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Imbricated vs Overlapping - What's the difference?

imbricated | overlapping |

As adjectives the difference between imbricated and overlapping

is that imbricated is overlapping, like scales or roof-tiles; intertwined while overlapping is pertaining to something that overlaps something else.

As a verb overlapping is

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As a noun overlapping is

the situation in which things overlap.

imbricated

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Overlapping, like scales or roof-tiles; intertwined.
  • * 1965 , John Fowles, The Magus :
    • He stopped speaking for a moment, like a man walking who comes to a brink; perhaps it was an artful pause, but it made the stars, the night, seem to wait, as if story, narration, history, lay imbricated in the nature of things; and the cosmos was for the story, not the story for the cosmos.
  • * 1996 , Russell Hoban, Fremder , Bloomsbury 2003, p. 50:
    • the spaceport filled up with emptiness and that imbricated silence made up of the low roar of the air-cycling system, the hum of the robot sweepers, the sizzle of the noctolux lamps, and the sound of distant footsteps.

    overlapping

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pertaining to something that overlaps something else.
    • 1851' ''A long-skirted, cabalistically-cut coat of a faded walnut tinge enveloped him; the '''overlapping sleeves of which were rolled up on his wrists.'' — Herman Melville, Moby Dick.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The situation in which things overlap.