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"text": "Near-synonyms: cover, superimpose, superpose"
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"text": "She will now overlay the crust with fruit.",
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"text": "She will now overlay fruit on top of the crust.",
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"ref": "1943 March and April, “A British Avalanche Shelter”, in Railway Magazine, page 80",
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"(transitive) To lay, spread, or apply (something) over or across (something else)."
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"ref": "1692, John Dryden, Cleomenes, the Spartan Hero, a Tragedy",
"text": "a heap of ashes that o'erlays your fire",
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"ref": "1993, Pat Barker, The Eye in the Door (The Regeneration Trilogy), Penguin, published 2014, page 371",
"text": "Prostitutes, thieves, girls who ‘overlaid’ their babies, abortionists who stuck their knitting needles into something vital – did they really need to be here?",
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"(transitive, now rare, archaic) To lie over (someone, especially a child) in order to smother it; to suffocate."
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"To put an overlay on."
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"(transitive, printing) To put an overlay on."
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"word": "peittää"
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"ref": "1890, The Twentieth Century, volume 27, page 934",
"text": "[…] he has 'overlaid' his book, and has not succeeded in 'getting round' by bets against the other horses.",
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"To bet too much money on."
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"(transitive, gambling) To bet too much money on."
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"word": "currency overlay"
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"(printing) A piece of paper pasted upon the tympan sheet to improve the impression by making it stronger at a particular place."
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"(gambling) Odds which are set higher than expected or warranted. Favorable odds."
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"Equids",
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"Odd-toed ungulates",
"Agriculture",
"Animals",
"Human behaviour",
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"Human",
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"Nature"
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"(horse racing) A horse going off at higher odds than it appears to warrant, based on its past performances."
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"ref": "1994, Roger Frost, The IT in Secondary Science Book, page 56",
"text": "The keyboard overlay can be a memory jogger and a great help with spelling. In this way the keyboard makes word processing more accessible to younger as well as special needs children.",
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"Software",
"All topics",
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"Media",
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"Communication"
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"ref": "1986, Noel M. Morris, Computer Graphics and CAD Fundamentals: BBC Micro Version",
"text": "This concept can be extended further by allowing a primary overlay to call a secondary overlay, and so on. However, we will limit ourselves here to the use of primary overlays. Before proceeding further, you need to understand the memory map of the computer, which is a diagram showing the use to which the memory of the computer is put.",
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[
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[
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],
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"media",
"printing",
"publishing"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"en:Betting"
],
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"Odds which are set higher than expected or warranted. Favorable odds."
],
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[
"gambling",
"gambling#Noun"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(gambling) Odds which are set higher than expected or warranted. Favorable odds."
],
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"gambling",
"games"
]
},
{
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"en:Horse racing"
],
"glosses": [
"A horse going off at higher odds than it appears to warrant, based on its past performances."
],
"links": [
[
"horse racing",
"horse racing"
]
],
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"(horse racing) A horse going off at higher odds than it appears to warrant, based on its past performances."
],
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"hobbies",
"horse-racing",
"horseracing",
"horses",
"lifestyle",
"pets",
"racing",
"sports"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
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{
"ref": "1994, Roger Frost, The IT in Secondary Science Book, page 56",
"text": "The keyboard overlay can be a memory jogger and a great help with spelling. In this way the keyboard makes word processing more accessible to younger as well as special needs children.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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],
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[
"computer",
"computer"
],
[
"keyboard",
"keyboard"
],
[
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"relabel"
],
[
"key",
"key"
]
],
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"word": "keystrip"
}
]
},
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"English terms with quotations",
"en:Programming"
],
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{
"ref": "1986, Noel M. Morris, Computer Graphics and CAD Fundamentals: BBC Micro Version",
"text": "This concept can be extended further by allowing a primary overlay to call a secondary overlay, and so on. However, we will limit ourselves here to the use of primary overlays. Before proceeding further, you need to understand the memory map of the computer, which is a diagram showing the use to which the memory of the computer is put.",
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}
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[
"block",
"block"
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[
"program",
"program"
],
[
"code",
"code"
],
[
"load",
"load"
],
[
"replace",
"replace"
],
[
"functionality",
"functionality"
]
],
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"(programming) A block of program code that is loaded over something previously loaded, so as to replace the functionality."
],
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"computing",
"engineering",
"mathematics",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences",
"programming",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"en:Internet"
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"A pop-up covering an existing part of the display."
],
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[
"Internet",
"Internet"
],
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"pop-up",
"pop-up"
]
],
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"(Internet) A pop-up covering an existing part of the display."
],
"tags": [
"Internet"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Scottish English"
],
"glosses": [
"A cravat."
],
"links": [
[
"cravat",
"cravat"
]
],
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"(Scotland) A cravat."
],
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"Scotland"
]
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"English terms with quotations"
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{
"ref": "1943 March and April, “A British Avalanche Shelter”, in Railway Magazine, page 80",
"text": "The first, on January 1, 1883, was attributed to the overlay becoming surcharged with water, due to insufficient drainage, and causing a slip.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1980 August 2, George Whitmore, “Dworkin”, in Gay Community News, page 5",
"text": "I really appreciate the clear explication of Dworkin's understanding of male sexuality. In this we see, without the overlay of polemic that infuses her non-fiction, how Dworkin can proceed from basic feminist principles to create an almost seamless, sophistic argument for sexism.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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],
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]
]
}
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"General-American"
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],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
},
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"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
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"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"enpr": "ōʹvə-lā'",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
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"tags": [
"General-American"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "printing: piece of paper",
"word": "peitepaperi"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "covering over something else",
"word": "päällyste"
}
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"English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"English heteronyms",
"English non-lemma forms",
"English phrasal nouns",
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"en:Neckwear"
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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