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"