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overlap English

Meaning overlap meaning

What does overlap mean?
Definitions in simple English

overlap Verb

— Something overlaps on another thing if part of it is on top of, or at the same time as, the other thing. The shingles of a roof need to overlap to keep rain out. The shifts of the two workers (periods of time when they're working) need to overlap so that one worker can tell the other one what is happening.

overlap Noun

— The act of overlapping. The amount that two things overlap on each other. More overlap keeps the rain out better, but needs more shingles to cover the roof.

overlap

— verb coincide partially or wholly Our vacations overlap — verb extend over and cover a part of The roofs of the houses overlap in this crowded city — noun the property of partial coincidence in time — noun a representation of common ground between theories or phenomena there was no overlap between their proposals — noun (= lap) a flap that lies over another part the lap of the shingles should be at least ten inches

Synonyms overlap synonyms

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overlap English » English

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Topics overlap topics

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Conjugation overlap conjugation

How do you conjugate overlap?

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How do I use overlap in a sentence?

Simple sentences

It's clear that our arguments don't overlap at all.
Overlap can occur.
Their two shadows overlap.

Movie subtitles

They intersect, overlap, twist in and out, to form a jumble of mazes.
How the Northern hemisphere and the Southern hemisphere. get all mixed up and overlap.
Though your health hints do sort of overlap sometimes.
But you must have your guns emplaced. so that their fields of fire overlap. then if one gun is knocked out. the next will still cover the same field.
One degree to overlap.
Only the overlap time changed.
The overlap areas are highly unstable, master.
Area of overlap is highly dangerous.
The place to cut through is beyond that overlap. Where is the power unit?
Would they overlap?
Switch to VSL overlap.
Overlap.
We would need to cross-connect six units so that the fields overlap.
The hands unite to form a single unit by the simple overlap of the little finger.
We have to isolate our land, so that the plague doesn't overlap to the whole of Spain.
There are 16 TV scanners on overlap rotation.
That's the significance of making the change right after a person's death. - No overlap.
That's assuming that parallel realities occasionally overlap.
As you can see, sometimes they tend to slip and overlap into my spot.
Check with Secret Service. I don't want any overlap.
They overlap a little.
I said, overlap.
The processed gold will have undergone a subneutronic overlap shift.
Those two that overlap double blast the fat one, single shots for the other.
The two can overlap.
Should we separate them, so they don't overlap?
Oh, you think there's no overlap?
Being a gentleman, Roz, I won't point out the slight overlap there.

News and current affairs

Moreover, as alliances and tactics evolve, the categories may increasingly overlap.
And the worlds of royalty and popular fame often overlap.
Sometimes, of course, the two overlap.
Such assistance should be forthcoming, and in order to avoid bureaucratic overlap and turf conflicts, the responsibilities and priorities in dispensing it should be spelled out and agreed upon in advance by the government and these organizations.
It also noted that the IMF and World Bank overlap, so that there was no real accountability for either institution. If something went wrong, the IMF could attribute responsibility to the World Bank, and vice versa.
I showed Obama a map from my book Common Wealth, which depicts the overlap of dryland climates and conflict zones.
India is a land where history, myth, and legend often overlap; sometimes Indians cannot tell the difference.
There would have to be two sets of EU institutions, one for the eurozone and another for non-eurozone countries, although they would overlap.
None of this rules out selective cooperation with Iran, be it in Afghanistan, Syria, or Iraq, if interests overlap.
Confusing matters further is the overlap among these groups, with some even receiving state support.
As in a Venn diagram, Obama is placing the US at that central point where all the different ellipses overlap.
The overlap between the end of the accession process and heated discussions about the new European Constitution played into the hands of the opposition.
Given Russia's dependence on exports of oil and natural gas, and Ukraine's status as a major energy importer, the two countries' business cycles are likely to diverge rather than overlap.
Class and race overlap in the US.
What of Nobel Prize winner Robert Mundell's famous 1961 conjecture that national and currency borders need not significantly overlap?
By focusing on the areas in which their modernization agendas overlap - from education to public health to environmental protection - they can identify ways to increase their human capital's efficiency.
The overlap in membership between NATO and the EU makes such defense cooperation both possible and logical, if not unavoidable.
It also noted that the IMF and World Bank overlap, so that there was no real accountability for either institution.
These three trends overlap in a group of about 15 African countries that are strongly committed to accountable governance and sensible economic policies.
Political lobbies that oversee these sectors and overlap with certain factions in the Party are simply too powerful for nascent interests in society and the bureaucracy to parry.

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