Overleap vs Overlap - What's the difference?
overleap | overlap |
To leap over, to jump over, to cross by jumping.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.7:
To pass over; to omit, leave out.
* 2012 , (Christopher Clark), The Sleepwalkers , Penguin 2013, p. 141:
To extend over and partly cover something.
To have an area, range, character or function in common.
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(mathematics) Used of sets that have some elements in common.
Something that overlaps or is overlapped
(rugby) a situation in the game where an attacking line has more players in it than the defensive line coming to meet it. The attacking side may exploit the overlap'' by using their superior numbers to break the opposition's defensive line. If attackers outnumber defenders by more than one player this is often termed a ''two man overlap'' or ''three man overlap'', etc. If the attacking side fails to break through usually due to poor execution, they are said to ''waste an overlap .
As verbs the difference between overleap and overlap
is that overleap is to leap over, to jump over, to cross by jumping while overlap is to extend over and partly cover something.As a noun overlap is
something that overlaps or is overlapped.overleap
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Verb
- Nor hedge, nor ditch, nor hill, nor dale she staies, / But overleapes them all, like Robucke light […].
- It should be noted that even modest German efforts to overleap the power-political constraints on imperial expansion met with sturdy resistance form the established world powers.
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(wikipedia overlap)Verb
(overlapp) (intransitive)- the mousemat overlapped the edge of the desk
- The two maps overlapped at the east and west edges
- Memento unfolds over 22 scenes—or, more accurately, 22 strands of time, the main strand (in color) moving backward in increments, and another strand (in black and white) going forward, though the two overlap profoundly.
- The set (all men) overlaps the set (vegetarians)
