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# laying

«laying» in Mova's school dictionary: **putting something down, usually flat or carefully, like…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb form of lay (lay, lays, laid, laying); adjective (laying)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Laying means putting something down, usually flat or carefully, like laying a book on a table. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laying/#m1)

2) A hen laying eggs is making eggs come out of her body. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laying/#m2)

3) Laying a table means putting plates, knives and forks on it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laying/#m3)

4) Laying bricks, tiles or a carpet is putting them in place to build or cover something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laying/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In maths: hens laying eggs at a rate: eggs = hens × eggs per hen × days; laying tiles or bricks in rows: rows × tiles per row. In science: birds, reptiles, fish and insects lay eggs. At home: laying the table for dinner. Phrases: laying eggs, laying the table, laying bricks, laying tiles, laying hens.

### examples

- Each hen is laying 1 egg a day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laying/#x1)
- He is laying 8 tiles in each row. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laying/#x2)
- 6 hens laid 30 eggs this week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laying/#x3)
- They are laying bricks for a wall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laying/#x4)
- Please help me by laying the table. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laying/#x5)
- The turtle is laying her eggs in the sand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laying/#x6)
- Workers are laying a new road. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laying/#x7)
- She is laying the baby in its cot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laying/#x8)
- This he did, laying the meat on the platform. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laying/#x9)

### note

«Lay» needs an object (lay the table, lay eggs): lay, laid, laying. Do not mix it up with «lie» (to rest flat): lie, lay, lain, lying. «I am lying in bed», not «laying in bed». A rate: eggs = hens × eggs per hen × days. Trap: count each hen's eggs, not just the hens.

### In the corpora

- [You do not have to feel sad about a famous person you never knew; the people laying flowers knew their songs or films.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/51-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them/19/)
- [Around 1799 the naturalist George Shaw checked the first platypus skin for stitches, and egg-laying was finally proved only in 1884.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/43-platypus-and-echidna/10/)
- [In confirmation a person confirms for themselves the promises made at their baptism, often with a bishop laying hands on them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/24-baptism-communion-and-confirmation/19/)
- [They encourage one another in an evil matter; they converse of laying snares secretly; they ask, who would see them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1036/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «laying» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laying/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.