"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
(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
1. lay straight = połóż prosto lay straight
  • It lay straight ahead of him, about five minutes away at the rate he was flying.
  • The central lagoon, the Road, lay straight in front of me with the islands clustered round it on either side.
  • The passage lay straight for perhaps three hundred yards.
  • The pod had ceased to roll; the great red sun lay straight ahead.
  • His thin, bare arms lay straight along his sides like a soldier at attention.
  • The compan-ionway leading up to the level of the dining room lay straight ahead.
  • My 16th-floor view was postcard perfect - Central Park lay straight ahead, with nothing but air and glass in between.
  • In that direction a ridge of land now lay straight as a ruler across his path, bringing the horizon near.
  • A table had been knocked on its side and lay with its legs straight out like a dead animal.
  • The island of Manhattan lay straight ahead of us.
2. laid squarely = położony prosto laid squarely
(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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