What's the difference between lain and lair?

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.

Lair


Definition:

  • (n.) A place in which to lie or rest; especially, the bed or couch of a wild beast.
  • (n.) A burying place.
  • (n.) A pasture; sometimes, food.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Inside Hall’s lair was a glass table on which lay his spectacle case and iPad (no computers for ranking BBC execs), surrounded by seats rescued from an old kitchen, and a pair of swivel chairs salvaged from Television Centre.
  • (2) It has been found that during the ULAIR elaboration the hippocampal neurons react by an increase of dry mass, during the LAIR elaboration-by its decrease.
  • (3) Journalism must work to earn back that trust; but in the meantime, Thiel’s revenge, executed with chilling precision like a comic-book villain in an ominous lair, should distress anyone with any interest in free speech.
  • (4) The bladderwort ( utricularia ), incognito like a snapdragon, has an ingenious underground lair, vacuum-sucking insects to chambers where they are acidified; pitchers are outwardly passive, but inside their cavernous depths float a mass of drowned flies.
  • (5) At Open House Weekend each September (and on occasional tours), you can visit the parlour and see the society’s array of drug jars; the whole complex has something of the master wizard’s lair about it.
  • (6) In 2011 the army was humiliated by the unilateral US special forces raid on the lair of former al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden and the persistence of supposedly clandestine strikes by US drones, the advanced unmanned aircraft Washington has refused to share with Pakistan.
  • (7) On a very small budget he creates the distinctive set for the lair of the Bond villain on Crab Key that will define his character for years to come – high-tech in its futuristic, scientific working area; Renaissance-princely in its domestic aspect.
  • (8) The shooting script for today's scenes is titled "Alice's Lair", and that word is a considered choice.
  • (9) But was it then any defence that he acted so seldom, that he had deserted the stage he had himself brought to life, or that he had come to regard movies with the hurt feelings of a Kong, hiding in his lair, unwilling to make a cheap spectacle of himself for those exploiting showmen?
  • (10) Cath Jackson reports on the last of the 1990 National health visitor week award-winning projects which successfully tracked this elusive client group to its lairs.
  • (11) Under condition of serotonine excess in the brain the changes of dry mass in hippocampal neurons during elaboration of the two reflexes are opposite to these observed during the ULAIR and LAIR elaboration with normal serotonine content.
  • (12) Photograph: Mike Bowers for the Guardian It’s more formal than his old parliamentary digs, which had the convivial feel of salon, or lair.
  • (13) Rather, COR is a dimly lit auditorium, with the functionality of a Bond villain’s techno-lair.
  • (14) Pete is about to retreat in to his lair: "I can't help, mate," he says.
  • (15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Approaching the end-of-level boss on the Devils' Lair strike mission and things begin to look rather dark... We're into the final section of the mission now.
  • (16) To find out, Devine made the unusual decision to track the author to his lair.
  • (17) The section we’re seeing is a Strike mission named The Devils’ Lair, set in the toxic wastelands of Old Russia.
  • (18) Turkey's determination to beard Assad in his lair comes amid growing Arab criticism of Syria, reflected in the Gulf Co-operation Council 's weekend call for an end to the use of "excessive force" and the pursuit of "serious reform".
  • (19) But there the cultural connection ends: this spiny monster will house high-end accommodation for 500 students, mostly international, who will be able to peek out from their luxury lair through mean, arrow-slit windows.
  • (20) Rather like a James Bond villain addressing the world from his lair, the billionaire spoke to camera via the internet to "reveal" that he would offer $5m to sick children if President Obama produced his college records.