different between cede vs laydown

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French ceder, from Old French ceder, from Latin c?d? (“to yield”), from Proto-Indo-European *?yesd?- (“to drive away; to go away”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si?d/
• Rhymes: -i?d
• Homophones: sede, seed

Verb

cede (third-person singular simple present cedes, present participle ceding, simple past and past participle ceded)

1. (transitive) To give up; yield to another.

2. (intransitive) To give way.

Conjugation

Derived terms

• cede the field

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• dece

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t???.de/
• Rhymes: -?de

Verb

cede

1. third-person singular present indicative of cedere

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ke?.de/, [?ke?d??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?t??e.de/, [?t????d??]

Verb

c?de

1. second-person singular present active imperative of c?d?

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ce?de

Verb

cede

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of ceder
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of ceder

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

cede (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. third-person plural present of cediti

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /??ede/, [??e.ð?e]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /?sede/, [?se.ð?e]
• Homophone: sede (Latin America)

Verb

cede

1. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of ceder.
2. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of ceder.

English

Etymology

From the verb phrase lay down.

Noun

laydown (countable and uncountable, plural laydowns)

1. (usually uncountable) The act of laying something down
2. (publishing) A physical mockup or layout of a page design
3. (military) A pattern of deployment
4. (bridge) A hand which is so strong that the declarer can simply expose it and claim the number of tricks required by his or her contract
5. (fishing) A tree fallen in water, where anglers might target fish

Adjective

laydown (not comparable)

1. Of packaging: designed to lie flat rather than stand upright.
   • 1997, National Petroleum News (volume 89, issues 7-13, page 52)

     Most C-store category managers prefer pegboard to bagged, and many have stopped carrying laydown bags.

2. Of (usually nuclear) bomb delivery: designed to land on the ground and wait for some time before detonation.

Related terms

• lay down

See also

• laydown on Wikipedia.Wikipedia