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# overlay

verb

«overlay» in the English dictionary: Early Modern English — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Early Modern English

### Meaning

To cover a surface with a thin layer of precious metal, such as gold plating. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/O/overlay/#m1)

### Then and now

Today "overlay" means to lay something over another thing; in the Torah it means to cover with gold or brass plating, which is an old sense.

### Examples

- And thou shalt make staves of acacia-wood, and overlay them with gold. (Torah EXO.25.13, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/O/overlay/#x1)
- And thou shalt make the staves of acacia-wood, and overlay them with gold. (Torah EXO.30.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/O/overlay/#x2)
- And thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves of acacia-wood, and overlay them with brass. (Torah EXO.27.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/O/overlay/#x3)

### Note

Today: cover with a layer of gold.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «overlay» in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/O/overlay/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«overlay» in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/emode/w/overlay.html) on Mova free.