Summary
to lay {verb}
mettere · stendere · collocare · sistemare · porre
to lie {verb}
spettare · competere · giacere · bluffare · risedere
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English-Italian translation for "lay"
"lay" Italian translation
lay {adjective}
Catechists, therefore, should be ever more fully qualified as lay pioneers of the apostolate.
And soon another will be published on the lay Lesser Brother.
(21) Cfr. S. Congregation for Catholic Education, Lay Catholics in Schools: Witnesses to Faith, n. 22.
Blessed Bonaventure, who died on the Palatine Hill (Rome) on September 11, 1684, had been married before and joined the Order as a lay
the Lay Friar Minor
to lay {verb}
And if you want, you can lay color in the mold, and get rid of the paint shop.
We have to lay bare the deep roots of violent radicalisation and the recruitment of terrorists.
Perhaps we still have some of the ghosts of the past to lay to rest; ancient suspicions to bury once and for all.
Mr Lannoye is right that we must lay our cards on the table in this regard and do justice to the precautionary principle.
No, Mr Blokland, the Rules of Procedure do not lay down that the postponement of an urgent matter can be put to the vote.
Because the lowly abalone is able to lay down the calcium carbonate crystals in layers, making this beautiful, iridescent mother of pearl.
I did the sleep thing -- I went to bed, I laid down -- but I didn't really sleep.
If that had been a dog, I would have laid him out.
For instance, here they are laying down the balloon fabric behind, which is eventually going to be filled up with helium.
In his write-up, in his write-up of this experiment in his book, Kinsey wrote, "Two sheets were laid down to protect the oriental carpets."
All of the hundreds of millions of mines laid must be destroyed.
He builds an altar, lays the wood upon it and having bound the boy, grasps the knife, ready to sacrifice him.
I should myself be satisfied if we could achieve a situation in which markedly more mines were cleared than were laid.
There is a system, laid down by the Rules themselves, which I have just read out.
These are volcanic stones laid by hand.
The situation of laying hens in various systems of rearing is serious from an animal welfare point of view.
One is all the more surprised when one reads the triumphalist report on the Schengen system, which has been laid before us today.
Furthermore, the regulation lays down, as I said, a system for the annual allocation of any permits that have not been allocated.
For the future the Commission should lay the foundation for more structural assistance.
We should be investing more in product renewal and lay less store by cost effectiveness.
I see it as a task for the Joint Research Centre to lay the foundations for common safety standards of this kind.
Secondly, we must help lay the foundation of democratic rule of law along the banks of the Tigris.
Together, through these initiatives, we should lay the foundation stones for this awareness within the European Union.
to lie {verb}
to lie [lay; lied|lain; lied] {vb} (also: to rest, to appertain, to deserve, to be due to)
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to lie [lay; lied|lain; lied] {vb} (also: to rest, to appertain, to deserve, to be due to)
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to lie [lay; lied|lain; lied] {v.i.}
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to lie [lay; lied|lain; lied] {v.i.} (also: to overplay one's hand, to bluff)
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to lie [lay; lied|lain; lied] (in) {v.i.} (also: to reside, to live)
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Synonyms
Synonyms (English) for "lay":
Synonyms (English) for "lie":
© Princeton Universitylie down · dwell · consist · lie in · rest · prevarication
Usage examples
Usage examples for "lay" in Italian
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"lay" translation - forum results
Similar words
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