'Layer' definitions:
Definition of 'layer'
From: WordNet
noun
Single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance; "slices of hard-boiled egg on a bed of spinach" [syn: layer, bed]
noun
A relatively thin sheetlike expanse or region lying over or under another
noun
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" [syn: level, layer, stratum]
noun
A hen that lays eggs
noun
Thin structure composed of a single thickness of cells
verb
Make or form a layer; "layer the different colored sands"
Definition of 'Layer'
From: GCIDE
- Layer \Lay"er\, n. [See Lay to cause to lie flat.]
- 1. One who, or that which, lays. [1913 Webster]
- 2. [Prob. a corruption of lair.] 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]
- 3. A shoot or twig of a plant, not detached from the stock, laid under ground for growth or propagation. [1913 Webster]
- 4. An artificial oyster bed. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'layer'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- Appleton layer,
- arrange in layers,
- belt,
- bookie,
- chemosphere,
- delaminate,
- desquamate,
- exfoliate,
- F layer,
- flake,
- Heaviside-Kennelly layer,
- ionosphere,
- isothermal region,
- laminate,
- lay down,
- lay up,
- lower atmosphere,
- outer atmosphere,
- photosphere,
- scale,
- stratify,
- stratosphere,
- stratum,
- substratosphere,
- tropopause,
- troposphere,
- upper atmosphere,
- Van Allen belt
Words containing 'Layer'
- Layering,
- layered,
- Crookes layer,
- Germinal layers,
- Pipe layer,
- Plate layer,
- appleton layer,
- boundary layer,
- e layer,
- f layer,
- germ layer,
- heaviside layer,
- horny layer,
- layer cake,
- malpighian layer,
- ozone layer,
- tissue layer,
- D-layer,
- Wood-layer,
- conjunctival layer of bulb,
- conjunctival layer of eyelids,
- kennelly-heaviside layer