| Main Entry: | lay |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | amateur, not trained in a religious or other profession |
Synonyms: |
inexpert, nonclerical, nonprofessional, nonspecialist, ordinary, secular, temporal, unsacred |
| Notes: | to lay is to place something; to lie is to recline |
Antonyms: |
ordained, professional |
| Main Entry: | lay |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | put, place |
Synonyms: |
arrange, deposit, dispose, establish, fix, leave, locate, order, organize, plant, posit, position, repose, rest, set, set down, set out, settle, spread, stick, systematize |
Antonyms: |
lift, take |
| Main Entry: | lay |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | produce, advance |
Synonyms: |
adduce, allege, bear, bring forth, bring forward, cite, deposit, generate, lodge, offer, present, put forward, submit, yield |
| Main Entry: | lay |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | credit, allocate |
Synonyms: |
accredit, address, aim, allot, apply, ascribe, assess, assign, attribute, burden, cast, charge, direct, encumber, impose, impute, incline, level, point, refer, saddle, tax, train, turn, zero in |
| Main Entry: | lay |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | design, plan |
Synonyms: |
concoct, contrive, devise, hatch, plot, prepare, work out |
Antonyms: |
neglect |
| Main Entry: | lay |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make smooth |
Synonyms: |
allay, alleviate, appease, assuage, calm, even, flatten, flush, iron, level, plane, press, quiet, relieve, steam, still, suppress |
Antonyms: |
rough |
| Main Entry: | lay |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bet, wager |
Synonyms: |
gamble, game, give odds, hazard, play, risk, stake |
| Main Entry: | lie |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | tell an untruth |
Synonyms: |
BS, be untruthful, bear false witness, beguile, break promise, bull*, con, concoct, deceive, delude, dissemble, dissimulate, distort, dupe*, equivocate, exaggerate, fabricate, fake, falsify, fib, forswear, frame, fudge, go back on, invent, make believe, malign, misguide, misinform, misinstruct, mislead, misrepresent, misspeak, misstate, overdraw, palter, perjure, pervert, phony, plant*, prevaricate, promote, put on*, put up a front, snow*, soft-soap, string along, victimize |
Antonyms: |
be honest |
| Main Entry: | lie |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be prostrate, flat |
Synonyms: |
be prone, be recumbent, be supine, couch, go to bed, laze, lie down, loll, lounge, nap, recline, repose, rest, retire, siesta, sleep, sprawl, stretch out, turn in |
Antonyms: |
be upright, stand, straighten |
| Main Entry: | lie |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be situated |
Synonyms: |
be, be beside, be buried, be established, be even, be fixed, be found, be interred, be level, be located, be on, be placed, be seated, be smooth, belong, beset, exist, extend, have its seat in, occupy, prevail, reach, remain, spread, stretch |