overlaying's Usage Examples:

To keep the strands from directly overlaying each other and so adhering, the last guide through which the silk passes has a reciprocating motion whereby the fibre is distributed within certain limits over the reel.

In the mud was a deer track, and overlaying it, the paw print of a big cat — too big to be a bobcat.

Look for topographic association by overlaying contours or shaded relief.

In the mud was a deer track, and overlaying it, the paw print of a big cat — too big to be a bobcat.

Though, thanks to the overlaying porous pumice, the Taupo plateau is not fertile, it has a good rainfall and is drained by unfailing rivers running through deep terraced ravines.

If the " set " of the cylinder is about correct, and the impression sheet has been taken with neither too many nor too few sheets on the cylinder, it will be a matter rather of overlaying, or " patching up," than of cutting away from this trial sheet.

All these difficulties have to be rectified by the printer either overlaying or cutting away pieces in this first trial sheet.

After underlaying, and to emphasize the respective degrees of light and shade in the illustrations, a separate and careful overlaying is required for the blocks before anything is done to the main forme.

2 The process of this overlaying is easy to realize if we remember how usual it was to transfer characteristics and episodes drawn from immemorial folk-lore to successive historical personages.

Synonyms:

splash, cover,

Antonyms:

stand, clean, fall short of,