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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
layer
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a layer of clothing
▪ In very cold weather it’s good to wear several layers of clothing.
a layer of cloud
▪ The moon was shining through a thin layer of cloud.
a layer of dust
▪ I brushed away the thin layer of dust which covered the picture.
a layer of paint
▪ They removed the old layers of paint.
a layer of rock
▪ You can see six layers of rock in the cliff.
alternate layers
▪ Arrange the leeks and noodles in alternate layers.
ozone layer
▪ the hole in the ozone layer
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
protective
▪ It has also been proposed that H pylori ammonia production will lead to mucosal damage by denaturing the protective mucus layer.
▪ High up in the sky was a protective layer of gas that screened out dangerous ultraviolet rays from the sun.
▪ They replace essential moisture whilst forming a protective layer to hold it in.
▪ That was until Norman Tebbit spotted what he believed was the biggest chance of holing the impenetrable protective layer around the bill.
▪ Lifting the lid she flung aside the protective layers of tissue-paper.
single
▪ Cover a flat piece of hardboard with a single layer of flannelette of similar material.
▪ Arrange meat in a single layer on a roasting rack and place in preheated oven.
▪ Analysis was confined to those crypts whose entire lengths could be completely visualised and which contained a single layer of cells only.
▪ Refrigerate decorated cookies in a single layer.
▪ Pack in a single layer, overwrap and freeze.
▪ Add the peanut oil, then add the dumplings, pleated edge up, in a single layer.
▪ Place in a small, shallow baking dish in a single layer.
thick
▪ But the thick, hardened layers of dead skin sometimes press on the nerve, causing a burning sensation when you walk.
▪ Stoked by heat, they said, the thick layer of rock known as the mantle could be supple enough to flow.
▪ You weren't aware of the sky, just a thick layer of opaque cloud.
▪ Would not these storms coat solar collectors and solar-cell panels with a thick layer of dust, shutting them down?
▪ Normally, larger grains mean thicker layers of emulsion and coarser images.
▪ Peel parsnips, removing a / s-inch thick layer.
▪ The best way to do this is to wrap them in a thick layer of newspaper and hit them with a hammer.
▪ There is just not enough separability in cream to keep taking the thickest layer.
thin
▪ Typical failures exhibit a thin layer of wood covering the glued surface.
▪ Reduce heat to medium and simmer approximately 15 minutes, until wine evaporates to a thin layer.
▪ A thin layer of dust covered everything, but Jessamy didn't care.
▪ Such a thin heated layer will cool quickly.
▪ In went the filter plate, followed by a thin layer of filter matting.
▪ On top of that they poured a thin layer of silicone oil.
▪ Apply only in thin layers, coat on coat.
▪ But the anatomy provides only this thin layer of clues about where language is located.
top
▪ During this time, the top layer of your skin is shed to reveal a fresh new one.
▪ Each node's output in the middle layer is connected to just one node in the top layer.
▪ The top layer has six nodes, each with four inputs.
▪ The clay dries and cracks in the sun, and the top layers are blown off as dust.
▪ Then you remove the top layer, which will contain all the worms.
▪ As the top layers become dried out the animals move downward.
▪ If the top layer contains several nodes, then the device computes a more elaborate function of its input.
▪ Every month the top layer of your skin is replaced by a fresh new one.
■ NOUN
ozone
▪ The debate about the depletion of the ozone layer has been so far hampered by a scarcity of data.
▪ Since 1989 I have measured the ozone layer, solar ultraviolet and the clarity of the air over South-Central Texas.
▪ Most threatening of these for the marine ecosystem is the exposure to increased ultra-violet radiation through the depletion of the ozone layer.
▪ They help deplete the ozone layer, allowing ultraviolet rays to cause deadly skin cancers.
▪ There will be displays on acid rain, the ozone layer and global warming.
▪ A clear example can be seen in the case of the destruction of the ozone layer, causing the greenhouse effect.
▪ This ozone layer is important to society and the environment for two reasons.
▪ Apparently it has been recognised for over a decade that chlorine from chlorofluorocarbons may deplete the stratospheric ozone layer.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
layer upon layer/mile upon mile etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A layer of dust covered everything in the room.
▪ Sprinkle a layer of soil over the seeds.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Between the tank and the platform is a layer of tar paper to prevent the Tanalith from rusting the steel.
▪ David Couper has eliminated the deputy chief layer between him and his captains.
▪ Like the rust on a junkyard car, that boundary layer could get only so thick.
▪ Most of the food we buy has at least one layer of plastic incorporated in its packaging.
▪ Pack claw and body meat in alternate layers in small fire-proof pots.
▪ This 600 watt machined removed three layers of old paint from a veneered cabinet in minutes.
▪ Yet back in the primary visual cortex, the fourth layer is the most impressive of all.
II.verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The cliffs are layered with fossil remains.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Then for another song we layered and layered an E-Bow.
▪ Use half the cream to layer the sponges.
▪ With a maximum depth of 50 m and little opportunity for wind-stirring, the lake waters are strongly layered.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Layer

Layer \Lay"er\, n. [See Lay to cause to lie flat.]

  1. One who, or that which, lays.

  2. [Prob. a corruption of lair.] 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. A shoot or twig of a plant, not detached from the stock, laid under ground for growth or propagation.

  4. An artificial oyster bed.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
layer

late 14c., "one who or that lays" (especially stones, "a mason"), agent noun from lay (v.). Passive sense of "that which is laid over a surface" first recorded 1610s, but because earliest English use was in cookery, this is perhaps from French liue "binding," used of a thickened sauce. Layer cake attested from 1881.

layer

1832, from layer (n.). Related: Layered; layering.

Wiktionary
layer

n. 1 A single thickness of some material covering a surface. 2 # An item of clothing wear under or over another. 3 A (usually) horizontal deposit; a stratum. 4 A person who lays things, such as tiles. 5 A mature female bird, insect, etc. that is able to lay eggs. 6 A hen kept to lay eggs. 7 A shoot of a plant, laid underground for growth. vb. 1 (context ambitransitive English) to cut or divide (something) into layers 2 (context ambitransitive English) to arrange (something) in layers.

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WordNet
layer

  1. n. single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance; "slices of hard-boiled egg on a bed of spinach" [syn: bed]

  2. a relatively thin sheetlike expanse or region lying over or under another

  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]

  4. a hen that lays eggs

  5. thin structure composed of a single thickness of cells

  6. v. make or form a layer; "layer the different colored sands"

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Wikipedia
Layer

Layer may refer to:

  • A layer of archaeological deposits in an Excavation
  • A layer hen, a hen raised to produce eggs
  • Layering, a technique for plant propagation
  • Layered hair, a popular hair-styling technique
  • Layered clothing, the wearing of multiple layers of clothing for practical or fashion purposes
  • Layer de la Haye is a village in Essex, England
Layer (object-oriented design)

In object-oriented design, a layer is a group of classes that have the same set of link-time module dependencies to other modules. In other words, a layer is a group of reusable components that are reusable in similar circumstances. In programming languages, the layer distinction is often expressed as "import" dependencies between software modules.

Layers are often arranged in a tree-form hierarchy, with dependency relationships as links between the layers. Dependency relationships between layers are often either inheritance, composition or aggregation relationships, but other kinds of dependencies can also be used.

Layers is an architectural pattern described in many books, for example Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture

Layer (electronics)

A layer is the deposition of molecules on a substrate or base ( glass, ceramic, semiconductor, or plastic/ bioplastic) .

High temperature substrates includes stainless steel and polyimide film (expensive) and PET (cheap).

A depth of less than one micrometre is generally called a thin film while a depth greater than one micrometre is called a coating.

A web is a flexible substrate.

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Usage examples of "layer".

For instance, as dust and gas from the outer layers of nearby ordinary stars fall toward the event horizon of a black hole, they are accelerated to nearly the speed of light.

In contact with these, but occupying a separate layer, are the ends of small afferent nerve cells.

Although he suspected that her gentle massaging was only aggravating the stain, he gave himself over to the feel of her fingers stroking him through the thin layer of his clothing.

Tuff is much softer than basalt and andesite, and over the years this exposed layer has eroded away, leaving us with our wonderful hotel.

But that will be merely a skeleton that will require many layers of annotation to give it meaning.

Thus, one layer of the arachnoid envelopes the brain and spinal cord, and the other lines the dura mater.

The space between the internal and the external layers of the arachnoid membrane of the brain is much smaller than that enclosed by the corresponding layers of the arachnoid membrane of the spinal column.

Hartmann went further, however, arguing that there were three layers of the unconscious.

In Nature we often find these basins with the equivalent of the sandy layer in the model just described rising hundreds of feet above the valley, so that the artesian well, so named from the village of Artois, near Paris, where the first opening of this nature was made, may yield a stream which will mount upward, especially where piped, to a great height.

This layered imaging technique, far more precise than old-fashioned X-raying, allowed one to determine the age of the victim to the decade, judging by the hardening in the articular cartilage and in the blood vessels, since medicine, at the time these people lived, had not yet learned how to halt the changes termed sclerosis.

They asperged the body with water and Tibor said prayers for the memory of the dead sailor before lighting the dry reeds he had woven through the lower layers of the pyre.

Perhaps the solar ultraviolet light could be absorbed by an atmospheric layer of pulverized asteroidal or surface debris injected in carefully titrated amounts above the CFCs.

If anything, it appeared dormant and atrophic, with a thin proliferative layer, few glands, and decreased vascularity.

SOCKETS LAYER A protocol developed by Netscape that provides authentication of both client and server in a secure communication on the internet.

Bracken fern, rank and tall, Chorizema and snake vine, Bauera with the always blooming pink flowerets, and Tetratheca, with the layer of tangled twigs, made the going difficult.