a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep | an abstract place usually conceived as having depth |
a plot of ground in which plants are growing | a subpopulation divided into a stratified sampling |
a foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad track | people having the same social, economic, or educational status |
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. | one of several parallel layers of material arranged one on top of another (such as a layer of tissue or cells in an organism or a layer of sedimentary rock) |
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) | |