(1) Originally, it was to be named Le Reve, after one of the Picassos that Wynn and his wife own; but, as of last month, it is to be called Wynn Las Vegas, embodying a dream of a different kind.
(2) "We expect LSCBs [local safeguarding children boards], LAs [local authorities] police forces and other agencies to do all they can to identify victims and abusers and we are looking at how we can improve data-sharing."
(3) Racing was heavily hit, with meetings at Ffos Las, Sandown and Wetherby cancelled.
(4) To assess the value of laparoscopic appendectomy (LA) in childhood, we prospectively compared 14 LAs with 50 open appendectomies (OA) over 6 months in a single children's hospital.
(5) The results obtained provided direct evidence for the notion that: LAs interact preferentially with inactivated Na+ channels and stabilize their inactivated conformation ("drug-induced slow inactivation": SI); and SI underlies the cumulative inhibition of INa during repetitive membrane stimulation.
(6) Moderate maternal toxicity was observed among mice treated with LAS, 0.3% and mild maternal toxicity in rats receiving LAS 3% or soap 30% and rabbits receiving LAS 0.3%.
(7) When Contostavlos wanted to stay an extra night at the luxury Las Vegas hotel, he told the court, his editors vetoed it.
(8) The deal gave Penn a Las Vegas casino for a fraction of what it cost to build the 390-room resort.
(9) With time and sufficient promotion by pH fluctuations or metal-complexing agents, DIP and LAS expand.
(10) Apple has used the month of January to launch revolutionary products before, in part as a way of diverting attention from its rivals presenting their latest inventions at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, which Apple does not attend, and that takes place the same month.
(11) Moments later, Deputy Chief Tom Roberts, of Las Vegas Metro, defused the situation by delivering the announcement that Cliven Bundy's cattle would be returned within 30 minutes.
(12) The lymph nodes of patients with LAS were mostly stage I with marked follicular hyperplasia.
(13) Forty were lactose malabsorbers (LMs) and 31 were absorbers (LAs), according to a standard oral lactose tolerance test.
(14) Thirteen patients affected with unexplained lymphoadenopathy, fever, weight loss, and diarrhea (lymphoadenopathy syndrome; LAS) were evaluated for the possible appearance of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and for immunological and virological characterization.
(15) Detectable levels of both cytokines were found in 34% of ASY and LAS patients and only rarely were detectable in ARC and AIDS patients.
(16) The possibility to correlate the latter findings with a better knowledge of LAS evolution and prognosis is discussed.
(17) The purpose of the present study was to propose an alternative measurement process which addresses some of the existing problems by estimating the lost attachment surface area (LAS) and the remaining attachment surface area (RAS) from a combination of clinical measurements.
(18) Antibody titres against the viral proteins also seemed to be highest in cases with LAS.
(19) Receptor autophosphorylation determined using Triton X-100 extracts of the fibroblasts was decreased in LA1 and LA3, but normal in LA2 and LAS.
(20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘The past in all its mortal beauty’: Las Meninas, the 1656 Velazquez masterpiece that held Laura Cumming spellbound at the Prado in Madrid.
Lay
Definition:
(imp.) of Lie, to recline.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the laity, as distinct from the clergy; as, a lay person; a lay preacher; a lay brother.
(a.) Not educated or cultivated; ignorant.
(a.) Not belonging to, or emanating from, a particular profession; unprofessional; as, a lay opinion regarding the nature of a disease.
(n.) The laity; the common people.
(n.) A meadow. See Lea.
(n.) Faith; creed; religious profession.
(n.) A law.
(n.) An obligation; a vow.
(a.) A song; a simple lyrical poem; a ballad.
(a.) A melody; any musical utterance.
(v. t.) To cause to lie down, to be prostrate, or to lie against something; to put or set down; to deposit; as, to lay a book on the table; to lay a body in the grave; a shower lays the dust.
(v. t.) To place in position; to establish firmly; to arrange with regularity; to dispose in ranks or tiers; as, to lay a corner stone; to lay bricks in a wall; to lay the covers on a table.
(v. t.) To prepare; to make ready; to contrive; to provide; as, to lay a snare, an ambush, or a plan.
(v. t.) To spread on a surface; as, to lay plaster or paint.
(v. t.) To cause to be still; to calm; to allay; to suppress; to exorcise, as an evil spirit.
(v. t.) To cause to lie dead or dying.
(v. t.) To deposit, as a wager; to stake; to risk.
(v. t.) To bring forth and deposit; as, to lay eggs.
(v. t.) To apply; to put.
(v. t.) To impose, as a burden, suffering, or punishment; to assess, as a tax; as, to lay a tax on land.
(v. t.) To impute; to charge; to allege.
(v. t.) To impose, as a command or a duty; as, to lay commands on one.
(v. t.) To present or offer; as, to lay an indictment in a particular county; to lay a scheme before one.
(v. t.) To state; to allege; as, to lay the venue.
(v. t.) To point; to aim; as, to lay a gun.
(v. t.) To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them; as, to lay a cable or rope.
(v. t.) To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone.
(v. t.) To place (new type) properly in the cases.
(v. i.) To produce and deposit eggs.
(v. i.) To take a position; to come or go; as, to lay forward; to lay aloft.
(v. i.) To lay a wager; to bet.
(n.) That which lies or is laid or is conceived of as having been laid or placed in its position; a row; a stratum; a layer; as, a lay of stone or wood.
(v. t.) A wager.
(v. t.) A job, price, or profit.
(v. t.) A share of the proceeds or profits of an enterprise; as, when a man ships for a whaling voyage, he agrees for a certain lay.
(v. t.) A measure of yarn; a lea. See 1st Lea (a).
(v. t.) The lathe of a loom. See Lathe, 3.
(v. t.) A plan; a scheme.
(imp.) of Lie
Example Sentences:
(1) Typological and archaeological investigations indicate that the church building represents originally the hospital facility for the lay brothers of the monastery, which according to the chronicle of the monastery was built in the beginning of the 14th century.
(2) Labour MP Jamie Reed, whose Copeland constituency includes Sellafield, called on the government to lay out details of a potential plan to build a new Mox plant at the site.
(3) The hippocampus plays an essential role in the laying down of cognitive memories, the pathway to the frontal lobe being via the MD thalamus.
(4) The glory lay in the defiance, although the outcome of the tie scarcely looks promising for Arsenal when the return at Camp Nou next Tuesday is borne in mind.
(5) As of July 1987, 10 states have prohibitory laws, five states have grandmother clauses authorizing practicing midwives under repealed statutes, five states have enabling laws which are not used, and 10 states explicitly permit lay midwives to practice.
(6) Speaking at The Carbon Show in London today, Philippe Chauvancy, director at climate exchange BlueNext, said that the announcement last week that it is to develop China's first standard for voluntary emission reduction projects alongside the government-backed China Beijing Environmental Exchange, could lay the foundations for a voluntary cap-and-trade scheme.
(7) He speeded the process of decolonisation, and was the first British prime minister to appreciate that Britain's future lay with Europe.
(8) This situation suppressed egg laying and resulted in a clearly decreased bone mineralization.
(9) Agir, launched in June as the Sahel crisis was taking hold, lays out a roadmap for better co-ordination of humanitarian and development aid to protect the most vulnerable people when drought hits again.
(10) The charity Bite the Ballot , which persuaded hundreds of thousands to register before the last general election, is to set up “democracy cafes” in Starbucks branches, laying on experts to explain how to register and vote, and what the referendum is all about (Bite the Ballot does not take sides but merely encourages participation).
(11) To overcome some of these problems it is suggested that an investigation of lay evaluation of health care should be carried out within a conceptual framework which incorporates the following elements.
(12) Three of the abscesses were intrapulmonary, and each lay adjacent to a pleural surface.
(13) Nowadays hardly a publication comes out of the regulator without it laying down another "matter for government".
(14) An intelligence officer told Associated Press that they were aware of the movement, but that the military is acting with care as many civilians are still trapped in the town and Boko Haram is laying land mines around it.
(15) After 14 minutes, Rose got in behind the Hull defence to lay on the opening goal for Eriksen while the second followed an incision up the other flank from Walker.
(16) In contrast, bilateral lesions of all cerebral ganglion peripheral nerves did not abolish spontaneous egg laying, suggesting that sensory input to the cerebral ganglion is not necessary for activating the bag cells.
(17) Several axon terminals lay close to blood vessels, and may modulate the activity of these vessels.
(18) Seasonal and habitat influences on the egg-laying activity of four species of Culex were compared in south Florida using jar- and vat-type oviposition traps.
(19) Those fed royal jelly as larvae emerge as queens and do little but lay eggs.
(20) Prolactin secretion was stimulated less in incubating hens deprived of their nests for 24 h (nest-deprived) than in laying hens after administration of the 5-HT receptor agonist quipazine, or precursor 5-hydroxytryptophan.