Lay or LAY may refer to:

Places

Lay Range The Lay Range is a small subrange of the Swannell Ranges of the Omineca Mountains, located between Lay Creek and Swannell River in northern British Columbia, Canada. References *Lay Range
in the Canadian Mountain Encyclopedia Swannell Range ...

, a subrange of mountains in British Columbia, Canada *

Lay, Loire Lay is a commune in the Loire department in central France. Population See also *Communes of the Loire department The following is a list of the 320 communes of the Loire department of France. The communes cooperate in the following i ...

, a French commune *

Lay (river) The Lay () is a river in the Vendée '' département'', western France. Its source is at Saint-Pierre-du-Chemin and it flows generally southwest. It flows into the Bay of Biscay between La Faute-sur-Mer and L'Aiguillon-sur-Mer, northwest o ...

, France * Lay, Iran, a village * Lay, Kansas, United States, an unincorporated community * Lay Dam, Alabama, United States

People

* Lay (surname) *

Lay Bankz Layia Watkins (born June 11, 2004), known professionally as Lay Bankz, is an American singer and rapper. After signing a record contract with Artist Partner Group (APG) in 2022, she released the singles "Left Cheek (Doo Doo Blick)", "Na Na Na" ...

(born 2004), American rapper *

Lay Raksmey Lay Raksmey (born October 29, 1989, in Cambodia) is a football coach and former player. He is currently the fitness coach of the Cambodian national football team. He has represented Cambodia at the senior international level.. Retrieved August ...

(born 1989), Cambodian footballer *

Lay Zhang Zhang Yixing (born Zhang Jiashuai ; ), known professionally as Lay Zhang or simply Lay, is a Chinese singer and actor. After participating in the Chinese talent show ''Star Academy'' in 2005, he became a member of the South Korean-Chinese boy ...

, Chinese singer, music producer, actor, and member of the K-pop boy group Exo

Poetry

* A short

ballad A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads were particularly characteristic of the popular poetry and song of Great Britain and Ireland from the Late Middle Ages until the 19th century. They were widely used across Eur ...

lyrical poem Modern lyric poetry is a formal type of poetry which expresses personal emotions or feelings, typically spoken in the first person. The term for both modern lyric poetry and modern song lyrics derives from a form of Ancient Greek literature, ...

Breton lai A Breton lai, also known as a narrative lay or simply a lay, is a form of medieval French and English romance literature. Lais are short (typically 600–1000 lines), rhymed tales of love and chivalry, often involving supernatural and fairy-wor ...

or simply lay, a form of medieval French and English romance literature *

Heroic lay The heroic lay (German ''Heldenlied'') is a genre of Germanic epic poetry characteristic of the Migration Period and the Early Middle Ages. A lay is a short narrative poem of between 80 and 200 lines concerning a single heroic episode in the life ...

, a Germanic work of narrative verse

Other uses

* Lay, relating to

laity In religious organizations, the laity () — individually a layperson, layman or laywoman — consists of all Church membership, members who are not part of the clergy, usually including any non-Ordination, ordained members of religious orders, e ...

, non-ordained Christians *

Lea (unit) The lea or lay was a English units, British unit of length. The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' describes it as a Measurement, measure "of varying quantity". It cites quotations from within various areas of the textile industry, which define it as "8 ...

, obsolete unit of length sometimes spelled "Lay" *

LA-Y Yoshinobu Launch Complex (abbreviated as LA-Y) is a rocket launch site at the Tanegashima Space Center on Tanegashima. The site and its collection of facilities were originally built for the H-II launch vehicle A launch vehicle is t ...

, Yoshinobu Launch Complex, in Tanegashima, Japan * A characteristic of material

surface finish Surface finish, also known as surface texture or surface topography, is the nature of a interface (matter), surface as defined by the three characteristics of lay, surface roughness, and waviness.. It comprises the small, local deviations of a ...

* In betting, see Betting exchange § Backing and laying