Lay Over

Definition: Lay Over

Lay Over

Verb

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

2. Place on top of; "can you superimpose the two images?".

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Transportation

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Synonyms: Lay Over

Lateness

Put off, defer, delay, lay over, suspend; table; shift off, stave off; waive, retard, remand, postpone, adjourn; procrastinate; dally; prolong, protract; spin out, draw out, lengthen out, stretch out; prorogue; keep back; tide over; push to the last, drive to the last; let the matter stand over; reserve; (store); temporize; consult one's pillow, sleep on it.

Lay Over (1985)

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The cold light of the dawn lay over the country, over the unpeopled fields and the closed cottages.

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Expression using "lay over": To lay over. Additional references.

Albanian

lebroz (leper, leprosy, leprous), njeri i rrëgjuar. (various references)

Bulgarian 

спирам временно, отлагане (deferment, delay, postponement, precipitation, procrastination, put off, stay), отлагам (carry over, defer, delay, drive, hold over, leave over, lie over, postpone, precipitate, procrastinate, prorogue, put back, put off, put over, respite, scrub, shelve, shunt, sidetrack, stay, suspend), престой (abidance, continuance, dead time, downtime, idle time, outage, residence, stay, stopover). (various references)

French

faire une halte, depassement de la periode d'immobilisation. (various references)

German

aufenthalt haben, Überliegezeit, überlegen (consider, deliberate, masterfully, ponder, predominant, put over, supercilious, superior, think, think about, think on, think over, to deliberate, to reason). (various references)

Hungarian

elnapolás (adjournment, continuance, postponement, prorogation). (various references)

Italian

distendersi (distend, sprawl, stretch, thaw), coprire (be covered, become overcast, cap, cover, cover oneself, deck, drape, hold, lay down with, muffle, overgrow, overlay, overspread, screen, shroud, smother, suffuse, to cover, top, veil, whitewash, wrap up). (various references)

Pig Latin

aylay overay

Russian 

остановка (cessation, halt, hitch, layover, letup, locking, pause, pit stop, shut-down, shutdowns, shutoff, stand, stay, stop, stoppage, stopping, tie up, tie-up, trapping). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prekid putovanja (stop over, stopover). (various references)

Spanish

pasar la noche (roost, spend the night, stay over), descansar (diversify, lie, lie up, recline, repose, rest, take a rest, think over). (various references)

Swedish

uppskjuta (adjourn, carry over, defer, delay, hold over, launch, leave over, postpone, put off, remit, suspend), kort uppehåll (hold, whistle stop), göra uppehåll (break off, intermit). (various references)

Turkish

mola vermek (have a break, have a slack, rest, stop off, stop over, take a breather), ertelemek (adjourn, carry over, continue, defer, delay, hang up, hold off, hold over, lay aside, lay by, leave over, postpone, procrastinate, put off, reprieve, reserve, respite, scrub, shelve, sidetrack, stay, suspend, table, waive), ara vermek (break, discontinue, have a break, intermit, interrupt, lay off, lie off, make a pause, pause, prorogue, recess, remit, space, space out, surcease, suspend). (various references)

Ukrainian

відстрочувати (adjourn, defer, delay, postpone, prolong, prolongate, prorogue, put off), покривати (buck, ceil, clothe, coat, cope, cover, cover with, dab, mantle, strew, suffuse). (various references)

obducam, obducta, obductum, obduxero. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: layover, overlay.

-1 letter: overly, volery.

-2 letters: early, laevo, laver, layer, leary, leavy, lover, ovary, ravel, relay, royal, valor, vealy, velar, volar.

-3 letters: aero, aery, aloe, arvo, aryl, aver, earl, eyra, lave, lear, leva, levo, levy, lore, lory, love, lyre, olea, oral, orle, oval, over, oyer, rale, rave, real, rely, role, rove, vale, vary, veal, vela, vera.

+1 letter: layovers, overlays, overplay.

+2 letters: overplays, removably.

+3 letters: abortively, alveolarly, levorotary, observably, overlaying, overplayed, ravenously, revelatory, rotatively.

+4 letters: cavernously, formatively, hortatively, irremovably, irrevocably, marvelously, nonverbally, normatively, observantly, operatively, overanalyze, overplaying, valedictory, vectorially, ventilatory, veraciously, viceroyalty.

+5 letters: behaviorally, cadaverously, clairvoyance, decoratively, derogatively, evolutionary, levorotatory, overanalyses, overanalysis, overanalyzed, overanalyzes, overclassify, overliterary, pejoratively, preovulatory, proverbially, removability.