Overlapping Synonyms and Antonyms

Covering with a design in which one element covers a part of another (as with tiles or shingles)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. imbrication
  2. lapping
Synonyms:
(Adjective)
  1. coinciding
  2. coincidental
  3. overlying
  4. imbricate
  5. super-imposed
  6. imbricated.--n.imbrication
  7. extending
  8. jugate
  9. protruding
  10. projecting
  11. lapstrake
  12. obvolute
  13. obvoluted

Words Related to Overlapping

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Overlapping Sentence Examples

  • There are five free sepals, overlapping in the bud, and, alternating with these, five free petals.

  • The leaves of the cypresses are scale-like, overlapping and generally in four rows; the female catkins are roundish, and fewer than the male; the cones consist of from six to ten peltate woody scales, which end in a curved point, and open when the seeds are ripe; the seeds are numerous and winged.

  • The local councils do what is possible to prevent overlapping and excessive competition between the churches.

  • So on throughout the year with other crops, this system of intercropping or overlapping of one crop with another is carried out in a most ingenious manner, not only under glass lights, but also in the open air.

  • The head bears a pair of horn-like scutes, and the scutes of the carapace and tail, which are loosely opposed or slightly overlapping, form a number of transverse rows.

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