layer
1. single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance (Freq. 8)
- slices of hard-boiled egg on a bed of spinach
• Syn:
bed
• Hypernyms:
artifact, artefact
• Hyponyms:
backing, mount, blanket, course, row,
row, interlayer, lift, overlay, ply,
tier, wall
• Part Holonyms:
laminate
2. a relatively thin sheetlike expanse or region lying over or under another (Freq. 1)
• Hypernyms:
region, part
• Hyponyms:
stratum, asthenosphere, chromosphere, crust, Earth's crust,
exosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, geosphere, lower mantle, mantle,
mesosphere, ozone layer, ozonosphere, stratosphere, surface, Earth's surface,
thermosphere, tropopause, troposphere, upper mantle, cell wall, snow
3. 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, stratum
• Hypernyms:
place
4. a hen that lays eggs
• Derivationally related forms:
lay
• Hypernyms:
hen, biddy
5. thin structure composed of a single thickness of cells
• Hypernyms:
structure, anatomical structure, complex body part, bodily structure, body structure
• Hyponyms:
blastoderm, germinal disc, blastodisc, germinal area, hypodermis
make or form a layer (Freq. 3)
- layer the different colored sands
• Hypernyms:
shape, form, work, mold, mould, forge
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
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