Word.ws English Dictionary

lay above

lay above is the simple past of lie above.

Meaning of lie above

Verb

lie above (third-person singular simple present lies above, present participle lying above, simple past lay above, past participle lain above)

  1. (ring theory) Synonym of lie over.
    • If p₁, p ∈ Spec(A) with p₁ ⊂ p, and if q₁ ∈ Spec(B) lies above p₁, then there exists q ∈ Spec(B) which lies above p and such that q₁ ⊂ q.2007, Meinolf Geck, Group Representation Theory, EPFL Press, page 199
    Synonyms:
    lie over

Questions about lay above

What is lay above the simple past of?
Lay above is the simple past of lie above.

Words near lay above in the dictionary

  1. lay a glove on
  2. lay a hand on
  3. lay a trip on
  4. lay a venue
  5. lay about
  6. lay above
  7. lay ahead
  8. lay along
  9. lay an anchor to the windward
  10. lay an egg
  11. lay analysis

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: lay above (page history and authors); lie above (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “lay above.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/lay_above. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.