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lay open

lay open verb: to publish a patent for initial public review, prior to the formal application for registration.

Verb

lay open (third-person singular simple present lays open, present participle laying open, simple past and past participle laid open)

  1. (Japan, South-Korea) To publish a patent for initial public review, prior to the formal application for registration.
  2. (transitive) To expose or reveal (something).
    • to lay oneself open to criticism
    • The power of turning into an animal has this serious disadvantage that it lays you open to the chance of being wounded or even slain in your animal skin before you have the chance to put it off and scramble back into your human integument.1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 11, page 207
  3. (transitive) To open (something) through cutting or scissoring.

lay open meaning in Tamil and Kannada

lay open in Tamil

வெளிப்படுத்து

lay open in Kannada

ಸ್ಪಷ್ಟಪಡಿಸು, ಬಹಿರಂಗಪಡಿಸು, ಪ್ರಕಟಿಸು

Forms of lay open

third-person singular presentlays open
present participlelaying open
past participlelaid open
pastlaid open

Questions about lay open

What does lay open mean?
Lay open means to publish a patent for initial public review, prior to the formal application for registration.
What is lay open in Tamil?
Lay open in Tamil is வெளிப்படுத்து. See Lay open meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is lay open?
Lay open is a verb.
What is the past tense of lay open?
The past tense of lay open is laid open.

Words near lay open in the dictionary

  1. lay one's cards on the table
  2. lay one's eyes on
  3. lay one's hands on
  4. lay one's head
  5. lay one's tongue to
  6. lay open
  7. lay out
  8. lay over
  9. lay people
  10. lay person
  11. lay persons

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lay open (page history and authors); lay open (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); lay open (Kannada Wiktionary) (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.

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