a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles | a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep |
a style of dance music popular in the 1920s; similar to New Orleans jazz but played by large bands | a plot of ground in which plants are growing |
empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk | a foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad track |
| 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. |
| 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) |