overlap
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1. overlap - Noun
2. overlap - Verb
Meaning
To lap over; to lap.
The lapping of one thing over another; as, an overlap of six inches; an overlap of a slate on a roof.
An extension of geological beds above and beyond others, as in a conformable series of beds, when the upper beds extend over a wider space than the lower, either in one or in all directions.
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I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.
People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.
Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.
Do codons overlap? In other words, as we read along the genetic message do we find a base which is a member of two or more codons? It now seems fairly certain that codons do not overlap.
The Northern idea of form is more of a process. The various units of the form overlap. You can't tell where some things stop and new things start. This is typical of Sibelius.
Liberals and conservatives are looking for entirely different things. Their attitudes toward romance and how they court are really dramatically different. There's almost no overlap.