| 单词 | lay-up |
| 释义 | lay-upor lay·up[ ley-uhp ] / ˈleɪˌʌp / nounBasketball. a shot with one hand from a point close to the basket, in which a player shoots the ball toward the basket, often off the backboard. the operation of assembling veneers for pressing into plywood. the operation of applying alternate layers of material and a binder to form a bonded material. lay1 (def. 40). Origin of lay-upFirst recorded in 1940–45; noun use of verb phrase lay up Words nearby lay-uplay someone low, laytime, lay to, Layton, lay to rest, lay-up, lay vicar, lay waste, laywoman, lazar, lazaretto Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for lay-up
British Dictionary definitions for lay-uplay up verb (tr, adverb)to store or reserve for future use (usually passive) informal to incapacitate or confine through illness Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Idioms and Phrases with lay-uplay up see laid up; lay in. The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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