lay out

VERB
  1. get ready for a particular purpose or event
    set up an experiment
    lay out the tools for the surgery
    set the table
  2. spend or invest
    he laid out a fortune in the hope of making a huge profit
    lay out thousands on gold
  3. lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line
    lay out the arguments
    lay out the clothes
  4. provide a detailed plan or design
    She laid out her plans for the new house
  5. bring forward and present to the mind
    We presented the arguments to him
    We cannot represent this knowledge to our formal reason
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How To Use lay out In A Sentence

  • They having observed where the Chest stood, and wanting a necessary mooveable to houshold, yet loath to lay out money for buying it: complotted together this very night, to steale it thence, and carry it home to their house, as accordingly they did; finding it somewhat heavy, and therefore imagining, that matter of woorth was contained therein. The Decameron
  • Now as Tera lay out with her hair coated in conditioner, Mari unbraided her own hair, listened to her iPod, and enjoyed rays. Kresley Cole Immortals After Dark: The Clan MacRieve
  • We’re seeing this play out in excruciatingly agonizing detail with tomorrow’s appearance in Congress of General Petraeus. Scripting News for 9/9/07 « Scripting News Annex
  • Lay out the outer fabric flat with the wrong side up and lay buckram on top with the bump sandwiched in between.
  • You won't have to lay out a fortune for this dining table.
  • This is not the place to lay out claims and counterclaims about how life originated on Earth; we plan to do that, soon enough.
  • An optional water sensor with relay output is available with set point entered by user.
  • Kathy had already been given the hook, and the OMG was here to lay out the shizzle before everyone got excited. The Coming of the Apocalypse
  • Ehrlich did try to gain commuter support by calling MARC and Metro "broken," but did not much lay out a plan for improvement. Ehrlich vs. O'Malley -- Maryland governor debate liveblog
  • He and his colleague Anthony Ladd a chemical engineer at the University of Florida in Gainesville lay out their new equations in a paper to appear in Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
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