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to overlap

to overlap

25 3.5
To share the same time, place, or ideas
  • verb
  • /ˈoʊvərˌlæp/
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  • The responsibilities of the two roles overlap, making collaboration necessary.
  • overlap each other
  • areas overlap
  • categories overlap

So the conversation was sort of overlapping and confusing from that side.

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Examples

  • The findings from this research study overlap with previous literature on the topic of academic stressors.

    Academic text (2015)

  • Our academic worlds and visual art worlds overlap with music and other live performance cultures.

    Academic text (2012)

  • OK, When they overlap each other, what is going to happen?

  • Once in a while, the two jobs overlap

    Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers (1988)

  • I like how my creative projects are inspired by and overlap with my personal life.

    Academic text (2012)

  • Because our departments somewhat overlap, we spend quite a bit of time together at the office.

    Audacity (2015)

  • So the two events in the United Kingdom and in Geneva overlap but do not compete directly.

    Academic text (2011)

  • To better understand each other's roles, professional preparation would have to overlap at least to some small degree.

    Academic text (2015)

  • The missions of various bankruptcy-related organizations overlap to a significant degree.

    Academic text (2017)

  • The DEA is working on an investigation which may overlap with my own, so I've asked them to sit in with us today.

    The Fantasticks (2000)

Synonyms

to coincide
vsto overlap
80 4.4

Happen at the same time as something else or be the same as it

partly or fully covers the same area or time rather than exact match
to intersect
vsto overlap
47 3.9

To cross or meet at one point, like two roads

covers area or time partially or completely rather than meeting at a point

Antonyms

separate
829 2.1

Not joined to another thing and kept apart

to diverge
19 6.8

To move apart and also become different, like roads or opinions

How Covered

to coincide
80 4.4
to overlap
25 3.5
to touch
∞ 1.0
to abut
7 6.9

Surface Forms

overlap infinitive
overlapped past
overlapped past participle
overlapping present participle
overlaps third person singular

Morphology

overlap = lap (transparent) = over + lap

The sense of coinciding in part follows straightforwardly from combining 'over' with 'lap' in a productive way.

Etymology

To overlap also keeps the picture of one thing 'lying over' another when we talk about time or ideas, so if two events overlap they happen at the same time or share some parts.