What is "overlayed"

Usage examples of "overlayed".

Kerans paused, listening to the strident rhythms of the guitar music, overlayed by the distant blare of the helicopter circling over the next lagoon, then made his way down the central stair-well which led to the armoury and workshops housed in the pontoon.

Semi-columns of fake marble formed little loggias that led away to the private alcoves and dining rooms, while the divided central stairway was a bad film set of Versailles, an aerial riot of dusty cupids and candelabra, the grimy brass overlayed with mould and verdigris.

At midnight he would wander through the roistering singers in the square and sit beside Strangman at his parties, hiding back under the shadow of the paddle-ship, watching the dancing and listening to the beat of the drums and guitars, overlayed in his mind by the insistent pounding of the black sun.

Increasingly, Kerans felt that Hardman's real personality was now submerged deep within his mind, and that his external behaviour and responses were merely pallid reflections of this, overlayed by his delirium and exposure symptoms.

The vehicle, originally a small school bus, was painted in garish pink, green, yellow, red, a chaos of spray-can squiggles and overlayed abstract shapes.

Some were so tightly overlayed that they could only be distinguished when they moved apart.

Croaker saw her pick up one of Ginnie Morris - these were photos he hadn't let her see before — where' that weird ladder pattern of cuts, overlayed by the bloody white magpie feather, was the focus of the photographer's lens.

A network of naked animal jaws rose above his head, the long curving yellowed teeth overlayed one upon the other like the profusion of stars on a cloudless night.

Croaker saw her pick up one of Ginnie Morris - these were photos he hadn't let her see before - where' that weird ladder pattern of cuts, overlayed by the bloody white magpie feather, was the focus of the photographer's lens.

The leaves, a sickening shade of green overlayed with violet, brightened into fresh spring colors.

I hunker down and switch to infrared, and boost my ears so that the dull rumble of the engine coming up the road is overlayed with faint sounds of conversation from the driver's cab.