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Something that overlaps or is overlapped

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A situation in the game where an attacking line has more players in it than the defensive line coming to meet it. The attacking side may exploit the overlap by using their superior numbers to break the opposition's defensive line. If attackers outnumber defenders by more than one player this is often termed a two man overlap or three man overlap, etc. If the attacking side fails to break through usually due to poor execution, they are said to waste an overlap.

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The payment of a spouse's or other dependant's annuity benefits concurrently with the member's benefits, on death of the member during the guarantee period.

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To extend over and partly cover something.

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The mouse-mat overlapped the edge of the desk.

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To have an area, range, character or function in common.

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The two maps overlapped at the east and west edges.

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Of sets: to have some elements in common.

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The set (all men) overlaps the set (vegetarians).

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To have some similar nucleotide sequences.

The syllables overlap, and the hearing is confused.

In Propalaeohoplophorus the scutes of the carapace, which are less deeply sculptured than in the larger glyptodonts, are arranged in distinct transverse rows, in three of which they partially overlap near the border of the carapace after the fashion of the armadillos.

If be less than this, the images overlap too much; while if greatly exceed the above value the images become unnecessarily separated.

In large halls the words of a speaker are echoed or reflected from flat walls or roof or floor; and these reflected sounds follow the direct sounds at such an interval that syllables and words overlap, to the confusion of the speech and the annoyance of the audience.

Hence, although the two groups overlap owing to their nearness, it is impossible to regard them as all one unit.

The terga and pleura of each individual segment overlap those of the segment that serially succeeds it.

The fauna of Liberia is sufficiently peculiar, at any rate as regards vertebrates, to make it very nearly identical with a "district" or sub-province of the West African province, though in this case the Liberian "district" would not include the northernmost portions of the country and would overlap on the east and west into Sierra Leone and the French Ivory Coast.

The anterior half of the sclerotic is composed of a ring of some ten to seventeen cartilaginous or bony scales which partly overlap each other.

As this increases from zero, the two processions which correspond to the two halves of the aperture begin to overlap, and the overlapping gradually increases until there is almost complete superposition.

Especially in alligators the upper teeth overlap laterally those of the lower jaw, whilst in most crocodiles the overlapping is less marked and the teeth mostly interlock, a feature which increases with the slenderness of the snout.

Those who work with living forms of which it is possible to obtain a large number of specimens, and those who make revisions of the provisional species of palaeontologists, are slowly coming to some such conception as that a species is the abstract central point around which a group of variations oscillate, and that the peripheral oscillations of one species may even overlap those of an allied species.

Eventually, when the right and left feet of the coracoids overlap each other, the anterior sternal spine contains a foramen.

Hence the clergy were left to do as they pleased, so long as they respected the law of the land; and most of the modern collisions between Church and State have occurred on the debateable ground where their respective spheres overlap, over questions concerning education or the marriage-laws.

But the habitats overlap, and persimmons and magnolias of different species are common and notable in both areas.

Hoogezand and Sappemeer, Veendam and Wildervank, New and Old Pekela, New and Old Stads-Canal are instances of villages which have extended until they overlap one another and are similar in this respect to the industrial villages of the Zaan Streek in North Holland.

The line of demarcation cannot be very sharply drawn, as the zones everywhere overlap each other and local climatic conditions greatly modify plant types.

Indeed, the original interior border of the plain has been well stripped from its inland overlap; the higher-standing inner part of the plain is now maturely dissected, with a relief of 200 to 500 ft., by rivers extended seaward from the older land anti by their inntimerable branches, which are often of insequent arrangement; while the seaward border, latest uplifted, is prevailingly low and smooth, with a hardly perceptible seaward slope of but a few feet in a mile; and the shallow sea deepens very gradually for many nules off shore.

There is good reason for believing that at least along the southern border of New England a narrow coastal plain was for a time added to the continental border; and that, as in the New Jersey section the plain was here stripped from a significant breadth of inland overlap and worn down so as to form an inner lowland enclosed by a longitudinal upland or cuesta; and that when this stage was reached a submergence, of the kind which has produced the many embayments of the New England coast, drowned the outer part of thy plain and the inner lowland, leaving only the higher parts of the cuesta as islands.

Whereas, however, ordinary frames placed nearer together than their height overlap one another when lowered on to the apron, the trestles of the Louisa weir lie clear of each other quite flat on the apron.

B an enlarged portion of the edge of the shell along the back, showing the overlap of each growth.

The two modes of progression overlap in human life, but the child's tendency when learning is to rest on the soles of the feet and the palms of the hands, unlike the apes, which support themselves on the sides of the feet and the bent knuckles of the hands.

There is no exact overlap between the informal economy and irregular migrants.

Overlap the fabric on both sides, pulling the cloth around baby so that it fits snugly.

You can overlap the pictures if you like for an artistic effect.

Relevant market The parties overlap in the supply of radio advertising airtime in parts of South West England.

It ends up with two ligands overlap with each other while the 2-fold axis goes in the middle.

Boundary categories include civil, judicial and ecclesiastical with some overlap.

The majority, however, may have considerable overlap or may be based on a rather loose association of clinical features.

The overlap of Peru's coca cultivation regions and the traditional SL strongholds suggest SL involvement in aspects of local drug trade.

The plank join scarfs are staggered so that they do not overlap and the stem post has a pronounced cutwater.

The program tests for linear dependence by calculating the eigenvalues of the overlap matrix.

The symptoms of atypical depression overlap with those associated with reactive hypoglycemia.

These categories are useful, but not inviolable, and there is much overlap in the careers of individuals.

These communities might be highly self-contained and deeply jealous of each other; they might overlap in friendly competition.

Subacute cutaneous lupus erythematosus is a mild overlap form associated with HLA DR3 and anti-Ro antibodies.

George IV has two different obverses and three different reverses, with no overlap for a single date.

There are nine ranges allowed, which overlap and span two octaves each.

Imagine you have to objects that partially overlap like shown in the figure below.

There will be a need to involve SCONUL Staffing committee to ensure there is no overlap.

Since the two aspects of SDI are not entirely separable, some overlap is going to occur.

But these processes are not strictly sequential, they may overlap and one informs the other sometimes in several cycles.

It also has a significant overlap with Lizzie's ideas about conflict between bacterial subpopulations.

Atomic spectra generally consist of many sharp lines which, in the absence of spectral overlap, appear symmetrical.

The Drs. sometime call it " overlap syndrome " .

Thermafleece should overlap the wall insulation to avoid thermal bridging at the eaves.

By the time (5.3 0) it had sufficiently cleared this village it became apparent that the 4th brigade in its extension for attack would overlap the front assigned to the and, hence a further (half-left) wheel, still in mass, had to be undertaken before room for deployment could be obtained.

There are, of course, many other parallels with St Mark, and at some points the two documents seem to overlap and to relate the same incidents in somewhat different forms. There is the same use of parables from nature, the same incisiveness of speech and employment of paradox, the same demand to sacrifice all to Him and for His cause, the same importunate claim made by Him on the human soul.

The band is then folded over and the seam sewn up, Velcro is sewn on the overlap.

Relevant markets The parties overlap in the supply of malleable iron slip-on tube fittings (or clamps).

It also has a significant overlap with Lizzie 's ideas about conflict between bacterial subpopulations.