The difference between Grass and Lay out

When used as verbs, grass means to lay out on the grass, whereas lay out means to expend or contribute money to an expense or purchase.


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.

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  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 out as a verb (transitive):

    To expend or contribute money to an expense or purchase.

  2. Lay out as a verb (transitive):

    To arrange in a certain way, so as to spread or space apart; to display (e.g. merchandise or a collection).

    Examples:

    "She laid the blocks out in a circle on the floor."

  3. Lay out as a verb (transitive):

    To explain; to interpret.

  4. Lay out as a verb (transitive):

    To concoct; think up.

  5. Lay out as a verb:

    To prepare a body for burial.

  6. Lay out as a verb (colloquial):

    To render [someone] unconscious; to knock out; to cause to fall to the floor.

  7. Lay out as a verb (colloquial):

    To scold or berate.

  8. Lay out as a verb (intransitive, US, _, colloquial):

    To lie in the sunshine.