1. n. A single thickness of some material covering a surface.
Wrap the loaf in two layers of aluminum foil before putting it in the oven.
After the first coat of paint dried, he applied another layer.
2. n. An item of clothing worn under or over another.
It's cold now but it will warm up this afternoon. Make sure you wear layers.
3. n. A (usually) horizontal deposit; a stratum.
I find seven-layer cake a bit too rich.
4. n. One of the items in a hierarchy.
mired in layers of deceit
5. v. to cut or divide (something) into layers
6. v. to arrange (something) in layers.
Layer the ribbons on top of one another to make an attractive pattern.
7. n. A person who lays things, such as tiles.
8. n. A mature female bird, insect, etc. that is able to lay eggs.
When dealing with an infestation of headlice, the first step is to eliminate the layers.
9. n. A hen kept to lay eggs.
10. n. A shoot of a plant, laid underground for growth.
coat
1. n. Manteau, veste.
2. n. Pelage, fourrure, robe d'un animal.
3. n. Couche (de peinture, etc).
4. n. Pelure (d'orange, etc).
5. v. Couvrir (d'un habit), revêtir, enduire, enrober (de peinture).
coat
1. n. An outer garment covering the upper torso and arms.Wp
2. n. A covering of material, such as paint.Wp
3. n. The fur or feathers covering an animal's skin.Wp
When the dog shed its coat, it left hair all over the furniture and the carpet.
4. n. (nautical) Canvas painted with thick tar and secured round a mast or bowsprit to prevent water running down the sides into the hold (now made of rubber or leather).
5. n. (obsolete) A petticoat.
6. n. The habit or vesture of an order of men, indicating the order or office; cloth.
7. n. A coat of arms.Wp
8. n. A coat card.
9. v. To cover with a coat of some material
One can buy coated frying pans, which are much easier to wash up than normal ones.
10. v. To cover as a coat.
coating
1. v. Participe présent du verbe coat.
coating
1. n. A thin outer layer.
They painted on a coating to protect it from the weather.
2. n. (archaic) Cloth for making coats.
3. v. present participle of coat
We spent hours coating the truffles with cocoa powder so they wouldn't be sticky.
1. n. A shelf on which articles may be laid; also, that which resembles such a shelf in form or use, as a projecting ridge or part, or a molding or edge in joinery.
2. n. (geology) A shelf, ridge, or reef, of rocks.
3. n. A layer or stratum.
4. n. A lode; a limited mass of rock bearing valuable mineral.
5. n. (architecture) A (door or window) lintel.
6. n. (architecture) A cornice.
7. n. (shipbuilding) A piece of timber to support the deck, placed athwartship between beams.
8. n. (slang) A lege; a legend.
stratum
1. n. Couche, feuille de placage, gisement.
2. n. Strate.
stratum
1. n. One of several parallel horizontal layers of material arranged one on top of another.
2. n. (geology) A layer of sedimentary rock having approximately the same composition throughout.
3. n. Any of the regions of the atmosphere, such as the stratosphere, that occur as layers.
4. n. (biology) A layer of tissue.
5. n. A class of society composed of people with similar social, cultural, or economic status.
6. n. (ecology) A layer of vegetation, usually of similar height.
7. n. (computing) The level of accuracy of a computer's clock, relative to others on the network.
2. n. The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates.
In some mollusks, as the cuttlefish, the shell is concealed by the animal's outer mantle and is considered internal.
Genuine mother-of-pearl buttons are made from sea shells.
3. n. (by extension) Any mollusk having such a covering.
4. n. (entomology) The exoskeleton or wing covers of certain insects.
5. n. The conjoined scutes that constitute the "shell" (carapace) of a tortoise or turtle.
6. n. The overlapping hard plates comprising the armor covering the armadillo's body.
7. n. The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.
8. n. One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.
The restaurant served caramelized onion shells.
9. n. (botany) The hard external covering of various plant seed forms.
10. n. The covering, or outside part, of a nut.
The black walnut and the hickory nut, both of the same Genus as the pecan, have much thicker and harder shells than the pecan.
11. n. A pod containing the seeds of certain plants, such as the legume Phaseolus vulgaris.
12. n. (in the plural) Husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is sometimes used as a substitute or adulterant for cocoa and its products such as chocolate
13. n. (geology) The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.
14. n. (weaponry) The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.
15. n. (weaponry) A hollow usually spherical or cylindrical projectile fired from a siege mortar or a smoothbore cannon. It contains an explosive substance designed to be ignited by a fuse or by percussion a
16. n. (weaponry) The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
17. n. (architecture) Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in, as the shell of a house.
18. n. A garment, usually worn by women, such as a shirt, blouse, or top, with short sleeves or no sleeves, that often fastens in the rear.
19. n. A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.
20. n. (music) A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.
The first lyre may have been made by drawing strings over the underside of a tortoise shell.
21. n. (music) The body of a drum; the often wooden, often cylindrical acoustic chamber, with or without rims added for tuning and for attaching the drum head.
22. n. An engraved copper roller used in print works.
23. n. (nautical) The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.
24. n. (nautical, rigging) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
25. n. (nautical) A light boat whose frame is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper; a racing shell or dragon boat.
26. n. (computing) An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs and control their interactions; the user's command interpreter.
The name shell originates from it being viewed as an outer layer of interface between the user and the internals of the operating system.
The name "Bash" is an acronym which stands for "Bourne-again shell", itself a pun on the name of the "Bourne shell", an earlier Unix shell designed by Stephen Bourne, and the Christian concept
27. n. (chemistry) A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
28. n. An emaciated person.
He's lost so much weight from illness; he's a shell of his former self.
29. n. A psychological barrier to social interaction.
Even after months of therapy he's still in his shell.
30. n. (business) A legal entity that has no operations.
A shell corporation was formed to acquire the old factory.
31. n. A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.
32. n. (engineering) A gouge bit or shell bit.
33. n. (phonology) The onset and coda of a syllable.
34. v. To remove the outer covering or shell of something. See sheller.
35. v. To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.
36. v. (informal) To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).
37. v. (intransitive) To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
38. v. (intransitive) To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.
Nuts shell in falling.
Wheat or rye shells in reaping.
39. v. (computing, intransitive) To switch to a shell or command line.
40. v. To form shallow, irregular cracks (in a coating).
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