cheese vs lay off

cheese is a noun but lay off is not a noun.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cheese	Yes	No	Yes	No
lay off	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, lay off is a hypernym of cheese; that is, lay off is a word with a broader meaning than cheese:

Other hypernyms of cheese include cease, discontinue, give up, quit, stop.

cheese (noun)	lay off (noun)
a solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk
erect or decumbent Old World perennial with axillary clusters of rosy-purple flowers; introduced in United States

cheese (verb)	lay off (verb)
wind onto a cheese	dismiss, usually for economic reasons
used in the imperative (get away, or stop it)	put an end to a state or an activity