'lay out' definitions:

Definition of 'lay out'

verb

Lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line; "lay out the clothes"; "lay out the arguments" [syn: range, array, lay out, set out]

verb

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, lay out, set]

verb

Spend or invest; "lay out thousands on gold"; "he laid out a fortune in the hope of making a huge profit"

verb

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, lay out]

verb

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

Synonyms of 'lay out'

From: Moby Thesaurus

align,
anesthetize,
arrange,
array,
bedaze,
benumb,
besot,
blast,
block out,
blot out,
blow down,
blow over,
blueprint,
blunt,
bowl down,
bowl over,
bring down,
budget,
bulldog,
bump off,
carve,
cast,
cast down,
chart,
chisel,
chloroform,
chop down,
coldcock,
cool off,
cost,
cost out,
create,
croak,
cut,
cut down,
dash down,
deaden,
deck,
deploy,
desensitize,
diagram,
disburse,
dispose,
do in,
dope,
down,
drop,
drug,
dull,
efform,
embalm,
equalize,
erase,
etherize,
even,
expend,
fashion,
fell,
fetch down,
figure,
fix,
flatten,
floor,
flush,
forge,
fork out,
form,
formalize,
found,
frame,
freeze,
get,
give the business,
go through,
grade,
graph,
ground,
gun down,
harmonize,
hew,
hew down,
hierarchize,
hit,
ice,
incur costs,
invest,
kayo,
knead,
knock down,
knock out,
knock senseless,
knock stiff,
knock unconscious,
KO,
lay,
lay down,
lay flat,
lay level,
lay low,
lay off,
level,
lick into shape,
lie in state,
line up,
map,
map out,
mark off,
mark out,
marshal,
measure off,
measure out,
methodize,
mint,
model,
mold,
mow down,
mummify,
narcotize,
normalize,
numb,
obtund,
off,
open the purse,
order,
organize,
outlay,
pace off,
pacify,
palsy,
paralyze,
pay,
pay out,
plan,
plot,
plot out,
polish off,
precipitate,
prostrate,
pull down,
put out,
put to sleep,
quiet,
rank,
rase,
raze,
regularize,
regulate,
roll,
roll flat,
rough out,
roughcast,
roughhew,
routinize,
rub out,
rule off,
run through,
schedule,
sculpt,
sculpture,
send headlong,
set,
set off,
set out,
set up,
settle,
shape,
shell out,
sink money in,
sketch,
sketch out,
smooth,
smooth out,
smoothen,
spend,
splurge,
spread-eagle,
squander,
stamp,
standardize,
steamroll,
steamroller,
step off,
structure,
stun,
stupefy,
supinate,
systematize,
tailor,
take care of,
take down,
thermoform,
throw,
throw down,
throw money around,
topple,
tranquilize,
trip,
tumble,
waste,
whack down,
wipe out,
work,
zap

Words containing 'lay out'

Lay,
Laying,
To lay about,
To lay at,
To lay before,
To lay by,
To lay down,
To lay for,
To lay in,
To lay in for,
To lay it on,
To lay on,
To lay out,
To lay over,
To lay to,
To lay under,
To lay up,
lay before,
lay by,
lay down,
lay in,
lay into,
lay off,
lay on,
lay over,
lay to,
lay up,
laying on,
laying out,
Lay baptism,
Lay brother,
Lay clerk,
Lay days,
Lay elder,
Lay figure,
Lay race,
Lay reader,
Lay shaft,
Laying on of hands,
Pipe laying,
Point Lay,
To lay a venue,
To lay about one,
To lay against the field,
To lay asleep,
To lay bare,
To lay by the heels,
To lay claim to,
To lay forth,
To lay hands on,
To lay hold of,
To lay hold on,
To lay in balance,
To lay in lavender,
To lay it on thick,
To lay on load,
To lay on the shelf,
To lay on the table,
To lay open,
To lay siege to,
To lay the course,
To lay the land,
To lay to heart,
To lay unto,
To lay wait,
To lay wait for,
To lay waste,
easy lay,
egg laying,
lay aside,
lay away,
lay claim,
lay down the law,
lay eyes on,
lay hands on,
lay it on thick,
lay low,
lay on the line,
lay the foundation,
lay to rest,
lay waste,
lay waste to,
lay witness,
lay-by,
lay-up,
laying claim,
laying waste,
the lay of the land,
Point Lay, AK,
To lay an anchor to the windward,
To lay heads together,
To lay one's self out,
To lay stress upon,
to get the lay of the land,
To lay hands on one's self,
To lay one's self open to,
egg-laying mammal,
To lay violent hands on one's self,
To lay a fault misfortune etc at one's door