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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun layer has 5 senses
- layer(n = noun.artifact) bed - single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance; "slices of hard-boiled egg on a bed of spinach" is a kind of artefact, artifact
- layer(n = noun.location) Array - a relatively thin sheetlike expanse or region lying over or under another; Array is a kind of part, region
- layer(n = noun.cognition) level, stratum - an abstract place usually conceived as having depth; "a good actor communicates on several levels"; "a simile has at least two layers of meaning"; "the mind functions on many strata simultaneously" is a kind of place
- layer(n = noun.animal) Array - a hen that lays eggs; Array is a kind of biddy, hen
- layer(n = noun.animal) Array - thin structure composed of a single thickness of cells; Array has particulars: blastoderm, blastodisc, germinal area, germinal disc, hypodermis
has particulars: backing, mount, blanket, course, row, cushion, interlayer, lift, overlay, ply, tier, wall
is a part of laminate
Derived form verb layer1
has particulars: stratum, asthenosphere, chromosphere, crust, earth's crust, exosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, lithosphere, lower mantle, mantle, mesosphere, ozone layer, ozonosphere, stratosphere, earth's surface, surface, thermosphere, tropopause, troposphere, upper mantle, cell wall, snow
Derived form verb layer1
Derived form verb layer1
Derived form verb lay4
is a kind of anatomical structure, bodily structure, body structure, complex body part, structure
Derived form verb layer1
Verb layer has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
layer, n. [See Lay to cause to lie flat.].
- One who, or that which, lays. [1913 Webster]
- That which is laid; a stratum; a bed; one thickness, course, or fold laid over another; as, a layer of clay or of sand in the earth; a layer of bricks, or of plaster; the layers of an onion. [1913 Webster]
- A shoot or twig of a plant, not detached from the stock, laid under ground for growth or propagation. [1913 Webster]
- An artificial oyster bed. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
layer, n. & v.
--n.
1 a thickness of matter, esp. one of several, covering a surface.
2 a person or thing that lays.
3 a hen that lays eggs.
4 a shoot fastened down to take root while attached to the parent plant.
--v.tr.
1 a arrange in layers. b cut (hair) in layers.
2 propagate (a plant) as a layer.
--n.
1 a thickness of matter, esp. one of several, covering a surface.
2 a person or thing that lays.
3 a hen that lays eggs.
4 a shoot fastened down to take root while attached to the parent plant.
--v.tr.
1 a arrange in layers. b cut (hair) in layers.
2 propagate (a plant) as a layer.
Idiom
layer-out a person who prepares a corpse for burial.
Derivative
layered adj.
Etymology
ME f. LAY(1) + -ER(1)
THESAURUS
layer
Appleton layer, F layer, Heaviside-Kennelly layer, Van Allen belt, arrange in layers, belt, bookie, chemosphere, delaminate, desquamate, exfoliate, flake, ionosphere, isothermal region, laminate, lay down, lay up, lower atmosphere, outer atmosphere, photosphere, scale, stratify, stratosphere, stratum, substratosphere, tropopause, troposphere, upper atmosphereROGET THESAURUS
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Layer
N layer, stratum, strata, course, bed, zone, substratum, substrata, floor, flag, stage, story, tier, slab, escarpment, table, tablet, dess, flagstone, board, plank, trencher, platter, plate, lamina, lamella, sheet, foil, wafer, scale, flake, peel, coat, pellicle, membrane, film, leaf, slice, shive, cut, rasher, shaving, integument, eschar, stratification, scaliness, nest of boxes, coats of an onion, monolayer, bilayer, trilayer, lamellar, lamellated, lamelliform, layered, laminated, laminiferous, micaceous, schistose, schistous, scaly, filmy, membranous, pellicular, flaky, squamous, foliated, foliaceous, stratified, stratiform, tabular, discoid, spathic, spathose, trilamellar, graphitic.
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