layer
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Appears at first glance to be from Middle English leyer, leyare (“a layer of stones or bricks”), equivalent to lay + -er. In which case, ultimately identical to etymology 2 below. For the pronunciation compare prayer.
However, this word layer (referring to a thickness of a material covering a surface) has also been argued to be from a respelling of an obsolete sense of the word lair that was once used by farmers, which had to do with soil. The connecting sense between the usual meaning of lair and the specialised farming meaning was: an area where cows typically rest, the ground being fertilised by their waste. Related to lie, ledger.
Base: lay
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: layers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: layers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: layering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: layered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: layered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A single thickness of some material covering a surface.
pos: noun
examples: Wrap the loaf in two layers of aluminum foil before putting it in the oven.
After the first coat of paint dried, he applied another layer.
gloss: A single thickness of some material covering a surface.
pos: noun
examples: It's cold now but it will warm up this afternoon. Make sure you wear layers.
gloss: A (usually) horizontal deposit; a stratum.
pos: noun
examples: I find seven-layer cake a bit too rich.
Sometimes, the underlying layers are exposed by erosion, revealing the story of the rocks like an open book.
gloss: One of the items in a hierarchy.
pos: noun
examples: mired in layers of deceit
Right above the database access layer sits a number cruncher that performs any calculations that a particular request may require, such as computing a standard deviation. In many cases, this layer just forwards raw numbers.
gloss: One in a stack of (initially transparent) drawing surfaces that comprise an image; used to keep elements of an image separate so that they can be modified independently from one another.
pos: noun
gloss: One of the seven network switch pieces in the Open Systems Interconnection model: application, presentation, session, transport, network, data link, and physical.
pos: noun
gloss: An alternative keymap accessed through a modifier key or toggle.
pos: noun
gloss: To cut or divide into layers.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
gloss: To arrange in layers.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: Layer the ribbons on top of one another to make an attractive pattern.
Synonyms: lay
Derived words: abscission layer
absciss layer
adlayer
alpha layer
basal layer
baselayer
bilayer
biolayer
boundary layer
creamy layer
Crookes layer
deep scattering layer
delayer
D layer
Dua's layer
epilayer
epitaxial layer
F layer
fog layer
germ layer
graphene layer
gyrolayer
Heaviside layer
hemilayer
heterolayer
hidden layer
interlayer
intralayer
Kennelly-Heaviside layer
Knudsen layer
layer 2 tunnelling protocol
layer 8
layerable
layerage
layer-cake
layer cake
layer-cake federalism
layer cake federalism
layerize
layer two tunnelling protocol
layer up
layerwise
Lazarus layer
Malpighian layer
marzipan layer
mesolayer
metalayer
microlayer
monolayer
multilayer
nanolayer
orchestration layer
OSI layer
OSI layer 8
overlayer
ozone layer
pentalayer
pipe-layer
plexiform layer
pre-salt layer
Purkinje layer
relayer
seismogenic layer
semantic layer
seven-layer cake
seven-layer dip
seven-layer salad
sublayer
superlayer
surface boundary layer
surface layer
tetralayer
thickening layer
thin layer chromatography
thin-layer chromatography
transition layer
tribolayer
trilayer
underlayer
stonelayer
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: shtresë
lang: Arabic
word: طَبَقَة
roman: ṭabaqa
lang: Armenian
word: շերտ
roman: šert
lang: Azerbaijani
word: təbəqə
lang: Azerbaijani
word: qat
lang: Azerbaijani
word: lay
lang: Bashkir
word: ҡат
roman: qat
lang: Bashkir
word: ҡатлам
roman: qatlam
lang: Belarusian
word: слой
roman: sloj
lang: Belarusian
word: пласт
roman: plast
lang: Bengali
word: পরত
roman: porot
lang: Bulgarian
word: слой
roman: sloj
lang: Bulgarian
word: пласт
roman: plast
lang: Burmese
word: အထပ်
roman: a.htap
lang: Catalan
word: capa
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 層 /层
roman: cang⁴
lang: Chinese
word: цын
roman: cɨn
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 層 /层
roman: céng
lang: West Circassian
word: пцум
roman: pcʷum
lang: Czech
word: vrstva
lang: Danish
word: lag
lang: Dutch
word: laag
lang: Esperanto
word: tavolo
lang: Estonian
word: kiht
lang: Finnish
word: kerros
lang: French
word: couche
lang: Galician
word: capa
lang: Georgian
word: ფენა
roman: pena
lang: Georgian
word: შრე
roman: šre
lang: German
word: Lage
lang: German
word: Schicht
lang: Greek
word: στρώση
roman: strósi
lang: Greek
word: στρώμα
roman: stróma
lang: Greek
word: στιβάδα
roman: stiváda
lang: Greek
word: διάστρωση
roman: diástrosi
lang: Hebrew
word: רוֹבֶד
roman: róved
lang: Hebrew
word: שִׁכְבָה
roman: shikhvá
lang: Hindi
word: परत
roman: parat
lang: Hindi
word: तह
roman: tah
lang: Hindi
word: तबक़ा
roman: tabqā
lang: Hindi
word: तबका
roman: tabkā
lang: Hungarian
word: réteg
lang: Icelandic
word: lag
lang: Ido
word: strato
lang: Ingrian
word: kerros
lang: Irish
word: sraith
lang: Italian
word: strato
lang: Japanese
word: 層
roman: sō
lang: Japanese
word: 膜
roman: maku
lang: Kazakh
word: қабат
roman: qabat
lang: Kazakh
word: қат
roman: qat
lang: Kazakh
word: қаттам
roman: qattam
lang: Khmer
word: ជាន់
roman: cŏən
lang: Korean
word: 층
roman: cheung
lang: Kyrgyz
word: катмар
roman: katmar
lang: Kyrgyz
word: кабат
roman: kabat
lang: Kyrgyz
word: кат
roman: kat
lang: Lao
word: ຊັ້ນ
roman: san
lang: Latvian
word: slānis
lang: Lithuanian
word: sluoksnis
lang: Macedonian
word: слој
roman: sloj
lang: Malay
word: lapisan
lang: Māori
word: paparanga
lang: Māori
word: papanga
lang: Māori
word: apa
lang: Marathi
word: थर
roman: thar
lang: Mongolian
word: давхарга
roman: davxarga
lang: Mongolian
word: үе
roman: üje
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: lag
lang: Pashto
word: طبقه
roman: tabaqá
lang: Dari
word: لَایَه
roman: lāya
lang: Dari
word: طَبَقَه
roman: tabaqa
lang: Iranian Persian
word: لایِه
roman: lâye
lang: Iranian Persian
word: طَبَقِه
roman: tabaġe
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Schicht
lang: Polish
word: warstwa
lang: Portuguese
word: camada
lang: Romanian
word: strat
lang: Romanian
word: așternut
lang: Romanian
word: acoperământ
lang: Russian
word: слой
roman: sloj
lang: Russian
word: пласт
roman: plast
lang: Sanskrit
word: धातु
roman: dhātu
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: сло̑ј
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: slȏj
lang: Slovak
word: vrstva
lang: Slovene
word: plast
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: warsta
lang: Upper Sorbian
word: woršta
lang: Spanish
word: capa
lang: Spanish
word: tongada
lang: Spanish
word: tonga
lang: Spanish
word: tanda
lang: Swedish
word: lager
lang: Swedish
word: skikt
lang: Tagalog
word: suson
lang: Tajik
word: қабат
roman: qabat
lang: Tajik
word: табақа
roman: tabaqa
lang: Tatar
word: катлам
roman: qatlam
lang: Tatar
word: кат
roman: qat
lang: Telugu
word: పొర
roman: pora
lang: Thai
word: ชั้น
roman: chán
lang: Turkish
word: katman
lang: Turkish
word: tabaka
lang: Turkmen
word: gatlak
lang: Turkmen
word: gat
lang: Ukrainian
word: шар
roman: šar
lang: Ukrainian
word: верства́
roman: verstvá
lang: Ukrainian
word: пласт
roman: plast
lang: Ukrainian
word: слой
roman: sloj
lang: Urdu
word: پَرَت
roman: parat
lang: Urdu
word: طَبَقَہ
roman: tabaqa
lang: Uyghur
word: قاتلام
roman: qatlam
lang: Uyghur
word: قات
roman: qat
lang: Uyghur
word: قەۋەت
roman: qewet
lang: Uzbek
word: qatlam
lang: Uzbek
word: qat
lang: Uzbek
word: qavat
lang: Vietnamese
word: lớp
lang: Welsh
word: haen