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Meanings of laid in English

Set down according to a plan:"a carefully laid table with places set for four people"

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        Examples for "set"
        1
        Also read: 'Mandela Fridays' set to become a reality across South Africa
        The South African
        2
        He will 'attempt' to set up a 'committee' to 'study' the matter.
        Wild Cards IV: Aces Abroad
        3
        Russia is also set to help build Turkey's first nuclear power plant.
        Reuters
        4
        Personal debt levels are what set Ireland apart in this financial crisis.
        The Irish Times
        5
        A euro zone budget would set exactly the wrong incentives, Lambsdorff said.
        Reuters
        Usage of laid in English
        1
        They laid it in the grave in the stillness of the night.
        I.N.R.I.: A prisoner's Story of the Cross
        2
        Too much stress is laid on new ideas, or 'thought-variants', on 'novae'.
        The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
        3
        The scene is laid in Burgos in Castile in the year 1064.
        The Standard Operaglass / Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fift...
        4
        Police said it was likely more serious charges would be laid later.
        Radio NZ
        5
        An hour later I laid her in a grave in the wood.
        The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction
        6
        He tackled AT&T's problems head-on and laid out a clear action plan.
        Confessions of a wall street analyst: a true story of inside inf...
        7
        New pipe is being laid; the main will stay outside the building.
        The new yorker
        8
        I think an intelligently laid-out stock home screen is far more efficient.
        Reuters
        9
        The face walls are of stone laid in courses of 14 in.
        Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887
        10
        That said; being too laid back may not yield great results either!
        The South African
        11
        He dug the graves, and laid the corpse in the kindly soil.
        Bog-Myrtle and Peat / Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from th...
        12
        Kanmakan rose and dug a grave and laid him in the earth.
        The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume II
        13
        Joseph and Nicodemus laid the body of Jesus in this new grave.
        The Good Shepherd: A Life of Christ for Children
        14
        He's also proposed a new unemployment insurance program to retrain laid-off workers.
        Wired
        15
        News agencies said that President Lukashenko visited the scene and laid flowers.
        The Guardian
        16
        The body has been undressed and properly laid out in grave clothes.
        Far from the Madding Crowd
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