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lay out

vb. 1 to expend 2 to arrange in a certain way 3 (context transitive English) to concoct; think up 4 To prepare a body for burial. 5 (context colloquial English) To render [someone] unconscious; to knock out; to cause to fall to the floor. 6 (label en intransitive US colloquial) To lie in the sunshine.

WordNet
lay out
  1. v. lay out in a line [syn: range, array, set out]

  2. get ready for a particular purpose or event; "set up an experiment"; "set the table"; "lay out the tools for the surgery" [syn: set up, set]

  3. bring forward and present to the mind; "We presented the arguments to him"; "We cannot represent this knowledge to our formal reason" [syn: present, represent]

  4. provide a detailed plan or design; "She laid out her plans for the new house"

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Lay out
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Usage examples of "lay out".

Washington became a surveyor--a powerful profession in colonial America--and helped lay out Belhaven, Virginia (now Alexandria).

Do you remember when you and I lay out on the grass together, and you read poetry to me and told me you loved me?

And so he proceeded to lay out, in detail, all the up-to-date particulars of Centauri Prime's military buildup.

Some would dig the trenches, others would cut and drag up firewood, and still others would lay out the dead and wash their faces.

The school's buildings were in, and once the bluff wore its dome like a gleaming, high-tech crown, work crews would plant Old Terran grass and lay out playing fields, and—.

Weston's son--but lay out half a guinea at Ford's, and your popularity will stand upon your own virtues.

They returned to the cart and brought back the baskets, then one of them proceeded to lay out the food while the other uncorked each wine bottle and began to pour the wine into eight glasses.

He began assembling his commo kit as Ellsworthy slipped past him to lay out the weapons.

The largest and youngest caldera lay out near the center of the complex, and the older higher-floored calderas embayed its circumference like the petals of a flower design.

An afternoon sufficed to lay out the land into orchard, wood-lot, and pasture, and to decide what fine oaks or pines should be left to stand before the door, and whence each blasted tree could be seen to the best advantage.

I can get things cleaned up here and lay out enough work for a week or so by, say, 1630.

In the earlier dreams, I contented myself with exploring these incredible cities, attempting to measure their angles -- so utterly dissimilar to anything I had ever learned from Professor Wogglebug's geometry pills -- and occasionally trying to lay out baseball diamonds and football fields for the perpetually unseen inhabitants, or to set up curiously-shaped stones in the formation of tenpins, which invariably toppled down because of the peculiar tilt of the ground long before I could bowl them over with the black cinder-like spheroids that sometimes lay about.

But those who brought them stayed only to genuflect and lay out their gifts in patterns.