verb

definition

To lay, spread, or apply something over or across; cover.

definition

To overwhelm; to press excessively upon.

definition

To lie over (someone, especially a child) in order to smother it; to suffocate.

definition

To put an overlay on.

noun

definition

Overlaid ornamentation

Examples of overlaying in a Sentence

All these difficulties have to be rectified by the printer either overlaying or cutting away pieces in this first trial sheet.

In the mud was a deer track, and overlaying it, the paw print of a big cat — too big to be a bobcat.

Though, thanks to the overlaying porous pumice, the Taupo plateau is not fertile, it has a good rainfall and is drained by unfailing rivers running through deep terraced ravines.

To keep the strands from directly overlaying each other and so adhering, the last guide through which the silk passes has a reciprocating motion whereby the fibre is distributed within certain limits over the reel.

If the " set " of the cylinder is about correct, and the impression sheet has been taken with neither too many nor too few sheets on the cylinder, it will be a matter rather of overlaying, or " patching up," than of cutting away from this trial sheet.

After underlaying, and to emphasize the respective degrees of light and shade in the illustrations, a separate and careful overlaying is required for the blocks before anything is done to the main forme.

But with half-tone process illustrations very little overlaying is required, provided the blocks have been brought up to the proper height by underlaying in the first instance - the various tones being already in the block itself - and it is little more than a matter of sharp, hard impression to give full effect to these, if both paper and ink are suitable.

In the mud was a deer track, and overlaying it, the paw print of a big cat — too big to be a bobcat.

Look for topographic association by overlaying contours or shaded relief.

The Bird's Eye Views let you view real locations with street names and building names overlaying the picture.

This build-up of overlaying story-lines is a bit of a Lucas trademark.

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