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Definition: Overlapping |
OverlappingAdjective1. Related by having something in common with or coinciding with; "having overlapping duties"; "found unexpected overlapping areas of interest". 2. Laid overlapping (not flush). Noun1. Covering with a design in which one element covers a part of another (as with tiles or shingles). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "overlapping" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1841. (references) |
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Chemical Industry | Region where a coat extends over an adjacent fresh coat. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: OverlappingSynonyms: lap-jointed (adj), lap-strake (adj), lap-straked (adj), lap-streak (adj), lap-streaked (adj), imbrication (n), lapping (n). (additional references) |
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Screenplays | And finally, he was holding his squeegee with an overlapping lacrosse grip (Get Smart; writing credit: Shinichi Sekizawa; Futaro Yamada) | |
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 | Two overlapping TIROS I images showing extratropical cyclone centered about 400 miles west of Ireland. Monthly Weather Review, March 1961, p. 80. Credit: NOAA in Space. |  | Two peace signs overlapping. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Wine Bottles, Overlapping 02" by Josiah Gordon Commentary: "Two wine bottles overlapping in a studio setting." |
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Health | In some people, several overlapping learning disabilities may be apparent. (references) | |
These techniques also allow implication of a specific rodent host in areas of overlapping hosts. (references) | ||
A conceptual frame- work of abnormally fatigued populations, including those with CFS and overlapping disorders. (references) | ||
Business | End-users in the leasing and mortgage sub-sectors are varied and overlapping. (references) | |
Instead jurisdictions are oftentimes overlapping with little coordination between ministries, divisions and departments. (references) | ||
Currently, the five mobile-phone service providers (SK Telecom, Shinsegi Telecom, KT FreeTel, LG Telecom, and Hansol M.com) are engaged in what some analysts describe as overheated competition and have significant overlapping investment. (references) | ||
Economic History | Egypt | Import clearance remains difficult, as several ministries have overlapping regulatory authority. (references) |
Costa Rica | Another area of concern in is the National Registry of land titles, where overlapping title and fraud have been problems. (references) | |
Vietnam | Although there has been some effort to discourage membership in overlapping party and state positions, this practice continues. (references) | |
Human Rights | Pakistan | The judicial process continued to be impeded by bureaucratic infighting, inactivity, and the overlapping jurisdictions of the different court systems. (references) |
Indigenous People | Canada | In September 2000, the James Bay Crees challenged the authority of the Nunavik Commission on the basis of overlapping land claims. (references) |
Bangladesh | Confusion continues over the overlapping responsibilities of the various central and local government bodies involved in the Hill Tracts. (references) | |
Minorities | Haiti | Longstanding social and political animosities often are tied to cultural identification, skin color, and overlapping issues of class in this starkly inegalitarian society. (references) |
Political Economy | Morocco | The security apparatus includes several overlapping police and paramilitary organizations. (references) |
Vietnam | Competition among government agencies for control over business and investments has created a confusion of overlapping jurisdictions and bureaucratic procedures. (references) | |
Political Rights | Zimbabwe | There are institutional problems with the management and supervision of elections, and the Electoral Supervisory Commission, the Elections Directorate, the Ministry of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs, and the Registrar-General's Office have overlapping mandates. (references) |
Trade | Argentina | SENASA and INAL have overlapping responsibilities. (references) |
Argentina | To prevent overlapping, the Argentine Government has reduced import duties on certain goods from 35% to 28% and reduced all export reimbursements by 7 points. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Cambodia | Since passage of the Labor Law in 1997, there has been confusion over the overlapping roles of labor unions and elected shop stewards. (references) |
Ukraine | The Law of Collective Bargaining provides the right to collective bargaining; however, overlapping spheres of responsibility frequently impeded the collective bargaining process, and the manner in which the collective bargaining law is applied prejudices the bargaining process against independent unions and favors the official unions (affiliates of the FPU). (references) | |
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Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | The Regulatory Council was established to provide the first Government-wide listing of upcoming rules and eliminate overlapping and conflicting regulations. |
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| "Overlapping" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 63.05% of the time. "Overlapping" is used about 249 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 63.05% | 157 | 25,059 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 23.29% | 58 | 44,427 |
| Noun (singular) | 11.24% | 28 | 65,706 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.41% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 249 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "overlapping": overlapping averages ♦ overlapping junctions. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "overlapping": non-overlapping. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
overlapping toe | 12 |
overlapping leave law | 8 |
overlapping | 4 |
overlapping theory wave | 3 |
circle overlapping three | 3 |
overlapping peak | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "overlapping"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 重疊 , 重叠 (Superposed). (various references) | |
Danish | overlappende, overlapning af kompetence, overlapning (lap, lap joint, overlap, strapped joint). (various references) | |
Dutch | overlapping van competentie, overlapping (lap, overlap, overlay, overlay technique). (various references) | |
Finnish | limittäminen (fanned stacking of letters, lap, overlap, overlapping of letters, tiling of letters), limittäin, limisaumaus. (various references) | |
French | zone de reprise, simultanéité (overlap), recouvrement (over, overlap, overlay, overlay technique), recoupement (overlap), double emploi, débordement de couverture, chevauchement de compétences, chevauchement (overlap). (various references) | |
German | Überschneidung (intersection, overlap), überlappende. (various references) | |
Greek | ύπερθεση, σύμπτωση (chance, coincidence, concurrence, contingency, fortuity, haphazard, incident), υπέρθεση (overlay, overlay technique), ζώνη αλληλοκάλυψης (lap), επικάλυψη (overlap, sheathing, topping), αλληλοκάλυψη. (various references) | |
Hebrew | חופף (congruent, covering). (various references) | |
Hungarian | egymást részben fedő, átfedő. (various references) | |
Indonesian | tumpang-tindih, tindih. (various references) | |
Italian | sovrapposizione (overlap, superimposition), interferenza fra competenze. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 重複 (duplication, redundancy, repetition), 重複 (duplication, redundancy, repetition, restoration), 重なり (piling). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | かさなり (piling), じゅうふく (duplication, redundancy, repetition, restoration), ちょうふく (duplication, redundancy, repetition, restoration). (various references) | |
Korean | 부분적으로 덮음. (various references) | |
Manx | goll harrish y cheilley. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | overlappingay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sobreposição (lap, superposition). (various references) | |
Russian | перекрывать перекрытие перекрывающий. (various references) | |
Spanish | superposicionamiento, superposición (overlap, superposition), solapamiento (lap, overlap), sobreposición (overlap, overthrust, straddle, thrust, thrust fault). (various references) | |
Swedish | överlappande. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "overlapping": nonoverlapping. (additional references) | |
Words containing "overlapping": nonoverlappings. (additional references) | |
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"Overlapping" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: overlaping. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "overlapping" (pronounced ō"verla'ping) |
| 5 | -l a' p i ng | backslapping. |
| 4 | -a' p i ng | handicapping, kidnaping, kidnapping, Wiretapping. |
| 3 | -p i ng | antidumping, aping, beeping, bleeping, bookkeeping, bumping, burping, camping, capping, carping, Chipping, chirping, chomping, chopping, clamping, clapping, clipping, clumping, coping, copping, cramping, creeping, crimping, cropping, damping, developing, dipping, draping, dripping, drooping, dropping, dumping, eavesdropping, enveloping, equipping, escaping, flapping, flipping, flopping, galloping, gaping, gasping, gossiping, grasping, griping, gripping, groping, grouping, gulping, harping, heaping, helping, hoping, hopping, housekeeping, hyping, jumping, keeping, lamping, landscaping, lapping, leaping, limping, lopping, lumping, mapping, moping, mopping, napping, nipping, outstripping, overstepping, peacekeeping, peeping, pimping, piping, popping, prepping, propping, pulping, pumping, ramping, raping, rapping, reaping, recapping, recouping, regrouping, reshaping, revamping, ripping, romping, roping, safekeeping, sapping, scalping, scooping, scoping, scraping, scrapping, scrimping, seeping, shaping, shipping, shopping, sidestepping, sipping, skimping, skipping, slapping, sleeping, slipping, sloping, slumping, snapping, sniping, snooping, sopping, stamping, stepping, stereotyping, stomping, stooping, stopping, strapping, stripping, stumping, swamping, swapping, sweeping, swiping, swooping, tamping, taping, tapping, thumping, tipping, topping, tramping, trapping, tripping, trooping, typing, unwrapping, upping, usurping, videotaping, walloping, Wapping, warping, weeping, whipping, whooping, whopping, wiping, worshipping, wrapping, zapping, zipping. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-l-n-o-p-p-r-v" | |
-2 letters: approving, lappering, loppering, piperonal, rappeling. | |
-3 letters: geraniol, grapline, oilpaper, overlain, overplan, papering, paroling, parvolin, pearling, pelorian, peopling, raveling, regional, repaving, vaporing. | |
-4 letters: aileron, alienor, aligner, applier, approve, eloping, engrail, gappier, genipap, graplin, grapnel, grapple, gripple, lapping, leaping, leaving, loppier, lopping, nappier, nargile, opaline, overing, overlap, parling, pealing, peloria, pergola, perigon, pignora, pirogen, plainer. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-l-n-o-p-p-r-v" | |
+3 letters: nonoverlapping, overpopulating. | |
+4 letters: nonoverlappings. | |
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