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laying

verbnouncommon in dialogue

  • //ˈleɪ.ɪŋ//

The act by which something is laid (in any sense).

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of laypresent participle and gerund of lay

noun

  1. 1

    The act by which something is laid (in any sense).

    You may get a larger number of eggs within a given time, but the later layings will not give you average good chickens, when you come to hatch such product.

Forms

plural
layings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).