a conspicuous success | a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep |
a border of hair that is cut short and hangs across the forehead | a plot of ground in which plants are growing |
a sudden very loud noise | a foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad track |
a vigorous blow | the flat surface of a printing press on which the type form is laid in the last stage of producing a newspaper or magazine or book etc. |
the swift release of a store of affective force | single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance |
| a stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit |
| a depression forming the ground under a body of water |
| (geology) a stratum of rock (especially sedimentary rock) |