onlay
Americannoun
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an overlay, especially one in relief.
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Dentistry. an inlay that restores the occlusal surface of a tooth.
verb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of onlay
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PRP, which has its roots in dentistry, has also been used in dental procedures such as onlay and inlay grafting, sinus lifting procedures, and cleft lip and cleft palate surgeries.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 10, 2021
The slice is from one of the 23 official wedding cakes and features a sugared onlay of the royal coat-of-arms coloured in gold, red, blue and silver.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2021
It features a marzipan base and a sugar onlay coat-of-arms, colored in gold, red, blue, and silver, on top.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 29, 2021
It disturbs the breadth, which is so valuable a characteristic of onlay.
From Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery by Buckle, Mary
Miss Keighley's panel indicates the use that may be made of texture in the stuff onlaid.
From Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery by Buckle, Mary
And from the mere fact of the counterchanging you gather that it is inlaid, and not onlaid.
From Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery by Buckle, Mary
The grape bunches are onlaid, each in one piece of silk, the forms of the separate grapes expressed by couching.
From Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery by Buckle, Mary
The onlaid material is, in general, sewn down with chain stitches, and cut out afterwards.
From Needlework As Art by Alford, Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess
An effect of ribbon work, but of a harder kind, was produced by onlaying narrow strips of card or parchment upon a silken ground, twisted about after the fashion of ribbon.
From Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery by Buckle, Mary
A step beyond the process of onlaying is Inlay, where one material is not laid on to the other, but into it, both being perhaps backed by a common material.
From Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery by Buckle, Mary
Inlaying or onlaying is adding a different leather from that of the cover, as decoration.
From Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians by Rooke, Noel
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