facework vs layer

facework

noun
  • The material of the outside or front side, as of a wall or building. 

  • The communicative strategies involved in upholding face, or social prestige. 

  • work done at the face, such as the coalface 

layer

noun
  • A single thickness of some material covering a surface. 

  • One of the items in a hierarchy. 

  • A person who lays anything, such as tiles or a wager. 

  • A (usually) horizontal deposit; a stratum. 

  • A shoot of a plant, laid underground for growth. 

  • An item of clothing worn under or over another. 

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

  • A hen kept to lay eggs. 

  • 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. 

verb
  • To arrange in layers. 

  • To cut or divide into layers. 

How often have the words facework and layer occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )