်။ lay up supplies/fuel ❍ You’re only laying up trouble (for yourself) by not mending that roof now.
၂။ လွန်းတင်သည်။ လွန်းထိုး သည်။ lay a boat up for repairs.

lay2 / leÇ / adj

၁။ (က) လူပြိန်း။ လူသာမန်။ speaking as a lay person.
(ခ) (ဥပဒေ၊ ဆေး) အတတ်ပညာရှင် မဟုတ်သော။ အရပ်သား။ a lay magistrate.
၂။ လူဝတ်ကြောင်။ a lay preacher.

lay3 / leÇ / n (arch )

သီကျူးရန်ရေးထားသော သာချင်းကဲ့သို့ ကဗျာမျိုး။

lay4

pt of LIE2

More examples
  • [lay someone/something on something] : Lay the baby on her back.
  • [lay someone/something across something] : He laid his coat across the arm of the chair.
  • We lay flowers on her grave once a week.
  • Carmen laid her head against my shoulder and fell asleep.
  • The man’s coming to lay the hall carpet tomorrow.
  • A hundred miles of new railway track have been laid.
  • Will you lay the table while I get breakfast?
  • [lay a place (for someone)] : Don’t bother laying a place for me – I’m going out to dinner.
  • [lay the groundwork/foundations] : The project is intended to lay the groundwork for future research.
  • [lay a trap (for someone/something)] : The gunman realized the police had laid a trap and quickly surrendered.
Synonyms
put down, place, rest, put, arrange, leave, set, position, Christmas song, Noel, X marks the spot, accredit, address, adduce, advance, aim, air, allay, allege, alleluia, alleviate, allocate, allot, amateur, appease, apply, ascribe, assess, assign, assonance, assuage, attribute, bear, bet, bring forth, bring forward, burden, calm, canticle, canzonet, carol, cast, charge, choral, chorale, cite, concoct, contrive, credit, deposit, design, devise, diapason, direct, dispose, encumber, establish, even, evensong, fix, flatten, flush, gamble, game, generate, give odds, hallelujah, hatch, hazard, hosanna, how the land lies, how things stand, hymn, illicit scheme, impose, impute, incline, inexpert, iron, lay of the land, level, littany, locate, lodge, longitude, look of things, madrigal, make smooth, melodia, melodiousness, melody, mise en scène, musicality, neck of woods, nonclerical, nonprofessional, nonspecialist, offer, oldie, oratorio, order, ordinary, organize, plan, plane, plant, play, plot, point, posit, premises, prepare, present, press, produce, put forward, quiet, racket, refer, relieve, repose, risk, rock and roll, rune, runes, saddle, secular, set down, set out, settle, site, song, song of praise, sonnet, spread, stake, steam, stick, still, strain, submit, suppress, systematize, tax, temporal, train, tune, tunefulness, turn, uninitiated, unqualified, unsacred, untrained, verse, vocals, wager, wherever, work out, worship song, yield
Antonyms
aggravate, agitate, aid, be active, break, confuse, deny, depart, destroy, disarrange, disestablish, disorder, disorganize, displace, disturb, energize, exonerate, help, intensify, irritate, keep, lift, mix up, move, neglect, ordained, pick up, professional, provoke, refuse, remove, rough, take, unsettle, upset, withhold, worry
Cross references
put downplacerestputarrangeleavesetpositionChristmas songNoelX marks the spotaccreditaddressadduceadvanceaimairallayallegealleluiaalleviateallocateallotamateurappeaseapplyascribeassess
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