noun🔗ShareA close-range shot in which the shooter banks the ball off the backboard from a few feet away."The basketball player made a perfect layup, scoring two points easily. "sportChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA relatively easy task."Meeting the numbers will be a layup, if not a slam dunk."sportachievementbusinessChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareThe state of being laid up."The ship endured an interminable layup in the harbor lasting nearly a month."medicineconditionChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA track used to store train cars."The caboose, long decrepit, rested on a forgotten layup just north of the dry riverbed."vehicleindustryplaceChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA train car sitting in storage (laid up), often overnight."After the busy holiday season, there was a large layup of freight cars in the rail yard, waiting for new assignments. "vehicletrafficChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareThe process of applying alternate layers of a material and a binding agent to form a composite material."Forgetting to clear the sawdust around his workshop, Payton ended up contaminating the resin-ply matrix with wood particles during his hand layup."materialprocesstechnologycompoundChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
