Membrane vs. Layer — What's the Difference?

A membrane is a selective barrier; it allows some things to pass through but stops others. Such things may be molecules, ions, or other small particles.

A sheet, quantity, or thickness of material, typically one of several, covering a surface or body

A thin, pliable layer of tissue covering surfaces or separating or connecting regions, structures, or organs of a living organism.

A person or thing that lays something

A semipermeable layer that bounds a cell or an organelle, typically consisting of lipids and proteins.

A shoot fastened down to take root while attached to the parent plant

A thin, pliable sheet or layer of natural or synthetic material

Arrange in a layer or layers

A piece of parchment.

Propagate (a plant) as a layer

(Chemistry) A thin sheet of natural or synthetic material that is permeable to substances in solution.

One that lays

A flexible enclosing or separating tissue forming a plane or film and separating two environments.

A hen kept for laying eggs.

A mechanical, thin, flat flexible part that can deform or vibrate when excited by an external force.

A single thickness of a material covering a surface or forming an overlying part or segment

A flexible or semiflexible covering or waterproofing whose primary function is to exclude water.

A usually horizontal deposit or expanse; a stratum

(biology) A microscopic double layer of lipids and proteins forming the boundary of cells or organelles.

A depth or level

A piece of parchment forming part of a roll.

(Botany) A stem that is covered with soil for rooting while still part of the living plant.

A thin layer or fold of tissue, usually supported by a fibrous network, serving to cover or line some part or organ, and often secreting or absorbing certain fluids.

An item of clothing worn over or under another.

A thin pliable sheet of material

To divide or form into layers

A pliable sheet of tissue that covers or lines or connects organs or cells of animals

To cut (hair) into different, usually overlapping lengths.

(Botany) To propagate (a plant) by means of a layer.

To wear (clothing) in layers.

To form or come apart as layers.

(Botany) To take root as a result of layering.

A single thickness of some material covering a surface.

An item of clothing worn under or over another.

A (usually) horizontal deposit; a stratum.

One of the items in a hierarchy.

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.

A person who lays anything, such as tiles or a wager.

A mature female bird, insect, etc. that is able to lay eggs.

A hen kept to lay eggs.

A shoot of a plant, laid underground for growth.

(ambitransitive) To cut or divide into layers.

(ambitransitive) To arrange in layers.

One who, or that which, lays.

That which is laid; a stratum; a bed; one thickness, course, or fold laid over another; as, a layer of clay or of sand in the earth; a layer of bricks, or of plaster; the layers of an onion.

A shoot or twig of a plant, not detached from the stock, laid under ground for growth or propagation.

An artificial oyster bed.

Single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance;

A relatively thin sheetlike expanse or region lying over or under another

An abstract place usually conceived as having depth;

A hen that lays eggs

Thin structure composed of a single thickness of cells

Make or form a layer;