English words for 'Composed of strata; stratified'
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noun
- A layer or stratum.
- (shipbuilding) A piece of timber to support the deck, placed athwartship between beams.
- (Canada, slang) A provincial or territorial legislature building.
- A shelf on which articles may be laid.
- A narrow surface projecting horizontally from a wall, cliff, or other surface.
- (Canada, slang) A provincial or territorial legislative assembly.
- A lode; a limited mass of rock bearing valuable mineral.
- (architecture) A (door or window) lintel.
- (geology) A shelf, ridge, or reef, of rocks.
- (slang) Alternative form of lege (“a legend; a person held in high regard”).
- (architecture) A cornice.
- a projecting ridge on a mountain or submerged under water
verb
verb
- form layers or strata
- (intransitive) To become separated out into distinct layers or strata.
- render fertile and preserve by placing between layers of earth or sand
- divide society into social classes or castes
- form, arrange, or deposit in layers
- develop different social levels, classes, or castes
- (transitive) To separate out into distinct layers or strata.
noun
noun
- any stratum or layer lying underneath another
- the substance that is acted upon by an enzyme or ferment
- a surface on which an organism grows or is attached
- an indigenous language that contributes features to the language of an invading people who impose their language on the indigenous population
- (biology) A surface on which an organism grows, or to which an organism or an item is attached.
- (plating) A metal which is plated with another metal which has different physical properties.
- (linguistics) A language that is replaced in a population by another language and that influences the language imposed on its speakers.
- (construction) A surface to which a substance adheres.
- The substance lining the bottom edge of an enclosure.
- (biochemistry) A substance acted upon, as by an enzyme.
- An underlying layer; a substratum.
adj
noun
- any stratum or layer lying underneath another
- a surface on which an organism grows or is attached
- an indigenous language that contributes features to the language of an invading people who impose their language on the indigenous population
- A layer that lies underneath another.
- (figuratively) The underlying cause or basis of something.
- (linguistics) A substrate.
noun
- a layered structure
- bonding thin sheets together
- The process of laminating, joining together thin layers.
- A layer of something that is laminated.
- (geology) A small scale sequence of fine layers that occurs in sedimentary rocks.
- (topology) A foliation of a closed subset of a manifold by subspaces of one dimension less.
- Something made by laminating.
noun
- any stratum or layer superimposed on another
- A layer or stratum adjacent and parallel to another.
- the language of a later invading people that is imposed on an indigenous population and contributes features to their language
- (physics) The sudden increase in the electrical conductivity of some metals as their temperature falls to near absolute zero.
- (linguistics) Alternative form of superstratum.
- (photovoltaics) The covering on the sunny side of a photovoltaic (PV) module, providing protection for the PV materials from impact and environmental degradation while allowing maximum transmission of the appropriate wavelengths of the solar spectrum.
verb
noun
- any stratum or layer superimposed on another
- (geology) A stratum that is on top of another
- the language of a later invading people that is imposed on an indigenous population and contributes features to their language
- (linguistics) A language imposed upon a population that previously spoke another language
noun
- A (usually) horizontal deposit; a stratum.
- An item of clothing worn under or over another.
- A shoot of a plant, laid underground for growth.
- A hen kept to lay eggs; a breed of chicken bred to maximize laying output.
- (networking) One of the seven network switch pieces in the Open Systems Interconnection model: application, presentation, session, transport, network, data link, and physical.
- One of the items in a hierarchy.
- (computing) An alternative keymap accessed through a modifier key or toggle.
- A person who lays anything, such as tiles or a wager.
- (computer graphics, by analogy to a stack of transparencies) 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.
- A mature female bird, insect, etc. that is able to lay eggs.
- A single thickness of some material covering a surface.
- an abstract place usually conceived as having depth
- thin structure composed of a single thickness of cells
- a hen that lays eggs
- a relatively thin sheetlike expanse or region lying over or under another
- single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance
verb
noun
- A rank or grade; a stratum.
- A horizontal row of panels within a comic strip.
- (Australia) A (typically forested) range of hills or mountains, especially in South Australia or Tasmania; a mountain.
- Something that ties.
- A row or range, especially one at a higher or lower level than another.
- One who ties (knots, etc.).
- a relative position or degree of value in a graded group
- any one of two or more competitors who tie one another
- one of two or more layers one atop another
- something that is used for tying
- a worker who ties something
verb
name
noun
- (geology) A specific layer of soil, or stratum
- The visible horizontal line (in all directions) where the sky appears to meet the earth in the distance.
- Any level line or surface.
- (computer chess) The point at which a computer chess algorithm stops searching for further moves.
- (figuratively) The range or limit of one's knowledge, experience or interest; a boundary or threshold.
- (archaeology, chiefly US) A cultural sub-period or level within a more encompassing time period.
- The range or limit of any dimension in which one exists.
- a specific layer or stratum of soil or subsoil in a vertical cross section of land
- the line at which the sky and Earth appear to meet
- the great circle on the celestial sphere whose plane passes through the sensible horizon and the center of the Earth
- the range of interest or activity that can be anticipated
noun
- (geology) A bed or stratum.
- A standard against which something can be judged; a criterion.
- The size of someone or something, as ascertained by measuring. (Now chiefly in make to measure.)
- (poetry) The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a metrical foot.
- Any of various standard units of capacity.
- (now chiefly cooking) A receptacle or vessel of a standard size, capacity etc. as used to deal out specific quantities of some substance.
- (in the plural) Actions designed to achieve some purpose; plans.
- A piece of legislation.
- (mathematics, measure theory) A function which obeys a particular set of formal conditions, created to generalize and rigorize the notions of length, volume, and probability. Formally, a non-negative, countably additive set function on a sigma-algebra; see Measure (mathematics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- A ruler, measuring stick, or graduated tape used to take measurements.
- An (unspecified) portion or quantity.
- A unit of measurement.
- A limit that cannot be exceeded; a bound. (Now chiefly in set phrases.)
- (music) A musical designation consisting of all notes and or rests delineated by two vertical bars; an equal and regular division of the whole of a composition; a bar.
- measuring instrument having a sequence of marks at regular intervals; used as a reference in making measurements
- the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule
- musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats
- a container of some standard capacity that is used to obtain fixed amounts of a substance
- any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal
- (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
- a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated
- how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify
- a statute in draft before it becomes law
verb
- (rare) To traverse, cross, pass along; to travel over.
- To obtain or set apart; to mark in even increments.
- To judge, value, or appraise.
- (often with out or off) To allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; often with.
- (stative) To be of (a certain size), to have (a certain measurement)
- To estimate the unit size of something.
- (transitive) To regulate or control (one's actions, speech, etc.), as if one were carefully measuring their length or quantity.
- To ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard.
- To adjust by a rule or standard.
- determine the measurements of something or somebody, take measurements of
- have certain dimensions
- evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of
- express as a number or measure or quantity
noun
- A layer or stratum.
- (shipbuilding) A piece of timber to support the deck, placed athwartship between beams.
- (Canada, slang) A provincial or territorial legislature building.
- A shelf on which articles may be laid.
- A narrow surface projecting horizontally from a wall, cliff, or other surface.
- (Canada, slang) A provincial or territorial legislative assembly.
- A lode; a limited mass of rock bearing valuable mineral.
- (architecture) A (door or window) lintel.
- (geology) A shelf, ridge, or reef, of rocks.
- (slang) Alternative form of lege (“a legend; a person held in high regard”).
- (architecture) A cornice.
- a projecting ridge on a mountain or submerged under water
verb
noun
noun
- any stratum or layer lying underneath another
- the substance that is acted upon by an enzyme or ferment
- a surface on which an organism grows or is attached
- an indigenous language that contributes features to the language of an invading people who impose their language on the indigenous population
- (biology) A surface on which an organism grows, or to which an organism or an item is attached.
- (plating) A metal which is plated with another metal which has different physical properties.
- (linguistics) A language that is replaced in a population by another language and that influences the language imposed on its speakers.
- (construction) A surface to which a substance adheres.
- The substance lining the bottom edge of an enclosure.
- (biochemistry) A substance acted upon, as by an enzyme.
- An underlying layer; a substratum.
adj
noun
- any stratum or layer lying underneath another
- a surface on which an organism grows or is attached
- an indigenous language that contributes features to the language of an invading people who impose their language on the indigenous population
- A layer that lies underneath another.
- (figuratively) The underlying cause or basis of something.
- (linguistics) A substrate.
noun
- a layered structure
- bonding thin sheets together
- The process of laminating, joining together thin layers.
- A layer of something that is laminated.
- (geology) A small scale sequence of fine layers that occurs in sedimentary rocks.
- (topology) A foliation of a closed subset of a manifold by subspaces of one dimension less.
- Something made by laminating.
noun
- any stratum or layer superimposed on another
- A layer or stratum adjacent and parallel to another.
- the language of a later invading people that is imposed on an indigenous population and contributes features to their language
- (physics) The sudden increase in the electrical conductivity of some metals as their temperature falls to near absolute zero.
- (linguistics) Alternative form of superstratum.
- (photovoltaics) The covering on the sunny side of a photovoltaic (PV) module, providing protection for the PV materials from impact and environmental degradation while allowing maximum transmission of the appropriate wavelengths of the solar spectrum.
verb
noun
- any stratum or layer superimposed on another
- (geology) A stratum that is on top of another
- the language of a later invading people that is imposed on an indigenous population and contributes features to their language
- (linguistics) A language imposed upon a population that previously spoke another language
noun
- A (usually) horizontal deposit; a stratum.
- An item of clothing worn under or over another.
- A shoot of a plant, laid underground for growth.
- A hen kept to lay eggs; a breed of chicken bred to maximize laying output.
- (networking) One of the seven network switch pieces in the Open Systems Interconnection model: application, presentation, session, transport, network, data link, and physical.
- One of the items in a hierarchy.
- (computing) An alternative keymap accessed through a modifier key or toggle.
- A person who lays anything, such as tiles or a wager.
- (computer graphics, by analogy to a stack of transparencies) 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.
- A mature female bird, insect, etc. that is able to lay eggs.
- A single thickness of some material covering a surface.
- an abstract place usually conceived as having depth
- thin structure composed of a single thickness of cells
- a hen that lays eggs
- a relatively thin sheetlike expanse or region lying over or under another
- single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance
verb
noun
- A rank or grade; a stratum.
- A horizontal row of panels within a comic strip.
- (Australia) A (typically forested) range of hills or mountains, especially in South Australia or Tasmania; a mountain.
- Something that ties.
- A row or range, especially one at a higher or lower level than another.
- One who ties (knots, etc.).
- a relative position or degree of value in a graded group
- any one of two or more competitors who tie one another
- one of two or more layers one atop another
- something that is used for tying
- a worker who ties something
verb
noun
- (geology) A specific layer of soil, or stratum
- The visible horizontal line (in all directions) where the sky appears to meet the earth in the distance.
- Any level line or surface.
- (computer chess) The point at which a computer chess algorithm stops searching for further moves.
- (figuratively) The range or limit of one's knowledge, experience or interest; a boundary or threshold.
- (archaeology, chiefly US) A cultural sub-period or level within a more encompassing time period.
- The range or limit of any dimension in which one exists.
- a specific layer or stratum of soil or subsoil in a vertical cross section of land
- the line at which the sky and Earth appear to meet
- the great circle on the celestial sphere whose plane passes through the sensible horizon and the center of the Earth
- the range of interest or activity that can be anticipated
noun
- (geology) A bed or stratum.
- A standard against which something can be judged; a criterion.
- The size of someone or something, as ascertained by measuring. (Now chiefly in make to measure.)
- (poetry) The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a metrical foot.
- Any of various standard units of capacity.
- (now chiefly cooking) A receptacle or vessel of a standard size, capacity etc. as used to deal out specific quantities of some substance.
- (in the plural) Actions designed to achieve some purpose; plans.
- A piece of legislation.
- (mathematics, measure theory) A function which obeys a particular set of formal conditions, created to generalize and rigorize the notions of length, volume, and probability. Formally, a non-negative, countably additive set function on a sigma-algebra; see Measure (mathematics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- A ruler, measuring stick, or graduated tape used to take measurements.
- An (unspecified) portion or quantity.
- A unit of measurement.
- A limit that cannot be exceeded; a bound. (Now chiefly in set phrases.)
- (music) A musical designation consisting of all notes and or rests delineated by two vertical bars; an equal and regular division of the whole of a composition; a bar.
- measuring instrument having a sequence of marks at regular intervals; used as a reference in making measurements
- the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule
- musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats
- a container of some standard capacity that is used to obtain fixed amounts of a substance
- any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal
- (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
- a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated
- how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify
- a statute in draft before it becomes law
verb
- (rare) To traverse, cross, pass along; to travel over.
- To obtain or set apart; to mark in even increments.
- To judge, value, or appraise.
- (often with out or off) To allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; often with.
- (stative) To be of (a certain size), to have (a certain measurement)
- To estimate the unit size of something.
- (transitive) To regulate or control (one's actions, speech, etc.), as if one were carefully measuring their length or quantity.
- To ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard.
- To adjust by a rule or standard.
- determine the measurements of something or somebody, take measurements of
- have certain dimensions
- evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of
- express as a number or measure or quantity
verb
- form layers or strata
- (intransitive) To become separated out into distinct layers or strata.
- render fertile and preserve by placing between layers of earth or sand
- divide society into social classes or castes
- form, arrange, or deposit in layers
- develop different social levels, classes, or castes
- (transitive) To separate out into distinct layers or strata.
noun
- A (usually) horizontal deposit; a stratum.
- An item of clothing worn under or over another.
- A shoot of a plant, laid underground for growth.
- A hen kept to lay eggs; a breed of chicken bred to maximize laying output.
- (networking) One of the seven network switch pieces in the Open Systems Interconnection model: application, presentation, session, transport, network, data link, and physical.
- One of the items in a hierarchy.
- (computing) An alternative keymap accessed through a modifier key or toggle.
- A person who lays anything, such as tiles or a wager.
- (computer graphics, by analogy to a stack of transparencies) 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.
- A mature female bird, insect, etc. that is able to lay eggs.
- A single thickness of some material covering a surface.
- an abstract place usually conceived as having depth
- thin structure composed of a single thickness of cells
- a hen that lays eggs
- a relatively thin sheetlike expanse or region lying over or under another
- single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance
verb
noun
- any stratum or layer superimposed on another
- A layer or stratum adjacent and parallel to another.
- the language of a later invading people that is imposed on an indigenous population and contributes features to their language
- (physics) The sudden increase in the electrical conductivity of some metals as their temperature falls to near absolute zero.
- (linguistics) Alternative form of superstratum.
- (photovoltaics) The covering on the sunny side of a photovoltaic (PV) module, providing protection for the PV materials from impact and environmental degradation while allowing maximum transmission of the appropriate wavelengths of the solar spectrum.