Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. to expend
- v. to arrange in a certain way
- v. transitive to concoct; think up
- v. To prepare a body for burial.
WordNet 3.0
- v. provide a detailed plan or design
- v. bring forward and present to the mind
- v. get ready for a particular purpose or event
- v. spend or invest
- v. lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line
Etymologies
- to lay + out (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The historian Arrian says that once again a pothos or desire seized Alexander, so that he decided to lay out the pattern of the city himself.”
“Im sharing them with you now because the process of writing this book made me realize that all of these thingsthe good and the badare pieces of the puzzle, my puzzle, and I had to lay out all the pieces in order to see the bigger picture and what would work for me.”
“When the FASTEN SEAT BELTS sign went off, I stretched and lay out across my row before realizing I had forgotten to switch my cell phone off.”
“She and Tarak had been invited to join D6 after their meal, presumably to lay out a plan for the following days.”
“At this same time, I was working on testimony to be delivered to the House International Relations Committee HIRC, chaired by Hyde, where I planned to lay out for the first time as UN ambassador the only reform that mattered: shifting the UN system from assessed contributions to voluntary contributions.”
“General Lee had been dispatched to New York to plan and lay out its defenses which, after his hasty departure for Charleston to take charge of that city in turn, were left to be completed by Israel Putnam, who succeeded him in the command.”
“Above, moonglow but no moon lit a sector of sky, and in others the stars lay out in their millions.”
“Not far from the palace, at the end of a row of tents and blankets arrayed with wares, Zeph directed them to lay out what they had to sell.”
“ELIOT KAMENITZ/THE TIMES PICAYUNE Boaters lay out an oil absorbing boom as efforts by workers continue in Machais Lake to protect marsh and water ways from oil leaking from BP well in Gulf of Mexico on Sunday, May 9, 2010.”
“Slowly, I make a few more printed letters in lowercase, “e-o-l-o-g-i-c,” and then pause to measure the space with my eyes and lay out the rest of the letters in my mind.”
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