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Definition of Lay over

1. Verb. Interrupt a journey temporarily, e.g., overnight. "We had to stop over in Venezuela on our flight back from Brazil"

2. Verb. Place on top of. "Can you superimpose the two images?"

Definition of Lay over

1. Verb. (idiomatic intransitive) To make an intermediary stop somewhere. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lay Over

lay eyes on lay figure lay hands on lay hold of lay in lay into lay it on thick lay low lay of the land lay off

lay on lay on the line lay one's cards on the table lay open lay out lay over (current term) lay person lay preacher lay preachers lay reader

lay readers lay rubber lay siege lay speaker lay speakers lay the groundwork lay the smack down lay to rest lay up

Literary usage of Lay over

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1918)
"where a passenger in a sleeping car, upon being told by the conductor that the car had missed connections and would lay over for the night, ..."

2. The Theological and Literary Journal (1854)
"Christianity saved the old world from this misfortune, by bringing the elect through faith ill God and mail into a new world ; but the passage lay over the ..."

3. Electric Railway Transportation by Henry William Blake, Walter Jackson (1917)
"However, the schedule maker, almost invariably, must provide for certain decreases or increases in speed to permit perfect meets or he must provide lay-over ..."

4. Electric Railway Transportation by Henry William Blake, Walter Jackson (1917)
"However, the schedule maker, almost invariably, must provide for certain decreases or increases in speed to permit perfect meets or he must provide lay-over ..."

5. Experimental Psychology: A Manual of Laboratory Practice by Edward Bradford Titchener, ( (1901)
"lay over it the black velvet and the white disc. ... lay over this the white cardboard and the black strip. O fixates the pin-hole. At the right time, ..."

6. A Dictionary of Mechanical Science, Arts, Manufactures, and Miscellaneous by Alexander Jamieson (1829)
"... are used by coppersmiths to lay over the rivets and edges of the sheets of copper in boilers of the first class : they also give additional security to ..."

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