Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The action or effect which occurs when one thing overlaps another; the production or the essential character of an overlap. Specifically
- noun In psychology, the supplanting of one mental disposition or of one combination of mental processes by another and more powerful disposition or combination, without appreciable conflict.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective same as
clinker-built ; -- of ships. - noun A covering with an overlapping design, as with tiles or shingles.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
overlap . - adjective Pertaining to something that overlaps something else.
- noun The situation in which things overlap.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun covering with a design in which one element covers a part of another (as with tiles or shingles)
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Analyst Adrian Salbuchi from Argentina, proposes a Model that helps to understand the dynamics of what is currently taking place in the world, which he defines as the overlapping and increasingly violent process that marks the end of
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Model that helps to understand the dynamics of what is currently taking place in the world, which he defines as the overlapping and increasingly violent process that marks the end of
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Model that helps to understand the dynamics of what is currently taking place in the world, which he defines as the overlapping and increasingly violent process that marks the end of
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Analyst Adrian Salbuchi from Argentina, proposes a Model that helps to understand the dynamics of what is currently taking place in the world, which he defines as the overlapping and increasingly violent process that marks the end of Globalization and the birth of World
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Analyst Adrian Salbuchi from Argentina, proposes a Model that helps to understand the dynamics of what is currently taking place in the world, which he defines as the overlapping and increasingly violent process that marks the end of Globalization and the birth of World
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Their spending shifts the frame of reference that shapes the demands of those just below them, who travel in overlapping social circles ...
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Hupsu, armored in overlapping plates of gleaming steel that accentuated rather than disguised his mighty frame, ignored her.
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Other debris told Miller and his crews that the church was roofed in overlapping flat brick plates.
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Arrange alternating slices of the thinly sliced vegetables in overlapping rings from the outside to the inside of the baking dish.
The Dinners of Summer Sarah 2009
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Arrange alternating slices of the thinly sliced vegetables in overlapping rings from the outside to the inside of the baking dish.
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