lay out

verb

1. 1

   get ready for a particular purpose or event

   set up an experiment

   set the table

2. 2

   provide a detailed plan or design

   She laid out her plans for the new house

3. 3

   bring forward and present to the mind

   We presented the arguments to him

   We cannot represent this knowledge to our formal reason

4. 4

   lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line

   lay out the clothes

   lay out the arguments

5. 5

   spend or invest

   lay out thousands on gold

   he laid out a fortune in the hope of making a huge profit