layer

Etymology 1
Appears at first glance to be from, , equivalent to. In which case, ultimately identical to the other word below that is also spelt layer.

However, this word layer (referring to a thickness of a material covering a surface) has long been argued to be from a respelling of an obsolete sense of the word that was once used by farmers, which had to do with soil. The connecting sense between the usual meaning of and the specialised farming meaning was: an area where cows typically rest, the ground being fertilised by their waste. Related to,.

Noun

 * 1) A single thickness of some material covering a surface.
 * 2) An item of clothing worn under or over another.
 * 3) A (usually) horizontal deposit; a stratum.
 * 4) One of the items in a hierarchy.
 * 5)  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.
 * 6)  One of the seven network switch pieces in the Open Systems Interconnection model: application, presentation, session, transport, network, data link, and physical.
 * 1) One of the items in a hierarchy.
 * 2)  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.
 * 3)  One of the seven network switch pieces in the Open Systems Interconnection model: application, presentation, session, transport, network, data link, and physical.
 * 1)  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.
 * 2)  One of the seven network switch pieces in the Open Systems Interconnection model: application, presentation, session, transport, network, data link, and physical.
 * 1)  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.
 * 2)  One of the seven network switch pieces in the Open Systems Interconnection model: application, presentation, session, transport, network, data link, and physical.

Synonyms

 * (obsolete)

Translations

 * Adyghe: пцум
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: طَبَقَة
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani:, ,
 * Bashkir: ҡат, ҡатлам
 * Belarusian: слой, пласт
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Dungan: цын
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: kiht
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ფენა, შრე
 * German: ,
 * Greek:, , ,
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Ingrian: kerros
 * Irish: sraith
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh: қабат, қат, қаттам
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz: катмар, ,
 * Lao: ຊັ້ນ
 * Latvian: slānis
 * Lithuanian: sluoksnis
 * Macedonian: слој
 * Malay:
 * Maori: apa, paparanga, papanga
 * Marathi: थर
 * Mongolian: ,
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Pashto:
 * Persian: ,
 * Plautdietsch: Schicht
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: сло̑ј
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: vrstva
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: warsta
 * Upper Sorbian: woršta
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: suson
 * Tajik: қабат, табақа
 * Tatar: ,
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen: gatlak, gat
 * Ukrainian: шар, верства́, пласт, слой
 * Urdu: پرت
 * Uyghur: قاتلام, قات, قەۋەت
 * Uzbek:, ,
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:


 * Bashkir: ҡат
 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: vaatekerros,
 * French:
 * German: Bekleidungsschicht, ,
 * Italian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Portuguese:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:


 * Bashkir: ҡатлам
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Ido:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Macedonian: наслојка, наслага
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Tagalog: saray
 * Turkish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:

Verb

 * 1)  To cut or divide into layers.
 * 2)  To arrange in layers.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: разслоявам
 * Esperanto: tavoligi
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Macedonian: раслојува
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Polish: cieniować
 * Russian: ,


 * Bulgarian:
 * Esperanto: tavoligi
 * Finnish: kerrostaa,
 * German: ,
 * Macedonian: наслојува
 * Maori: tāpatupatu, whakamātā, whakapapa
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Polish: układać warstwami
 * Russian: ,
 * Turkish:

Noun

 * 1) A person who lays anything, such as tiles or a wager.
 * 2) A mature female bird, insect, etc. that is able to lay eggs.
 * 3) A hen kept to lay eggs.
 * 4) A shoot of a plant, laid underground for growth.
 * 1) A hen kept to lay eggs.
 * 2) A shoot of a plant, laid underground for growth.

Derived terms

 * minelayer
 * net layer
 * tracklayer

Translations

 * Azerbaijani: düzücü
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: laatoittaja
 * German: Leger,
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Swedish: takläggare, golvläggare


 * Finnish: munija
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:


 * Bashkir: йомортҡа һалған / һалыусы тауыҡ
 * Bulgarian: носачка
 * Dutch: legster
 * Finnish: munituskana
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Italian: ovaiola
 * Macedonian: несилка
 * Norman: pond'rêsse
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: egglegger, verpehøne
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: botadeira
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: gallina ponedora,
 * Swedish: äggläggare, värphöna
 * Telugu: పొదుగుట
 * Ukrainian: несу́чка, несю́чка


 * Bulgarian: присадка
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: Absenker, ,
 * Macedonian: изданок
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: skudd
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, , avsugare, sugymp
 * Walloon: