English Dictionary

lay out

verb

(transitive) To expend or contribute money to an expense or purchase. / (transitive) To arrange in a certain way, so as to spread or space apart; to display (e.g. merchandise or a collection).

She will lay out the clothes for tomorrow.

意味（1）

(transitive) To expend or contribute money to an expense or purchase.

[…] you must endeavour to take off your Mistress from all the care you can, giving to her a just and true account of what moneys you lay out for her, shewing your self thrifty in all your disbursements.

意味（2）

(transitive) To arrange 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.

意味（3）

(transitive) To explain; to interpret.

Because his opinions are all over the place, they find it easy to scrutinise them and lay them out […]

意味（4）

(transitive) To concoct; think up.

It was about dark now; so I dropped the canoe down the river under some willows that hung over the bank, and waited for the moon to rise. I made fast to a willow; then I took a bite to eat, and by and by laid down in the canoe to smoke a pipe and lay out a plan.

意味（5）

To prepare a body for burial.

So that no white sailor seriously contradicted him when he said that if ever Captain Ahab should be tranquilly laid out— which might hardly come to pass, so he muttered—then, whoever should do that last office for the dead, would find a birth-mark on him from crown to sole.

意味（6）

(transitive, colloquial) To render (someone) unconscious; to knock out; to cause to fall to the floor.

意味（7）

(transitive, colloquial) To scold or berate.

意味（8）

(intransitive, US, colloquial) To lie in the sunshine.