Laying vs. Lying — What's the Difference?

Laying is the act of making equipment level. It usually involves moving equipment in small motions so that spirit levels are centralised in all planes.

Present participle of lie1.

To cause to lie down

To be or place oneself at rest in a flat, horizontal, or recumbent position; recline

To place in or bring to a particular position

To be placed on or supported by a surface that is usually horizontal

To bury.

To be or remain in a specified condition

To cause to be in a particular condition

To exist; reside

To put or set down

To consist or have as a basis. Often used with in

To produce and deposit

To occupy a position or place

To cause to subside; calm or allay

To extend

To put up to or against something

To be buried in a specified place.

To put forward as a reproach or an accusation

(Law) To be admissible or maintainable.

To put or set in order or readiness for use

(Archaic) To stay for a night or short while.

To devise; contrive

Present participle of lie2.

To spread over a surface

To present false information with the intention of deceiving.

To place or give (importance)

To convey a false image or impression

To impose as a burden or punishment

To say or write as a lie.

To present for examination

The manner or position in which something is situated.

To put forward as a demand or an assertion

A haunt or hiding place of an animal.

(Games) To place (a bet); wager.

(Sports) The position of a golf ball that has come to a stop.

To aim (a gun or cannon).

A false statement deliberately presented as being true; a falsehood.

To place together (strands) to be twisted into rope.

Something meant to deceive or mistakenly accepted as true

To make in this manner

Disposed to or characterized by untruth

Vulgar Slang To have sexual intercourse with.

Present participle of lie.

To produce and deposit eggs.

Present participle of lie.

To bet; wager.

Simple past tense and past participle of lye

(Nonstandard) To lie.

The act of one who lies, or keeps low to the ground.

(Nautical) To put oneself into the position indicated.

An act of telling a lie or falsehood.

Past tense of lie1.

Tending to tell lies, untruthful, mendacious

The direction the strands of a rope or cable are twisted in

Of Lie, to tell a falsehood.

The amount of such twist.

Of Lie, to be supported horizontally.

The state of one that lays eggs

The deliberate act of deviating from the truth

Sexual intercourse.

Given to lying;

A partner in sexual intercourse.

Present participle of lay

The act of one who, or that which, lays.

The act or period of laying eggs; the eggs laid for one incubation; a clutch.

The first coat on laths of plasterer's two-coat work.

The production of eggs (especially in birds)