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leys

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for leys.

Editorial note

Tom Leys is a software developer who has been working with firmware with Stephen for 9 years.

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Parts of speech1

Quick take

A ley line.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of leys gathered in one view.

noun

A ley line.

noun

A commune of Moselle department, Lorraine, Grand Est, France.

noun

A surname.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for leys.

noun

A ley line.

noun

A commune of Moselle department, Lorraine, Grand Est, France.

noun

A surname.

noun

Alternative spelling of lea. [An open field, meadow, pasture.]

Example sentences

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Tom Leys is a software developer who has been working with firmware with Stephen for 9 years.

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It has been mentioned in Essays on China by Simon Leys (I read it in French).

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Principals & Previous Experience: Stephen Leys as 30 years experience as the managing director of Technman designing custom electronics solutions for a wide range of clients.

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Practically every where keyboard-based navigation is used, arrow leys have proved both accessible, simple to understand and fast to use for the level-1 needs (next, previous,...).

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[R] and [P] leys are not working (Chrome, Linux).

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The great essayist Simon Leys said one day that education task was to prepare pupils to be the best citizen in a democracy, but that democracy is not part of the tools used to achieve education.

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In an essay collected in The Hall of Uselessness, Simon Leys quotes a Chinese writer's parable from the first half of the 20th Century, about a government afraid of its people that create a massive volume of laws.

Proper noun examples

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Synchronistically, I just read a brief discussion of the same pair of quotes in Simon Leys's anthology _The Hall of Uselessness_: 'Talking of Orson Welles, I wonder if many people still remember how, soon after the Second World War, his artistic reputation in Europe was nearly wrecked for a while by a blistering attack which Sartre launched against _Citizen Kane_.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use leys in a sentence?

Tom Leys is a software developer who has been working with firmware with Stephen for 9 years.

What does leys mean?

A ley line.

What part of speech is leys?

leys is commonly used as noun.