Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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overlay

UK /ˌəʊ.vəˈleɪ/ · US /ˌoʊvɚˈleɪ/ verb, noun

Also a form of overlie

Forms overlays overlaying overlaid overlayed

  1. verb (transitive) To lay, spread, or apply (something) over or across (something else); to overspread. “She will now overlay the crust with fruit.”
  2. verb To overwhelm; to press excessively upon.
  3. verb (transitive, now rare, archaic) To lie over (someone, especially a child) in order to smother it; to suffocate.
  4. verb (transitive, printing) To put an overlay on.
  5. verb (transitive, gambling) To bet too much money on.
  6. noun (photography, graphic arts) An image to be overlaid on another; a superimposition or diapositive.
  7. noun (printing) A piece of paper pasted upon the tympan sheet to improve the impression by making it stronger at a particular place.
  8. noun (gambling) Odds which are set higher than expected or warranted. Favorable odds.
  9. noun (horse racing) A horse going off at higher odds than it appears to warrant, based on its past performances.
  10. noun A decal attached to a computer keyboard to relabel the keys.
  11. noun (programming) A block of program code that is loaded over something previously loaded, so as to replace the functionality.
  12. noun (Internet) A pop-up covering an existing part of the display.
  13. noun (Scotland) A cravat.

Synonyms

cover superimpose superpose keystrip sheathing overlayer overlie

Etymology

From Middle English overleyen, from Old English oferleċġan, from Proto-West Germanic *obarlaggjan, from Proto-Germanic *uberlagjaną, equivalent to over- + lay. Cognate with Saterland Frisian uurläze, úurlääse, Dutch overleggen, German Low German overleggen, överleggen, German überlegen, Swedish överlägga, Norwegian overlegge. Compare overlie.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To lay, or spread, something over or across; hence, to cover; to overwhelm; to press excessively upon.
  2. verb To smother with a close covering, or by lying upon.
  3. noun A covering. Sir W. Scott.
  4. noun A piece of paper pasted upon the tympan sheet to improve the impression by making it stronger at a particular place.

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “overlay”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “overlay” (best matches first).