Thesaurus: layer

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1. n. One who, or that which, lays.
2. n. 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.
3. n. A shoot or twig of a plant, not detached from the stock, laid under ground for growth or propagation.
4. n. An artificial oyster bed.
5. n. single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance
6. n. a relatively thin sheetlike expanse or region lying over or under another
7. n. an abstract place usually conceived as having depth
8. n. a hen that lays eggs
9. n. thin structure composed of a single thickness of cells
10. v. make or form a layer
11. That which is laid; a stratum; a bed; one thickness, course, orfold 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.