overlay

Meanings

Verb

• To lay, spread, or apply something over or across; cover.
• To overwhelm; to press excessively upon.
• To lie over (someone, especially a child) in order to smother it; to suffocate.
• To put an overlay on.
• To bet too much money on.
• Past of overlie

Noun

• A piece of paper pasted upon the tympan sheet to improve the impression by making it stronger at a particular place.
• Odds which are set higher than expected or warranted. Favorable odds.
• 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.
• A block of program code that is loaded over something previously loaded, so as to replace the functionality.
• A pop-up covering an existing part of the display.
• A cravat.

Origin

• over- + lay. Compare overlie.