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Layer vs Beflake - What's the difference?

layer | beflake |

As verbs the difference between layer and beflake

is that layer is (ambitransitive) to cut or divide (something) into layers while beflake is to take off an external layer; skin in thin flakes.

As a noun layer

is a single thickness of some material covering a surface.

layer

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A single thickness of some material covering a surface.
    • 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 .
  • # An item of clothing worn under or over another.
  • It's cold now but it will warm up this afternoon. Make sure you wear layers .
  • A (usually) horizontal deposit; a stratum.
    • I find seven-layer cake a bit too rich.
  • A person who lays things, such as tiles.
  • A mature female bird, insect, etc. that is able to lay eggs.
    • When dealing with an infestation of headlice, the first step is to eliminate the layers .
  • A hen kept to lay eggs.
  • A shoot of a plant, laid underground for growth.

    • Synonyms

    * (stratum) stratum

    Derived terms

    * boundary layer * ozone layer

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (ambitransitive) to cut or divide (something) into layers
  • (ambitransitive) to arrange (something) in layers.
    • Layer the ribbons on top of one another to make an attractive pattern.

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    beflake

    English

    Verb

    (beflak)
  • To take off an external layer; skin in thin flakes.
  • To deck or cover with or as with flakes.
  • *1908 , Aeschylus, Thomas George Tucker, The Seven against Thebes :
    • For already close at hand the Argive host in full array marches and scours along, and the whitening foam beflakes the plain with drops from the deep breath of the steeds.
  • *2009 , Fred Saberhagen, An Old Friend of the Family :
    • She moved to crouch motionless beside a chimney, while the couple she had just detected materialized in a slow descent out of the beflaked air to another roof only half a block away.