layers

• accumulates
• amasses
• assembles
• band
• banks
• bed
• blanket
• brackets
• bunches
• castes
• clans
• classes
• clumps
• coat
• collects
• concentrates
• coping
• corrugations
• couch
• course
• cover
• covering
• creases
• crimps
• crinkles
• echelons
• estates
• families
• film
• flag
• flap
• floor
• fold
• folk
• folks
• food chains
• fraternities
• furrows
• garners
• gathers
• gentries
• girdle
• grades
• groupings
• groups
• heaps
• hierarchies
• lamina
• lamination
• lap
• levels
• loops
• lumps
• mantle
• masses
• mounds
• orders
• overlap
• overlay
• panel
• people
• piles
• places
• plaits
• pleats
• plies
• ply
• positions
• puckers
• pyramids
• races
• ranks
• row
• seam
• seams
• sheet
• slab
• stacks
• standings
• statuses
• story
• strata
• stratifications
• stratum
• stripe
• sub-castes
• subcastes
• substratum
• thickness
• tiers
• tribes
• tucks
• wrinkles
• zone

• unpiles

• noun
  1. A single thickness of some material covering a surface.
  2. A (usually) horizontal deposit; a stratum.
  3. One of the items in a hierarchy.
  4. (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.
  5. A person who lays things, such as tiles.
  6. A mature female bird, insect, etc. that is able to lay eggs.
  7. A hen kept to lay eggs.
  8. A shoot of a plant, laid underground for growth.
• verb
  1. To cut or divide (something) into layers.
  2. To arrange (something) in layers.

• She wore multiple layers to protect herself from the cold.
• The cake had three delicious layers of frosting and sponge.
• Scientists studied the rock layers to understand Earth's history.
• The painting revealed hidden layers of meaning.
• Fog settled in thick layers over the valley.

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