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lay: to set down, to place or put an item down
lie: to recline

Lay

he noun lay has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts)

1. ballad, lay -- (a narrative song with a recurrent refrain)
2. ballad, lay -- (a narrative poem of popular origin)

The verb lay has 5 senses (first 5 from tagged texts)

1. (26) put, set, place, pose, position, lay -- (put into a certain place or abstract location; "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point")
2. (11) lay, put down, repose -- (put in a horizontal position; "lay the books on the table"; "lay the patient carefully onto the bed")
3. (5) lay -- (prepare or position for action or operation; "lay a fire"; "lay the foundation for a new health care plan")
4. (4) lay -- (lay eggs; "This hen doesn't lay")
5. (1) lay -- (impose as a duty, burden, or punishment; "lay a responsibility on someone")

The verb lie has 7 senses (first 7 from tagged texts)

1. (89) lie -- (be located or situated somewhere; occupy a certain position)
2. (58) lie -- (be lying, be prostrate; be in a horizontal position; "The sick man lay in bed all day"; "the books are lying on the shelf")
3. (15) dwell, consist, lie, belong, lie in -- (originate (in); "The problems dwell in the social injustices in this country")
4. (14) lie -- (be and remain in a particular state or condition; "lie dormant")
5. (9) lie -- (tell an untruth; pretend with intent to deceive; "Don't lie to your parents"; "She lied when she told me she was only 29")
6. (4) lie, rest -- (have a place in relation to something else; "The fate of Bosnia lies in the hands of the West"; "The responsibility rests with the Allies")
7. (4) lie down, lie -- (assume a reclining position; "lie down on the bed until you feel better")

The adj lay has 2 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)

1. (1) laic, lay, secular -- (concerning those not members of the clergy; "set his collar in laic rather than clerical position"; "the lay ministry"; "the choir sings both sacred and secular music")
2. lay -- (not of or from a profession; "a lay opinion as to the cause of the disease")
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Synonym: 2 senses of lay

Sense 1
ballad, lay -- (a narrative song with a recurrent refrain)
=> song, vocal -- (a short musical composition with words; "a successful musical must have at least three good songs")

Sense 2
ballad, lay -- (a narrative poem of popular origin)
=> poem, verse form -- (a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines)

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Coordinate Terms: 2 senses of lay

Sense 1
ballad, lay -- (a narrative song with a recurrent refrain)
-> song, vocal -- (a short musical composition with words; "a successful musical must have at least three good songs")
=> religious song -- (religious music for singing)
=> anthem -- (a song of devotion or loyalty (as to a nation or school))
=> aria -- (an elaborate song for solo voice)
=> ballad, lay -- (a narrative song with a recurrent refrain)
=> barcarole, barcarolle -- (a boating song sung by Venetian gondoliers)
=> ditty -- (a short simple song (or the words of a poem intended to be sung))
=> dirge, coronach, lament, requiem, threnody -- (a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person)
=> drinking song -- (a song celebrating the joys of drinking; sung at drinking parties)
=> folk song, folksong, folk ballad -- (a song that is traditionally sung by the common people of a region and forms part of their culture)
=> lied -- (a German art song of the 19th century for voice and piano)
=> love song, love-song -- (a song about love or expressing love for another person)
=> lullaby, cradlesong, berceuse -- (a quiet song intended to lull a child to sleep)
=> oldie, golden oldie -- (a song that was formerly popular)
=> partsong -- (a song with two or more voice parts)
=> prothalamion, prothalamium -- (a song in celebration of a marriage)
=> roundelay -- (a song in which a line or phrase is repeated as the refrain)
=> scolion, banquet song -- (a song (sometimes improvised) sung by guests at a banquet)
=> serenade -- (a song characteristically played outside the house of a woman)
=> torch song -- (a popular song concerned with disappointment in love)
=> work song -- (a usually rhythmical song to accompany repetitious work)

Sense 2
ballad, lay -- (a narrative poem of popular origin)
-> poem, verse form -- (a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines)
=> abecedarius -- (a poem having lines beginning with letters of the alphabet in regular order)
=> Alcaic, Alcaic verse -- (verse in the meter used in Greek and Latin poetry consisting of strophes of 4 tetrametric lines; reputedly invented by Alcaeus)
=> ballad, lay -- (a narrative poem of popular origin)
=> ballade -- (a poem consisting of 3 stanzas and an envoy)
=> blank verse -- (unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter))
=> elegy, lament -- (a mournful poem; a lament for the dead)
=> epic poem, heroic poem, epic, epos -- (a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds)
=> free verse, vers libre -- (unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern)
=> haiku -- (an epigrammatic Japanese verse form of three short lines)
=> idyl -- (a short pastoral poem)
=> lyric, lyric poem -- (a short poem of songlike quality)
=> rondeau, rondel -- (a French verse form of 10 or 13 lines running on two rhymes; the opening phrase is repeated as the refrain of the second and third stanzas)
=> sonnet -- (a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme)
=> tanka -- (a form of Japanese poetry; the 1st and 3rd lines have five syllables and the 2nd, 4th, and 5th have seven syllables)
=> terza rima -- (a verse form with a rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc, etc.)
=> verse, rhyme -- (a piece of poetry)
=> versicle -- (a short verse said or sung by a priest or minister in public worship and followed by a response from the congregation)