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  • The two men drank whiskey from bottles and filled the room with a stratified lake of cigarette smoke in the flame-white light of night.†  (source)
  • Up to now, we have looked at one of Darwin's arguments for biological evolution, namely, the stratified deposits of fossils in various layers of rock.†  (source)
  • Water settled in isothermal layers of uniform stratification.†  (source)
    stratification = division into layers or subgroups
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  • She had found another life in the stratified layers of higher economics, with a doctorate and gainful employment with the Canadian Government.†  (source)
    stratified = divided into layers or subgroups
  • David always said Lexington was like the limestone on which it was built: layers of stratification, nuances of being and belonging, your place in the hierarchy fixed in stone long ago.†  (source)
    stratification = division into layers or subgroups
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
  • In which sex, drugs and dirty words began to unstratify the culture.†  (source)
    unstratify = not divided into layers or subgroups
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unstratify means not and reverses the meaning of stratify. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • The two women looked across a landscape of vacant lots filled with years of stratified deposits—the age of house garbage, the age of construction debris and vandalized car bodies, the age of moldering mobster parts.†  (source)
    stratified = divided into layers or subgroups
  • In 1966, Labov and colleagues began studying the changing role of "r" in the social stratification of the city.†  (source)
    stratification = division into layers or subgroups
  • Rural communities are losing their middle class and becoming socially stratified, divided between a small, wealthy elite and large numbers of the working poor.†  (source)
    stratified = divided into layers or subgroups
  • And again, as she soon discovered, the line of demarcation and stratification between the rich and the poor in Lycurgus was as sharp as though cut by a knife or divided by a high wall.†  (source)
    stratification = division into layers or subgroups
  • It is true that our society is stratified, and very rigidly stratified, on what at first sight appear to be hereditary lines.†  (source)
    stratified = divided into layers or subgroups
  • And this same widening gulf—which is due to the length and expense of the higher educational process and the increased facilities for and temptations towards refined habits on the part of the rich—will make that exchange between class and class, that promotion by intermarriage which at present retards the splitting of our species along lines of social stratification, less and less frequent.†  (source)
    stratification = division into layers or subgroups
  • It was a kind of satire on Nature: it was the scientific method, the geologic method; it deposited the history of the family in a stratified record; and the antiquary could dig through it and tell by the remains of each period what changes of diet the family had introduced successively for a hundred years.†  (source)
    stratified = divided into layers or subgroups
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