cap
overlying
decumbence
superincumbent
epigastric
superjacent
plop down
underlie
overlie
lap
overfall
incumbent
decubital
take a tumble
lay
mantle
laydown
sprawl
lie back
lair
lay down
bottom
hunker
rest
pillow
flatten
reverse
prostrate
cuddle
set
tuck up
rugby tackle
cuddle up
layout
traverse
supination
subterposition
planking
postural
lay out
slob around
duck down
recumbent
snuggle up
parquet
repose
underlay
underlying
slike
chirothesia
bend over
lap pillow
stand up
forelay
subjacent
turn back
invert
depend
recumbently
supine
suprameatal
resupine
crouchant
subject
knee
semiprone
subincumbent
acro
couch
lay one's hands on
get down
horn in
proneness
spraddle
tipple
ventricumbent
lay back
prostration
accumbent
double up
double over
topple
decumbent
up-end
meditate
double
overlying
superincumbent
epigastric
superjacent
incumbent
decubital
traverse
postural
recumbent
underlying
subjacent
supine
suprameatal
resupine
crouchant
subject
semiprone
subincumbent
acro
prostrate
ventricumbent
accumbent
decumbent
recumbently
decumbence
laydown
rugby tackle
layout
supination
subterposition
planking
chirothesia
lap pillow
knee
proneness
prostration
cap
plop down
underlie
overlie
lap
overfall
take a tumble
lay
mantle
sprawl
lie back
lair
lay down
bottom
hunker
rest
pillow
flatten
reverse
prostrate
cuddle
set
tuck up
cuddle up
lay out
slob around
duck down
snuggle up
parquet
repose
underlay
slike
bend over
stand up
forelay
turn back
invert
depend
couch
lay one's hands on
get down
horn in
spraddle
tipple
lay back
double up
double over
topple
up-end
meditate
double
verb
- To lie over or on top of something.
- To set an upper limit on something.
- To award a cap as a mark of distinction.
- To convert text to uppercase.
- To make something even more wonderful at the end.
- To lie; to tell a lie.
- To select to play for the national team.
- To take a screenshot or to record a copy of a video.
- To select a player to play for a specified side.
- To cover or seal with a cap.
- To surpass or outdo.
- To shoot (someone) with a firearm.
- To deprive of a cap.
noun
- An uppercase or capital letter.
- A recording or screenshot.
- Anyone have a cap of the games last night?
- The top part of a mushroom.
- A place on a national team; an international appearance.
- An academic mortarboard.
- A special hat to indicate rank, occupation, etc.
- A small amount of percussive explosive in a paper strip or plastic cup for use in a toy gun.
- A lie or exaggeration.
- The uppermost of any assemblage of parts.
- The whole top of the head of a bird from the base of the bill to the nape of the neck.
- The summit of a mountain, etc.
- A large size of writing paper.
- A crown for covering a tooth.
- A capitalist.
- An artificial upper limit or ceiling.
- capillary
- Capitalization.
- A protective cover or seal.
- A capacitor.
- A capsule of a drug.
- Something covering the top or end of a thing for protection or ornament.
- A close-fitting hat, either brimless or peaked.
- A collar of iron or wood used in joining spars, as the mast and the topmast, the bowsprit and the jib boom; also, a covering of tarred canvas at the end of a rope.
- A small explosive device used to detonate a larger charge of explosives.
- A bullet used to shoot someone.
- A portion of a spherical or other convex surface.
verb
- To fold; to bend and lay over or on something.
- To be turned or folded; to lie partly on or over something; to overlap.
- to envelop, enfold
- To enfold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.
- to wind around
- To polish, e.g., a surface, until smooth.
- To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc.
- To take (liquid) into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up with a quick motion of the tongue.
- To overtake a straggler in a race by completing one more whole lap than the straggler.
- To wash against a surface with a splashing sound; to swash.
- To rest or recline in a lap, or as in a lap.
- to wrap around, enwrap, wrap up
- To place or lay (one thing) so as to overlap another.
noun
- A piece of brass, lead, or other soft metal, used to hold a cutting or polishing powder in cutting glass, gems, etc. or in polishing cutlery, etc. It is usually in the form of a wheel or disk that revolves on a vertical axis.
- The state or condition of being in part extended over or by the side of something else; or the extent of the overlapping.
- The amount by which a slide valve at its half stroke overlaps a port in the seat, being equal to the distance the valve must move from its mid stroke position in order to begin to open the port. Used alone, lap refers to outside lap (see below).
- The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
- The traversal of one length of the pool, or (less commonly) one length and back again.
- In card playing and other games, the points won in excess of the number necessary to complete a game;—so called when they are counted in the score of the following game.
- One circuit around a race track.
- An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth.
- A component that overlaps or covers any portion of itself or of an adjacent component.
- That part of any substance or fixture which extends over, or lies upon, or by the side of, a part of another.
- The taking of liquid into the mouth with the tongue.
- A sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber prepared for the carding machine.
- The act or process of lapping.
- The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered.
- a place of rearing and fostering
- The upper legs of a seated person.
verb
- To lie: to rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
- To take a position; to come or go.
- To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position.
- To don or put on (tefillin (phylacteries)).
- To have sex with.
- To place (new type) properly in the cases.
- To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone.
- To impose (a burden, punishment, command, tax, etc.).
- To produce and deposit an egg.
- To apply; to put.
- To deposit (a stake) as a wager; to stake; to risk.
- To bet (that something is or is not the case).
- To point; to aim.
- To be in a horizontal position; to lie (from confusion with lie).
- To present or offer.
- simple past tense of lie when pertaining to position.
- To state; to allege.
- To impute; to charge; to allege.
- To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them.
- To install certain building materials, laying one thing on top of another.
- To prepare (a plan, project etc.); to set out, establish (a law, principle).
adj
- Non-professional; not being a member of an organized institution.
- Not trumps.
- Not belonging to the clergy, but associated with them.
noun
- The direction a rope is twisted.
- A casual sexual partner.
- A lake.
- A ballad or sung poem; a short poem or narrative, usually intended to be sung.
- What was I, just another lay you can toss aside as you go on to your next conquest?
- Arrangement or relationship; layout.
- An act of sexual intercourse.
- A share of the profits in a business.
- A lyrical, narrative poem written in octosyllabic couplets that often deals with tales of adventure and romance.
- The laying of eggs.
verb
- To climb over or onto something.
- To become covered or concealed.
- To spread like a mantle (especially of blood in the face and cheeks when a person flushes).
- To cover or conceal (something); to cloak; to disguise.
noun
- A figurative garment representing authority or status, capable of affording protection.
- The layer between the Earth's core and crust.
- A penstock for a water wheel.
- A mantling.
- A gauzy fabric impregnated with metal nitrates, used in some kinds of gas and oil lamps and lanterns, which forms a rigid but fragile mesh of metal oxides when heated during initial use and then produces white light from the heat of the flame below it. (So called because it is hung above the lamp's flame like a mantel.)
- The back of a bird together with the folded wings.
- The zone of hot gases around a flame.
- The cerebral cortex.
- The outer wall and casing of a blast furnace, above the hearth.
- Anything that covers or conceals something else; a cloak.
- A piece of clothing somewhat like an open robe or cloak, especially that worn by Orthodox bishops. (Compare mantum.)
- The body wall of a mollusc, from which the shell is secreted.
- A fireplace shelf; Alternative spelling of mantel
verb
noun
- A place inhabited by a criminal or criminals, a superhero or a supervillain; a refuge, retreat, haven or hideaway.
- A place inhabited by a wild animal, often a cave or a hole in the ground.
- A shed or shelter for domestic animals.
- A grave; a cemetery plot.
- A bog; a mire.
- A person who dresses in a showy but tasteless manner and behaves in a vulgar and conceited way; a show-off.
- A bed or resting place.
verb
- To lie down; to place oneself in a reclined or horizontal position, on a bed or similar, for the purpose of resting.
- To sacrifice, especially in the phrase "to lay down one's life."
- To stock, store (e.g. wine) for the future. See also lay by.
- To specify, institute, enact, assert firmly, state authoritatively, establish or formulate (rules or policies).
- To euthanize an animal.
- To give up, surrender, or yield (e.g. a weapon), usually by placing it on the ground.
- simple past tense of lie down
- To intentionally take a fall while riding a motorcycle, in order to prevent a more serious collision.
- To place on the ground, e.g. a railway on a trackbed.
verb
- To lie on the bottom of; to underlie, to lie beneath.
- To pour spirits into (a glass to be topped up with soda water).
- To establish or found (something) on or upon.
- To reach the bottom of something.
- To fall to the lowest point.
- To be the submissive partner in a BDSM relationship.
- To reach or strike against the bottom of something, so as to impede free action.
- To furnish (something) with a bottom.
- To be anally penetrated in gay sex.
adj
noun
- Low-lying land near a river with alluvial soil.
- The far end of somewhere.
- A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.
- A submissive in sadomasochistic sexual activity.
- The buttocks or anus.
- Low-lying land; a valley or hollow.
- The second half of an inning, the home team's turn at bat.
- A cargo vessel, a ship.
- A man who prefers the receptive role in anal sex with men.
- Character, reliability, staying power, dignity, integrity or sound judgment.
- Certain parts of a vessel, particularly the cargo hold or the portion of the ship that is always underwater.
- The base; the fundamental part; basic aspect.
- A garment worn to cover the body below the torso.
- An abyss.
- The lowest part of anything.
- Spirits poured into a glass before adding soda water.
- The lowest part of a container.
- The bed of a body of water, as of a river, lake, or sea.
verb
- rest on or as if on a pillow
- not move; be in a resting position
- take a short break from one's activities in order to relax
- give a rest to
- have a place in relation to something else
- be at rest
- stay the same; remain in a certain state
- be inherent or innate in
- put something in a resting position, as for support or steadying
- sit, as on a branch
- be inactive, refrain from acting
noun
- something left after other parts have been taken away
- freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility)
- a pause for relaxation
- a state of inaction
- euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb)
- a support on which things can be put
- a musical notation indicating a silence of a specified duration
verb
- To be knocked down or laid low.
- To reduce (a data structure) to one that has fewer dimensions, e.g. a 2×2 array into a list of four elements.
- To press one's body tightly against a surface, such as a wall or floor, especially in order to avoid being seen or harmed.
- To knock down or lay low.
- To make something flat or flatter.
- To lower by a semitone.
- To combine (separate layers) into a single image.
- To become flat or flatter; to plateau.
- To make vapid or insipid; to render stale.
verb
- To turn something inside out or upside down.
- To transpose the positions of two things.
- To engage reverse thrust on (an engine).
- To cause a mechanism or a vehicle to operate or move in the opposite direction to normal.
- To turn something around so that it faces the opposite direction or runs in the opposite sequence.
- To revoke a law, or to change a decision into its opposite.
- To change totally; to alter to the opposite.
- To place (a set of points) in the reverse position.
- To change the direction of a reaction such that the products become the reactants and vice-versa.
- To move from the normal position to the reverse position.
- To overthrow; to subvert.
noun
- The act of going backwards; a reversal.
- A thrust in fencing made with a backward turn of the hand; a backhanded stroke.
- The opposite of something.
- The gear setting of an automobile that makes it travel backwards.
- The tails side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that is opposite the obverse.
- A turn or fold made in bandaging, by which the direction of the bandage is changed.
- A piece of misfortune; a setback.
- The side of something facing away from a viewer, or from what is considered the front; the other side.
adj
- Pertaining to engines, vehicle movement etc. moving in a direction opposite to the usual direction.
- Turned upside down; greatly disturbed.
- In which cDNA synthetization is obtained from an RNA template.
- Reversed.
- Opposite, contrary; going in the opposite direction.
- To be in the non-default position; to be set for the lesser-used route.
verb
- To rest or lie somewhere, on something, etc.; to occupy a certain place.
- To devise and assign (work) to.
- To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
- To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.
- To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
- To place or fix in a setting.
- To extend and bring into position; to spread.
- To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
- To prepare (a stage or film set).
- To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
- To defeat a contract.
- To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
- To put (something) down, to rest.
- To produce after pollination.
- To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
- To acknowledge a dancing partner by facing him or her and moving first to one side and then to the other, while she or he does the opposite.
- To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
- To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
- To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
- To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
- To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
- To sit (be in a seated position).
- To arrange (type).
- To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
- To introduce or describe.
- To solidify.
- To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly.
- Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
- Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
- To fit (someone) up in a situation.
- To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
- To adjust.
- To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
- To suit; to become.
- To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
- To determine or settle.
- To fit music to words.
- To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
- To start (a fire).
- To divide a class group in a subject according to ability
- To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to, geographically or temporally.
- To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
noun
- A punch for setting nails in wood.
- The full number of eggs set under a hen.
- The initial or basic formation of dancers.
- A device for receiving broadcast radio waves (or, more recently, broadcast data); a radio or television.
- A young oyster when first attached.
- The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack.
- The setting of the sun or other luminary; (by extension) the close of the day.
- The scenery for a film or play.
- Set theory.
- the general locations and area where a movie’s, a film’s, or a video’s scenery is arranged to be filmed also including places for actors, assorted crew, director, producers which are typically not filmed.
- A complete series of games, forming part of a match.
- A group of repetitions of a single exercise performed one after the other without rest.
- The amount the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
- A rudimentary fruit.
- An object made up of several parts.
- General movement; direction; drift; tendency.
- A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached by the weight, or hammer.
- The camber of a curved roofing tile.
- A drum kit, a drum set.
- A class group in a subject where pupils are divided by ability.
- A bias of mind; an attitude or pattern of behaviour.
- A collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order or repetition of the objects which may be contained within it.
- A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces.
- Three of a kind, especially if two cards are in one's hand and the third is on the board. Compare trips (“three of a kind, especially with two cards on the board and one in one's hand”).
- A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot.
- A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
- Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
- A series or group of something. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 4, Noun)
- A group of people, usually meeting socially.
- The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit.
- The pattern of a tartan, etc.
- A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.
- A permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending, twisting, etc.
- A matching collection of similar things. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 2, Noun.)
- A complete series of points, forming part of a match.
adj
verb
- to bring one's legs and abdomen together while lying face-up on the floor; to perform a tuck-up
- To push the fabric at the bottom of a garment into itself or under another garment (especially trousers, skirt, dress etc.)
- To pull the blankets or duvet up over (someone in bed); to put (someone) to bed.
- To pull the blankets or duvet up over oneself in bed.
- To protect one's face by covering it with the gloves
noun
- The act of laying out something.
- A map or a drawing of a construction site showing the position of roads, buildings or other constructions.
- A specification of an integrated circuit showing the position of the physical components that will implement the schematic in silicon.
- The process of arranging editorial content, advertising, graphics and other information to fit within certain constraints.
- A structured arrangement of items within certain limits.
- A plan for such arrangement.
adj
noun
- In trench warfare, a defensive trench built to prevent enfilade.
- A formal denial of some matter of fact alleged by the opposite party in any stage of the pleadings. The technical words introducing a traverse are absque hoc ("without this", i.e. without what follows).
- Something that thwarts or obstructs.
- The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.
- A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
- A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent.
- A series of points, with angles and distances measured between, traveled around a subject, usually for use as "control" i.e. angular reference system for later surveying work.
- A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
- A traverse board.
adv
verb
- To use the motions of opposition or counteraction.
- To travel across, often under difficult conditions.
- To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
- To (make a cutting, an incline) across the gradients of a sloped face at safe rate.
- To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood.
- To deny formally.
- To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly.
- To climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle (relative to the slope).
- To rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target.
- To act against; to thwart or obstruct.
- To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
noun
- The act or state of lying face upward, on one's back.
- The position of the sword hand when the palm is facing up.
- The act or state of combined adduction and inversion of the foot.
- The act of rotating the forearm so that the palm of the hand is turned up or forward, or the resulting state of the forearm
verb
- To render (someone) unconscious; to knock out; to cause to fall to the floor.
- To concoct; think up.
- To prepare a body for burial.
- To arrange in a certain way, so as to spread or space apart; to display (e.g. merchandise or a collection).
- To lie in the sunshine.
- To expend or contribute money to an expense or purchase.
- simple past tense of lie out
- To scold or berate.
- To explain; to interpret.
verb
noun
- A wooden floor made of parquetry.
- The part of a theatre between the orchestra and the parquet circle.
- In some European countries, the branch of the administrative government that handles prosecutions.
- In some European bourses or stock exchanges, the railed-in space within which the agents de change, or privileged brokers, conduct business; also, the business conducted by them, distinguished from the coulisse, or outside market.
verb
- To lay (something) underneath something else; to put under.
- To put a tap on (a shoe).
- simple past tense of underlie
- To provide a support for something; to raise or support by something laid under.
- To incline from the vertical.
noun
- A piece of paper pasted under woodcuts, stereotype plates, etc. in a form, to bring them up to the necessary level for printing.
- Lyrics; or more specifically, the way in which lyrics are assigned to musical notes.
- Anything that is underlaid.
- A layer (of earth, etc.) that lies under another; substratum.
- A soft floor covering that lies under a carpet.
verb
- To rise from a lying or sitting position.
- To bring something up and set it into a standing position.
- To stand immediately behind the wicket so as to catch balls from a slow or spin bowler, and to attempt to stump the batsman.
- To launch, propel upwards
- (stand someone up) To avoid a prearranged meeting, especially a date, with (a person) without prior notification; to jilt or shirk.
- To last or endure over a period of time.
- To formally activate and commission (a unit, formation, etc.).
- to make one's voice heard, to speak up
- To continue to be believable, consistent, or plausible.
adj
- Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.
- Conditional upon something; used with to.
- Likely to be affected by or to experience something.
- Placed under the power of another; owing allegiance to a particular sovereign or state.
verb
- To make subordinate or subservient; to subdue or enslave.
- To cause (someone or something) to undergo a particular experience, especially one that is unpleasant or unwanted.
noun
- A being that has subjective experiences, subjective consciousness, or a relationship with another entity.
- The variable in terms of which an expression is defined.
- The main topic of a paper, work of art, discussion, field of study, etc.
- The main theme or melody, especially in a fugue.
- A person ruled over by another, especially a monarch or state authority.
- A particular area of study.
- A citizen in a monarchy.
- In a clause: the word or word group (usually a noun phrase) about whom the statement is made. In active clauses with verbs denoting an action, the subject and the actor are usually the same.
- That of which something is stated.
- An actor; one who takes action.
- A human, animal or an inanimate object that is being examined, treated, analysed, etc.
noun
- An act of kneeling on one knee, typically to acknowledge an injury or sacrifice or otherwise to show respect.
- In the horse and allied animals, the carpal joint, corresponding to the wrist in humans.
- The part of a garment that covers the knee.
- Any knee-shaped item or sharp angle in a line; an inflection point.
- In humans, the joint or the region of the joint in the middle part of the leg between the thigh and the shank.
- A piece of timber or metal formed with an angle somewhat in the shape of the human knee when bent.
- A blow made with the knee; a kneeing.
verb
adj
verb
- To bend the body, as in reverence, pain, labor, etc.; to stoop; to crouch.
- To attach a thread onto fabric with small stitches in order to add texture.
- To transfer (for example, sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire mould to a felt blanket for further drying.
- To phrase in a particular style; to use specific wording for.
- To arrange or dispose as if in a bed.
- To lay something upon a bed or other resting place.
- To lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed.
- To lie down; to recline (upon a couch or other place of repose).
- To lower (a spear or lance) to the position of attack.
- In the treatment of a cataract in the eye, to displace the opaque lens with a sharp object such as a needle. The technique is regarded as largely obsolete.
noun
- The den of an otter.
- A mass of steeped barley spread upon a floor to germinate, in malting; or the floor occupied by the barley.
- A preliminary layer, as of colour or size.
- Psychotherapy.
- Couch grass, a species of persistent grass, Elymus repens, usually considered a weed.
- An item of furniture, often upholstered, for the comfortable seating of more than one person; a sofa.
- A bed, a resting-place.
verb
verb
- lower (one's body) as by kneeling
- move something or somebody to a lower position
- alight from (a horse)
- pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking
- lower someone's spirits; make downhearted
- put down in writing; of texts, musical compositions, etc.
- take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
adj
noun
- Being laid face down (prone).
- A part of the ordination of Catholic and Orthodox priests.
- The act or condition of prostrating oneself (lying flat), as a sign of humility.
- The condition of being prostrated, as from heat; complete loss of strength.
- A reverential bow performed in Middle Eastern cultures.
verb
- bend over or curl up, usually with laughter or pain
- increase twofold
- hit a two-base hit
- do double duty; serve two purposes or have two functions
- make a demand for (a card or suit)
- make or do or perform again
adj
- used of flowers having more than the usual number of petals in crowded or overlapping arrangements
- used of homologous chromosomes associated in pairs in synapsis
adj
- having more than one decidedly dissimilar aspects or qualities
- consisting of or involving two parts or components usually in pairs
- twice as great or many
- large enough for two
- having two meanings with intent to deceive
noun
- a base hit on which the batter stops safely at second base
- a stand-in for movie stars to perform dangerous stunts
- someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor)
- a quantity that is twice as great as another
- raising the stakes in a card game by a factor of 2
adv
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