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Definition: TO LAY OUT |
TO LAY OUT1. (a) To expend. --Macaulay. (b) To display; to discover. (c) To plan in detail; to arrange; as, to lay out a garden. (d) To prepare for burial; as, to lay out a corpse. (e) To exert; as, to lay out all one's strength. |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Political Economy | Senegal | President Wade has been in office since April 1, 2000, but his government has yet to lay out a clear plan of action after spending the better part of a year engaged in political maneuvering. (references) |
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| Language | Translations for "TO LAY OUT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 編' (to arrange). (various references) | |
German | auslegen (carpet, cover, design, display, explain, inlay, interpret, lend, line, pay out, spend). (various references) | |
Hungarian | megtervez (architect, lay out, program, programme, to plan), leterít (fell, overbear, prostrate, to coldcock, to cold-cock, to lay down, to prostrate), kiterít (hang out, to dump, to lay low, to stretch, to unfold, unfold), kinyír (to top), kiüt (knock out, out, to jog, to knock down, to knock out, to out), harcképtelenné tesz (to unman), felravataloz (coffin, to stretch), befektet (invest, sank, sunk, to fund, to sink, to tie up). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 敷く (to spread out). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しく (municipal district, streets, to be equal to, to excel, to spread out, verse), わりつける (to allot, to assign, to distribute, to divide among). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | otay aylay outay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | impendo. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-l-o-o-t-t-u-y" | |
-2 letters: layout, outlay, tautly. | |
-3 letters: lotto, lytta, total. | |
-4 letters: alto, auto, loot, lota, lout, otto, taut, tola, tolu, tool, toot, tout, toyo. | |
-5 letters: alt, att, lat, lay, loo, lot, oat, oot, out, tao, tat, tau, too, tot, toy, tut, uta, you. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-l-o-o-t-t-u-y" | |
+1 letter: tautology. | |
+4 letters: automobility, traitorously. | |
+5 letters: expostulatory, tautologously. | |
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