It was formed by the overlaying of two lava flows.

Overlaying is the act of smothering a child to death by rolling over them in sleep.

Overlaying is a programming method that allows programs to be larger than the computer's main memory.

The overlaying of images ruined any sense of 'being there'.

Overlaying, often recorded in the Bills of Mortality, was a cover for infanticide.

Overlaying Pascal's triangle onto the pins shows the number of different paths that can be taken to get to each bin.

The overlaying of jazz and gospel adds immeasurably to the album's embracing familial warmth.

The only bee in its simple cotton bonnet was the overlaying of an annoying plinky-plunky soundtrack: a modern habit we could all do without.

The continuous overlaying of like genetics exposes recessive gene patterns that often lead to changes in reproduction performance, fitness, and ability to survive.

The glow was, of course, daylight, rendered featureless and bland by the overlaying of day and night, too fast for the eye to follow.

His signature "orchestrated loops" involve real-time overlaying of guitar, voice and found objects - designed to simulate an ensemble.

"We've moved the heavy lifting to the server," using the organizer or phone for the lightweight image processing and the overlaying of the translation on the image.

Music from this period reveals Maclean's growing use of repetitive, almost hypnotic phrases, as well as the overlaying of different rhythms and even text.

The 2D polyline method relies heavily on accurate measurements, while the painting method depends on precise overlaying of the images.

A recurrent feature of the pieces was an overlaying or stratification of sonorities, achieved by subtle use of the sustaining pedal.

This territorial expansion of language groups has usually resulted in the overlaying of languages upon existing speech areas, rather than the replacement of one language by another.

SHE sat in her first classroom, aged five, watching bug-eyed as her teacher demonstrated with sheets of coloured Cellophane how the overlaying of two primary colours produced a third from the mix.

There is also an 1 bit output on this connector that indicates whether the Amiga is outputting background colour or not, permitting easy overlaying of Amiga video onto external video.

In general, among all the beasts and plants of the earth there was a great change of habit, and a consequent overlaying of old body-forms with new forms adapted to a new way of life.

"Overlaying" or folding or hammering on gold foil or gold leaf is the simplest and most ancient method, and is mentioned in Homer's Odyssey (Bk vi, 232), and the Old Testament.

The computer having provided a target continent - that with the heaviest overlaying of smog, to sig'Alda's sighing dismay - he went through the files obtained from Scout headquarters, found the appropriate language, and slid it into the sleep learner.

Indeed, the Wooster Group's performance collages - with their quirky overlaying of inspirations and fascination with the demonic aspects of existence - represent a kind of theatrical analogue of "The Temptation of St. Antony."

The whole inflated scale/cost of the event (although rich people have always used weddings as an opportunity to show off, putting pressure on the rest of us) seems to me to be tied up with the "princess syndrome" with an overlaying of celeb culture.

Mark Lewisohn described the last six minutes as "pure chaos ... with discordant instrumental jamming, feedback, John repeatedly screaming 'alright' and then, simply, repeatedly screaming ... with Yoko talking and saying such off-the-wall phrases as 'you become naked', and with the overlaying of miscellaneous, home-made sound effects tapes."

The line is overlaid on the field to show how far each team has to go for a first down.

It was not overlaid by any past experience of either.

Overlaying the entire matter is the question of whether health education works at all.

His vision of the room was overlaid with the night.

And he could hear two sounds, one overlaying the other.

Overlaid with my own present memory was one of a past time.

Since November 7, 2009, both 312 and 773 have been overlaid by 872.

The information is still there, simply overlaid by recent experiences.

You will find that each new window overlays the previous one.

A new scene was overlaid on the old and familiar one.

Then on screen she overlaid the image with two lines.

The common law rules have now been overlaid by statute.

By then I was seeing little black spots overlaying everything.

That tension is still with us, but overlaid on it are two others.

There was music in it still, but strained now, and overlaid by many things.

Bill's face was overlaid with the same light, making him look tattooed.

There was a village woman overlaid her baby last summer, such a terrible thing for everyone.

Her face as it was then has been overlaid in my memory by the faces she had later.

Another display which overlays the view of the scene is often provided.

She entered some commands, and a new course was overlaid in blue.

On the wall a satellite photo appeared, overlaid with blue lines.

It was overlaid with area code 681, effective March 28, 2009.

He overlaid a grid and studied it for a moment.

Multiple area codes may be overlaid in the same region.

On August 17, 2001; area code 878 was overlaid onto both 412 and 724.