LAYER
\lˈe͡ɪə], \lˈeɪə], \l_ˈeɪ_ə]\
Definitions of LAYER
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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thin structure composed of a single thickness of cells
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a hen that lays eggs
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a relatively thin sheetlike expanse or region lying over or under another
By Princeton University
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thin structure composed of a single thickness of cells
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a hen that lays eggs
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a relatively thin sheetlike expanse or region lying over or under another
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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An article of furniture to sleep or take rest in or on; a couch. Specifically: A sack or mattress, filled with some soft material, in distinction from the bedstead on which it is placed (as, a feather bed), or this with the bedclothes added. In a general sense, any thing or place used for sleeping or reclining on or in, as a quantity of hay, straw, leaves, or twigs.
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One who, or that which, lays.
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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.
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A shoot or twig of a plant, not detached from the stock, laid under ground for growth or propagation.
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An artificial oyster bed.
By Oddity Software
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An article of furniture to sleep or take rest in or on; a couch. Specifically: A sack or mattress, filled with some soft material, in distinction from the bedstead on which it is placed (as, a feather bed), or this with the bedclothes added. In a general sense, any thing or place used for sleeping or reclining on or in, as a quantity of hay, straw, leaves, or twigs.
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One who, or that which, lays.
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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.
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A shoot or twig of a plant, not detached from the stock, laid under ground for growth or propagation.
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An artificial oyster bed.
By Noah Webster.
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One that lays; a stratum, row, or bed; one thickness; as, a layer of earth; a runner of a plant fastened down and covered with earth.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Stratum, a sheet of some substance lying upon another, distinguished therefrom by a difference in texture or color or simply not continuous with it.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By Daniel Lyons
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A single horizontal thickness, as of strata.
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A shoot laid in the ground to take root and form a new plant.
By James Champlin Fernald
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One who lays; a stratum; a bed; an undetached shoot laid under ground for propagation.
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To propagate by layers. Layer out, one who expends money; a steward. Layer up, one who deposits for future use; a treasurer.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A bed; a stratum; a coat, as of paint; a row or course, as of bricks; a shoot or twig of a plant for propagating.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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