Field and Lay

Field

Field noun - A small area of usually open land.

Lay and field are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Lay" instead a noun "Field".

Nearby Words: fielded, fielding, fielder

Lay

Lay noun - The activity by which one regularly makes a living.
Usage example: my main lay is as a general contractor, but I do side work as a carpenter

Field and lay are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Field" instead a noun "Lay".

Nearby Words: laying, laid

Common collocations

hundreds field hundreds lay hundreds

Both words in one sentence

  • Tabletop Game / Iron Kingdoms Grundback Blasters are small Rhulic warjacks that are designed to bound across the field and lay into troop waves with what are essentially huge Gatling Scatterguns.
  • A newbie character goes out in the field and merrily slaughters giant pink blobs, caterpillars and bunnies - but death awaits him, dare he lay a hand on a butterfly or a rare big blue bunny.
  • Useful Notes / Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Radiologists entered the field expecting to lay down their lives to heal the sick and the injured.
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