Overlay vs Overly - What's the difference?
overlay | overly |
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 an excessive degree.
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(obsolete) Careless; negligent; inattentive; superficial; not thorough.
(obsolete) Excessive; too much.
As a verb overlay
is to lay, or spread, something over or across; to cover.As a noun overlay
is a piece of paper pasted upon the tympan sheet to improve the impression by making it stronger at a particular place.As an adverb overly is
to an excessive degree.As an adjective overly is
careless; negligent; inattentive; superficial; not thorough.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 heteronymsoverly
English
Adverb
(-)- Parents can be overly protective of their children.
- This means, at times, long and perhaps overly discursive discussions of other taxa.
Adjective
(en adjective)- (Bishop Hall)
- (Coleridge)