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Overlay   /ˈoʊvərlˌeɪ/   Listen
Overlay

noun
1.
Protective covering consisting, for example, of a layer of boards applied to the studs and joists of a building to strengthen it and serve as a foundation for a weatherproof exterior.  Synonyms: overlayer, sheathing.
2.
A layer of decorative material (such as gold leaf or wood veneer) applied over a surface.
verb
(past & past part. overlaid; pres. part. overlaying)
1.
Put something on top of something else.  Synonym: cover.
2.
Kill by lying on.  Synonym: overlie.


Overlie

verb
(past overlay; past part. overlain; pres. part. overlying)
1.
Lie upon; lie on top of.
2.
Kill by lying on.  Synonym: overlay.



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"Overlay" Quotes from Famous Books



... called also EBIONITES, in the primitive Church who sought to overlay the simple ordinances of Christianity with Judaic observances and rites, "a yoke which neither they nor their fathers were ...
— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood
... wife making a book on the course. I bet she'd overlay it and then turn round and back the favourite at a shorter price than she'd ...
— Esther Waters • George Moore
... are three dimensional models showing the evolution of the Genesee Valley in New York from early times to the present. Here you will see a beautiful panorama of what it looked like two hundred million years ago right where we are sitting and standing now when the seas overlay the area during the Devonian and Silurian times. We have reconstructed the little sea creatures that lived in the rocks in their ...
— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting • Various
... from the corruptions introduced into it by men. It is not alone from the world without that Christ's church has been assailed. Corrupt men have arisen within her pale who have set themselves to deny or explain away her essential doctrines, to change her holy practice, or to crush and overlay her with a load of superstitious observances. But the gospel cannot be destroyed by inward any more than by outward enemies. From time to time it asserts its divine origin and invincible power, by bursting the bands ...
— Companion to the Bible • E. P. Barrows
... of mica, quartz, hornblende, feldspar, and other minerals could never have been formed except under a blanket of rock which almost prevented the original magmas from cooling. The thousands or tens of thousands of feet of rock which once overlay the schists and still more the granites and gneisses must have been slowly removed by erosion, for there was no other way to get rid of them. This process must have taken tens of millions of years, and yet the whole work must have been practically completed a hundred or perhaps several hundred ...
— The Red Man's Continent - A Chronicle of Aboriginal America, Volume 1 In The - Chronicles Of America Series • Ellsworth Huntington


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