layup

layupnoun/ˈleɪˌʌp/

• 1

  ball-gamesbasketballgamesA close-range shot in which the shooter banks the ball off the backboard from a few feet away.

  • Rockledge's Shanikqua Smith goes for a layup during Tuesday's game against Titusville.
• 2

  A relatively easy task.

  • Meeting the numbers will be a layup, if not a slam dunk.
• 3

  The state of being laid up.

  • The ship endured an interminable layup in the harbor lasting nearly a month.
• 4

  rail-transportrailwaystransportA track used to store train cars.

  • The caboose, long decrepit, rested on a forgotten layup just north of the dry riverbed.
  • The City Hall station on the BMT line [...] has a lower level that was never put into service. Yet the platforms have been maintained, are well illuminated, and serve as a layup and storage area for the MTA.
• 5

  rail-transportrailwaystransportA train car sitting in storage (laid up), often overnight.

  • Though I knew we shouldn't be there, she pulled me out of the tunnel and into the dark layup, its floors still grubby from the morning commute many hours ago.
  • A nonmoving empty train, or a layup, was easiest to pin down at night or on weekends when trains would park on the dormant stretches of express tracks.
• 6

  The 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.
  • In addition to employing flax fibres for polymer-coated sutures, more recently, flax fibres have been proposed for reinforcing polymer composites, such as hand layup laminated scaffolds in tissue engineering.