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PRONUNCIATION OF LAY UP

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LAY UP

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Lay up is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb lay up in English.

WHAT DOES LAY UP MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Layup

A layup in basketball is a two-point shot attempt made by leaping from below, laying the ball up near the basket, and using one hand to bounce it off the backboard and into the basket. The motion and one-handed reach distinguish it from a jump shot. The layup is considered the most basic shot in basketball. When doing a layup, the player lifts the outside foot, or the foot away from the basket. It is a foul if, during your layup, you hold the other person's hand or push it away to avoid him or her from defending. On the other hand it is considered a foul if the defender jumps in front of you in the middle of nowhere and you both crash, in this case the defender causes a foul. A layup is very handy and to defend it, you just basically need to stand in front of the opponent with your arms stretched out. An undefended layup is usually a high percentage shot. The main obstacle is getting near the rim and avoiding blocks by taller defenders who usually stand near the basket. Common layup strategies are to create spaces, release the ball from a different spot, or use alternate hands.

Definition of lay up in the English dictionary

The definition of lay up in the dictionary is to store or reserve for future use. Other definition of lay up is to incapacitate or confine through illness.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO LAY UP

PRESENT

Present
I lay up
you lay up
he/she/it lays up
we lay up
you lay up
they lay up
Present continuous
I am laying up
you are laying up
he/she/it is laying up
we are laying up
you are laying up
they are laying up
Present perfect
I have laid up
you have laid up
he/she/it has laid up
we have laid up
you have laid up
they have laid up
Present perfect continuous
I have been laying up
you have been laying up
he/she/it has been laying up
we have been laying up
you have been laying up
they have been laying up
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I laid up
you laid up
he/she/it laid up
we laid up
you laid up
they laid up
Past continuous
I was laying up
you were laying up
he/she/it was laying up
we were laying up
you were laying up
they were laying up
Past perfect
I had laid up
you had laid up
he/she/it had laid up
we had laid up
you had laid up
they had laid up
Past perfect continuous
I had been laying up
you had been laying up
he/she/it had been laying up
we had been laying up
you had been laying up
they had been laying up
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will lay up
you will lay up
he/she/it will lay up
we will lay up
you will lay up
they will lay up
Future continuous
I will be laying up
you will be laying up
he/she/it will be laying up
we will be laying up
you will be laying up
they will be laying up
Future perfect
I will have laid up
you will have laid up
he/she/it will have laid up
we will have laid up
you will have laid up
they will have laid up
Future perfect continuous
I will have been laying up
you will have been laying up
he/she/it will have been laying up
we will have been laying up
you will have been laying up
they will have been laying up
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would lay up
you would lay up
he/she/it would lay up
we would lay up
you would lay up
they would lay up
Conditional continuous
I would be laying up
you would be laying up
he/she/it would be laying up
we would be laying up
you would be laying up
they would be laying up
Conditional perfect
I would have lay up
you would have lay up
he/she/it would have lay up
we would have lay up
you would have lay up
they would have lay up
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been laying up
you would have been laying up
he/she/it would have been laying up
we would have been laying up
you would have been laying up
they would have been laying up
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you lay up
we let´s lay up
you lay up
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to lay up
Past participle
laid up
Present Participle
laying up
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LAY UP

lay low
lay off
lay on
lay on the line
lay one´s finger on
lay oneself open
lay open
lay out
lay over
lay people
lay person
lay preacher
lay reader
lay siege to
lay sister
lay store by
lay to
lay to rest
lay vicar
lay waste

WORDS THAT END LIKE LAY UP

buy up
cosy up
cowboy up
cry up
dry up
go belly up
gussy up
key up
marry up
pally up
pay up
play up
pony up
shinny up

Synonyms and antonyms of lay up in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «lay up» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LAY UP

Find out the translation of lay up to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of lay up from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «lay up» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

躺上去
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

poner hasta
570 millions of speakers

English

lay up
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

ऊपर रखना
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

يخزنون
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

собирайте
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

ajuntai
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

আপ রাখা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

pondre jusqu´à
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Berbaring
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

auflegen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

刻む
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

레이 업
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Layang
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

để dành
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

இடுகின்றன
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वर ठेवणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Bırakmak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

lay up
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

położyć się
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

збирайте
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

pune în sus
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

lay up
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

lägga upp
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

legge opp
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of lay up

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LAY UP»

The term «lay up» is regularly used and occupies the 70.247 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «LAY UP» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «lay up» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «lay up» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about lay up

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LAY UP»

Discover the use of lay up in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to lay up and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Boiler Operator's Handbook
Casing test assembly LAY-UP When a boiler will not be used for an extended period of time (more than a week or so) it is important for operators to be certain that boiler is maintained in such a manner to prevent corrosion or other damage ...
Kenneth E. Heselton, 2005
2
Submarine Power Cables: Design, Installation, Repair, ...
For the production of three-phase cables, the three cable cores must be laid up to form a coherent cable. Just taking three cores in parallel into a common armoring would render a very stiff design without flexibility. Horizontal lay-up machines ...
Thomas Worzyk, 2009
3
Basketball - It's All About The Shot
Chapter 1 * - LAY-UP - THIS IS BRAIN TRAINING!!! WE ARE TRAINING YOUR BRAIN TO SHOOT It's a fast break, just you the basketball and the basket. You're already congratulating yourself for getting down court so fast. You're up for your ...
Coach (Dave) Jones
4
Manufacturing Processes for Advanced Composites
In this chapter, five of the most important of these processes will be covered: lay- up, compression molding, injection molding, reaction injection molding (RIM) and pultrusion. Some of these processes are capable of producing over a million ...
Flake C Campbell Jr, 2003
5
SPI/CI Introduction to Composites, Fourth Edition
Hand lay- up is used in a wide variety of production applications and is particularly well-suited to fabricating extremely large components which require high strength. Arguably, hand lay-up is the most basic and universally applicable process ...
Composites Institute, 1998
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Structural Composite Materials
F.C. Campbell All rights reserved. www.asminternational.org The MAjor TherMoSeT composite fabrication processes for continuous-fiber composites, including lay-up, vacuum bagging, and curing are covered in this chapter. Three lay-up ...
F. C. Campbell, 2010
7
Engineering Polymers
In practice, some fibre/resin/processing combinations are more widely used than others. 5.5.1 Wet lay-up Wet lay-up processes involve liquid resins applied manually and cured at or a little above room temperatures at low pressures and with ...
R.W. Dyson, 1990
8
18th Annual Conference on Composites and Advanced Ceramic ...
behavior of a 0/45/45/0° lay-up Nicalon/SiC composite is included in the same figure. Both the composites exhibited graceful composite behavior, that is, they failed with extensive fiber pullout. The 0/30/60° Nicalon/SiC composite showed a  ...
John B. Wachtman, 2009
9
Basketball For Dummies
But if defenders are nearby, expect to extract one or two of them from your tonsils; defenses don't surrender the lay-up — or dunk, for that matter — gladly. If you're tall or springy enough to dunk the ball, be my guest. In a bygone era, the dunk ...
Richard Phelps, 2011
10
Design and Manufacture of Textile Composites
0.5 kg/h for hand lay-up-t 200i § « 125~ •5 lOO- IS 80- 50 40 2.5 kg/h for AFP 0.64 kg/h for hand lay-up- 0.84 kg/h for hand lay-up-i _4 kg/h for^FP 5 kg/h for AFP 70.79 Process cost comparison for Airbus A380 aft fuselage (adapted from ...
A C Long, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LAY UP»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term lay up is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Thompson: Spieth what American golf fans have been waiting for …
The safe move, especially being 6-under for the round, was to lay up and safely enter the final round. But Spieth walked to his bag and put that ... «Contra Costa Times, Jul 15»
2
NY Knicks Rumors: Kristaps Porzingis, Jerian Grant Strong In …
Kyle Anderson #1 of the San Antonio Spurs goes for the lay up against Kristaps Porzingis #46 of the New York Knicks during the game on July ... «Sports World Report, Jul 15»
3
ON THE LAKES - The Times Herald
•2014: The recent navigation season for the Arthur M. Anderson got underway on March 23, 2014, and the ship did not lay up until reaching ... «Port Huron Times Herald, Jul 15»
4
Waterloo Open amateurs: Schaake defends his title
With a two-stroke lead, he elected to lay up and hit a wedge 95 yards into the green before converting a 6-foot bender into the center of the cup ... «Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier, Jul 15»
5
Lynx roll past Sky as Maya Moore scores season-high 29 …
Minnesota guard Anna Cruz finishes the steal with a lay up in front of Chicago guard Allie Quigley in the first half at Target Center on Friday, ... «TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press, Jul 15»
6
March of the baby penguins at Belfast Zoo
The female can lay up to two eggs which are then incubated by both the male and female birds for about 30-40 days. The three chicks hatched ... «UTV Ireland, Jul 15»
7
Kids' Choice Sports Awards: Stars Get Slimed
I feel like it's an easy lay up. Something was coming and he's a great guy. He did a great job and that happens. Those kinds of events and jokes ... «Access Hollywood, Jul 15»
8
Richard Fahey column: Guide to his Saturday team
We took him to Royal Ascot for the Windsor Castle but like any horse that tried to lay up with the American runner that day he paid the price in ... «SkySports, Jul 15»
9
Workers turned owners keep Vermont boat business afloat
... and quickly established themselves as hard-working and preternaturally skilled at the "lay up" of composite boats, as the process of applying ... «USA TODAY, Jul 15»
10
Golf|Dustin Johnson, Weeks After Major Collapse, Leads British Open
On the famous Road Hole, as the 17th is known, Mickelson — hardly a short hitter — opted to lay up with his second shot as the freshening ... «New York Times, Jul 15»

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