to pile on top of one another; layer; stratum; floor (of a building); story; (math.) sheaf; classifier for layers

high-rise; high level; high class

(meteorology) the atmosphere; atmospheric layer

aspect; facet; level (political, psychological, spiritual etc); (geology) bedding plane

floor; story (of a building)

ground floor; first floor; lowest level; lowest rung (of society etc)

double tier; double decker

top floor; the top of a building

upper layer

social class

the clouds; cloud layer; cloud bank

layer; level; gradation; arrangement of ideas; (a person's) standing

underlayer; lower class; lower strata; substrate

multistoried building; tower; pagoda

deep layer; deep; deep-seated; underlying

(geology) fault (CL:道[dao4]); (fig.) gap; rupture (in the transmission of some skill); (tomography) cross-sectional

outer layer; outer shell

ruling class; leaders (of society); oligarchy

hollow layer between two solid layers; (architecture) mezzanine

layer upon layer

to take it up a notch; to bring it up a level

middle-ranking

valency shell (chemistry)

low level

internal layer

lamination; layering; stratification; delamination

cladding; covering (on a fiber)

single layer; single story; single deck; single level

repeated layers; stratified; laminated; stacked; piled strata

layer (imaging)

layer of soil; ground level

stratum (geology)

basic level; grassroots unit; basement layer

multilayered; multilevel; multistory

sublayer

stratus (cloud)

lamination

layer upon layer; tiered

stratum

stratified rock; flagstone

range upon range of mountains

to report to higher authorities through layers of hierarchy

laminar flow

stratified; bedded (geology)

stratification

level; hierarchy

rock strata

layered; stratified

protective layer; coating