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Layer   /lˈeɪər/   Listen
Layer

noun
1.
Single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance.  Synonym: bed.
2.
A relatively thin sheetlike expanse or region lying over or under another.
3.
An abstract place usually conceived as having depth.  Synonyms: level, stratum.  "A simile has at least two layers of meaning" , "The mind functions on many strata simultaneously"
4.
A hen that lays eggs.
5.
Thin structure composed of a single thickness of cells.
verb
1.
Make or form a layer.



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"Layer" Quotes from Famous Books



... was spread a deep layer of dust, that reached half way up to the window-seat. It had grown immeasurably, whilst I slept; and represented the dust of untold ages. Undoubtedly, atoms of the old, decayed furniture helped to swell its bulk; and, somewhere among it all, ...
— The House on the Borderland • William Hope Hodgson
... and then the air-ship rose from the ground and ascended out of sight through a layer of clouds that hung some eight hundred feet above the high ground of the hills. Lieutenant Marston's orders were to remain out of sight for ...
— The Angel of the Revolution - A Tale of the Coming Terror • George Griffith
... seepages is usually found. Such localities should be avoided, or the field works placed above the line of springs or seepages. This formation is best developed in the plateau west of ——. Here it is covered by only a thin layer of soil, hard rock ...
— The Economic Aspect of Geology • C. K. Leith
... before sundown, and while we were cooking our supper the oblique rays of light made a dazzling glare on the white sand about us. The translucent red ball itself sank behind the brown stretches of corn field as we sat down to eat, and the warm layer of air that had rested over the water and our clean sand-bar grew fresher and smelled of the rank ironweed and sunflowers growing on the flatter shore. The river was brown and sluggish, like any other of the half-dozen streams that water the Nebraska corn lands. On one shore ...
— A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays • Willa Cather
... us, rising, Cross'd their foreheads and were gone; And o'er aisle and arch and cornice, Layer on layer, the night ...
— Verses and Translations • C. S. C.


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