lay vs pop

lay

verb
  • To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position. 

  • To take a position; to come or go. 

  • To don or put on (tefillin (phylacteries)). 

  • To have sex with. 

  • To place (new type) properly in the cases. 

  • To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone. 

  • To impose (a burden, punishment, command, tax, etc.). 

  • To produce and deposit an egg. 

  • To lie: to rest in a horizontal position on a surface. 

  • To apply; to put. 

  • To deposit (a stake) as a wager; to stake; to risk. 

  • To bet (that something is or is not the case). 

  • To point; to aim. 

  • To be in a horizontal position; to lie (from confusion with lie). 

  • To present or offer. 

  • simple past tense of lie when pertaining to position. 

  • To state; to allege. 

  • To impute; to charge; to allege. 

  • To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them. 

  • To install certain building materials, laying one thing on top of another. 

  • To prepare (a plan, project etc.); to set out, establish (a law, principle). 

noun
  • The direction a rope is twisted. 

  • A casual sexual partner. 

  • A lake. 

  • A ballad or sung poem; a short poem or narrative, usually intended to be sung. 

  • What was I, just another lay you can toss aside as you go on to your next conquest? 

  • Arrangement or relationship; layout. 

  • An act of sexual intercourse. 

  • A share of the profits in a business. 

  • A lyrical, narrative poem written in octosyllabic couplets that often deals with tales of adventure and romance. 

  • The laying of eggs. 

adj
  • Non-professional; not being a member of an organized institution. 

  • Not trumps. 

  • Not belonging to the clergy, but associated with them. 

pop

verb
  • To place (something) (somewhere); to move or position (something) with a short movement. 

  • To perform (a move or stunt) while riding a board or vehicle. 

  • To burst (something) with a popping sound. 

  • To give birth. 

  • To make a pop, or sharp, quick sound. 

  • To stand out; to be distinctive to the senses. 

  • To shoot (usually somebody) with a firearm. 

  • To ejaculate; to orgasm. 

  • To pawn (something) (to raise money). 

  • To hit (something or someone). 

  • To remove (a data item) from the top of a stack. 

  • To perform the popping style of dance. 

  • To swallow or consume (especially a tablet of a drug, sometimes extended to other small items such as sweets or candy). 

  • To undergo equalization of pressure when the Eustachian tubes open. 

  • To make a short trip or visit. 

  • To enter, or issue forth, with a quick, sudden movement; to move from place to place suddenly; to dart. 

  • To arrest. 

noun
  • Something that stands out or is distinctive to the mind or senses. 

  • A Russian Orthodox priest; a parson. 

  • A bird, the European redwing. 

  • A quantity dispensed; a portion; apiece. 

  • A pop shot: a quick, possibly unaimed, shot with a firearm. 

  • A loud, sharp sound, as of a cork coming out of a bottle. 

  • An effervescent or fizzy drink, most frequently nonalcoholic; soda pop. 

  • The removal of a data item from the top of a stack. 

  • One's father. 

  • A small, immature peanut, boiled as a snack. 

  • Pop music. 

  • A bottle, can, or serving of effervescent or fizzy drink, most frequently nonalcoholic; a soda pop. 

  • The sixth derivative of the position vector with respect to time (after velocity, acceleration, jerk, jounce, crackle), i.e. the rate of change of crackle. 

adj
  • Popular. 

intj
  • Used to represent a loud, sharp sound, as of a cork coming out of a bottle. 

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