Definitions for overlaid
overlaid
o·ver·laid
Spelling: [oh-ver-leyd]
IPA: /ˌoʊ vərˈleɪd/
Overlaid is a 8 letter English word.
It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points.
It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.
You can make 399 anagrams from letters in overlaid (adeilorv).
Definitions for overlaid
noun
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something laid over something else; covering.
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a layer or decoration of something applied:
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Printing.
a shaped piece of paper, or a sheet of paper reinforced at the proper places by shaped pieces, put on the tympan of a press to increase or equalize the impression.
a method of preparing copy for multicolor printing, in which matter for each color is prepared on a transparent sheet that is placed over a key plate, usually the one to be printed in black.
the sheet or sheets so prepared.
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a sheet of transparent paper placed over a photograph, a dummy, or other artwork for noting corrections, instructions, mechanical separations, etc.
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Computers. software or data in external storage and brought into main storage for execution by replacing or augmenting software or data already there.
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a transparent sheet giving special military information not ordinarily shown on maps, used by being placed over the map on which it is based.
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a decorative piece of leather or other material stitched on a shoe.
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Scot. a cravat.
verb
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simple past tense and past participle of overlay1 .
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simple past tense of overlie.
verb (used with object)
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to lay or place (one thing) over or upon another.
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to cover, overspread, or surmount with something.
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to finish with a layer or applied decoration of something:
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Printing. to put an overlay upon.
Origin of overlaid
Middle English word dating back to 1250-1300; See origin at over-, lay1
Examples for overlaid
But in these days she overlaid her life with gladness and made her house pleasant for her sons.
They grow as he grows; they are a kind of composition with which his own philosophy is overlaid.
The sun and wind had overlaid the delicate bloom of her cheek with rose.
That again got overlaid by the sans-façon of a grande dame of the Second Empire.
The trunks of the birch-trees, the slumbering leaves were overlaid with silver.
These air-holes are overlaid loosely with flags and other light materials.
The plaque honoring “la Nueve” speaks to how memory is often overlaid by the hedging of history.
There was interest in his mind, overlaid with skepticism, of course, but interest all the same.
The repressiveness of the Burmese junta is overlaid with mysticism that can often border on the bizarre.
They were constructed of ivory and jet, and their capitals were overlaid with the purest gold.