- (n.) Correction or alteration by writing between the lines; interlineation.
- (p.pr.&vb.n.) of Interline.
Interlining and Layer
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
noun
- Single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance.
- usage: "slices of hard-boiled egg on a bed of spinach"
- synonyms: bed
- A relatively thin sheetlike expanse or region lying over or under another.
- An abstract place usually conceived as having depth.
- usage: "a good actor communicates on several levels"; "a simile has at least two layers of meaning"; "the mind functions on many strata simultaneously"
- A hen that lays eggs.
- Thin structure composed of a single thickness of cells.
verb
- Make or form a layer.
- usage: "layer the different colored sands"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (n.) A shoot or twig of a plant, not detached from the stock, laid under ground for growth or propagation.
- (n.) One who or that which, lays.
- (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.
- (n.) An artificial oyster bed.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary