Crossword-Solution: OVERLAY
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Overlay | v. t. | To lay, or spread, something over or across; hence, to cover; to overwhelm; to press excessively upon. |
| Overlay | v. t. | To smother with a close covering, or by lying upon. |
| Overlay | v. t. | To put an overlay on. |
| Overlay | n. | A covering. |
| Overlay | n. | A piece of paper pasted upon the tympan sheet to improve the impression by making it stronger at a particular place. |
| Overlay | imp. | of Overlie |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| OVERLAY | anagram | LAYOVER |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AREET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with OVERLAY (5)
Thou hast atchiev’d our libertie, confin’d Within Hell Gates till now, thou us impow’rd To fortifie thus farr, and overlay With this portentous Bridge the dark Abyss.
More mundanely, the dominant technology for mass duplication of paper documents in pre-photocopying days involved "cutting a stencil", punching away portions of the wax overlay on a silk screen.
There were jars done in a delicate overlay, like pine cones; and there were many patterns in a low relief, like basket-work.
Nor wanted clouds of foot, nor, on each horn, Cuirassiers all in steel for standing fight, Chariots, or elephants indorsed with towers Of archers; nor of labouring pioners 330 A multitude, with spades and axes armed, To lay hills plain, fell woods, or valleys fill, Or where plain was raise hill, or overlay With bridges rivers proud, as with a yoke: Mules after these, camels and dromedaries, And waggons fraught with utensils of war.
Towards nine o’clock he smoothed his ruffled aspect, and, presenting as respectable and business-like an exterior as he could overlay his natural self with, issued forth to the occupation of the day.
Quotes with OVERLAY (3)
The pattern glitters with cruelty. The blue beads are colored with fish blood, the reds with powdered heart. The beads collect in borders of mercy. The yellows are dyed with the ocher of silence. There is no telling which twin will fall asleep first, allowing the other's colors to dominate, for how long. The design grows, the overlay deepens. The beaders have no other order at the heart of their being. Do you know that the beads are sewn onto the fabric of the earth with endl…
Who can ever affirm, or deny that the houses which have sheltered us as children, or as adults, and our predecessors too, do not have embedded in their walls, one with the dust and cobwebs, one with the overlay of fresh wallpaper and paint, the imprint of what-has-been, the suffering, the joy?
He was changed as completely as Amory Blaine could ever be changed. Amory plus Beatrice plus two years in Minneapolis - these had been his ingredients when he entered St. Regis'. But the Minneapolis years were not a thick enough overlay to conceal the "Amory plus Beatrice" from the ferreting eyes of a boarding school, so St. Regis' had very painfully drilled Beatrice out of him and begun to lay down new and more conventional planking on the fundamental Amory. But both St. Reg…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 20 times in crossword archives (1965–2021).