Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The process of rooting branches, twigs, or stems that are still attached to a parent plant, as by placing a specially treated part in moist soil.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The operation of propagating plants by layers. See
layer , v. t.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A propagating by layers.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A method of plant propagation by
rooting cuttings . - verb Present participle of
layer .
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Examples
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Fourth, the committee concluded that in a few significant instances the analysis in the NIE suffered what we call a layering effect.
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AT -- You know, the layering is kind of silly because it turns out all churned by the time you scoop it out of the pan.
Tex-Mex squash casserole | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2009
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That kind of materiality with a restless concern for layering is translated into her printmaking.
ArtScene: Top Exhibitions in the West Highlight Opening Weeks of the New Season ArtScene 2010
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That kind of materiality with a restless concern for layering is translated into her printmaking.
ArtScene: Top Exhibitions in the West Highlight Opening Weeks of the New Season ArtScene 2010
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That kind of materiality with a restless concern for layering is translated into her printmaking.
ArtScene: Top Exhibitions in the West Highlight Opening Weeks of the New Season ArtScene 2010
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The other free technology †thermal layering is difficult in places other then island nations because of distribution difficulties, but has some limited potential.
Think Progress » Noonan: If Global Warming Is Real, Blame The Scientists 2006
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The book succeeded in layering this common theme amongst several characters.
REVIEW: Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick 2005
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I’m particularly interested in what I call the layering effect: what happens when we layer virtual relationships on top of physical ones?
June 2006 2006
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I’m particularly interested in what I call the layering effect: what happens when we layer virtual relationships on top of physical ones?
The New Love? 2006
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Maybe it’d sound more impressive if I used its more formal name, which is “SiO2 ultra-thin layering,” but that’s hard to type, so I’m going to stick with “spray-on liquid glass.”
Spray-on liquid glass ewillett 2010
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