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Superimpose   Listen
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Superimpose  v. t.  (past & past part. superimposed; pres. part. superimposing)  To lay or impose on something else; as, a stratum of earth superimposed on another stratum.






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"Superimpose" Quotes from Famous Books



... Couppey, have published editions of the classics which are full of their own directions. But the player is forewarned; it is the Marmontel or Le Couppey edition and makes no pretence of authenticity. In Germany, however, there are supposedly authentic editions, based on the originals, but which superimpose their own pernicious ...
— Musical Memories • Camille Saint-Saens

... effacement by another part? 80 Was the thing done?—then, what's to do again? See, in the checkered pavement opposite, Suppose the artist made a perfect rhomb, And next a lozenge, then a trapezoid— He did not overlay them, superimpose 85 The new upon the old and blot it out, But laid them on a level in his work, Making at last a picture; there it lies. So, first the perfect separate forms were made, The portions of mankind; and after, so, 90 Occurred the combination of the same. For where had been a progress, ...
— Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning • Robert Browning

... are great illuminators. When we run this line of 55 deg. westward what do we strike in Asia? The southern boundary of the Russian Province of Tobolsk. Superimpose a map of that Province on a map of Canada and we find that the great Mackenzie waterway which we are to follow cuts Tobolsk almost directly through the centre. In the year 1900, Russian Tobolsk produced twenty-one million ...
— The New North • Agnes Deans Cameron



Words linked to "Superimpose" :   place, lay, develop, lay over, position



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