Membrane vs. Layer

Membranenoun

A flexible enclosing or separating tissue forming a plane or film and separating two environments.

Membranenoun

A mechanical, thin, flat flexible part that can deform or vibrate when excited by an external force.

Membranenoun

A flexible or semiflexible covering or waterproofing whose primary function is to exclude water.

Membranenoun

(biology) A microscopic double layer of lipids and proteins forming the boundary of cells or organelles.

Membranenoun

A piece of parchment forming part of a roll.

Membranenoun

A thin layer or fold of tissue, usually supported by a fibrous network, serving to cover or line some part or organ, and often secreting or absorbing certain fluids.

Membranenoun

a thin pliable sheet of material

Membranenoun

a pliable sheet of tissue that covers or lines or connects organs or cells of animals

Membrane

A membrane is a selective barrier; it allows some things to pass through but stops others. Such things may be molecules, ions, or other small particles.

Layernoun

A single thickness of some material covering a surface.

Layernoun

An item of clothing worn under or over another.

Layernoun

A (usually) horizontal deposit; a stratum.

Layernoun

One of the items in a hierarchy.

Layernoun

}} 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.

Layernoun

A person who lays things, such as tiles.

Layernoun

A mature female bird, insect, etc. that is able to lay eggs.

Layernoun

A hen kept to lay eggs.

Layernoun

A shoot of a plant, laid underground for growth.

Layerverb

(ambitransitive) to cut or divide (something) into layers

Layerverb

(ambitransitive) to arrange (something) in layers.

Layernoun

One who, or that which, lays.

Layernoun

That which is laid; a stratum; a bed; one thickness, course, or fold laid over another; as, a layer of clay or of sand in the earth; a layer of bricks, or of plaster; the layers of an onion.

Layernoun

A shoot or twig of a plant, not detached from the stock, laid under ground for growth or propagation.

Layernoun

An artificial oyster bed.

Layernoun

single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance;

Layernoun

a relatively thin sheetlike expanse or region lying over or under another

Layernoun

an abstract place usually conceived as having depth;

Layernoun

a hen that lays eggs

Layernoun

thin structure composed of a single thickness of cells

Layerverb

make or form a layer;

Layernoun

a sheet, quantity, or thickness of material, typically one of several, covering a surface or body

Layernoun

a level of seniority in the hierarchy of an organization

Layernoun

a person or thing that lays something

Layernoun

a shoot fastened down to take root while attached to the parent plant

Layerverb

arrange in a layer or layers

Layerverb

cut (hair) in overlapping layers

Layerverb

propagate (a plant) as a layer