What's the difference between laid and lain?

Laid


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Lay.
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Lay

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Stress is laid on certain principles of diagnostic research in the event of extra-suprarenal pheochromocytomas.
  • (2) Lead levels in contents and shells of eggs laid by hens dosed with all-lead shot were about twice those in eggs laid by hens dosed with lead-iron shot.
  • (3) Many examples are given to demonstrate the applications of these programs, and special emphasis has been laid on the problem of treating a point in tissue with different doses per fraction on alternate treatment days.
  • (4) Special emphasis is laid on the new or unusual clinical patterns of dystonia as well as on the latest advances in its treatment.
  • (5) Hawking's latest comments go beyond those laid out in his 2010 book, The Grand Design , in which he asserted that there is no need for a creator to explain the existence of the universe.
  • (6) The building blocks were laid out in a sweeping document presented by Van Rompuy and colleagues earlier this week that included sharing debt in the form of jointly issued eurobonds.
  • (7) vittatus eggs laid on damp mud were placed in dry rockpools for 10 weeks and kept dry for a further 6 weeks in the laboratory.
  • (8) Subculturing of these cells onto substrata laid down by well differentiated (mature) colon carcinoma cells resulted in cell attachment and spreading.
  • (9) An area on top of a hill near to the spot where Sharon was laid to rest alongside his late wife, Lily, was penned off with crash barriers.
  • (10) As she was laid to rest fireworks illuminated the grey sky.
  • (11) I think rightly, people have been concerned about whether Syria will follow through on the commitments that have been laid forth, and I think there are legitimate concerns as to how technically we are going to be getting those chemical weapons out while there is still fighting going on.
  • (12) It will be the first time that governments have clearly laid out a vision of accessible usable data across the entire chain of public contracting.
  • (13) It is argued that this assumption is often made without sufficient attention to foundational principles of professional ethics; that once core principles are laid bare this assumption is revealed as largely unwarranted; and, finally, that these observations at the level of moral theory should be reflected, in various ways, in medical practice.
  • (14) In another, Underwood and his aide are monitoring police communications from his office – and laid out on their desk are no fewer than nine iPhones and iPads.
  • (15) A photo circulating among former school friends, which appears to show Abdullah dead and laid out on the ground, has been seen by the Guardian.
  • (16) The flowers were made and laid by thousands of people who had travelled to Hyde Park from around Britain for the Big IF rally.
  • (17) The best option for the west is to avoid taking sides and instead try to contain the crisis at a time when the region needs dialogue more than ever.” Officials and analysts with ties to Riyadh say it was just a timeline laid out by the judicial process.
  • (18) There are solutions to this and it is to be hoped that a more workable amendment will be laid very soon.
  • (19) Behind the mild-mannered, laid-back exterior, the extraordinary calm, is a man of great steeliness and backbone," said one adviser.
  • (20) On the basis of these observations, stress is laid on the importance of atrial rhythm disease as a cause of acute cerebral ischaemia in the elderly subject

Lain


Definition:

  • (p. p.) of Lie, v. i.
  • (p. p.) of Lie

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cycling the city: 'I have a dream that Jakarta should be like Copenhagen' Read more “Jalanku sekarang lebih bersih,” ujar orang-orang, tanpa memedulikan fakta bahwa 6,000 ton sampah dikumpulkan untuk kemudian dipindahkan tanpa tindak berkelanjutan ke bagian kota yang lain.
  • (2) 259, 3962-3970] and weaken the binding to gelatin [Zhu, B. C. R. & Laine, R. A.
  • (3) Asparagine-N-linked polylactosaminyl glycosylation of the chymotryptic 44-kDa gelatin-binding domain from human placental fibronectin confers protease resistance [Zhu, B. C. R., Fisher, S. F., Panda, H., Calaycay, J., Shively, J. E. & Laine, R. A.
  • (4) Where cells from different positions were confronted, new cuticular structures corresponding to the positions which would normally have lain between them were formed during the following moults.
  • (5) "Look – Putin didn't find down there jugs that had lain there for many thousands of years.
  • (6) A lain, a repair man, was up a ladder fixing shop signs and, as he put it, "working like a dog to earn 900 pounds a month and still barely feed the family".
  • (7) Tordenskiold has lain since 1819 in a marble sarchophagus in the Danish Naval Church in Copenhagen, but still without the blessing of the Church, because duels were forbidden.
  • (8) Our previous results suggest that 4.5-7-kDa poly(N-acetyllactosamine) structures reduce the binding of fibronectin and its chymotryptic Ala260-Trp599 subdomain GB44 to gelatin [Zhu, B. C. R. & Laine, R. A.
  • (9) Sat in front of the mainline train station at the top end of the North Laine, this pencil-straight street is often the first road visitors and commuters cut down to reach the centre of town.
  • (10) Known in China as the Diaoyu Islands, this small collection of islets and rocky outcroppings in the East China Sea has lain outside of direct Chinese control since 1895.
  • (11) They are some of the country’s greatest untouched treasures, having lain undisturbed on the seabed, in some cases for centuries.
  • (12) Their chosen medium was, by the sounds of it, terrifyingly primitive sax noodling lain atop cardboard box drums and one-chord detuned stumble-thrash.
  • (13) He's already revived a practice that had lain dormant for nearly a decade, destroying the homes of the men suspected of these killings.
  • (14) Lain Hensley, chief operating officer at Odyssey Teams, recalls the fear and loneliness he felt when he was diagnosed with cancer , for example.
  • (15) Their latest switcheroo sees Gare Ornano, a high-ceilinged station which had lain vacant since 1939, become an eco-focused cafe, restaurant, garden and urban farm.
  • (16) This futile cycle and the unusual sn-1-glycerophospho-sn-1'-glycerol stereoconfiguration of the water-soluble backbone (Joutti, A., Brotherus, J., Renkonen, O., Laine, R., and Fischer, W. (1976) Biochim.
  • (17) Explanations of rural-urban fertility differentials have normally lain in assumptions about the traditionalist nature of rural, and especially agricultural, societies in contrast to the more rationalist and modern attitudes towards the family that exist in urban societies.
  • (18) Having lain down in the delivery room, the patient immediately lapsed into a coma and developed hemiplegia on the right side of the body.
  • (19) They have a point: as a Brighton resident, I'm more concerned about the uncertain future of the tiny Borderline Records in North Laine than I am about the local HMV , because I love shopping in the former, and the last time I went into the latter, I came out wearing the expression of existential despair I normally reserve for Sunday visits to Ikea.
  • (20) I am certain that if he had not lain in hospital for five weeks, with no one who loved him to take care of him, he would not have descended into such a state of incapacity.