layer

Nouns

  • (n) single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance
    • slices of hard-boiled egg on a bed of spinach
    bed,
  • (n) a relatively thin sheetlike expanse or region lying over or under another
  • (n) 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
    stratum, level,
  • (n) a hen that lays eggs
  • (n) thin structure composed of a single thickness of cells

Verbs

  • (v) make or form a layer
    • layer the different colored sands

Synonyms

bed stratum level

Words of close approximity

layby Layia layup
layer cake layered