The difference between Grass and Lay low

When used as verbs, grass means to lay out on the grass, whereas lay low means to topple or overcome.


Grass is also noun with the meaning: any plant of the family poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.

check bellow for the other definitions of Grass and Lay low

  1. Grass as a noun (countable, uncountable):

    Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.

  2. Grass as a noun (countable):

    Various plants not in family Poaceae that resemble grasses.

  3. Grass as a noun (uncountable):

    A lawn.

  4. Grass as a noun (uncountable, slang):

    Marijuana.

  5. Grass as a noun (countable, Britain, slang):

    An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.

  6. Grass as a noun (uncountable, physics):

    Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.

  7. Grass as a noun (uncountable, slang):

    Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.

  8. Grass as a noun:

    The season of fresh grass; spring.

  9. Grass as a noun (obsolete, figurative):

    That which is transitory.

  10. Grass as a noun (countable, folk etymology):

    Asparagus.

  1. Grass as a verb (transitive):

    To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).

  2. Grass as a verb (transitive, or, intransitive, slang):

    To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.

  3. Grass as a verb (transitive):

    To cover with grass or with turf.

  4. Grass as a verb (transitive):

    To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.

  5. Grass as a verb (transitive):

    To bring to the grass or ground; to land.

    Examples:

    "to grass a fish"

  1. Lay low as a verb (transitive, informal):

    To topple or overcome; to cause to fall; (of a person) to knock out.

    Examples:

    "He was laid low by a vicious blow to the head."

  2. Lay low as a verb:

    Examples:

    "Future: 'I’m going to lie low for a while in case the police come looking for me.'"

    "Present: 'I'm lying low because the police are looking for me.'"

    "Past: 'I lay low yesterday when the police came looking.'"

    "Past perfect: 'I have lain low because the police have been looking for me.'"