Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: layer
IPA transcription: [l'eɪɚ]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: layer, bed
    Meaning: single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance; "slices of hard-boiled egg on a bed of spinach"
  • Synonyms: layer
    Meaning: a relatively thin sheetlike expanse or region lying over or under another
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: layer
    Meaning: make or form a layer; "layer the different colored sands"
Usage examples
  • Fill the dish and on the top layer put truffles.
  • Butter a baking-dish; add a layer of bread-crumbs and grated cheese.
  • Bake, when cool, together with jelly, having the dark layer in the center.
  • With their uppermost layer only a couple of inches below the surface of the water they hasten on.
  • Butter a baking-dish, put in a layer of the fish, cover with sauce, and repeat until the dish is full.
  • Butter a baking-dish, put in a layer of fish, cover with sauce, season with grated nutmeg, and repeat until the dish is full.
  • If we continue to unshell the kernel, we find, below this mineral layer, a last silken tunic that forms a globe around the brood.
  • Put a layer of the macaroni in a baking dish, sprinkle with grated Parmesan cheese and sliced truffles mixed with a little good sauce espagnole.
  • Butter a baking-dish, put in a layer of cold cooked turbot flaked fine, cover with sauce, and repeat until the dish is full, having sauce on top.
  • It was a revelation of the real man with the thin layer of civilisation stripped from him, leaving only the primitive savage drunk with the lust of blood.