Overlay vs Laminate - 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 assemble from thin sheets glued together.
* We'll laminate the piece of wood with grain going in different directions to make a really strong hull for the boat.
To cover something flat, usually paper, in adhesive protective plastic.
To form, as metal, into a thin plate, as by rolling.
To cause to separate into thin plates or layers; to divide into thin plates.
Consisting of, or covered with, laminae, or thin plates, scales, or layers, one over another; laminated.
As verbs the difference between overlay and laminate
is that overlay is to lay, or spread, something over or across; to cover while laminate is to assemble from thin sheets glued together.As nouns the difference between overlay and laminate
is that overlay is a piece of paper pasted upon the tympan sheet to improve the impression by making it stronger at a particular place while laminate is material formed of thin sheets glued together.As an adjective laminate is
consisting of, or covered with, laminae, or thin plates, scales, or layers, one over another; laminated.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.
