Lay sb out

Definition

lay 1 / leÇ / v (pt,pp laid / leÇd /) ခ်သည္။ ခင္းသည္။ ● Placing something in a certain position ၁။ (က) တင္သည္။ ခ်သည္။ လႊမ္းသည္။ ခင္းသည္။ 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) ခင္းသည္။ (မီး)ဖို သည္။ ခ်သည္။ ခ်မွတ္သည္။ 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) (ျမင္းနားရြက္) ေပထားသည္။ The horse laid back its ears. ၂။ ~ sth (on/over sth ) ခင္းသည္။ ျဖန္႔ခင္းသည္။ ျဖန္႔သည္။ lay newspaper / straw every where ❍ lay strips of meat on a grill ❍ The grapes were laid to dry on racks. ❍ LIE 1 ● Causing somebody or something to be in a certain state ၃။ ( fml ) (က) တာဝန္ေပးသည္။ အတာခ်သည္။ lay sb under an obligation to do sth ❍ lay a responsibility on sb. (ခ) တင္သြင္းသည္။ lay a bill before parliament. ၄။ (ဖုန္)သိပ္ေစသည္။ sprinkle water to lay the dust. ၅။ ( fml ) (ေၾကာက္စိတ္) ၿငိမ္းေစသည္၊ ေပ်ာက္ေစသည္။ lay sb's fears. ● Other meanings ၆။ ~ sth (on sth) ေလာင္းသည္။ ထိုး သည္။ lay a bet ❍ lay £ 100 on the favourite ❍ I'll lay you (£5) that she won't come. ၇။ (⚠ sl ) (esp passive) အမ်ဳိးသမီးတစ္ဦးႏွင့္ ကာမစပ္ယွက္သည္။ hoping to get laid. ၈။ (ၾကက္၊ ငွက္) ဥသည္။ 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။ (အေလး)ေပးသည္။ (စီမံကိန္း)ခ်သည္။ (ေထာင္ေခ်ာက္)ဆင္သည္။ 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 ) လိင္ဆက္ဆံဖက္ (အမ်ဳိးသမီး)။ an easy lay (ie a person who is ready and willing to have sex). ❏ lay about one (with sth) [ PHRV ] သိမ္းက်ံဳး႐ိုက္သည္။ The police laid about them with clubs. ❏ lay sth aside [ PHRV ] ( fml ) ၁။ ေဘးခ်ိတ္ထားသည္။ (ဗန္း) ေခါက္ထားသည္။ lay aside one's studies / responsibilities. ၂။ (also lay sth by) ဖယ္ထားသည္။ lay some money aside for one’s old age. ❏ lay sth down [ PHRV ] ၁။ ခ်သည္။ ပစ္ခ်သည္။ lay down one's pen / tools ❍ lay down one’s arms (ie stop fighting). ၂။ ( fml ) စြန္႔လႊတ္သည္။ lay down one’s office / duties. ၃။ ခ်သည္။ ခင္းသည္။ lay down foundations / a railway track. ❏ lay sth down ; lay it down that… [ PHRV ] ခ်မွတ္သည္။ 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 ] သိုမီွးသည္။ lay in food / coal / supplies. ❏ lay into sb/sth [ PHRV ] ( infml ) ထိုးႏွက္သည္။ တိုက္ခိုက္ သည္။ He really laid into her, saying she was arrogant and unfeeling. ❏ lay it on (thick / with a trowel) [ IDM ] ( infml ) ခ်ဲ႕ကားေျပာသည္။ ပံုႀကီးခ်ဲ႕သည္။ ပိုလြန္းသည္။ To call him a genius is laying it on a bit (too thick)! ❏ lay-off n (က) အလုပ္ျပဳတ္သူ။ There have been many lay-offs among factory workers. (ခ) လုပ္ငန္းမွ ေခတၱ နားေနရခ်ိန္။ a six-week lay-off due to injury. ❏ lay off (sb) [ PHRV ] ( infml ) အသာေနစမ္း။ Lay off! You’re messing up my hair! ❍ Lay off him! Can’t you see he’s badly hurt? ❏ lay off (sth) [ PHRV ] ( infml ) ေရွာင္သည္။ My doctor said I ought to lay off fatty foods for a while. ❏ lay sb off [ PHRV ] အလုပ္ျဖဳတ္သည္။ 600 employees were laid off because of the lack of new orders. ❏ lay sth on [ PHRV ] ( Brit infml ) စီစဥ္သည္။ တည္ခင္း သည္။ 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 ] အလဲထိုးသည္။ He laid his opponent out in the fifth round. ❏ lay sth out [ PHRV ] ၁။ ခင္းက်င္းသည္။ jewellery laid out in the shop window ❍ She laid out all the clothes she wanted to take with her. ၂။ (often passive) အကြက္ခ်သည္။ စီစဥ္သည္။ စနစ္သည္။ lay out a town / garden ❍ a well laid out magazine. ၃။ တင္ျပသည္။ lay out the options ❍ All the terms and conditions are laid out in this document. ၄။ ( infml ) အကုန္အက် ခံသည္။ I had to lay out a fortune on that car. ၅။ အေလာင္းျပင္သည္။ ❏ lay over [ PHRV ] ( US ) ခရီးတစ္ေထာက္နားသည္။ We will lay over in Chicago. Compare STOP OVER ❏ lay sb up [ PHRV ] (usu passive) အိပ္ရာတြင္ လဲေနသည္။ She’s laid up with a broken leg/with flu. ❏ lay sth up [ PHRV ] ၁။ စုေဆာင္းသိုမီွးသည္။ (ျပႆနာ) ရွာသည္။ lay up supplies/fuel ❍ You’re only laying up trouble (for yourself) by not mending that roof now. ၂။ လြန္းတင္သည္။ လြန္းထိုး သည္။ lay a boat up for repairs. lay 2 / leÇ / adj ၁။ (က) လူၿပိန္း။ လူသာမန္။ speaking as a lay person. (ခ) (ဥပေဒ၊ ေဆး) အတတ္ပညာရွင္ မဟုတ္ေသာ။ အရပ္သား။ a lay magistrate. ၂။ လူဝတ္ေၾကာင္။ a lay preacher. lay 3 / leÇ / n ( arch ) သီက်ဴးရန္ေရးထားေသာ သာခ်င္းကဲ့သို႔ ကဗ်ာမ်ဳိး။ lay 4 pt of LIE 2

Examples

1. [lay someone/something on something] : Lay the baby on her back.
2. [lay someone/something across something] : He laid his coat across the arm of the chair.
3. We lay flowers on her grave once a week.
4. Carmen laid her head against my shoulder and fell asleep.
5. The man’s coming to lay the hall carpet tomorrow.
6. A hundred miles of new railway track have been laid.
7. Will you lay the table while I get breakfast?
8. [lay a place (for someone)] : Don’t bother laying a place for me – I’m going out to dinner.
9. [lay the groundwork/foundations] : The project is intended to lay the groundwork for future research.
10. [lay a trap (for someone/something)] : The gunman realized the police had laid a trap and quickly surrendered.