Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. 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.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The operation of propagating plants by layers. See layer, v. t. The figure shows the layered shoot bent down and kept in the ground by a hooked peg, the young rootlets, and a stick supporting the extremity of the shoot in an upright position.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A propagating by layers.
Examples
“Fourth, the committee concluded that in a few significant instances the analysis in the NIE suffered what we call a layering effect.”
“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.”
“That kind of materiality with a restless concern for layering is translated into her printmaking.”
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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.”
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“The book succeeded in layering this common theme amongst several characters.”
“I’m particularly interested in what I call the layering effect: what happens when we layer virtual relationships on top of physical ones?”
“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.””
“Not sure who made the piece of fabric, but it was great for these cards) then begin layering things on it, not fastened down to start.”
“When you've developed an eye for jewelry, you can group necklaces together à la Coco Chanel, who popularized the notion of layering pearls with chains and strands of rock crystal.”
“The FSA said it will fine Canadian trading firm Swift Trade £8 million $13 million "for systematically and deliberately engaging in a form of manipulative trading known as layering.”
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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ECON - market abuse
Over-The Counter ..., High Frequency Tr..., trend-increasing ..., trading window, trading venues, trading platforms, spoofing, single rule book, run-off rates, rogue algorithms, raise capital, quote stuffing and 27 more...
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hairstyles
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