different between fix vs lay
fix
English
Etymology
From Middle English fixen, borrowed from Old French *fixer (attested only as ficher, fichier; > English fitch), from fixe (“fastened; fixed”), from Latin f?xus (“immovable; steady; stable; fixed”), from f?gere (“to drive in; stick; fasten”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?eyg?- (“to jab; stick; set”). Related to dig.
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /?f?ks/
- Rhymes: -?ks
Verb
fix (third-person singular simple present fixes, present participle fixing, simple past and past participle fixt or fixed)
- (transitive, obsolete) To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.
- (transitive, by extension) (Of a piercing look) to direct at someone.
- (transitive, by extension) (Of a piercing look) to direct at someone.
- (transitive) To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
- (transitive, figuratively, usually in the passive) To focus or determine (oneself, on a concept); to fixate.
- (transitive, figuratively, usually in the passive) To focus or determine (oneself, on a concept); to fixate.
- (transitive) To mend, to repair.
- (transitive, informal) To prepare (food or drink).
- (transitive) To make (a contest, vote, or gamble) unfair; to privilege one contestant or a particular group of contestants, usually before the contest begins; to arrange immunity for defendants by tampering with the justice system via bribery or extortion
- (transitive, US, informal) To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.
- (transitive, mathematics, sematics) To map a (point or subset) to itself.
- (transitive, informal) To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.
- (transitive) To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light.
- (transitive, chemistry, biology) To convert into a stable or available form.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Abney to this entry?)
- (intransitive) To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
- 1665, Edmund Waller, “Upon Her Maiesties New Buildings at Somerset-House”:
- Accu?ing ?ome malignant Star,
Not Britain, for that fateful War,
Your kindne?s bani?hes your fear,
Re?olv’d to fix for ever here.
- Accu?ing ?ome malignant Star,
- 1801, Robert Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer:
- A cheerless place! the solitary Bee,
Whose buzzing was the only sound of life,
Flew there on restless wing,
Seeking in vain one blossom, where to fix.
- A cheerless place! the solitary Bee,
- 1665, Edmund Waller, “Upon Her Maiesties New Buildings at Somerset-House”:
- (intransitive) To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal; to become hard and malleable, as a metallic substance.
- quicksilver will 'fix, so asto endure the hammer
Alternative forms
- fixe (archaic)
Synonyms
- (pierce): impale, run through, stick
- (hold in place): join, put together, unite; see also Thesaurus:join
- (mend; repair): patch, put to rights, rectify; see also Thesaurus:repair
- (make a contest unfair): doctor, rig
- (render infertile): neuter, spay, desex, castrate
- (settle or remain permanently): establish, settle down
Antonyms
- (to hold in place): move, change
Derived terms
- affix, affixative, fixed
- fixings, fixity, fixety
- fix someone's wagon, fix someone up with
Descendants
- ? Dutch: fixen, fiksen
Translations
Noun
fix (plural fixes)
- A repair or corrective action.
- Hyponyms: bugfix, technofix
- A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma; a predicament.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:difficult situation
- (informal) A single dose of an addictive drug administered to a drug user.
- A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game, an election, a trial, or a bid.
- A determination of location.
- (US) fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace)
Descendants
- ? French: fixe, fix
Translations
References
Further reading
- fix on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Bouyei
Etymology
From Proto-Tai *w?j? (“fire”). Cognate with Thai ?? (fai), Northern Thai ?? (fai), Lao ?? (fai), Lü ?? (fay), Tai Dam ??, Shan ??? (pháy) or ??? (fáy), Tai Nüa ??? (fäy), Zhuang feiz, Saek ???.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fi??/
Noun
fix
- fire
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin fixus.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /?fiks/
- Rhymes: -iks
Adjective
fix (feminine fixa, masculine plural fixos, feminine plural fixes)
- fixed, not changing
- stationary
Derived terms
- fixar
- telefonia fixa
Further reading
- “fix” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?f?ks]
- Rhymes: -?ks
Noun
fix m
- felt-tip pen, marker
Synonyms
- popisova?
Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
fix
- first-person singular present indicative of fixen
- imperative of fixen
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fiks/
- Homophone: fixe
Noun
fix m (plural fix)
- Alternative spelling of fixe
German
Etymology
Latin f?xus
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [f?ks]
- Homophone: Ficks
Adjective
fix (comparative fixer, superlative am fixesten)
- fixed (costs, salary)
- Synonym: fest
- quick
- Synonym: schnell
- smart
- Synonym: aufgeweckt
Declension
Descendants
- ? Hungarian: fix
See also
- fix und fertig
Hungarian
Etymology
From German fix, from French fixe, from Latin figere, fixus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?fiks]
- Rhymes: -iks
Adjective
fix (not comparable)
- fixed, steady
- Synonyms: rögzített, megszabott
- immovable
- Synonym: szilárd
- sure, certain
- Synonyms: biztos, bizonyos
Declension
Derived terms
(Compound words):
- fixpont
(Expressions):
- fix objektív
Noun
fix
- a steady salary
Declension
References
Old French
Alternative forms
- fils, fis, fiz
Noun
fix m
- inflection of fil:
- oblique plural
- nominative singular
Romanian
Etymology
From French fixe, from Latin fixus.
Adjective
fix m or n (feminine singular fix?, masculine plural fic?i, feminine and neuter plural fixe)
- fixed
Declension
Swedish
Etymology
- Homophone: ficks
Adjective
fix
- fixed, inflexible, rigid
- en fix idé
- a fixed idea
- en fix idé
Declension
Related terms
- fixstjärna
Noun
fix c
- a fix, a dose of an addictive drug
Declension
fix From the web:
- what fixes nitrogen
- what fixed the great depression
- whatfix
- what fixes an overbite
- what fixes heartburn
- what fixes holes in the nucleus
- what fixes acid reflux
- what fixed the articles of confederation
lay
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: l?, IPA(key): /le?/
- Rhymes: -e?
- Homophones: lei, ley, le
Etymology 1
From Middle English leyen, leggen, from Old English le??an (“to lay”), from Proto-West Germanic *laggjan, from Proto-Germanic *lagjan? (“to lay”), causative form of Proto-Germanic *ligjan? (“to lie, recline”), from Proto-Indo-European *leg?- (“to lie, recline”).
Cognate with West Frisian lizze (“to lay, to lie”), Dutch leggen (“to lay”), German legen (“to lay”), Norwegian Bokmål legge (“to lay”), Norwegian Nynorsk leggja (“to lay”), Swedish lägga (“to lay”), Icelandic leggja (“to lay”), Albanian lag (“troop, band, war encampment”).
Verb
lay (third-person singular simple present lays, present participle laying, simple past and past participle laid)
- (transitive) To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position.
- An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed ‘to save notepaper’) and enter into the delightful pastime of ‘a chicken from Mr Whiteley's’.
- (transitive, archaic) To cause to subside or abate.
- Synonyms: becalm, settle down
- (transitive) To prepare (a plan, project etc.); to set out, establish (a law, principle).
- (transitive) To install certain building materials, laying one thing on top of another.
- (transitive) To produce and deposit an egg.
- (transitive) To bet (that something is or is not the case).
- (transitive) To deposit (a stake) as a wager; to stake; to risk.
- (transitive, slang) To have sex with.
- Synonyms: lie by, lie with, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
- (nautical) To take a position; to come or go.
- (law) To state; to allege.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Bouvier to this entry?)
- (military) To point; to aim.
- (ropemaking) To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them.
- (printing) To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone.
- (printing) To place (new type) properly in the cases.
- To apply; to put.
- To impose (a burden, punishment, command, tax, etc.).
- To impute; to charge; to allege.
- Synonyms: ascribe, attribute
- To present or offer.
Conjugation
Usage notes
- The verb lay is sometimes used instead of the corresponding intransitive verb lie in informal settings, especially but not exclusively in spoken language. Similarly, laid, the past tense and perfect participle of lay, may also replace lay and lain, respectively the past tense and perfect participle of lie.
- This intransitive use dates to Middle English, first appearing in the thirteenth century but only becoming common in the fifteenth century. The usage was still chiefly limited to the present tense and it seems that it was influenced by reflexive or passive use of lay.
- There are several factors that contribute to the loss of the distinction. One is that lay is used as both the base form of lay and as the past tense of lie, another is the use of lay as a reflexive verb meaning “to go lie (down)”. In any event, similar mergers exist in other Germanic languages; compare Afrikaans lê (“to lie; to lay”), where the two verbs have merged completely.
- Traditional grammars, schoolbooks and style guides object to this intransitive use of lay and a certain stigma remains against the practice. Consequently the usage is common in speech but rarely found in edited writing or in more formal spoken situations.
- Nautical use of lay as an intransitive verb is regarded as standard.
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
- John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “lay”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN
Noun
lay (countable and uncountable, plural lays)
- Arrangement or relationship; layout.
- the lay of the land
- A share of the profits in a business.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 16
- I was already aware that in the whaling business they paid no wages; but all hands, including the captain, received certain shares of the profits called lays, and that these lays were proportioned to the degree of importance pertaining to the respective duties of the ship’s company.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 16
- A lyrical, narrative poem written in octosyllabic couplets that often deals with tales of adventure and romance.
- 1945: "The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun" by JRR Tolkien
- Sad is the note and sad the lay,
but mirth we meet not every day.
- Sad is the note and sad the lay,
- 1945: "The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun" by JRR Tolkien
- The direction a rope is twisted.
- Worm and parcel with the lay; turn and serve the other way.
- (colloquial) A casual sexual partner.
- 1996, JoAnn Ross, Southern Comforts, MIRA (1996), ?ISBN, page 166:
- Over the years she'd tried to tell himself that his uptown girl was just another lay.
- 2000, R. J. Kaiser, Fruitcake, MIRA (2000), ?ISBN, page 288:
- To find a place like that and be discreet about it, Jones figured he needed help, so he went to see his favorite lay, Juan Carillo's woman, Carmen.
- 2011, Kelly Meding, Trance, Pocket Books (2011), ?ISBN, pages 205-206:
- “Because I don't want William to be just another lay. I did the slut thing, T, and it got me into a lot of trouble years ago. […]
- What was I, just another lay you can toss aside as you go on to your next conquest?
- 1996, JoAnn Ross, Southern Comforts, MIRA (1996), ?ISBN, page 166:
- (colloquial) An act of sexual intercourse.
- 1993, David Halberstam, The Fifties, Open Road Integrated Media (2012), ?ISBN, unnumbered page:
- Listening to this dismissal of his work, [Tennessee] Williams thought to himself of Wilder, “This character has never had a good lay.”
- 2009, Fern Michaels, The Scoop, Kensington Books (2009), ?ISBN, pages 212-213:
- […] She didn't become this germ freak until Thomas died. I wonder if she just needs a good lay, you know, an all-nighter?" Toots said thoughtfully.
- 2011, Pamela Yaye, Promises We Make, Kimani Press (2011), ?ISBN, unnumbered page:
- “What she needs is a good lay. If she had someone to rock her world on a regular basis, she wouldn't be such a raging bit—”
- 1993, David Halberstam, The Fifties, Open Road Integrated Media (2012), ?ISBN, unnumbered page:
- (slang, archaic) A plan; a scheme.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Charles Dickens to this entry?)
- (uncountable) the laying of eggs.
- The hens are off the lay at present.
- (obsolete) A layer.
- 1677, Hannah Woolley, The Compleat Servant-Maid, London: T. Passinger, p. 5,[1]
- […] lay in the bottom of an earthen pot some dried vine leaves, and so make a lay of Pears, and leaves till the pot is filled up, laying betwixt each lay some sliced Ginger […]
- 1718, Joseph Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: J. Tonson, “Sienna, Leghorne, Pisa,” p. 300,[2]
- […] the whole Body of the Church is chequer’d with different Lays of White and Black Marble […]
- 1724, Thomas Spooner, A Compendious Treatise of the Diseases of the Skin, London, Chapter 2, p. 20,[3]
- […] when we examine the Scarf-Skin with a Microscope, it appears to be made up of several Lays of exceeding small Scales, which cover one another more or less […]
- 1766, Thomas Amory, The Life of John Buncle, Esq., London: J. Johnson and B. Davenport, Volume 2, Section 1, p. 16, footnote 1,[4]
- […] in one particular it exceeds the fen birds, for it has two tastes; it being brown and white meat: under a lay of brown is a lay of white meat […]
- 1677, Hannah Woolley, The Compleat Servant-Maid, London: T. Passinger, p. 5,[1]
Synonyms
- (casual sexual partner): see also Thesaurus:casual sexual partner.
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English laie, lawe, from Old English lagu (“sea, flood, water, ocean”), from Proto-West Germanic *lagu (“water, sea”), from Proto-Germanic *laguz (“water, sea”), from Proto-Indo-European *lakw- (“water, body of water, lake”). Cognate with Icelandic lögur (“liquid, fluid, lake”), Latin lacus (“lake, hollow, hole”).
Noun
lay (plural lays)
- A lake.
Etymology 3
From Old French lai, from Latin laicus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (laïkós). Doublet of laic.
Adjective
lay (comparative more lay, superlative most lay)
- Not belonging to the clergy, but associated with them.
- They seemed more lay than clerical.
- a lay preacher; a lay brother
- Non-professional; not being a member of an organized institution.
- (card games) Not trumps.
- a lay suit
- (obsolete) Not educated or cultivated; ignorant.
Related terms
Translations
Etymology 4
See lie.
Verb
lay
- simple past tense of lie when pertaining to position.
- The baby lay in its crib and slept silently.
- (proscribed) To be in a horizontal position; to lie (from confusion with lie).
- 1969 July, Bob Dylan, “Lay Lady Lay”, Nashville Skyline, Columbia:
- Lay, lady, lay. / Lay across my big brass bed.
- 1974, John Denver, “Annie’s Song”, Back Home Again, RCA:
- Let me lay down beside you. / Let me always be with you.
- 1969 July, Bob Dylan, “Lay Lady Lay”, Nashville Skyline, Columbia:
Derived terms
- layabout
Etymology 5
From Middle English lay, from Old French lai (“song, lyric, poem”), from Frankish *laih (“play, melody, song”), from Proto-Germanic *laikaz, *laikiz (“jump, play, dance, hymn”), from Proto-Indo-European *loyg-, *lay?- (“to jump, spring, play”). Akin to Old High German leih (“a play, skit, melody, song”), Middle High German leich (“piece of music, epic song played on a harp”), Old English l?can (“to move quickly, fence, sing”). See lake.
Noun
lay (plural lays)
- A ballad or sung poem; a short poem or narrative, usually intended to be sung.
- 1742, Edward Young, The Complaint: or Night-Thoughts on Life, Death & Immortality, Night I
- I strive, with wakeful melody, to cheer
- The sullen gloom, sweet Philomel! like thee,
- And call the stars to listen: every star
- Is deaf to mine, enamour’d of thy lay.
- 1805 The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Sir Walter Scott.
- 1742, Edward Young, The Complaint: or Night-Thoughts on Life, Death & Immortality, Night I
Translations
Etymology 6
See lea
Noun
lay (plural lays)
- (obsolete) A meadow; a lea.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)
Etymology 7
Noun
lay (plural lays)
- (obsolete) A law.
- (obsolete) An obligation; a vow.
- they bound themselues by a sacred lay and oth to fight it out to the last man
Etymology 8
Calque of Yiddish ?????? (leygn, “to put, lay”).
Verb
lay (third-person singular simple present lays, present participle laying, simple past and past participle laid)
- (Judaism, transitive) To don or put on (tefillin (phylacteries)).
References
Anagrams
- Aly
Anguthimri
Verb
lay
- (transitive, Mpakwithi) to carry
References
- Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 186
Haitian Creole
Etymology
From French l'ail (“the garlic”)
Noun
lay
- garlic
Lashi
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /la??/
Postposition
lay
- through
- across
Verb
lay
- to pass
References
- Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid?[5], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)
Malagasy
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *laya?, from Proto-Austronesian *laya?.
Noun
lay
- sail (a piece of fabric attached to a boat)
- tent
References
- lay in Malagasy dictionaries at malagasyword.org
Mauritian Creole
Etymology 1
From French ail
Noun
lay
- garlic
Etymology 2
From Malagasy ley (butterfly)
Noun
lay
- moth
References
- Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. 1987. Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français
Middle English
Verb
lay
- Alternative form of leie: simple past of lien
Seychellois Creole
Etymology 1
From French ail
Noun
lay
- garlic
Etymology 2
From Malagasy ley (butterfly)
Noun
lay
- moth
References
- Danielle D’Offay et Guy Lionnet, Diksyonner Kreol - Franse / Dictionnaire Créole Seychellois - Français
Vietnamese
Pronunciation
- (Hà N?i) IPA(key): [laj??]
- (Hu?) IPA(key): [laj??]
- (H? Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [la(?)j??]
Verb
lay
- to shake
Derived terms
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- what layer of the earth do we live on
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- what layer of the earth is the thickest
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- what lays eggs
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