Layoutとは

意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

lay out (三人称単数 現在形 lays out, 現在分詞 laying out, 過去形および過去分詞形 laid out)

1. (transitive) To expend or contribute money to an expense or purchase.
   • 1677, Hannah Woolley, The Compleat Servant-Maid, London: T. Passinger, p. 63,^[1]

     […] 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, “chapter X, ’’Government’’”, in Past and Present, New York, N.Y.: William H. Colyer, […], published May 1843, OCLC 10193956, 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 in a certain way, so as to spread or space apart; to display (e.g. merchandise または a collection).

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

3. (transitive) To explain; to interpret.
   • 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 230b.

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

4. (transitive) To concoct; think up.
   • 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 458431182:

     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.
   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, OCLC 57395299:

   • 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 6”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], OCLC 855945:

     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) To render (someone) unconscious; to knock out; to cause to fall to the floor.
7. (transitive, colloquial) To scold or berate.
8. (intransitive, US, colloquial) To lie in the sunshine.

関連する語

• layout

発音

• enPR: lā′out, IPA^(key): /ˈleɪ.aʊt/

名詞

layout (複数形 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.

関連する語

• lay out

派生した語

• → Portuguese: layout
• → Swedish: layout

参考

• Wiktionary:Entry layout explained

アナグラム

• outlay