to superimpose
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6.7
- verb
- /ˌsuːpərɪmˈpoʊz/
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superponer
- Another voice, deep, confident, and quiet, superimposed, with a slight lag, gives the English translation.
- superimposed maps
- superimposed on a scene
- superimpose a background
What's nice about this is that the violin begins superimposing different sounds over this.
- What's nice about this is that the violin begins superimposing different sounds over this.
- You can always have superimpose on the time dependent field, some static field.
- You know, So you're superimposing the sound of, you know, we could use some celery on.
- I'm now going to draw planes of simultaneity in this warp space-time and superimpose it on my call to Kevin.
- So if you, if you superimpose that on, you know, I, well, I got an e-mail address.
Examples
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This is our latest image, superimposing structural and keratin analysis.
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To create a more dynamic presentation, you can superimpose text on top of the images in your slideshow.
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And then you superimpose on the screen.
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Special effects can be added by superimposing another layer for a particular function.
Academic text (1995) -
You can't just take an ideology and superimpose it on the political reality and turn it into a fact.
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A host of other time-varying phenomena are superimposed on the basic structure of the Sun.
Academic text (1991) -
The two photographs were superimposed to see if the facial features matched the skull.
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The media wall lit within minutes, FitzGilbert's heavy-browed face superimposed on the mess of charts.
Fiction book (1990) -
When yellow dye and magenta dye are superimposed in a color print, for example, red is produced.
Academic text (1999) -
Thus, the vibrational pattern is superimposed on whatever configuration is set by the postural parameters in Equation 1.
Academic text (2013)
Synonyms
43
2.8
Put something on top of food to finish and make it look nicer
34
1.7
To add something to a building to make it larger
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4.2
To cover something with a layer of material
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3.5
To put one thing on top of another so it partly covers it
1
8.5
To put one thing on top of another so they line up and can be seen
Antonyms
How Overlapped
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word superimpose comes from two parts: super- meaning 'above' and impose meaning 'to place on'. So, to superimpose something is to put it on top of another thing so you can see both.