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 323 communes of the Loire department of France. The communes cooperate in the following in ...

, 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 of L ...

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

People

* Lay (surname) *

Lay Raksmey Lay Raksmey (born October 29, 1989, in Cambodia) is a footballer for Asia Euro United in the Cambodian League. He has represented Cambodia at senior international level.. Retrieved August 31, 2012. Honours Club ; Svay Rieng * Cambodian Leag ...

(born 1989), Cambodian footballer *

Lay Zhang Zhang Yixing (; born ), known professionally as Lay Zhang or simply Lay (), is a Chinese rapper, singer, songwriter, dancer, actor and businessman. Zhang first gained recognition for participating in the Chinese television talent show ''Star A ...

, Chinese rapper, 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 derive from the medieval French ''chanson balladée'' or '' ballade'', which were originally "dance songs". Ballads were particularly characteristic of the popular poetry and ...

lyrical poem Modern lyric poetry is a formal type of poetry which expresses personal emotions or feelings, typically spoken in the first person. It is not equivalent to song lyrics, though song lyrics are often in the lyric mode, and it is also ''not'' equi ...

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 *

Breton lay Breton most often refers to: *anything associated with Brittany, and generally **Breton people ** Breton language, a Southwestern Brittonic Celtic language of the Indo-European language family, spoken in Brittany ** Breton (horse), a breed **Gal ...

* ''lai'' (poetic form), a medieval French lay

Other uses

Lay Dam Lay Dam is a hydroelectric power dam on the Coosa River in Chilton County and Coosa County, near Clanton, Alabama.Tharpe, Bill"Lay Dam and Lake" encyclopediaofalabama.org, January 7, 2009, updated October 5, 2010. The concrete run-of-the-river ...

, Alabama, United States *

Lea (unit) The lea or lay was a British unit of length. The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' describes it as a measure "of varying quantity". It cites quotations from within various areas of the textile industry, which define it as "80 yards" (1888 note on a 1 ...

, obsolete unit of length sometimes spelled "Lay" *

LA-Y Yoshinobu Launch Complex (LC-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 and later used for H-IIA and H-IIB launches. I ...

, 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 surface as defined by the three characteristics of lay, surface roughness, and waviness.. It comprises the small, local deviations of a surface from the p ...

* In betting, see Betting exchange § Backing and laying