lay out

Verb

• provide a detailed plan or design
  • She laid out her plans for the new house
    

• bring forward and present to the mind
  • We presented the arguments to him
    
  • We cannot represent this knowledge to our formal reason
    

• spend or invest
  • lay out thousands on gold
    
  • he laid out a fortune in the hope of making a huge profit
    

• get ready for a particular purpose or event
  • set up an experiment
    
  • set the table
    
  • lay out the tools for the surgery
    

• lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line
  • lay out the clothes
    
  • lay out the arguments
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  present , represent , set up , set , range , array , set out