peitepaperi noun (printing: piece of paper)
päällyste noun (covering over something else)
peittää verb (to put an overlay on)
päällystää verb (to lay, or [[spread]], something over or across; to [[cover]])

Japanese

4 entries

乗せる verb (to lay, or [[spread]], something over or across; to [[cover]])
乗せる verb (to smother with a close covering, or by lying upon)
被せる verb (to lay, or [[spread]], something over or across; to [[cover]])
被せる verb (to smother with a close covering, or by lying upon)

Khiamniungan Naga

1 entries

thōng verb (to put an overlay on)

Māori

3 entries

paparua verb (to lay, or [[spread]], something over or across; to [[cover]])
whakakikorua verb (to lay, or [[spread]], something over or across; to [[cover]])
whakakikorua verb (to put an overlay on)

Portuguese

2 entries

aplicar verb (to lay, or [[spread]], something over or across; to [[cover]])
revestir verb (to lay, or [[spread]], something over or across; to [[cover]])

Spanish

1 entries

recubrir verb (to lay, or [[spread]], something over or across; to [[cover]])

Sample sentences

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Tatoeba + Wiktionary

By 1969 the debate over virtual memory for commercial computers was over. An IBM research team led by David Sayre showed that their virtual memory overlay system consistently worked better than the best manually controlled systems.

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Reels employs Instagram’s preexisting augmented reality effects, which let users overlay images and filters onto their videos.

Source: tatoeba (8962320)

Tor is an example of an overlay network.

Source: tatoeba (10507012)

Near-synonyms: cover, superimpose, superpose

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