overlie
pronunciation
How to pronounce overlie in British English:
UK [ˌəʊvəˈlaɪ]
How to pronounce overlie in American English:
US [ˌoʊvərˈlaɪ]
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- Verb:
- lie upon; lie on top of
- kill by lying on
Word Origin
- overlie (v.)
- late 12c., from over- + lie (v.2), or from an unrecorded Old English *oferlicgan. "In use from 12th to 16th c.; in 17-18th displaced by overlay; reintroduced in 19th c., chiefly in geological use." [OED]. Related: Overlay; overlain.
Example
- 1. My dear , that chair is specially for you , just overlie on it and enjoy the beautiful sea .
- 2. They collected core samples from freshwater aquifers in the us that overlie potential ccs sites and then studied their reaction to exposure to co2 over the course of a year in the laboratory .
- 3. Angular unconformity in pleistocene sediments , tacoma , washington . Here , flat-lying coastal deposits overlie faulted and tilted gravel and sand .