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Definitions: Lay-up |
Lay-upNoun1. A basketball shot made with one hand from a position under or beside the basket (and usually banked off the backboard) lay aside. 2. A basketball shot made with one hand from a position under or beside the basket (and usually banked off the backboard). Verb1. Feather one's nest; have a nest egg; "He saves half his salary" lay away v : save up as for. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "lay-up" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1840. (references) |
Synonyms: Lay-upSynonyms: layup (n), save (v), save up (v). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: lay up (chemical industry, industry). |
| Antonym: squander (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Lay-up |
| Specialty definitions using "lay-up": lay-up operator, lay-up presser ♦ SKI MOLDER. (references) |
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 | Being hauled out on a marine railway, probably for winter lay-up, 26 November 1917. She served on the Great Lakes during World War I.Credit: NAVY. |  | Hauled out on a marine railway, probably for winter lay-up, 26 November 1917. She served on the Great Lakes during World War I. Note icy conditions nearby.Credit: NAVY. |
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| "Lay-up" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Lay-up" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "lay-up"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | é"ºç Œ (laid, laid-off, lay, laying). (various references) | ||||||||||
Danish | håndoplægning (hand lay-up contact moulding). (various references) | ||||||||||
Dutch | hand-vormmethode (hand lay-up contact moulding), handlay-up contactvorming (hand lay-up contact moulding). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | moulage au contact manuel (hand lay-up contact moulding). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Kontaktverfahren (hand lay-up contact moulding), Handauflegeverfahren (hand lay-up contact moulding). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | formatura con applicazione a mano (hand lay-up contact moulding). (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | ë†"으ì‹ì‹œìš" 위로. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ay-uplay tình trạng ốm phải nằm giÆ°á»ng sá»± trữ. (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Lay-up" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ayup, layup. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: layup. | |
| Words within the letters "a-l-p-u-y" | |
-1 letter: paly, play, pula, yaup. | |
-2 letters: alp, lap, lay, pal, pay, ply, pul, pya, yap, yup. | |
-3 letters: al, ay, la, pa, up, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-l-p-u-y" | |
+1 letter: layups, plaguy. | |
+2 letters: gunplay, outplay, plaguey, playful, unaptly. | |
+3 letters: abruptly, culpably, eucalypt, gunplays, opaquely, outplays, plaguily, platypus, playsuit, plurally, polyuria, pulpally, pupilary, subphyla, superlay, unplayed, upwardly. | |
+4 letters: ampullary, eucalypti, eucalypts, outplayed, painfully, paramylum, parlously, patchouly, petulancy, piquantly, plausibly, playfully, playhouse, playsuits, plurality, polyurias, popularly, prayerful, pulmonary, pupillary, quadruply, reputably, superably, underplay, unhappily, unshapely, untypical. | |
+5 letters: aneuploidy, capitulary, captiously, copulatory, disputably, eucalyptol, eucalyptus, multiparty, nuptiality, outplaying, paramylums, peacefully, peculiarly, pelycosaur, perdurably, petulantly, platypuses, playground, playhouses, plutocracy, polyanthus, polygamous, popularity, postulancy, poultryman, prequalify, presumably, propylaeum, publically, punctually, putatively, spaciously, specularly, superalloy, supernally, supposably, underplays, unplayable, vaporously, voluptuary. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 61 79 2D 75 70 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01100001 01111001 00101101 01110101 01110000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L a y - u p |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0061 0079 002D 0075 0070 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)466791158782 |
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