Coat vs Overlay - What's the difference?

Coat is a synonym of overlay.

As nouns the difference between coat and overlay

is that coat is (lb) an outer garment covering the upper torso and arms while overlay is (printing) a piece of paper pasted upon the tympan sheet to improve the impression by making it stronger at a particular place.

As verbs the difference between coat and overlay

is that coat is to cover with a coat of some material while overlay is to lay, or spread, something over or across; to cover.

coat

English

Alternative forms

* (l) (obsolete)

Noun

(lb) An outer garment covering the upper torso and arms.

*:It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.

*:Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days.Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.

(lb) A covering of material, such as paint.^(w)

*(John Milton) (1608-1674)

*:Fruit of all kinds, in coat / Rough or smooth rined, or bearded husk, or shell.

(lb) The fur or feathers covering an animal's skin.

Canvas painted with thick tar and secured round a mast or bowsprit to prevent water running down the sides into the hold (now made of rubber or leather).

(lb) A petticoat.

*(John Locke) (1632-1705)

*:a child in coats

The habit or vesture of an order of men, indicating the order or office; cloth.

*(Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)

*:Men of his coat should be minding their prayers.

*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:She was sought by spirits of richest coat .

A coat of arms.^(w)

*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:Hark, countrymen! either renew the fight, / Or tear the lions out of England's coat .

A coat card.

*(Philip Massinger) (1583-1640)

*:Here's a trick of discarded cards of us! We were ranked with coats as long as old master lived.

Derived terms

* buffy coat * coat of arms * greatcoat * covert-coat * overcoat

Verb

(en verb)

To cover with a coat of some material

One can buy coated frying pans, which are much easier to wash up than normal ones.

To cover as a coat.

Anagrams

* * * * 1000 English basic words

overlay

English

Verb

To lay, or spread, something over or across; to cover.

* Spenser

as when a cloud his beams doth overlay

* Milton

framed of cedar overlaid with gold

To overwhelm; to press excessively upon.

* Sir Walter Raleigh

when any country is overlaid by the multitude which live upon it

* Bible, 1 Kings iii. 19

This woman's child died in the night, because she overlaid it.

* Dryden

a heap of ashes that o'erlays your fire

*1993 , (Pat Barker), The Eye in the Door'', Penguin 2014 (''The Regeneration Trilogy ), p. 371:

*:Prostitutes, thieves, girls who ‘overlaid ’ their babies, abortionists who stuck their knitting needles into something vital – did they really need to be here?

(printing) To put an on.

Noun

(en noun)

(printing) A piece of paper pasted upon the tympan sheet to improve the impression by making it stronger at a particular place.

(betting) Odds which are set higher than expected or warranted. Favorable odds.

(horse racing) A horse going off at higher odds than it appears to warrant, based on its past performances.

A decal attached to a computer keyboard to relabel the keys.

* 1994 , Roger Frost, The IT in Secondary Science Book (page 56)

The keyboard overlay can be a memory jogger and a great help with spelling. In this way the keyboard makes word processing more accessible to younger as well as special needs children.

Anagrams

* English heteronyms