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Lay out

verb

Lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line. Synonyms: array, range, set out. "Lay out the arguments"

Get ready for a particular purpose or event. Synonyms: set, set up. "Set the table" , "Lay out the tools for the surgery"

Spend or invest. "He laid out a fortune in the hope of making a huge profit"

Bring forward and present to the mind. Synonyms: present, represent. "We cannot represent this knowledge to our formal reason"

Provide a detailed plan or design.

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"Lay out" Quotes from Famous Books

... Amy, "as you have been so kind to keep him so many years, I beg you will take him home again one year more, and I'll bring you a hundred pounds more, which I will desire you to lay out in schooling and clothes for him, and to pay you for his board. Perhaps I may put him in a condition to ...

— The Fortunate Mistress (Parts 1 and 2) • Daniel Defoe

... profits by hiring out their ships of war to the Spaniards and Portuguese, are obliged to import most of their materials they use. We ought to view the building a fleet as an article of commerce, it being the natural manufactory of this country. It is the best money we can lay out. A navy when finished is worth more than it cost. And is that nice point in national policy, in which commerce and protection are united. Let us build; if we want them not, we can sell; and by that means replace our paper currency with ready gold ...

— Common Sense • Thomas Paine

... in Dundealgan, or Maeve in her house in Connaught. If Conchubor'll make me a queen, I'll have the right of a queen who is a master, taking her own choice and making a stir to the edges of the seas. . . . Lay out your mats and hangings where I can stand this night and look about me. Lay out the skins of the rams of Connaught and of the goats of the west. I will ...

— Deirdre of the Sorrows • J. M. Synge

... the days of Harun-al-Raschid. When I left the train I did business with divers Kings, and in eight days passed through many changes of life. Sometimes I wore dress-clothes and consorted with Princes and Politicals, drinking from crystal and eating from silver. Sometimes I lay out upon the ground and devoured what I could get, from a plate made of leaves, and drank the running water, and slept under the same rug as my servant. It was all ...

— Short Stories Old and New • Selected and Edited by C. Alphonso Smith

... the general impression. But do you think it requires no imagination to conceive a new application of knowledge, to invent new methods where old ones are inadequate, to lay out a route through the unknown land beyond the regions ...

— Doctor Claudius, A True Story • F. Marion Crawford

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