Three words

o·ver·lap –verb (used with object)
1. to lap over (something else or each other); extend over and cover a part of; imbricate.
2. to cover and extend beyond (something else): The ends of cloth overlap the table.
3. to coincide in part with; have in common with: two lives that overlapped each other. –verb (used without object)
4. to lap over: two sales territories that overlap; fields of knowledge that overlap. –noun
5. an act or instance of overlapping.
6. the extent or amount of overlapping: The second story of the building has an overlap of ten feet.
7. an overlapping part.
8. the place of overlapping.
9. (in yacht racing) the position of two yachts side by side such that the overtaking boat, to pass the other on the opposite side, must fall back, or such that neither can turn toward the other without danger of collision.


pen·e·trate –verb (used with object)
1. to pierce or pass into or through: The bullet penetrated the wall. The fog lights penetrated the mist.
2. to enter the interior of: to penetrate a forest.
3. to enter and diffuse itself through; permeate.
4. to arrive at the truth or meaning of; understand; comprehend: to penetrate a mystery.
5. to obtain a share of (a market): to penetrate the Canadian coffee market.
6. to affect or impress (the mind or feelings) deeply.
7. to extend influence, usually peacefully, into the affairs of (another country). –verb (used without object)
8. to enter, reach, or pass through something, as by piercing: We penetrated to the interior of the Kasbah.
9. to be diffused through something.
10. to understand or read the meaning of something.
11. to have a deep effect or impact on someone.


blend –verb (used with object)
1. to mix smoothly and inseparably together: to blend the ingredients in a recipe.
2. to mix (various sorts or grades) in order to obtain a particular kind or quality: Blend a little red paint with the blue paint.
3. to prepare by such mixture: This tea is blended by mixing chamomile with pekoe.
4. to pronounce (an utterance) as a combined sequence of sounds. –verb (used without object)
5. to mix or intermingle smoothly and inseparably: I can't get the eggs and cream to blend.
6. to fit or relate harmoniously; accord; go: The brown sofa did not blend with the purple wall.
7. to have no perceptible separation: Sea and sky seemed to blend. –noun
8. an act or manner of blending: tea of our own blend.
9. a mixture or kind produced by blending: a special blend of rye and wheat flours.
10. Linguistics. a word made by putting together parts of other words, as motel, made from motor and hotel, brunch, from breakfast and lunch, or guesstimate, from guess and estimate.
11. a sequence of two or more consonant sounds within a syllable, as the bl in blend; consonant cluster.