Overlay and Array

noun

• Protective covering consisting, for example, of a layer of boards applied to the studs and joists of a building to strengthen it and serve as a foundation for a weatherproof exterior.
  • synonyms: sheathing, overlayer
• A layer of decorative material (such as gold leaf or wood veneer) applied over a surface.

verb

• Put something on top of something else.
  • usage: "cover the meat with a lot of gravy"
  • synonyms: cover
• Kill by lying on.
  • usage: "The sow overlay her piglets"
  • synonyms: overlie
• Lie upon; lie on top of.
  • usage: "the granite overlies the older rocks"
  • synonyms: overlie
• Kill by lying on.
  • usage: "The sow overlay her piglets"
  • synonyms: overlie

• (v.t.) To lay or spread, something over or across; hence, to cover; to overwhelm; to press excessively upon.
• (v.t.) To put an overlay on.
• (n.) A covering.
• (imp.) of Overlie.
• (n.) A piece of paper pasted upon the tympan sheet to improve the impression by making it stronger at a particular place.
• (v.t.) To smother with a close covering or by lying upon.

noun

• An orderly arrangement.
  • usage: "an array of troops in battle order"
• An impressive display.
  • usage: "it was a bewildering array of books"; "his tools were in an orderly array on the basement wall"
• Especially fine or decorative clothing.
  • synonyms: raiment, regalia
• An arrangement of aerials spaced to give desired directional characteristics.

verb

• Lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line.
  • usage: "lay out the clothes"; "lay out the arguments"
  • synonyms: range, lay out, set out
• Align oneself with a group or a way of thinking.
  • synonyms: align

• (n.) Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle; as, drawn up in battle array.
• (n.) To deck or dress; to adorn with dress; to cloth to envelop; -- applied especially to dress of a splendid kind.
• (n.) To place or dispose in order, as troops for battle; to marshal.
• (n.) The whole body of jurors summoned to attend the court.
• (n.) To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them man by man.
• (n.) A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer, of a jury as impaneled in a cause.
• (n.) The whole body of persons thus placed in order; an orderly collection; hence, a body of soldiers.
• (n.) An imposing series of things.
• (n.) Dress; garments disposed in order upon the person; rich or beautiful apparel.
• (n.) The panel itself.