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Overlaid vs Overland - What's the difference?

overlaid | overland |

As a verb overlaid

is (overlay).

As a noun overland is

(travel) a trip by land between the uk and the indian sub-continent or australia, or between the uk and south africa.

As an adjective overland is

by or across land, especially of travel.

As an adverb overland is

over, across, or by land.

overlaid

English

Verb

(head)
  • (overlay)

    • 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.

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    overland

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (travel) a trip by land between the UK and the Indian Sub-continent or Australia, or between the UK and South Africa.

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • by or across land, especially of travel
  • *1609 , , III.v
  • *:So, sir. I desire of you
  • *:A conduct overland to Milford Haven.

    • Adverb

    (-)
  • Over, across, or by land.
  • * 1589 , (ed.), Russia at the Close of the Sixteenth Century , T. Richards (1856), page 317:
    • To prevent this, he practised that none of the Companies servauntes shuld be suffered to goe overland with letters.
  • * 1786 , , reproduced in Charles Ross (ed.), Correspondence of Charles, First Marquis Cornwallis , volume 1, second edition, John Murray (1859), page 247:
    • The packet that was coming to us overland , and that left England in July, was cut off by the wild Arabs between Aleppo and Bussora.
  • * 2008 , , Connecting Histories in Afghanistan , Stanford University Press (2011), ISBN 978-0-8047-7411-6, page 57:
    • It is unclear whether the Peshin sayyid traveled overland' or by ship to Bombay from where he accompanied the goods by sea to Karachi or one of the smaller ports in Sind, then ' overland to Bela, Kelat, Qandahar, Kabul, and Bukhara.