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Overlapping   /ˈoʊvərlˌæpɪŋ/   Listen
Overlapping

noun
1.
Covering with a design in which one element covers a part of another (as with tiles or shingles).  Synonyms: imbrication, lapping.


Overlap

verb
1.
Coincide partially or wholly.
2.
Extend over and cover a part of.





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"Overlapping" Quotes from Famous Books



... of property has been mortgaged to supply the subscriptions to the war loans, and those holdings have again been hypothecated to subscribe to subsequent loans. The Pledged Allies with longer stockings have not yet got to this pitch of overlapping. But everywhere in Europe what is happening is a great transformation of the property owner into a rentier, and the passing of realty into the ...
— What is Coming? • H. G. Wells
... minutes worming their way through the press that packed the corridors of City Hall. Groups were bulked at the doors admitting to the aldermen's room—men thatched against each other and overlapping like bees in a swarm at the ...
— The Landloper - The Romance Of A Man On Foot • Holman Day
... basin of Mono, with its one bare lake fourteen miles long; Owen's Valley and the broad lava table-land at its head, dotted with craters, and the massive Inyo Range, rivaling even the Sierra in height; these are spread, map-like, beneath you, with countless ranges beyond, passing and overlapping one another and fading on the ...
— The Mountains of California • John Muir
... witnessing the despair of a soul repulsing an opportunity of righteousness, and yet not so far dead as not to know its worth. She tried to speak, but found herself, as at other times, so affected by his overlapping emotion that she was trembling and had ...
— The Mormon Prophet • Lily Dougall
... small girls, covered the sides with glazed paper on machines; and as fast as each box was thus covered it was tossed to the "turner-in," a still smaller girl, who turned in the overlapping edge of the strip, after which the box was ready to come back to the table for the next ...
— The Long Day - The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself • Dorothy Richardson


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