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Meanings of layer in English

Portuguese
estrato

An amount of a certain material spread out relatively even over a surface; often seen as part of a structure composed of several similar or dissimilar such.

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        estrato
        Portuguese
        calceteiro
        Catalan
        capa
        Spanish
        capa

        Single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance.

              calceteiro
              Spanish
              layer

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                    layer

                    A hen that is kept for its eggs.

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                          Examples for "laying hen"
                          Examples for "laying hen"
                          1
                          Her virtue was about as important as the spots on a laying hen.
                          Four dukes and a devil
                          2
                          You know a laying hen from an old cock, I suppose?
                          Hurricane Hurry
                          3
                          The food requirements of a laying hen are very like those of a growing chicken.
                          The Dollar Hen
                          4
                          By day 35 it looks more like a weightlifter on steroids and dwarfs the egg- laying hen.
                          The Guardian
                          5
                          Several antibodies to antigens that are frequently expressed in human ovarian cancer were cross-reactive in the laying hen.
                          Pubmed
                          Usage of layer in English
                          1
                          These second layer regulations outnumber the 'made in Parliament' top layer laws.
                          Radio NZ
                          2
                          However, deposition of few-layer SnS 2 films has remained a great challenge.
                          Pubmed
                          3
                          Every year a new layer was added, or should have been added.
                          King Rat
                          4
                          A simulation using a layer model yields very good agreement with experiment.
                          Pubmed
                          5
                          Brexit adds another layer of governance risk onto some already risky situations.
                          Reuters
                          6
                          One layer down and the city has become an entirely different place.
                          The Guardian
                          7
                          Of course, emoji weren't the first attempt to add an emotional layer.
                          Wired
                          8
                          Hormones layer the experience with with context-thisperson makes you feel good.
                          Wired
                          9
                          In your prepared oven dish, add mince to form your first layer.
                          The South African
                          10
                          I suspected a second layer of encryption, a code within a code.
                          World war z: an oral history of the zombie war
                          11
                          Finally, there's the Story layer -everything assembled in its final form.
                          Wired
                          12
                          The speed humps and one-way systems added a new layer of trickery.
                          The water room
                          13
                          Betraying him was complicated enough without this whole new layer of debt.
                          Mockingjay
                          14
                          This further suggests that layer farms need to improve their biosecurity practices.
                          Pubmed
                          15
                          We find spontaneous activity correlated among networks of layer 5 pyramidal cells.
                          Pubmed
                          16
                          There should be only one layer of the pigeons in the mould.
                          Miss Parloa's New Cook Book
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                          Translations for layer
                          Catalan
                          capa
                          Spanish
                          capalayer
                          Layer through the time
                          Layer across language varieties
                          South Africa
                          Common
                          Australia
                          Common
                          United States of America
                          Common
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