Word Finder - overlapped

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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.

There were two smaller kingdoms whose territories overlapped in between.

When the agreed-on weight is on the drum, the silk is drawn across the face of the drum parallel with its axle, and pulled off in form of a sheet, and is called a lap. This lap is thin, but presents the fibres of silk now joined and overlapped in a continuous form, the length measured by the circumference of the drum.

At other times they are at different levels, and are applied over each other, so as to be imbricated, as in lilac, and in the outer scales of sycamore; and occasionally the margin of one leaf overlaps that of another, while it in its turn is overlapped by a third, so as to be twisted, spiral or contortive.

The "finds" of stone and bronze, of bronze and iron, and even of stone and iron implements together in tumuli and sepulchral mounds, suggest that in many countries the three stages in man's progress overlapped.

But there was a danger behind this revival; for the reformers of the 11th century, in their zeal for establishing the Kingdom of God on earth, were not content with raising the moral and intellectual standards prevailing in Christendom, but sought to bring the whole scheme of life under the church, by asserting the absolute supremacy of the spiritual over the temporal power, wherever the two came in contact or overlapped.

In this case it will be seen that the part marked 5 has, by a slight change in position, become overlapped by 1.

If the relationship is very exact, so that all reflections are overlapped, the sample is a pseudo TLS twin.

The greatest response came from Centrepoint, which partly overlapped with work carried out by a theater for homeless people, Streets Alive.

I had never been to the Orient proper before either, and the impressions overlapped so fast I felt punch-drunk with pleasure.

In fact, a large number of moonstone brooches were created in the Nouveau (1890 to 1914) era, which overlapped the two periods.

The Clarks company, which took control of Ravel footwear in 1974 (originally Chaussures Ravel), reported that it would convert many of Ravel's stores to Clarks, but would close any that overlapped existing Clarks businesses.

Deep Space Nine episodes overlapped The Next Generation timeline and the two series even aired simultaneously in 1993; TNG's last season and Deep Space Nine's first.

Owing to its position, the Persian state, when it from time to time became a conquering empire, overlapped Asia Minor, Babylon and India, and hence acted as an intermediary for transmitting art and ideas, sending for instance Greek sculpture to India and the cult of Mithra to western Europe.

By daybreak on the 74th, the anniversary of Elchingen, upwards of 60,000 men stood densely battalions were sent forward, and these, delaying their advance till the fog had sufficiently lifted, were met by French skirmishers, and small columns, who rapidly overlapped their flanks and drove them back in confusion.

Many branches of the territorial administration had great similarities with those of the State, so that their spheres of activity frequently overlapped and came into collision.

The erosion of the region must have been far advanced, perhaps practically completed, in very ancient times, for the even surface of the peneplain is overlapped by fossiliferous marine strata of early geological date (Cambrian); and this shows that a depression of the region beneath an ancient sea took place after a long existence as dry land.

It is of greater altitude (Mt Marcy 5344 ft.) and of much greater relief than the Superior Oldland; its heights decrease gradually to the north, west and south, where it is unconformably overlapped by Palaeozoic strata like those of Minnesota and Wisconsin; it is of more broken structure and form on.

But when it is admitted that the ages must have overlapped, it is fairly easy to undertand the mixed "finds."

In the Ixodidae the capitulum is not overlapped by a forward extension of the dorsal area, which is smooth and firmly chitinized either in front or all over; the palpi are usually modified, that is to say, their second and third segments are usually excavated internally to form a sheath for the hypostome; there is a distinct sucker beneath the claws and the difference between the sexes is well marked, the males having the dorsal integument thickly and continuously chitinized, whereas in the females only its anterior portion bears a chitinous plate, the rest of the integument being soft to admit of its distension by the blood which is imbibed in quantity by members of this sex.