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# overlay

«overlay» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **cover with a layer of gold** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic sense

### modern equivalent

cover with a layer of gold

### part of speech

verb

### meaning for a pupil

To cover a surface with a thin layer of precious metal, such as gold plating. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/O/overlay/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today "overlay" means to lay something over another thing; in the Torah it means to cover with gold or brass plating, which is an old sense.

### examples

- And thou shalt make staves of acacia-wood, and overlay them with gold. (Torah EXO.25.13, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/O/overlay/#x1)
- And thou shalt make the staves of acacia-wood, and overlay them with gold. (Torah EXO.30.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/O/overlay/#x2)
- And thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves of acacia-wood, and overlay them with brass. (Torah EXO.27.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/O/overlay/#x3)

### tests

rate: sense (≥3 uses in the Torah, ≥10× EWT there, Wiktionary: an archaic sense); corpora 12 (Torah 12, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 1.4 (Torah alone 28.0); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

### In the corpora

- [And thou shalt make staves of acacia-wood, and overlay them with gold.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.713/)
- [And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, and make thereto a crown of gold round about.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.724/)
- [And thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves of acacia-wood, and overlay them with brass.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.783/)
- [And thou shalt make the staves of acacia-wood, and overlay them with gold.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.893/)
- [And he overlaid it with pure gold within and without, and made a crown of gold to it round about.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.1124/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «overlay» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/O/overlay/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.