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LAY IN
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Keep or lay aside for future use
Example:
The bear stores fat for the period of hibernation when he doesn't eat
Synonyms:
hive away; lay in; put in; salt away; stack away; stash away; store
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "lay in" is one way to...):
hold on; keep (retain possession of)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "lay in"):
bin (store in bins)
computerise; computerize (store in a computer)
victual (lay in provisions)
accumulate; amass; collect; compile; hoard; pile up; roll up (get or gather together)
hive (store, like bees)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Context examples:
Besides, it is necessary to go to Paris for your little things, and if there is a chance of the war breaking out again, it would be well to lay in a supply.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
All the peace and soothing of quiet Nature lay in that dark curtain of vegetation, but away from behind there came ever the one message from our fellow-man.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I was transported in thought to the scenes of childhood: I dreamt I lay in the red-room at Gateshead; that the night was dark, and my mind impressed with strange fears.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
All the next day they lay in a pine wood near to the town of Logrono, resting their horses and taking counsel as to what they should do.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Our only chance of safety lay in making a clean job of it, said he, and he would not leave a tongue with power to wag in a witness-box.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But her chief strength lay in Sotherton.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Three weeks afterward the man lay in a bunk on the whale-ship Bedford, and with tears streaming down his wasted cheeks told who he was and what he had undergone.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and we lay in wait for it and attacked it.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The Georgia Tech team measured the brain patterns of more than 100 people while they lay in an MRI machine.
(Daydreaming Is Good: It Means You're Smart, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Our provisions held out well, our ship was staunch, and our crew all in good health; but we lay in the utmost distress for water.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
