Online English Dictionary

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

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"

4. a hen that lays eggs

5. thin structure composed of a single thickness of cells

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

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