OVERLAY (overlaid)

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Irregular inflected form: overlaid   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does overlay mean? 

• OVERLAY (noun)
  The noun OVERLAY has 2 senses:

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

2. a layer of decorative material (such as gold leaf or wood veneer) applied over a surface

  Familiarity information: OVERLAY used as a noun is rare.

• OVERLAY (verb)
  The verb OVERLAY has 2 senses:

1. put something on top of something else

2. kill by lying on

  Familiarity information: OVERLAY used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OVERLAY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

overlay; overlayer; sheathing

Hypernyms ("overlay" is a kind of...):

protection; protective cover; protective covering (a covering that is intend to protect from damage or injury)

Derivation:

overlay (put something on top of something else)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A layer of decorative material (such as gold leaf or wood veneer) applied over a surface

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("overlay" is a kind of...):

decoration; ornament; ornamentation (something used to beautify)

bed; layer (single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance)

• OVERLAY (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they overlay    ... he / she / it overlays   
Past simple: overlaid    / overlayed   
Past participle: overlaid    / overlayed   
-ing form: overlaying   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Put something on top of something else

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

cover; overlay

Context example:

cover the meat with a lot of gravy

Verb group:

cover (provide with a covering or cause to be covered)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "overlay"):

splash (mark or overlay with patches of contrasting color or texture; cause to appear splashed or spattered)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

overlay; overlayer (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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Kill by lying on

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

overlay; overlie

Context example:

The sow overlay her piglets

Hypernyms (to "overlay" is one way to...):

kill (cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

The harsh coat is medium to long, with a dense under coat and a straight, black-tipped, outer coat which produces a characteristic black overlay.

(Belgian Tervuren, NCI Thesaurus)

And yet there were indications there, had they not been overlaid by other details which concealed their true import.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The subsequent overlay of several graphene and hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) fabrics creates an active region, which enables charge storage.

(Washable, wearable battery-like devices could be woven directly into clothes, University of Cambridge)

The use of imaging techniques to provide the basis for therapy. eg. commonly used for surgery, such tools enable surgeons to visualize internal structures through an automated overlay of 3D reconstructions of internal anatomy on top of live video views of a patient.

(Imaging Guided Therapy, NCI Thesaurus/OSP)

The researchers overlaid a grid of one-degree-square segments onto a map of the region and analyzed the recorded levels of surface ozone, amounts of fine particulate matter (pollution) and maximum temperatures between April and September for each roughly 69-by-69-mile section of the map.

(Dangers of Concurrent Heat Waves, Air Pollution, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A specific area of interest defined by a sequence of image overlays or a sequence of contours described as a single point (for a point ROI) or more than one point (representing and open or closed polygon).

(Imaging Region of Interest, NCI Thesaurus)

When we overlaid the radio and optical images, we could see straight away that the fast radio burst pierced the halo of this coincident foreground galaxy and, for the first time, we had a direct way of investigating the otherwise invisible matter surrounding this galaxy, said coauthor Cherie Day, a PhD student at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia.

(Enigmatic radio burst illuminates a galaxy’s tranquil ​halo, ESO)

What was vital was overlaid and hidden by what was irrelevant.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)