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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
strata
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
different
▪ Thus, different strata in such societies may spend their money on rather different things.
▪ The deep divisions of intellectual work in the university kept all of us moving along different strata.
▪ Similarly, increased odds ratios were found for different age strata.
▪ On the other, different strata among the middle classes found much to object to in the statusquo.
low
▪ Armies so non-national and drawn so largely from the lowest strata of the social pyramid were prone to lose men by desertion.
▪ Firstly, members of the lower strata may become totally demoralized.
▪ In a meritocracy, talent and ability are efficiently syphoned out of the lower strata.
▪ They may despise the lower strata whose members may well find such behaviour offensive.
▪ His administration knows that, and is doing what it can to keep the support of the lower strata.
social
▪ Other breeds of goats may well be different but my Goldens are very kind to each other and have a strong social strata.
▪ From her research, Eva Rosenfeld had identified two distinct social strata which are clearly recognized by members.
▪ They will share a similar life style which to some degree will distinguish them from members of other social strata.
▪ This belief gained wide currency among Sinhalese of all social strata in the twentieth century.
▪ It is possible for social inequality to exist without social strata.
▪ They focus on social strata rather than social inequality in general.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But just below the layer of gently folded limestones that contains the earliest of the invertebrate fossils, the strata change radically.
▪ If the differences between strata are maximised and the variations within them minimised, the benefits from stratification can be considerable.
▪ Similarly, increased odds ratios were found for different age strata.
▪ The strata at Olduvai make an intriguing window into the past.
▪ The strata identified in the class approach are called classes, the second key concept.
▪ The class approach Does the same fundamental value separate virtually all people in a society into a few distinct strata?
▪ The working-class occupations may be divided into skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled strata, and life-chances broadly differ according to the skill level.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Strata

Strata \Stra"ta\, n., pl. of Stratum.

Strata

Stratum \Stra"tum\, n.; pl. E. Stratums, L. Strata. The latter is more common. [L., from sternere, stratum, to spread; akin to Gr. ? to spread, strew. See Strew, and cf. Consternation, Estrade, Prostrate, Stratus, Street.]

  1. (Geol.) A bed of earth or rock of one kind, formed by natural causes, and consisting usually of a series of layers, which form a rock as it lies between beds of other kinds. Also used figuratively.

  2. A bed or layer artificially made; a course.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
strata

c.1700, plural of stratum.

Wiktionary
strata

n. (plural of stratum English)

WordNet
stratum
  1. n. one of several parallel layers of material arranged one on top of another (such as a layer of tissue or cells in an organism)

  2. 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, layer]

  3. [also: strata (pl)]

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Wikipedia
Strata (novel)
For discussion regarding the term strata as used in geology, see stratum. See also Strata (disambiguation).

Strata is a science fiction novel by Terry Pratchett. Published in 1981, it is one of Pratchett's first novels and one of the few purely science fiction novels he has written, along with The Dark Side of the Sun and the The Nome Trilogy.

Although it takes place in a different fictional universe and is more science fiction than fantasy, it could be said to be a kind of precursor to the Discworld novels, as it also features a flat Earth similar to the Discworld. It has been called a "preconsideration" of Discworld, though the plot and characters are modelled on (or parodies of) the novel Ringworld by Larry Niven.

Strata (band)

Strata is an Alternative Metal band from Campbell, California formed in 2000. They released two full-length albums with Wind-up Records, before disbanding after the departure of vocalist Eric Victorino on 19 January 2008. In 2014 the band reunited, minus Adrian Robinson on drums, replaced by longtime friend of the band Andy Bailey.

Strata (disambiguation)

Strata is the plural of stratum (the geological formation); for other uses in which it can be used in the singular or plural, see Stratum (disambiguation).

Strata may refer to:

Strata (comics)

Strata is a fictional extraterrestrial police officer published by DC Comics. She first appears in Invasion! #2 (February 1989), and was created by Keith Giffen, Bill Mantlo, Todd McFarlane.

Strata (Strata album)

Strata is the self-titled debut album by the Californian music group Strata. The album was released on July 27, 2004 via Wind-Up Records. The songs "Never There (She Stabs)" and "The Panic" were released as singles, both having music videos. The song "Piece by Piece" was featured on the soundtrack to the 2004 movie The Punisher. The album is largely a re-recorded version of their second independent album, When It's All Burning.

Strata (Robert Rich and Steve Roach album)

Strata (1990) is a collaborative album by the U.S. ambient musicians Robert Rich and Steve Roach. Robert Rich's influence on this album is strong, with complicated mixes featuring various acoustic sound sources and Rich's own brand of organic synthesis called "glurp". The two artists collaborated again (with the credits in the reverse order) on their 1992 album Soma.

There is a strong sense of surrealism throughout the album. The seventh track's title refers to The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dalí, who died in 1989 when recording of this album began, and to whom the piece is dedicated.

Strata (food)

Strata or stratta is a family of layered casserole dishes in American cuisine.

The most common modern variant is a brunch dish, similar to a quiche or frittata, made from a mixture which mainly consists of bread, eggs and cheese. It may also include meat or vegetables. The usual preparation requires the bread to be layered with the filling in order to produce layers ( strata). It was popularized in the 1984 Silver Palate Good Times Cookbook by Julee Rosso and Sheila Lukins.

Other recipes merely require that the ingredients are mixed together, like a savory bread pudding. A beaten egg mixture is then poured over the ingredients. The dish requires a rest of anywhere between one hour and overnight before it is baked. It is served warm.

Strata (company)

Strata Marketing Inc. is a Chicago, Illinois-based software company involved in connecting media buyers and sellers. It is owned by Comcast. As of 2010, it processes about $50 billion worth of media buys annually.

Strata (Matthew Shipp album)

Strata is an album by American jazz pianist Matthew Shipp which was recorded in 1997 and released on the Swiss hatOLOGY label.

The album features the Horn Quartet, a chamber-jazz group without drums composed of Shipp and three members of the band Other Dimensions In Music: trumpeter Roy Campbell, multi-instrumentalist Daniel Carter and bassist William Parker. Two weeks before, Shipp played as guest on Other Dimensions In Music live album Time Is of the Essence Is Beyond Time.

Strata (video game)

Strata is a puzzle game developed by Minneapolis-based developer Graveck and initially released on September 12, 2013. It was accepted for inclusion on Steam via Steam Greenlight on May 29, 2014.

Usage examples of "strata".

According to Moir, the triangular pieces of fossilized whale bone discovered in the strata below the Coralline Crag might have once been used as spear points.

What if, for example, fossils of anatomically modern humans turned up in strata older than those in which Dryopithecus were found?

As we shall see in Chapter 7, scientists of the nineteenth century made several discoveries of skeletal remains of anatomically modern human beings in strata of Pliocene age.

And in making such judgments, we also have to depend on reports concerning the chemical and other physical properties of the strata in which the fossil was allegedly found.

As we will see in the course of this book, investigators have sometimes observed artifacts in certain strata, but never reported this because they did not believe the artifacts could possibly be of that age.

Louis Bourgeois, a clergyman who had also earned a reputation as a distinguished paleontologist, carefully searched the strata at St.

But because Java man was found in Middle Pleistocene strata, the extensive evidence for tool-making hominids in the far earlier Pliocene and Miocene periods no longer received much serious attention.

But those free from such prejudices might wonder whether Warren had actually discovered, in the Eocene strata of Essex, a genuine implement.

They concluded that the flints from the base of the Red Crag near Ipswich were in undisturbed strata, at least Pliocene in age.

Furthermore, as described in Chapters 7 and 12, fossil skeletal remains of human beings of the fully modern type have been discovered by scientists in strata at least as old as the lower levels of Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.

They had a patina similar in color to the rocks in the strata of which they formed a part.

Deeper in his pit, at a depth of about 14 feet in Early Miocene strata, Bourgeois discovered many flint tools.

I have personally extracted from the undisturbed strata at Puy de Boudieu many such unquestionable artifacts.

An unconformity is a lack of continuity in deposition between strata in contact with each other, corresponding to a period of nondeposition, weathering, or, as in this case, erosion.

On the basis of these two relatively inconsequential observations, Romero suggested that all the strata exposed in the barranca had been subjected to extreme dislocations.