Layoutとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˌleɪ ˈaʊt/

動詞

lay out (third-person singular simple present lays out, present participle laying out, simple past and past participle laid out)

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

   Coordinate terms: lay away, lay in, lay up

   She laid out hundreds of dollars to throw a great party.

   • 1677, Hannah Woolley, The Compleat Servant-Maid‎, London: T. Passinger, page 63:

     […] 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.

   • 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “Government”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk):

     There are but two ways of paying debt: increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying it out.

2. (transitive) To arrange (physically) in a certain way, so as to spread or space apart; to display (e.g. merchandise or a collection).

   Antonyms: pick up, pack up

   She laid the blocks out in a circle on the floor.

   She laid out a terrific spread for the party.

   • 1954 August, J. B. Snell, “The New Zealand Government Railways—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 562:

     Crossing stations on single lines are laid out so that one line has a straight run through, and is signalled in each direction, avoiding the need to slow down to take the turnout into the loop.

   • 2023 March 8, Gareth Dennis, “The Reshaping of things to come...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 46:

     Having laid out these big-picture figures, the report then begins its analysis of traffic types against route mileage.

3. (transitive) To explain; to interpret.

   Let me lay it out for you: you're not going to get a better opportunity than this one.

   • 2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, 230b:

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

4. (transitive) To arrange; to design; to concoct; to think up.

   He began to lay out the hull for an inexpensive but fast littoral drone.

   She began to lay out how the circuits would be connected.

   • 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter VII, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC:

     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.

5. To prepare a body for burial.

   They laid him out beautifully on a bier draped in satin.

   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 28, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

     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.

   • 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 6, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:

     The family was alone in the parlour with the great polished box. William, when laid out, was six feet four inches long. Like a monument lay the bright brown, ponderous coffin.

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

   I laid him out on the sidewalk after he tried to grab me.

7. (transitive, colloquial) To scold or berate.

   She really laid him out for taking the money and then lying to try to cover it up.

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

   She laid out for hours just to try to get even bronzer than she already was.

関連する語

• layout

アナグラム

• outlay

語源

Deverbal from lay out.

発音

• enPR: lā′out, IPA: /ˈleɪ.aʊt/

名詞

layout (plural layouts)

1. A structured arrangement of items within certain limits.
2. A plan for such arrangement.
3. The act of laying out something.
4. (publishing) The process of arranging editorial content, advertising, graphics and other information to fit within certain constraints.
5. (engineering) A map or a drawing of a construction site showing the position of roads, buildings or other constructions.
6. (electronics) A specification of an integrated circuit showing the position of the physical components that will implement the schematic in silicon.
7. (Internet) The customizable features of a user's profile (such as profile picture, screen name, and bio) collectively.
8. (gymnastics) A fully stretched out position of the body, with toes pointed and legs straight.

派生語

派生した語

• → German: Layout
• → Dutch: lay-out
• → Polish: layout
• → Portuguese: layout
• → Russian: лейаут (lejaut)
• → Swedish: layout

参考

アナグラム

• outlay