Definitions for lay down
lay down

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. lay down, establish, makeverb

   institute, enact, or establish

   "make laws"

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1. lay downverb

   To give up, surrender, or yield (e.g. a weapon), usually by placing it on the ground.

2. lay downverb

   To intentionally take a fall while riding a motorcycle, in order to prevent a more serious collision.

3. lay downverb

   To specify, institute, enact, assert firmly, state authoritatively, establish or formulate (rules or policies).

4. lay downverb

   To stock, store (e.g. wine) for the future. See also lay by.

5. lay downverb

   To sacrifice, especially in the phrase "to lay down one's life."

6. lay downverb

   To lie down; to place oneself in a reclined or horizontal position, on a bed or similar, for the purpose of resting.

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1. Lay Down

   Lay Down (Candles in the Rain) was the second single from Melanie Safka's 1970 album Candles in the Rain. It was her breakthrough hit in the United States, climbing to number six on the Billboard Hot 100 and number three on the Cash Box Top 100. The record was ranked number 23 on the Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1970. It was released in March 1970. The recording was a collaboration between Melanie and the Edwin Hawkins Singers, who had reached the national Top Ten the previous year with "Oh Happy Day". Melanie wrote the song after performing at Woodstock in August 1969; the song's lyrics describe what she felt as she looked out at the sea of people in the audience.

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1. lay down

   To lay down is to voluntarily place one's own body, an object or a rule in a horizontal position, flat on a surface. It can also mean to establish something such as a rule, principle, or procedure. In a broader sense, it is often used metaphorically, such as "laying down the law" (imposing rules) or "laying down one's life" (sacrificing oneself).

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of lay down in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of lay down in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of lay down in a Sentence

1. Parsons Police:

   She left her purebred German shepherd in a fenced backyard with water, food, outbuilding, and it was an unseasonably beautiful day here in Parsons, about 73 degrees outside. She went to lay down, caught some shut-eye, woke up, went outside and she found the carcass of her beautiful little puppy, the head had been severed, the head has not yet been recovered. And also we found the muzzle of the animal.

2. J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5 (Television Series) "Comes the Inquisitor":

   No greater love hath a man than he lay down his life for his brother. Not for millions, .. not for glory, not for fame. For one person, .. in the dark .. where no one will ever know .. or see.

3. Rand Paul:

   I would treat her with the same respect that I would treat a man, but I wouldn't lay down and say, 'Oh, I'm not going to respond out of some sort of' -- and I think that would be a sexist response to say, 'Oh, my goodness, she deserves not to be treated as aggressively, because she's only a woman, i would never say that about anybody. And I don't come into our interview thinking, 'OK, it's a woman versus a man kind of interview.

4. Honduran Security Minister Julian Pacheco:

   International aid is very important, but if there isn't aid we can't just lay down and cry.

5. Michael Daniel:

   Prohibiting payments immediately is not a workable strategy because it will impose too many costs on innocent victims, if you want to set that as a policy goal, you need to lay down steps first and you need much more information.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=lay down
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Lay_Down
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lay_Down
4. ^ ChatGPT
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