Overlay vs Encase - What's the difference?
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To lay, or spread, something over or across; to cover.
* Spenser
* Milton
To overwhelm; to press excessively upon.
* Sir Walter Raleigh
* Bible, 1 Kings iii. 19
* Dryden
*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.
(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)
To enclose, as in a case.
*1918 , Wilhelm Muehlon, The vandal of Europe :
Overlay is a related term of encase.
As verbs the difference between overlay and encase
is that overlay is to lay, or spread, something over or across; to cover while encase is to enclose, as in a case.As a noun overlay
is (printing) a piece of paper pasted upon the tympan sheet to improve the impression by making it stronger at a particular place.overlay
English
Verb
- as when a cloud his beams doth overlay
- framed of cedar overlaid with gold
- when any country is overlaid by the multitude which live upon it
- This woman's child died in the night, because she overlaid it.
- a heap of ashes that o'erlays your fire
Noun
(en noun)- 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 heteronymsencase
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Alternative forms
* incaseVerb
(encas)- They always appeared to me like asses who gladly incase themselves in lions' skins and cheer themselves with the idea that all the world about them consists also of similarly disguised asses.