Provide vs Laydown - What's the difference?
provide | laydown |
To make a living; earn money for necessities.
To act to prepare for something.
To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate.
To give what is needed or desired, especially basic needs.
To furnish (with), cause to be present.
* Arbuthnot
To make possible or attainable.
* Milton
(obsolete, Latinism) To foresee.
To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See provisor .
(usually, uncountable) The act of laying something down
*{{quote-book, 1992, T.S. Shuler et al., Polymer Modified Asphalt Binders, chapter=Design and Construction of Asphalt Concrete Using Polymer Modified Asphalt Binders
, passage=However, significant smoke was observed during laydown of this mixture. }}
(publishing) A physical mockup or layout of a page design
*{{quote-book, 2006, Susan Linnet Cox, Photo Styling
, passage=It was a week's worth of laydowns portraying the full line of athletic clothing for that season
(military) A pattern of deployment
*{{quote-book, 1984, Ashton B. Carter et al., Ballistic Missile Defense
, passage=The offense could contrive a variety of laydowns to intensify the defense's problems.}}
(bridge) A hand which is so strong that the declarer can simply expose it and claim the number of tricks required by his or her contract
*{{quote-news, 2008, December 26, Phillip Alder, Set the Toys Aside and Listen to What the Cards Are Saying, The New York Times
, passage=North-South rested in five spades, with grand slams in spades and clubs laydown .}}
(fishing) A tree fallen in water, where anglers might target fish
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As a verb provide
is to make a living; earn money for necessities.As a noun laydown is
(usually|uncountable) the act of laying something down.provide
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Verb
(provid)- It is difficult to provide for my family working on minimum wage.
- The contract provides that the work be well done.
- I'll lend you the money, provided that you pay it back by Monday.
- Don't bother bringing equipment, as we will provide it.
- We aim to provide the local community with more green spaces.
- Rome was well provided with corn.
- He provides us with an alternative option.
- Bring me berries, or such cooling fruit / As the kind, hospitable woods provide .
- (Ben Jonson)
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Derived terms
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