I 1. noun 1) слой, пласт; наслоение 2) bot. отводок 3) разрез (чертежа) 2. v. 1) наслаивать, класть пластами 2) bot. разводить отводками II noun 1) кладчик, укладчик 2) несушка; this hen is a good layer - эта курица хорошо несется ...
1. слой; пласт; ряд a layer of clay —- слой глины layer ploughing —- с-х. ярусная вспашка half-value layer —- слой половинного ослабления 2. разрез (чертежа) 3. сад. отводок, стелющийся побег 4. наслаивать, накладывать пластами 5. сад. размножать растения отводками 6. кладчик, укладчик 7. воен. наводчик 8. несушка this hen is a good layer —- эта курица хорошо несется ...
n. & v. --n. 1 a thickness of matter, esp. one of several, covering a surface. 2 a person or thing that lays. 3 a hen that lays eggs. 4 a shoot fastened down to take root while attached to the parent plant. --v.tr. 1 a arrange in layers. b cut (hair) in layers. 2 propagate (a plant) as a layer. Phrases and idioms layer-out a person who prepares a corpse for burial. Derivatives layered adj. Etymology: ME f. LAY(1) + -ER(1) ...
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I. noun Date: 13th century 1. one that lays (as a worker who lays brick or a hen that lays eggs) 2. a. one thickness, course, or fold laid or lying over or under another b. stratum c. horizon 2 3. a. a branch or shoot of a plant that roots while still attached to the parent plant b. a plant developed by ~ing • ~ed adjective II. verb Date: 1832 transitive verb 1. to propagate (a plant) by means of ~s 2. a. to place as a ~ b. to place a ~ on top of pancakes ~ed with butter and syrup c. to form or arrange in ~s intransitive verb 1. a. to separate into ~s b. to form out of superimposed ~s 2. of a plant to form roots where a stem comes in contact with the ground ...
(layers, layering, layered) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. A layer of a material or substance is a quantity or piece of it that covers a surface or that is between two other things. A fresh layer of snow covered the street... Arrange all the vegetables except the potatoes in layers. N-COUNT: usu with supp, oft N of n 2. If something such as a system or an idea has many layers, it has many different levels or parts. ...an astounding ten layers of staff between the factory worker and the chief executive... Critics and the public puzzle out the layers of meaning in his photos. N-COUNT 3. If you layer something, you arrange it in layers. Layer the potatoes, asparagus and salmon in the tin... VERB: V n ...
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~1 n 1 an amount of a substance that covers all of a surface + of (A thick layer of dust lay on the furniture.) 2 one of several levels of substances lying one on top of another + of (a thin layer of coal between two layers of rock | He pulled off layer upon layer of clothing.) (- see also ozone layer) 3 one of several different levels in a complicated organization, system, set of ideas etc + of (There are many layers of meaning to be discovered in the poem. | major changes that have eliminated two layers of management) 4 multi-layered/single-layered etc having a lot of layers, one layer etc ~2 v 1 to make a layer of something or put something down in layers (potatoes layered with cheese) 2 to cut someone's hair in layers rather than all to the same length ...
- M.E., "one who or that lays," passive sense of "that which is laid" first recorded 1615, from lay (v.). But since earliest Eng. use was in cooking, perhaps from Fr. liue "binding," used of a thickened sauce. ...