Belaid vs Relaid - What's the difference?
belaid | relaid |
(archaic) (belay); belayed.
(obsolete) To surround; environ; inclose.
(obsolete) To overlay; adorn.
* Spenser
(obsolete) To besiege; invest; surround.
(obsolete) To lie in wait for in order to attack; block up or obstruct.
To make (a rope) fast by turning it round a fastening point such as a cleat or piton.
To secure (a person) to a rope or (a rope) to a person.
To lay aside; stop; cancel.
(nautical)
(nautical) To make a line fast by turns around a cleat, pin, or bitt.
(climbing) The securing of a rope to a rock or other projection.
(climbing) The object to which a rope is secured.
(climbing) A location at which a climber stops and builds an anchor with which to secure his/or her partner.
(relay)
(by extension) A new set of anything.
* Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son
A series of vehicles travelling in sequence.
(athletics) A track and field discipline where runners take turns in carrying a baton from start to finish. Most common events are 4x100 meter and 4x400 meter competitions.
(electronics) An electrical actuator that allows a relatively small electrical voltage or current to control a larger voltage or current.
(obsolete, intransitive, hunting) To release a new set of hounds.
To pass on or transfer (information).
As verbs the difference between belaid and relaid
is that belaid is (archaic) (belay); belayed while relaid is (relay).belaid
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Verb
(head)belay
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Verb
- jacket belayed with silver lace
- He would need an experienced partner to belay him on the difficult climbs.
- I could only hope the remaining piton would belay his fall.
- Belay that order!
Noun
(en noun)relaid
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
*relay
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) , of uncertain origin.Noun
(en noun)- There is a snaky gleam in her hard grey eye, as of anticipated rounds of buttered toast, relays of hot chops, worryings and quellings of young children, sharp snappings at poor Berry, and all the other delights of her Ogress's castle.