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  2. List of English words with disputed usage - Wikipedia

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    Lay and its principal derivatives (laid, laying) are correctly used in these examples: Now I lay me down to sleep. The chicken is laying an egg. Lie is an intransitive verb and cannot take an object. Lie and its principal derivatives (lay, lain, lying) are correctly used in these examples: My mother lies [not lays] down after meals.

  3. Layoff - Wikipedia

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    A layoff [1] or downsizing is the temporary suspension or permanent termination of employment of an employee or, more commonly, a group of employees (collective layoff) [2] for business reasons, such as personnel management or downsizing an organization.

  4. Unpaired word - Wikipedia

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    An unpaired word is one that, according to the usual rules of the language, would appear to have a related word but does not. [1] Such words usually have a prefix or suffix that would imply that there is an antonym, with the prefix or suffix being absent or opposite.

  5. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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    go down (fig.) to leave a university (as Oxford) to come down (with an illness) to be accepted or remembered (e.g. go down in history) to fail, esp. of a computer go down on, to engage in oral sex: to go on, happen (often a major event, e.g. a drug bust "it's going down right now!" or "it went down last week".

  6. Lay Down Your Weapons - Wikipedia

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    "Lay Down Your Weapons" (2013) "I Will Never Let You Down" (2014) "Lay Down Your Weapons" is a song by British rapper K Koke featuring singer Rita Ora.

  7. Contronym - Wikipedia

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    Hindi: कल and Urdu: کل (kal) may mean either "yesterday" or "tomorrow" (disambiguated by the verb in the sentence).; Icelandic: fram eftir can mean "toward the sea" or "away from the sea" depending on dialect.

  8. Lay Down - Wikipedia

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    "Lay Down", a song by Caravan Palace from the 2015 album Robot Face "Lay Down", a song by Natasha Bedingfield from the 2007 album N.B.

  9. Lay Down Your Weary Tune - Wikipedia

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    "Lay Down Your Weary Tune" is a song written by Bob Dylan in 1963. [1] [2] Dylan originally recorded it for his album The Times They Are a-Changin', ...