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Laid

/leɪd/

(of paper) Marked with parallel lines, as if ribbed, from wires in the mould.

📖 Definitions of "Laid"

adjective
  1. 1

    (of paper) Marked with parallel lines, as if ribbed, from wires in the mould.

verb
  1. 1

    To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position.

    "A shower of rain lays the dust."

  2. 2

    To cause to subside or abate.

  3. 3

    To prepare (a plan, project etc.); to set out, establish (a law, principle).

  4. 4

    To install certain building materials, laying one thing on top of another.

    "lay brick;  lay flooring"

verb
  1. 1

    To don or put on (tefillin (phylacteries)).

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