Word Finder - overlapping

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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.

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The situation in which things overlap.

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That overlaps something else

There are five free sepals, overlapping in the bud, and, alternating with these, five free petals.

The leaves of the cypresses are scale-like, overlapping and generally in four rows; the female catkins are roundish, and fewer than the male; the cones consist of from six to ten peltate woody scales, which end in a curved point, and open when the seeds are ripe; the seeds are numerous and winged.

The local councils do what is possible to prevent overlapping and excessive competition between the churches.

So on throughout the year with other crops, this system of intercropping or overlapping of one crop with another is carried out in a most ingenious manner, not only under glass lights, but also in the open air.

The head bears a pair of horn-like scutes, and the scutes of the carapace and tail, which are loosely opposed or slightly overlapping, form a number of transverse rows.

Some of the Italian terremare show quadrangular constructions made like the modern log houses, of undressed tree trunks superposed longitudinally and overlapping at the ends, as at Castione in the province of Parma.

To prevent this overlapping of images, and yet to admit a good deal of light, is one main object of the lens which usually forms part of the camera obscura.

But an investigation of dependent lines which are often incommensurable forces us to adopt the contradictory fiction of partially overlapping, i.e.

In this use the term loses, of course, its morphoI logical value, and it is better to call such a segment of a broken-up I stele a meristele, the whole solenostele with overlapping leaf-gaps being called a dictyostele.

In addition to these wave-lengths there are other groups centred round the wave-lengths which are submultiples of the principal one - the overlapping spectra of the second and higher orders.

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.

In these batrachians the pectoral arch falls into two distinct types - the arciferous, in which the precoracoid (+clavicle) and coracoid are widely separated from each other distally and connected by an arched cartilage (the epicoracoid), the right usually overlapping the left; and the firmi- sternal, in which both precoracoid and coracoid nearly abut on the median line, and are only narrowly separated by the more or less fused epicoracoids.

Thus Hincmar, archbishop of Reims, complains that not only his metropolitanate (dioecesis) but his bishopric (parochia) is divided between two realms under two kings; and this inconvenient overlapping of jurisdictions remained, in fact, very common in Europe until the readjustments of national boundaries by the territorial settlements of the 19th century.

This is typically the name of the overlapping gene preceded by the laboratory prefix.

In effect, a spectrogram is built up from a multitude of power spectra of short, overlapping time segments of the signal.

The main part of it consists of a band of five chief islands, so closely adjoining and overlapping each other that they have long been known collectively as "the great Andaman."

The Notonectidae breathe mostly through the thoracic spiracles; the air is conveyed to these from the tail-end, which is brought to the surface, along a kind of tunnel formed by overlapping hairs.

Schuster, who has considered the matter very fully, has found evidence of the existence of other periods-notably 8.4 and 4.8 years-in addition to the recognized period of 11.125 years, and he regards the difference between the maxima in successive II-year periods as due at least partly to an overlapping of maxima from the several periodic terms. This cannot, however, account for all the fluctuations observed in sun-spot frequencies, unless other considerably longer periods exist.

Their chambers are rudely but strongly built, with dome-shaped roofs, formed by overlapping the successive courses of the upper part of the side walls.

He felt the good and bad within himself inextricably mingled and overlapping.

I remember your darkly woven poetry; your saturated tapestry of overlapping stories.

Consider leaning three pieces, overlapping their edges.

Avoid compressing the insulation or overlapping it.

Leave an inch or so for overlapping and stapling.

Curiously enough, it is from Schleiermacher's philosophical ethics that a threefold division - the Chief Good, Virtues, and Duty or the Law - passed into almost all text-books of Christian Ethics, till recently a rebellion rose against it on the ground of redundancy and overlapping.

Further, against the Platonic list it may be urged (I) that it is arbitrary, and (2) that the several virtues are not specifically distinct, that the basis of the division is unsound, and that there is overlapping.

Rounded neckline with 3/4 length sleeves, darted bodice with overlapping shaped seam, decorated with two big pale blue buttons.

In another quick breakaway, Varney fed the overlapping Wilson, whose momentum made him a good bet to get past Ben Moore.

There is also the frequent use of overlapping scales, which might derive from Chinese celadon.

Of these 4 overlaps were found to contain sequence variants between the sequence of the two overlapping clones.

The map consisted of multiple overlapping fragments of DNA, arranged in the correct order.

Moth & Butterfly Wing Scales Wing of a noctuid moth & Butterfly Wing Scales Wing of a noctuid moth (Noctuidae) showing how the ordinary surface wing scales lie in overlapping rows.

Relatively short fronds growing almost vertically that are congested with overlapping pinnae giving a very dense appearance.

All vessels were built in the clinker style, using overlapping planks fastened together with iron nails.

The leaves are alternate, 7-16 cm long, with a strongly toothed margin, with one side longer than the other and overlapping.

That sub-regions framed on this principle should show interrelations and some degree of overlapping is only what might have been expected, and, in fact, confirms the validity of the principle adopted.

The arrangement of the leaves on the stem and branches (see Phyllotaxy, below) is such as to prevent the upper leaves shading the lower, and the shape of the leaf serves towards the same end - the disposition of leaves on a branch or stem is often seen to form a "mosaic," each leaf fitting into the space between neighbouring leaves and the branch on which they are borne without overlapping.

Among the Malacostraca some Schizopoda, the Cumacea, Tanaidacea, Isopoda and Amphipoda (sometimes grouped all together as Peracarida) have a marsupium or brood-pouch formed by overlapping plates attached to the bases of some of the thoracic legs.

Since the SRTM data should be the same for any overlapping edge cells, this should not make any difference.

This ensures that you don't experience overlapping frequencies.

The most convenient and simple-to-use wraps generally have an overlapping front cover.

Add a stem made from a short piece of floral wire to each "flower" by wrapping around the bottom of the sock flower and overlapping the stem.

If it is expected that more than one person will be working in the kitchen, overlapping work triangles should be avoided.

Are any teeth overlapping, crooked, or sticking out?

Use a small flower punch to punch six to eight flowers from several shades or cardstock, and arrange on the base, slightly overlapping the flowers.

You can place them diagonally or overlapping one another instead of the basic block placement that picture albums dictate.

Pipe continuously, make loops, curves and turns, but never overlapping the lines or leaving any "loose" ends.

The leaves are cut into deep segments, and the leaf-stalks overlapping each other, from a sort of spurious stem 1 foot or 14 inches high, marbled and spotted with purplish-black.

It is a bold plant, standing rigidly erect to a height of 5 or 6 feet, with large heart-shaped leaves and purple Thistle-like flower heads, wrapped in overlapping bracts.

Leaves of yellow green while young, the leaf-lobes much curved and overlapping.