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25. lay out in lavender Slang, tell off, bawl out, yell at, tell a thing or two, tell where to go, give a piece of one's mind, call on the carpet; upbraid, reprove, rebuke, reprimand; scold, admonish, chide, berate, take to task, Inf. give what for, put the fear of God into; tear the hide off, scorch, wither, demolish.
26. lay over a. postpone, put over, defer, let hang fire, table, lay aside,
b. stop, stop over, rest, break, overnight.
27. lay up ail, fall ill, disable; get the miseries, catch a bug; droop, languish, fail, wilt, weaken, lose strength; take to one's bed.
-n. 28. form, order, posture, attitude, stance; plan, design, appearance; terrain, course.
lay2, adj. 1. laic, nonclerical, nonordained, non-ministerial; profane, nonreligious, nonecclesiastical; mundane, temporal, earthly, worldly, common, ordinary.
2. nonprofessional, dilettante, dilettantish, proletarian, plebian; unschooled, untaught, amateur.
lay3, n. poem, lyric, epode, canzone, canzona, ballade, ballata, rhyme, rime, canto; song, strain, air, descant, refrain, canzonet, roundelay; ballad, lied, cantata, canticle, Music, cantus firmus, carol; art song, ditty, madrigal, recitative,
layer, n. 1. skin, shell, rind, peel; membrane, Anat., Zool. cortex, lamella, pellicle; integument, tegument, tegmen; scale, flake, lamina; lamination, laminate.
2. sliver, splinter, shive, shaving; slice, rasher, cutting, cut, slab, piece; plate, wafer, disc; pane, panel, plank, board.
3. cover, covering, blanket, mantle, cloak, curtain, mask; sheet, carpet, coat, coating, film, gloss, veneer, finish; overcoat, overcoating, overlay; wrapping, envelope, lining, casing; course, coping, cap; flap, fold.
4. story, tier, floor, level, stratum, stratification, substratum; band, belt, zone; ridge, Geol. esker.
5. Horiculture. shoot, sprout, runner, tendril, graft; branch, spray, switch, twig, stem, limb, bough.
lay figure, n. 1. artist's model, model, figure, figurine, puppet, doll; image, effigy.
2. mannequin, manikin, dummy, dressmaker's model.
3. nonentity, nobody, nothing, cipher, insignificancy, jackstraw, little fellow, Inf. little guy, man on the street, John Doe, Inf. small fry, Sl. small fish, SI. neb-bish, Sl. Joe Blow or Joe Doakes.
layman, n. laic, parishioner, one of the flock or assembly; nonprofessional, catechumen, dilettante, amateur.
layoff, n. dismissal, discharge, firing, sacking; unemployment, hard times, lean times, depression,
layout, n. 1. arrangement, disposal, spread; plan, design, outline; chart, blueprint, map, sketch, display.
2. collection, set, group, aggregation, Inf. bunch, Inf. bundle; Inf setup,
layover, n. stopover, stop, stay, stayover, overnight stop or stay; rest, pause, break, interruption, delay,
laze, v. 1. idle, loaf, lounge, do nothing, Inf. lally-gag; lie around, lounge around, loll around, stand around, hang around or about, loiter around or about, Brit. Dial, lollop around, Sl. goof off, Sl. sit on one's butt or duff.
2. pass time, while away the hours, waste time, kill time, consume time; trifle, fritter, fool away, waste precious hours.
laziness, n. 1. idleness, indolence, slothfulness, sloth, faineance, do-nothingness, otiosity; unin-dustriousness, unenterprisingness, unambitiousness, want or lack of ambition or enterprise, nonaggressiveness; listlessness, Dial, limpsiness, lackadaisicalness, insouciance, pococurantism; shiftlessness, worthlessness, good-for-nothingness; slackness, laxity, remissness, negligence, neglectfulness, carelessness.
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The Taj Mahal is a white marble mausoleum located in Agra Uttar Pradesh India. It was built by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his third wife Mumtaz Mahal. The Taj Mahal is widely recognized as the jewel of Muslim art in India and one of the universally admired masterpieces of the worlds heritage.Taj Mahal is regarded by many as the finest example of Mughal architecture a style that combines elements from Islamic Persian Ottoman Turkish and Indian architectural styles.In 1983 the Taj Mahal became a UNESCO World Heritage Site. While the white domed marble mausoleum is the most familiar component of the Taj Mahal it is actually an integrated complex of structures. The construction began around 1632 and was completed around 1653 employing thousands of artisans and craftsmen. The construction of the Taj Mahal was entrusted to a board of architects under imperial supervision including Abd ul-Karim Mamur Khan Makramat Khan and Ustad Ahmad Lahauri. Lahauri is generally considered to be the principal designer.
