lay out
/ˌleɪ ˈaʊt/ verb- To expend or contribute money to an expense or purchase. · She laid out hundreds of dollars to throw a great party.
- To arrange (physically) in a certain way, so as to spread or space apart; to display (e.g. merchandise or a collection). · She laid the blocks out in a circle on the floor.· She laid out a terrific spread for the party.
- To explain; to interpret. · Let me lay it out for you: you're not going to get a better opportunity than this one.
- To arrange; to design; to concoct; to think up. · He began to lay out the hull for an inexpensive but fast littoral drone.· She began to lay out how the circuits would be connected.
- To prepare a body for burial. · They laid him out beautifully on a bier draped in satin.
- To render (someone) unconscious; to knock out; to cause to fall to the floor; to kill. · I laid him out on the sidewalk after he tried to grab me.
- To scold or berate. · She really laid him out for taking the money and then lying to try to cover it up.
- To cease playing one's instrument. · Hey man can you lay out on the bridge?
From the library
Akela, the great gray Lone Wolf, who led all the Pack by strength and cunning, lay out at full length on his rock, and below him sat forty or more wolves of every size and color, from badger-colored veterans who could handle a buck alone to young black three-year-olds who thought they could.
“And when I come it will be to lay out Shere Khan’s hide upon the Council Rock.
Perhaps I shall get the credit also at some distant day, when I permit my zealous historian to lay out his foolscap once more—eh, Watson?
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