Overlay can be categorized as a noun and a verb.
Verb |
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| overlay - put something on top of something else; "cover the meat with a lot of gravy" | ||
| overlay - kill by lying on; "The sow overlay her piglets" | ||
Noun |
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| overlay - a layer of decorative material (such as gold leaf or wood veneer) applied over a surface | ||
| overlay - protective covering consisting, for example, of a layer of boards applied to the studs and joists of a building to strengthen it and serve as a foundation for a weatherproof exterior |
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| 1. | verb | The sow overlay her piglets. | |
| 2. | noun | By 1969 the debate over virtual memory for commercial computers was over. An IBM research team led by David Sayre showed that their virtual memory overlay system consistently worked better than the best manually controlled systems. | |
| 3. | noun | Reels employs Instagram’s preexisting augmented reality effects, which let users overlay images and filters onto their videos. |
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| The sow overlay her piglets. |
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| By 1969 the debate over virtual memory for commercial computers was over. An IBM research team led by David Sayre showed that their virtual memory overlay system consistently worked better than the best manually controlled systems. | |
| Reels employs Instagram’s preexisting augmented reality effects, which let users overlay images and filters onto their videos. | |