lay+before

  • 11lay — I UK [leɪ] / US verb Word forms lay : present tense I/you/we/they lay he/she/it lays present participle laying past tense laid UK [leɪd] / US past participle laid *** Collocations: Lay means to put something in a particular place or position: I… …

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  • 12lay —   Waiho, moe, ho omoe;    ♦ lay aside, kāpae, ho oili;    ♦ lay before, hau, uhau, hahau;    ♦ lay away, ho āhu;    ♦ lay waste, luku, also: ānai, kohikū, kokōhikū, ho oneo, ho oneoneo;    ♦ lay out, kuene; ho olālā (as land areas); kīpapa (as… …

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  • 13before — be|fore1 W1S1 [bıˈfo: US ˈfo:r] conj 1.) earlier than a particular event or action ≠ ↑after ▪ Say goodbye before you go. ▪ I saw her a few days before she died. see usage note ↑ago 2.) so that something does not or cannot happen ▪ Put that money… …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 14before — [[t]bɪfɔ͟ː(r)[/t]] ♦ (In addition to the uses shown below, before is used in the phrasal verbs go before and lay before .) 1) PREP If something happens before a particular date, time, or event, it happens earlier than that date, time, or event.… …

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  • 15before — 1 conjunction 1 earlier than the time when something happens: Say goodbye before you go. | It will be sometime before we know the full results. 2 so that something bad does not happen: Put that money somewhere safe before it gets stolen. | That… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 16lay — lay1 [lā] vt. laid, laying [ME leyen, new formation < 3d pers. sing. of earlier leggen < OE lecgan, lit., to make lie (akin to Goth lagjan, Ger legen) < pt. base of OE licgan, to LIE1] 1. to cause to come down or fall with force; knock… …

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  • 17Lay of Leithian — Álbum de estudio de Ainur Publicación 16 de noviembre de 2009 Grabación de enero a junio de 2009, en los Play Studios y en los Ainur Studios Género(s) rock progresivo, rock sinfónico …

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  • 18Lay's — Type Potato Chips Owner Pepsico Country United States Introduced 1932 …

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  • 19Lay Brothers — • Religious occupied solely with manual labour and with the secular affairs of a monastery or friary Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Lay Brothers     Lay Brothers      …

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  • 20lay — [leɪ] verb laid PTandPP lay somebody → off phrasal verb [transitive] HUMAN RESOURCES to stop employing a worker, usually when there is not enough work for them to do: • The group plans to lay off 10% of its workforce. see also …

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