"lay" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

lay verbo

lay + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 107
lay eggs • lay claim • lay siege • lay eyes • lay waste • lay plans • lay mines • lay souls • lay one's head • lay down one's arms • ...
verbo + lay
Kolokacji: 10
help lay • begin laying • want to lay • start laying • try to lay • ...
lay + preposición
Kolokacji: 91
lay out • lay down • lay off • lay upon • lay across • lay beside • lay beneath • lay beyond • lay up • ...
lay + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 140
lay ahead • lay dead • lay bare • lay low • lay aside • lay flat • lay motionless • lay open • lay quiet • lay dormant • lay unconscious • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 38
(2) bare, naked, defenseless
Kolokacji: 3
(3) low, quietly
Kolokacji: 2
(4) aside, away, side-by-side
Kolokacji: 3
(7) open, unopened, wide-eyed
Kolokacji: 3
(10) carefully, carelessly
Kolokacji: 2
(11) silent, silently
Kolokacji: 2
(12) directly, immediately
Kolokacji: 2
(14) helpless, helplessly
Kolokacji: 2
(16) thick, clearly, thickly
Kolokacji: 3
1. lay thick = kłaść gruby lay thick
2. clearly lay = wyraźnie laicki clearly lay
3. lay thickly = połóż grubo lay thickly
  • In places, mist lay thickly over the trees.
  • Inside the room it was warm enough, though snow lay thickly on the ground outside.
  • They continued walking and came to where the yellow clay lay thickly at the feet of the willows.
  • Dust lay thickly along the floor, clung to the walls.
  • Although some 40+ women lay on the makeup too thickly, others take the opposite approach.
  • But, on the other hand, whose blood was that which lay so thickly upon the floor?
  • The room he'd entered was an auxiliary office, rarely used, to judge by the dust that lay thickly on the surfaces of the furniture.
  • Louisa asked, and spread her hands to indicate the bones that lay so thickly around them.
  • White patches on the walls showed where pictures and display cases had been removed; dust lay thickly.
  • Dark eyelashes lay thickly against the smooth freckled skin as if he slept.
(17) finally, eventually
Kolokacji: 2
(18) simply, merely
Kolokacji: 2
(20) ready, quickly, suddenly
Kolokacji: 3
(21) therein, normally
Kolokacji: 2
(22) well, comfortably
Kolokacji: 2
(23) alone, entirely, singly
Kolokacji: 3
(24) neatly
Kolokacji: 2
(26) undisturbed, casually
Kolokacji: 2
(28) straight, squarely
Kolokacji: 2
(29) warm, deep, close
Kolokacji: 3
(30) limp, flaccid
Kolokacji: 2
(31) newly, freshly
Kolokacji: 2
(32) generally, loosely
Kolokacji: 2
(33) wherein
Kolokacji: 1
(34) successfully, unsuccessfully
Kolokacji: 2
(36) wakeful, sleepless
Kolokacji: 2
(37) beautifully, awkwardly
Kolokacji: 2
(38) tangled, forth
Kolokacji: 2

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