How do you use Overlap in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like convergence or coincide, plus the exact meaning.
Overlap in a sentence
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Overlap meaning
- To extend over and partly cover something.
- To co-occur, to happen at the same time.
- To have an area, range, character or function in common.
Synonyms of Overlap
Using Overlap
- The main meaning on this page is: To extend over and partly cover something. | To co-occur, to happen at the same time. | To have an area, range, character or function in common.
- Useful related words include: convergence, cooccur, co-occur, coincide.
- In the example corpus, overlap often appears in combinations such as: overlap with, overlap between, of overlap.
Context around Overlap
- Average sentence length in these examples: 19.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 9 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 17 statements, 3 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Overlap
- In this selection, "overlap" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 19.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, cannot, maximum, differential, principle, approximation and test stand out and add context to how "overlap" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include advocated maximum overlap principle by and amount of overlap with the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "overlap" sits close to words such as ambassadors, ana and capitals, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with overlap
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Can the two goals overlap? (5 words)
And those two categories, they overlap. (6 words)
Both deficiencies are very similar as their cones overlap. (9 words)
Asked if he thought there was any overlap between his music and charity work, he said: “In the sense that music of any kind is something that does seem always to get through to people with dementia. (37 words)
The former result from the overlap of an sp 3 orbital of carbon with the 1s orbital of a hydrogen; the latter by the overlap of two sp 3 orbitals on different carbon atoms. (34 words)
Better still, the audience for CNN seems to have a good amount of overlap with the audience for what the rest of Max has on offer, the HBO programming in particular. (31 words)
Are you saying that our circles cannot overlap or that you don’t want them to overlap? (17 words)
And with regards to AXS-12 or reboxetine, you mentioned mechanistic overlap with Sunosi and how would we think about the two products? (23 words)
Can the two goals overlap? (5 words)
Example sentences (20)
Are you saying that our circles cannot overlap or that you don’t want them to overlap?
Overlap with criminal law There is some overlap between criminal law and tort.
The former result from the overlap of an sp 3 orbital of carbon with the 1s orbital of a hydrogen; the latter by the overlap of two sp 3 orbitals on different carbon atoms.
The PPP method differed from existing structural chemistry thinking (which advocated maximum overlap principle) by advancing the concept of zero differential overlap approximation.
And those two categories, they overlap.
And with regards to AXS-12 or reboxetine, you mentioned mechanistic overlap with Sunosi and how would we think about the two products?
Asked if he thought there was any overlap between his music and charity work, he said: “In the sense that music of any kind is something that does seem always to get through to people with dementia.
Assuming that Disney doesn’t want the live-action shows to overlap (which is something they have avoided in the past), that sets up for a release next year.
As temperature changes increase, the number of suitable habitats reduces leading to inevitable overlap.
At first glance, mind-control and biological warfare might seem entirely dissimilar topics, but they actually share considerable areas of overlap.
Because of this and the Moat Index’s unconstrained approach, there can be some overlap between the two indexes.
Better still, the audience for CNN seems to have a good amount of overlap with the audience for what the rest of Max has on offer, the HBO programming in particular.
Books get banned for various reasons, but some have a lot of overlap.
Both deficiencies are very similar as their cones overlap.
But in interviews with councilmembers both new and returning, it’s clear there is substantial overlap on many priorities for the next four years.
But those lines caused confusion because they overlap with a no stopping area.
Can the two goals overlap?
Despite having numerous characters, many overlap their type combos with other existing characters.
F-150 continues to achieve a “Good” overall rating in the original moderate overlap test for the front row and for the updated side impact test.
For instance, if you look at the asset map of the combined entity, you can see that there is significant overlap between what each enterprise currently owns.
Common combinations with overlap
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- overlap with 34×
- overlap between 33×
- of overlap 20×
- the overlap 18×
- overlap in 14×
- to overlap 12×
- overlap and 10×
- overlap of 9×
- some overlap 7×
- that overlap 7×