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.