I. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Overlap the first strip of cloth with the second by about two inches.
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Having merged the two companies, his first task is to eliminate overlapping product lines.
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The responsibilities of the two departments overlap in certain areas.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Arrange the slices of potato carefully in a circular manner, overlapping to cover the bottom of the quiche pan.
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Here, two three-panelled screens have been overlapped in the middle.
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The band was fairly drunk, and the tunes tended to overlap now.
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The dominance hierarchies of primates are often more complex, overlapping networks, rather than the simple ladder of the hen hierarchy.
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There was also talk that these daredevils flew with their rotor blades overlapped by several feet, just for fun.
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These should fit into the well of the recessed window and have a flange which overlaps the edge of the well.
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Thus, as we have seen, the two clauses may overlap .
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
considerable
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There is now considerable overlap between what district councils are doing and what regional policy is attempting to achieve.
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Instead of hearing eight separate opinions, they melded their ideas into two reports that revealed considerable overlap .
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First, there exists a considerable degree of overlap between the various titles.
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There was, of course, a considerable overlap between the gymnosperms and angiosperms.
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There can be considerable overlap between Byrne's categories.
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There is considerable overlap in membership of the Senate and Bar Council.
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There will obviously be a considerable overlap of requirements for these categories of musician - real life is never so simple.
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Of course, there is considerable overlap between these and both are intrinsically linked to the nature of society.
strong
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Useful semantic information therefore facilitates the incidence of meaningful strong overlaps in normal text.
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Would strong overlap on its own be sufficient?
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Conversely, for window sizes of less than four words, strong overlap alone is the most effective.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A special overlap and border adhesive, like a thick pva, is made for just this type of situation.
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In this area there is overlap with critical analysis and with the general study of sign-systems, as in semiotics.
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Line a terrine with bacon rashers leaving an overlap for the top.
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More revealing than their obvious differences are those points of overlap between the materialist and the psychoanalytic accounts.
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Therefore, although there is a substantial overlap between section 1 and section 15, section 15 is not otiose.
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These texts were then processed by the confusion simulator program, and the output used as input to the definitional overlap program.
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Thus the figures for the second and third choices had an overlap .