"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 • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 25
(1) egg, sod
Kolokacji: 2
(2) claim, waste, ceremony
Kolokacji: 3
(3) siege, side, north, position
Kolokacji: 4
(4) eye, plan, cluster
Kolokacji: 4
(5) mine, charge, burden
Kolokacji: 4
(9) track, wreath, rail, rifle
Kolokacji: 4
(10) hold, pipe, ship, clutch, log
Kolokacji: 5
(12) stress, emphasis
Kolokacji: 2
1. lay stress = laicki stres lay stress
  • That is why I have laid so much stress on money and a room of one's own.
  • Inspired people lay stress on the given nature of the message.
  • But this is only a speculation, upon which I do not wish to lay too much stress.
  • He laid great stress upon a thing which at first struck me a good deal: this was his having always preserved the same friends.
  • Now those are really the points that we shall lay stress upon at the meeting.
  • In the first half of his speech he laid stress on the struggle for Pakistan.
  • That's why they lay so much stress on their hopes for democracy in Iraq.
  • He laid stress on language as the foundation of unity.
  • He seemed anxious to lay stress on the fact that I owed my life to him.
  • We have also laid particular stress on this opportunity for the further development of political integration.
2. lay emphasis = laicki nacisk lay emphasis
(13) cable, mile
Kolokacji: 2
(15) trap, ambush
Kolokacji: 2
(16) finger, hand, palm, paw
Kolokacji: 4
(17) flower, bit, rose, spell
Kolokacji: 4
(18) percent, odds, slack, Down
Kolokacji: 4
(19) brick, tile, net, asphalt
Kolokacji: 4
(20) thousands, hundreds, yard
Kolokacji: 4
(21) street, madness
Kolokacji: 2
(22) pen, rubber
Kolokacji: 2
(23) clothes, cloak
Kolokacji: 2
(24) distance, length
Kolokacji: 2
(25) argument, plank
Kolokacji: 2
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 • ...

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