Lay may refer to:
Places
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Lay Range
The Lay Range is a small subrange of the Swannell Ranges of the Omineca Mountains, located between Lay Creek and Swannell River in northern British Columbia, Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three ter ...
, a subrange of mountains in British Columbia, Canada
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Lay, Loire
Lay is a commune in the Loire department in central France.
Population
See also
*Communes of the Loire department
The following is a list of the 323 communes of the Loire department of France.
The communes cooperate in the following interc ...
, a French commune
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Lay (river)
The Lay () is a river in the Vendée ''departments of France, département'', western France. Its source is at Saint-Pierre-du-Chemin and it flows generally southwest. It flows into the Bay of Biscay between La Faute-sur-Mer and L'Aiguillon-sur- ...
, France
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Lay, Iran, a village
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Lay, Kansas
Sycamore is an unincorporated community in northern Montgomery County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the community and nearby areas was 70. It is located along U.S. Route 75 north of the city of Independence. ...
, United States, an unincorporated community
People
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Lay (surname) Lay is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
*Alfred Morrison Lay (1836–1879), U.S. politician
*Beirne Lay, Jr. (1909–1982), American author and World War II aviator
*Benjamin Lay (1681–1760), English Quaker and abolitionist
*Bo ...
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Lay Raksmey (born 1989), Cambodian footballer
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Lay Zhang
Zhang Yixing (; born ), known professionally as Lay Zhang or simply Lay (), is a Chinese rapper, singer, songwriter, dancer, actor and businessman. Zhang first gained recognition for participating in the Chinese television talent show ''Star A ...
, Chinese rapper, music producer, actor, and member of the K-pop boy group Exo
Poetry
* A short
ballad
A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads derive from the medieval French ''chanson balladée'' or ''ballade'', which were originally "dance songs". Ballads were particularly characteristic of the popular poetry and ...
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lyrical poem
Modern lyric poetry is a formal type of poetry which expresses personal emotions or feelings, typically spoken in the first person.
It is not equivalent to song lyrics, though song lyrics are often in the lyric mode, and it is also ''not'' equi ...
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Heroic lay
The heroic lay (German ''Heldenlied'') is a genre of Germanic epic poetry characteristic of the Migration Period and the Early Middle Ages. A lay is a short narrative poem of between 80 and 200 lines concerning a single heroic episode in the life ...
, a Germanic work of narrative verse
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Breton lay
Breton most often refers to:
*anything associated with Brittany, and generally
**Breton people
**Breton language, a Southwestern Brittonic Celtic language of the Indo-European language family, spoken in Brittany
** Breton (horse), a breed
**Gale ...
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''lai'' (poetic form), a medieval French lay
Other uses
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Lay Dam
Lay Dam is a hydroelectric power dam on the Coosa River in Chilton County and Coosa County, near Clanton, Alabama.Tharpe, Bill"Lay Dam and Lake" encyclopediaofalabama.org, January 7, 2009, updated October 5, 2010.
The concrete run-of-the-river ...
, Alabama, United States
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Lea (unit) The lea or lay was a British unit of length.
The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' describes it as a measure "of varying quantity". It cites quotations from within various areas of the textile industry, which define it as "80 yards" (1888 note on a 139 ...
, obsolete unit of length sometimes spelled "Lay"
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LA-Y
Yoshinobu Launch Complex (LC-Y) is a rocket launch site at the Tanegashima Space Center on Tanegashima. The site and its collection of facilities were originally built for the H-II launch vehicle and later used for H-IIA and H-IIB launches.
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, Yoshinobu Launch Complex, in Tanegashima, Japan
* A characteristic of material
surface finish
Surface finish, also known as surface texture or surface topography, is the nature of a surface as defined by the three characteristics of lay, surface roughness, and waviness.. It comprises the small, local deviations of a surface from the perf ...
* In betting, see
Betting exchange § Backing and laying
See also
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Lay's
Lay's is a brand of potato chips, as well as the name of the company that founded the chip brand in the United States. The brand is also referred to as Frito-Lay because both Lay's and Fritos are brands sold by the Frito-Lay company, which has b ...
, a potato-chip brand name and company
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Laity
In religious organizations, the laity () consists of all members who are not part of the clergy, usually including any non-ordained members of religious orders, e.g. a nun or a lay brother.
In both religious and wider secular usage, a layperson ...
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Ley (disambiguation)
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Lai (disambiguation)
Lai or LAI may refer to:
Abbreviations
* Austrian Latin America Institute (Österreichisches Lateinamerika-Institut)
* ''Latin American Idol'', TV series
* La Trobe Institute, Melbourne, Australia
* Leaf area index, leaf area of a crop or ve ...
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