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
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.
To arrange in layers.
To cut or divide into layers.