overlay🔊

To lay, spread, or apply (something) over or across (something else); to overspread.

To overwhelm; to press excessively upon.

(now rare, archaic) To lie over (someone, especially a child) in order to smother it; to suffocate.

(printing) To put an overlay on.

(gambling) To bet too much money on.

(photography, graphic arts) An image to be overlaid on another; a superimposition or diapositive.

(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. +

(programming) A block of program code that is loaded over something previously loaded, so as to replace the functionality.

(Internet) A pop-up covering an existing part of the display.

(Scotland) A cravat.

A covering over something else.