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[ adjective ] related by having something in common with or coinciding with
Examples "having overlapping duties" "found unexpected overlapping areas of interest" Used in print (H. A. Gleason, "Review of African language studies...)The great majority of present-day linguists fall_into one or more of a number of overlapping types : those who are convinced that tone cannot be analysed , those who are personally scared of tone and tone_languages generally , those who are convinced that tone is merely an unnecessary marginal feature in those languages where it occurs , those who have no idea how to proceed with tone analysis , those who take a simplistic view of the whole matter . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] laid overlapping (not flush)
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[ noun ] covering with a design in which one element covers a part of another (as with tiles or shingles)
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