Layer vs Apply - What's the difference?
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A single thickness of some material covering a surface.
# An item of clothing worn under or over another.
A (usually) horizontal deposit; a stratum.
A person who lays things, such as tiles.
A mature female bird, insect, etc. that is able to lay eggs.
A hen kept to lay eggs.
A shoot of a plant, laid underground for growth.
(ambitransitive) to cut or divide (something) into layers
(ambitransitive) to arrange (something) in layers.
To lay or place; to put or adjust (one thing to another);—with to; as, to apply the hand to the breast; to apply medicaments to a diseased part of the body.
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To put to use; to use or employ for a particular purpose, or in a particular case; to appropriate; to devote; as, to apply money to the payment of a debt.
To make use of, declare, or pronounce, as suitable, fitting, or relative; as, to apply the testimony to the case; to apply an epithet to a person.
* (rfdate) Milton,
To fix closely; to engage and employ diligently, or with attention; to attach; to incline.
* 1611 , '', ''Proverbs 23:12,
To betake; to address; to refer; generally used reflexively.
* Alexander Pope
* (rfdate) Johnson
To submit oneself as a candidate (with the adposition "to" designating the recipient of the submission, and the adposition "for" designating the position).
To pertain or be relevant to a specified individual or group.
(obsolete) To busy; to keep at work; to ply.
* Sir Philip Sidney
(obsolete) To visit.
* Chapman
As verbs the difference between layer and apply
is that layer is (ambitransitive) to cut or divide (something) into layers while apply is to lay or place; to put or adjust (one thing to another);—with to; as, to apply the hand to the breast; to apply medicaments to a diseased part of the body.As a noun layer
is a single thickness of some material covering a surface.As an adjective apply is
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Noun
(en noun)- Wrap the loaf in two layers of aluminum foil before putting it in the oven.
- After the first coat of paint dried, he applied another layer .
- It's cold now but it will warm up this afternoon. Make sure you wear layers .
- I find seven-layer cake a bit too rich.
- When dealing with an infestation of headlice, the first step is to eliminate the layers .
Synonyms
* (stratum) stratumDerived terms
* boundary layer * ozone layerVerb
(en verb)- Layer the ribbons on top of one another to make an attractive pattern.
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) applier, ((etyl) appliquer), from (etyl) . See applicant, ply.Verb
(en-verb)- Yet God at last To Satan, first in sin, his doom applied .
- Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.
- sacred vows applied to grisly Pluto
- I applied myself to him for help.
- I recently applied to the tavern for a job as a bartender.
- Most of the colleges she applied to were ones she thought she had a good chance of getting into.
- Many of them don't know it, but almost a third of the inmates are eligible to apply for parole or work-release programs.
- That rule only applies to foreigners.
- She was skillful in applying his humours.
- His armour was so clear, / And he applied each place so fast, that like a lightning thrown / Out of the shield of Jupiter, in every eye he shone.