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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | coating, covering; page |
| Synonyms: | area, blanket, coat, expanse, film, foil, folio, lamina, layer, leaf, membrane, overlay, pane, panel, piece, plate, ply, slab, stratum, stretch, surface, sweep, veneer |
| Main Entry: | station |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | social or occupational status |
| Synonyms: | appointment, business, calling, capacity, caste, character, class, duty, employment, estate, footing, grade, level, occupation, order, place, position, post, rank, service, situation, sphere, standing, state, stratum |
| Main Entry: | tier |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | level |
| Synonyms: | bank, category, class, course, echelon, file, grade, group, grouping, layer, league, line, order, pigeonhole, queue, range, rank, row, series, story, stratum, string |
| Main Entry: | vein |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | blood vessel |
| Synonyms: | capillary, course, current, duct, follicle, hair, lode, nerve, seam, stratum, streak, stripe, thread, venation |
| Notes: | arteries carry clean oxygenated blood from the heart, veins return impure blood back to the heart, and capillaries connect the ends of arteries to the beginnings of veins |
| Main Entry: | stratification |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tabular structure |
| Synonyms: | delamination, lamination, layer, stratum |
| Main Entry: | thickness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | denseness |
| Synonyms: | compactness, consistence, consistency, crassitude, density, diameter, dimension, girth, grossness, intimacy, layer, ply, sheet, stratum, width |
| Antonyms: | thinness |
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| 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: | Class. |
| Category: | 4. DISTRIBUTIVE ORDER |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
class, division, category, categorema, head, order, section; department, subdepartment, province, domain., kind, sort, genus, species, variety, family, order, kingdom, race, tribe, caste, sept, clan, breed, type, subtype, kit, sect, set, subset; assortment; feather, kidney; suit; range; gender, sex, kin., manner, description, denomination, designation, character, stamp; predicament; indication, particularization, selection, specification., similarity.
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| Concept: | Layer. |
| Category: | 2. LINEAR DIMENSIONS |
| Synonyms: |
-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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