Dictionary Entry
layer
layer is a 5-letter English word with 10 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: One who, or that which, lays. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 8 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
One who, or that which, lays.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
A shoot or twig of a plant, not detached from the stock, laid under ground for growth or propagation.
- 4noun
An artificial oyster bed.
- 5noun
thin structure composed of a single thickness of cells
- 6noun
a hen that lays eggs
- 7noun
single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance
"slices of hard-boiled egg on a bed of spinach"
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- 8noun
an abstract place usually conceived as having depth
"a good actor communicates on several levels"
"a simile has at least two layers of meaning"
- 9noun
a relatively thin sheetlike expanse or region lying over or under another
- 10verb
make or form a layer
"layer the different colored sands"
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