layout

/ˌleɪˈaʊt/

/ˈleɪaʊt/

Other forms: layouts

A layout is a plan or design, like the odd layout of your friend's house, where you have to walk through two bedrooms to get to the bathroom.

Anything that's planned on paper and then constructed in three dimensions has a layout, including houses, buildings, cities, parks, and gardens. Newspapers, magazines, and websites have layouts too: the way words and images are organized together on the page. The verb came first, from the sense of laying out or arranging the letters of a manuscript before printing them.

Definitions of layout

1. noun

   a plan or design of something that is laid out
   type of:

   design, plan

   an arrangement scheme
2. noun

   the act of laying out (as by making plans for something)
   type of:

   order, ordering

   the act of putting things in a sequential arrangement