From en.wiktionary.org:
[Layer]
** English
*** Etymology 1
[en] Appears at first glance to be from [en], [enm], equivalent to [en]. In
which case, ultimately identical to etymology 2 below. For the pronunciation
compare [en].
However, this word _layer_ (referring to a thickness of a material covering a
surface) has also been argued to be from a respelling of an obsolete sense of
the word [en] that was once used by farmers, which had to do with soil. The
connecting sense between the usual meaning of [en] and the specialised farming
meaning was: an area where cows typically rest, the ground being fertilised by
their waste. Related to [en], [en].
**** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. A single thickness of some material covering a surface .
1. An item of clothing worn under or over another.
2. A (usually) horizontal deposit ; a stratum .
3. * [1=en]
4. One of the items in a hierarchy .
5. * [en]
6. [en] One in a stack of (initially transparent) drawing surfaces that comprise an image; used to keep elements of an image separate so that they can be modified independently from one another.
7. [en] One of the seven network switch pieces in the Open Systems Interconnection model: _application, presentation, session, transport, network, data link, and physical._
8. [en] An alternative keymap accessed through a modifier key or toggle .
***** Synonyms
- [single thickness] [en] ( _obsolete_ )
- [stratum] [en]
***** Derived terms
[en]
***** Translations
[single thickness of some material covering a surface]
- Adyghe: [ady]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Azerbaijani: [az] , [az] , [az]
- Bashkir: [ba] , [ba]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be]
- Bengali: [bn]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Burmese: [my]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el] , [el] , [el] , [el]
- Hebrew: [he] , [he]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Ido: [io]
- Ingrian: [izh]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Kazakh: [kk] , [kk] , [kk]
- Khmer: [km]
- Korean: [ko]
- Kyrgyz: [ky] , [ky] , [ky]
- Lao: [lo]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Malay: [ms]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi] , [mi]
- Marathi: [mr]
- Mongolian: [mn] , [mn]
- Norwegian:
- Pashto: [ps]
- Persian: [fa] , [fa]
- Plautdietsch: [pdt]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro] , [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Sanskrit: [sa]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Sorbian:
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Tajik: [tg] , [tg]
- Tatar: [tt] , [tt]
- Telugu: [te]
- Thai: [th]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr]
- Turkmen: [tk] , [tk]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk] , [uk] , [uk]
- Urdu: [ur]
- Uyghur: [ug] , [ug] , [ug]
- Uzbek: [uz] , [uz] , [uz]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Welsh: [cy]
[trans-bottom]
[item of clothing worn under or over another]
- Bashkir: [ba]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de]
- Italian: [it]
- Norwegian:
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Turkish: [tr]
[trans-bottom]
[deposit]
- Bashkir: [ba]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el] , [el]
- Ido: [io]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Norwegian:
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv] , [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Turkish: [tr]
[trans-bottom]
[drawing surface (computer graphics)]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
- Norwegian:
[trans-bottom]
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To cut or divide into layers.
2. [en] To arrange in layers.
***** Translations
[to cut or divide into layers]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Norwegian:
- Polish: [pl]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
[trans-bottom]
[to arrange in layers]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi] , [mi]
- Norwegian:
- Polish: [pl]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Turkish: [tr] < !-- was marked with "(?)" -->
[trans-bottom]
*** Etymology 2
From [en].
**** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. A person who lay s anything, such as tile s or a wager .
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1890 | title=The Argosy | volume=49 | page=183
|passage=If fortune ever favoured any venturesome LAYER of bets, Tom Elliot
was certainly the one that day.}}
1. A mature female bird , insect , etc. that is able to lay egg s.
1. A hen kept to lay egg s; a breed of chicken bred to maximize laying output.
2. * [en]
2. A shoot of a plant, laid underground for growth.
***** Derived terms
[en]
***** Translations
[person who lays anything, such as tiles or a wager]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] [layer of tiles]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Norwegian:
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
[trans-bottom]
[mature female animal able to lay eggs]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Norwegian:
[trans-bottom]
[hen kept to lay eggs]
- Bashkir: [ba] һалған / һалыусы [ba]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Italian: [it]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Norman: [nrf]
- Norwegian:
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Telugu: [te]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
[trans-bottom]
[shoot of a plant]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Norwegian:
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv] , [sv] , [sv]
- Walloon: [wa]
[trans-bottom]
*** Further reading
- [R:Webster 1913]
- [R:Century 1911]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en]
** French
*** Etymology
[fr], [fr].
*** Pronunciation
- [fr-IPA]
- [fr]
- [fr]
*** Verb
[fr-verb]
1. [fr] to trail a path in a forest
**** Conjugation
[fr-conj-auto]
**** Derived terms
- [fr]
- [fr]
*** Further reading
- [R:fr:TLFi]