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 →

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 →
• And thou shalt make the staves of acacia-wood, and overlay them with gold. (Torah EXO.30.5, JPS 1917) tree →
• And thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves of acacia-wood, and overlay them with brass. (Torah EXO.27.6, JPS 1917) tree →

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.
• And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, and make thereto a crown of gold round about.
• And thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves of acacia-wood, and overlay them with brass.
• And thou shalt make the staves of acacia-wood, and overlay them with gold.
• And he overlaid it with pure gold within and without, and made a crown of gold to it round about.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «overlay» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.