different between layer vs lacer

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /l??/, (spelling pronunciation) /le?.?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?le?.?/
• Rhymes: -??(?), -e??(?)
• Homophone: lair (one pronunciation)

Etymology 1

Appears at first glance to be from Middle English leyer, leyare (“a layer of stones or bricks”), equivalent to lay +? -er. In which case, ultimately identical to the other word below that is also spelt layer.

However, this word layer (referring to a thickness of a material covering a surface) has long been argued to be from a respelling of an obsolete sense of the word lair that was once used by farmers, which had to do with soil. The connecting sense between the usual meaning of lair and the specialised farming meaning was: an area where cows typically rest, the ground being fertilised by their waste. Related to lie, ledger.

Noun

layer (plural layers)

1. 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.

   1. 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.

2. A (usually) horizontal deposit; a stratum.

   I find seven-layer cake a bit too rich.

3. One of the items in a hierarchy.

   mired in layers of deceit

   • 2001, C/C++ Users Journal (volume 19, page 38)

     Right above the database access layer sits a number cruncher that performs any calculations that a particular request may require, such as computing a standard deviation. In many cases, this layer just forwards raw numbers.

4. (computer graphics, 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.

Synonyms

• (single thickness): lay (obsolete)
• (stratum): stratum

Derived terms

• boundary layer
• orchestration layer
• ozone layer

Translations

Verb

layer (third-person singular simple present layers, present participle layering, simple past and past participle layered)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To cut or divide into layers.
2. (transitive, intransitive) To arrange in layers.

   Layer the ribbons on top of one another to make an attractive pattern.

Translations

Etymology 2

lay +? -er

Noun

layer (plural layers)

1. A person who lays anything, such as tiles or a wager.
   • 1890, The Argosy (volume 49, page 183)

     If fortune ever favoured any venturesome layer of bets, Tom Elliot was certainly the one that day.

2. 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.

3. A hen kept to lay eggs.
4. A shoot of a plant, laid underground for growth.

Translations

Derived terms

• minelayer
• tracklayer

Further reading

• layer in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• layer in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Arely, Arley, Early, Leary, Raley, Rayle, early, leary, re-lay, relay

English

Etymology

lace +? -er

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?le?s.?(?)/
• Rhymes: -e?s?(r)
• Homophone: laser (Etymology 2)

Noun

lacer (plural lacers)

1. A person or thing who laces

Anagrams

• 'clare, Carle, Clare, Clear, carle, clear, recal

French

Etymology

See lacs

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la.se/
• Homophone: lasser

Verb

lacer

1. to lace, to lace up

Conjugation

This verb is part of a group of -er verbs for which ‘c’ is softened to a ‘ç’ before the vowels ‘a’ and ‘o’.

Related terms

• lacet

Further reading

• “lacer” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• caler, racle, raclé

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *leh?k- (“to tear, rend”). Cognate with lancin?, Ancient Greek ????? (lakís).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?la.ker/, [???äk?r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?la.t??er/, [?l??t???r]

Adjective

lacer (feminine lacera, neuter lacerum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)

1. lacerated, mangled, torn to pieces

Declension

First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).

Derived terms

• lacer?

References

• lacer in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lacer in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lacer in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Old French

Verb

lacer

1. Alternative form of lacier

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-c, *-cs, *-ct are modified to z, z, zt. In addition, c becomes ç before an a, o or u to keep the /ts/ sound intact. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.