LAY OVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lay over mean? 

• LAY OVER (verb)
  The verb LAY OVER has 2 senses:

1. interrupt a journey temporarily, e.g., overnight

2. place on top of

  Familiarity information: LAY OVER used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LAY OVER (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Interrupt a journey temporarily, e.g., overnight

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

lay over; stop over

Context example:

We had to stop over in Venezuela on our flight back from Brazil

Hypernyms (to "lay over" is one way to...):

stop; stop over (interrupt a trip)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Derivation:

layover (a brief stay in the course of a journey)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Place on top of

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

lay over; superimpose; superpose

Context example:

can you superimpose the two images?

Hypernyms (to "lay over" is one way to...):

lay; place; pose; position; put; set (put into a certain place or abstract location)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "lay over"):

develop (superimpose a three-dimensional surface on a plane without stretching, in geometry)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

I called to them, and they came in, and when they saw what had happened, and what it was that lay over me on the bed, they screamed out.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“They told us up above that the bottom was dropping out of the trail and that the best thing for us to do was to lay over,” Hal said in response to Thornton’s warning to take no more chances on the rotten ice.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

One mast was broken short off, six or eight feet from the deck, and lay over the side, entangled in a maze of sail and rigging; and all that ruin, as the ship rolled and beat—which she did without a moment's pause, and with a violence quite inconceivable—beat the side as if it would stave it in.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The windows were curtainless, and the yellow moonlight, flooding in through the diamond panes, enabled one to see even colours, whilst it softened the wealth of dust which lay over all and disguised in some measure the ravages of time and the moth.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)