Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A superficial covering.
  • noun In printing, the act or art of using overlays.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A superficial covering; a coating.

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  • verb Present participle of overlay.

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Examples

  • But now, on-the-fly subtitle overlaying can be done by any television channel, as the suite is fixed to the broadcasters 'main server, "said Mahesh Kulkarni, programme coordinator of Graphic Intelligence Based Script Technology (Gist), the group at C-DAC which works on multilingual computing tools.

    Analysis 2010

  • His books are chiefly notable for the printing of the woodcuts, which by the process known as overlaying, he brought to great perfection.

    A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898 Henry R. Plomer 1901

  • Augmented reality - the idea of overlaying relevant digital information on top of a view of the real world - is, in a word, futuristic.

    WN.com - Articles related to CEVA DSP Powers Samsung's First Generation LTE Modem 2010

  • Augmented reality - the idea of overlaying the virtual world onto the physical world, typically via the lens of a mobile device - may have been one of the buzziest tech topics of the year, yet most everyone can agree that it's a next-generation technology trying to find its way into the present.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Web 2.0 2009

  • Augmented reality - the idea of overlaying the virtual world onto the physical world, typically via the lens of a mobile device - may have been one of the buzziest tech topics of the year, yet most everyone can agree that it's a next-generation technology trying to find its way into the present.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Web 2.0 2009

  • And you also point out the problem of students forgetting, or perhaps, "overlaying" whatever we teach them.

    Archive 2005-10-01 2005

  • And you also point out the problem of students forgetting, or perhaps, "overlaying" whatever we teach them.

    Teaching Research - Get Real! 2005

  • In particular, it would be great if those who create map mashups, such as overlaying crime data on a map, would be able to easily get links to their maps associated with the Yahoo Local page.

    Search Engine Watch Blog 2009

  • His father, Ben Smallwood, who had drunk 15 cans of lager while celebrating New Year's Eve at his parents 'home, was arrested at the time on suspicion of' overlaying '.

    Whitehaven News headlines 2009

  • His father, Ben Smallwood, who had drunk 15 cans of lager while celebrating New Year's Eve at his parents 'home, was arrested at the time on suspicion of' overlaying '.

    Whitehaven News headlines 2009

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