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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | coating, tier |
| Synonyms: | band, bed, blanket, coat, coping, couch, course, cover, covering, film, flag, flap, floor, fold, girdle, lamina, lamination, lap, mantle, overlap, overlay, panel, ply, row, seam, sheet, slab, story, stratum, stripe, substratum, thickness, zone |
| Main Entry: | layer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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discoid, esquamate, filmy, flaky, foliaceous, foliated, ganoid, lamellar, lamellate, lamellated, lamelliform, laminated, laminiferous, membranous, micaceous, overlayed, scaly, schistose, schistous, scutiferous, squamous, squamulose, stratified, stratiform, tabular, tegulated
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| Concept: | Layer. |
| Category: | 2. LINEAR DIMENSIONS |
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-nouns
layer, stratum, course, bed, zone, substratum, floor, flag, stage, story, tier, slab, escrapment; table, tablet; dess; flagstone; board, plank; trencher, platter., plate; lamina, lamella; sheet, foil; wafer; scale, flake, peel; coat, pellicle; membrane, film; leaf; slice, shive, cut, rasher, shaving, integument (covering) [more]; eschar., stratification, scaliness, nest of boxes, coats of an onion, layers of an onion.
-verbs
slice, shave, pare, peel; delaminate; plate, coat, veneer; cover.
-adjectives
lamellar, lamellated, lamelliform; laminated, laminiferous; micaceous; schistose, schistous; scaly, filmy, membranous, flaky, squamous; foliated, foliaceous; stratified, stratiform; tabular, discoid; spathic, spathose.
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| Main Entry: | belt |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | strip of land with characteristic feature |
| Synonyms: | area, district, layer, region, stretch, territory, tract, zone |
| Main Entry: | blanket |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cover, covering |
| Synonyms: | afghan, carpet, cloak, coat, coating, comforter, covering, coverlet, envelope, film, fleece, layer, mat, puff, quilt, rug, sheath, sheet, throw, wrapper |
| Main Entry: | coat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | covering |
| Synonyms: | bark, coating, crust, finish, glaze, gloss, lacquer, lamination, layer, overlay, painting, plaster, priming, roughcast, set, tinge, varnish, wash, whitewashing |
| Notes: | skin is the general term for an animal's outer covering; the layer of fur, hair, or wool is the coat; hide is the tough skin of certain large animals that is tanned and made into leather; pelt is untanned skin of fur-bearing animals |
| Main Entry: | coating |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | covering |
| Synonyms: | blanket, bloom, coat, crust, dusting, encrustation, film, finish, glaze, lamination, layer, membrane, patina, sheet, skin, varnish, veneer |
| Main Entry: | cover |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | wrap, hide |
| Synonyms: | blanket, board up, bury, bush up, cache, camouflage, canopy, cap, carpet, cloak, clothe, coat, conceal, cover up, crown, curtain, daub, disguise, do on the sly, dress, eclipse, encase, enclose, enfold, ensconce, enshroud, envelop, hood, house, invest, layer, mantle, mask, obscure, overcast, overlay, overspread, protect, put on, screen, secrete, set on, shade, shield, shroud, stash, superimpose, superpose, surface, veil |
| Antonyms: | lay bare, lay out, reveal, uncover, unwrap |
| Main Entry: | crust |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stiff outer layer; coating |
| Synonyms: | band, bloom, border, caking, coat, concretion, covering, edge, encrustation, film, hull, incrustation, integument, layer, outside, rind, scab, shell, skin, surface, verge |
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