Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. Past tense and past participle of overlay1.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In heraldry, lapping over; doubled for a part of its length.
- In entomology, seeming as if covered with a semi-transparent pigment through which the markings are dimly visible: as, basal portion of the wing overlaid with ochraceous.
Wiktionary
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of overlay.
Examples
“Beside it was a sticker with the word Vampires overlaid with a cross bar.”
“Sounds almost exactly like `f---' ...word overlaid with title music.”
“But in every part gold was lavished with the utmost profusion; within and without, the floor, the walls, the ceiling, in short, the whole house is described as overlaid with gold.”
“On the mixed content test that has video titles overlaid on a film-based background image, the player exhibits slight combing artifacts as the video title is first introduced but it quickly locks to the signal and cleans up the text.”
“But I like the idea of overlaid comments (though I think Hoodwink’d does it better). reply”
“YouTube partners are included in the site’s new revenue models such as overlaid in-video ads and video syndication through AdSense.”
“Writing in the second century AD, the biographer Suetonius employed the word luxuria to characterize the degenerate behavior of Emperor Nero, whose habits he said included traveling with a thousand carriages pulled by mules shod with silver, and entertaining in his wildly extravagant palace, which he had overlaid with gold and fitted with pipes to spray perfume on his guests.”
“A large abstract painting in deep, dramatic colors with an overlaid Hebrew inscription hangs above six large Torah scrolls resting in a cabinet veiled in sheer fabric.”
“It renders its judgments through their actions, not through overlaid assumptions, and succinctly frames a moral quandary that exceeds the life of the story's subjects.”
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“He shot the documentary follow up to the Titanic, Titanic, Ghosts of the Abyss where 3D was a tool to enable you to immerse yourself in the underwater world and splendour, rather than an extra gimmick overlaid onto an otherwise fine (or in the case of all other 3D films I have seen, very much far from fine).”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘overlaid’.
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It's Over: A Beginning
Terms that start with the string over-, beginning with overanxious.
Your entries are welcome.
overanxious, overachiever, oversimplified, overdone, overaccentuate, overact, overadjustment, overage, overaggressive, overalert, overalls, overambitious and 138 more...
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Coruscatingly what?
List of adjectival terms, from aggressive to zippered, paired in printed materials with the adverb coruscatingly, identified by a simple query to Google Search (Books).
...propaedeutic...aggressive, angry, articulate, astringent, aware, beautiful, big, blinding, bright, brilliant, brutal, cerebral and 93 more...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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