overlap

1. 1.

   coincide partially or wholly

   “Our vacations overlap”

   Broadercoincide

   Narrowershare
2. 2.

   extend over and cover a part of

   “The roofs of the houses overlap in this crowded city”

   Broadercover

   Narrowerimbricate

Other forms of overlap

plural

overlaps·

past tense or participle

overlapped

present participle

overlapping

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about overlap

What does overlap mean?

overlap means "a representation of common ground between theories or phenomena". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in overlap?

overlap has 3 syllables: o-ver-lap. The stress falls on "o". In IPA it is /ˈoʊvɚˌlæp/.

What is another word for overlap?

Close synonyms include convergence, intersection, lap. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is overlap a common word?

overlap is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with overlap?

3 words rhyme with overlap. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.