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overlay

verb as in cover

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This is being made possible by way of a new “recipe” button overlaid on related TikTok food videos.

The team sketched out the idea by overlaying data about human behavior onto three well-studied wildlife corridors.

We’ve been creating edited video segments with Robert doing voice over and overlaying animation all of which we’ve been posting to social.

At times, the word is used as shorthand for images with overlaid text, but the core idea is that memes travel from one person to the next, online or off.

A capture from BadVR’s augmented reality geospatial data environment, which allows users to visualize multiple live and historical datasets via overlays relevant to their environment.

The cards can also be coated with a thin corn-based plastic overlay.

The Queen's couturier, Angela Kell, will create Prince George's replica, which will feature cap sleeves and a cotton lace overlay.

Phillips mediates the darkness of the crime with an overlay of fiction.

You can also overlay census data showing where the population of women of reproductive age (15–44) live.

And the disclosure that Abedin is pregnant added an overlay of pathos to the seamy tale.

No matter how much overlay you pile on top of such a phobia to suppress it, it will continue to haunt you.

The picture on the next stone, which is to overlay the first, gives more detail.

This is shown in the beaten bronzes, thin plates of which were used to overlay wooden forms.

Wind from the small end of the pointed tin tubes called lady lock sticks, and have each layer slightly overlay the preceding one.

But, it may be asked, what has become of the beds that overlay the granite?

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On this page you'll find 46 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to overlay, such as: superimpose, coat, glaze, pave, plate, and spread.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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