Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Located, functioning, or originating from above.
- adjective Of or relating to the operating expenses of a business.
- noun The operating expenses of a business, including the costs of rent, utilities, interior decoration, and taxes, exclusive of labor and materials.
- noun Nautical The top surface in an enclosed space of a ship.
- noun Something, such as a light fixture, that is located above head height.
- noun Sports A stroke in a game, such as tennis or badminton, that is made with a hard downward motion from above the head.
- noun An overhead projector.
- noun The image projected by an overhead projector.
- adverb Over or above the level of the head; high or higher up.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Aloft; above; in the zenith; in the ceiling or story above.
- Per head: properly two words.
- Average; applicable to all.
- Situated above or aloft.
- So that something is over one's head: as, to be ducked overhead in the river.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Aloft; above; in or attached to the ceiling or roof; in the story or upon the floor above; in the zenith.
- adverb a vertical steam engine in which the cylinder stands above the crank.
- adverb a general term in manufactories for countershafting and gearing, when overhead.
- noun same as
overhead expenses . - noun A compartment on a train, bus, or airplane used for storage of luggage or accessory equipment; called also overhead compartment.
- noun (Sports) A stroke with a racket in which the ball is struck with the racket over the head, moving in a downward motion; also called overhead stroke.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun countable An
overhead projector . - noun countable A sheet of transparent material with an
image used with anoverhead projector ; an overheadtransparency . - adjective
located above , especiallyover thehead - adjective soccer kicked over one's own head
- noun uncountable, business, accounting The
expense of a business not directly assigned to goods or services provided. - noun countable, business, accounting The items or classes of expense not directly assigned to goods or services provided.
- noun uncountable Any
cost orexpenditure (monetary , time,effort or otherwise)incurred in aproject oractivity , which does notdirectly contribute to theprogress oroutcome of theproject oractivity . - noun uncountable, business Wasted money.
- noun tennis A
smash . - noun nautical The
ceiling of any enclosed space below decks in a vessel - noun transport The system of overhead
wires used to powerelectric transport , such asstreetcars ,trains , orbuses . - noun computing
data or steps of computation that is only used to facilitate the computations in the system and is not directly related to the actual program code or data being processed. - noun juggling, by ellipsis An overhead throw.
- adverb
above one'shead ;in thesky
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb above your head; in the sky
- noun the expense of maintaining property (e.g., paying property taxes and utilities and insurance); it does not include depreciation or the cost of financing or income taxes
- noun (nautical) the top surface of an enclosed space on a ship
- adverb above the head; over the head
- adjective located or originating from above
- noun a transparency for use with an overhead projector
- noun a hard return hitting the tennis ball above your head
- noun (computer science) the processing time required by a device prior to the execution of a command
- noun (computer science) the disk space required for information that is not data but is used for location and timing
Etymologies
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Examples
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You look overhead, but you see only tinsel; but he means of course that the overhead is the music; you look over there and see one of those ivory-thumpers, one of those key-clawers, on of those piano-players, and there is a man with a "crying cornet" and a man with a "sobbing saxophone," one with a slippery slide trombone.
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Westy said, "That's what you call overhead expense."
Roy Blakeley's Camp on Wheels Percy Keese Fitzhugh 1913
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In other words, overhead is only a part of what the faculty member gives back to the University, and what they get still outweighs it.
Academic Administration « Beki's Blog (there's an original name) 2009
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I encourage you to go to any of the websites that rate charities and see what the overhead is compared to the amount that actually goes to research, families, etc.
6-Year-Old Girl with Brain Cancer Hid Love Notes for Her Parents to Find After Her Death 2009
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The echo-y din of the crows, as they fly overhead, is ominous and drowns out the steady commuter traffic of the four-lane bridge that leads from the city and out over the lake.
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His attack on Pentagon bureaucracy and overhead is meant to free up money that can be spent on prosecuting America's wars.
John Feffer: Gorbachev of the Pentagon? John Feffer 2010
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I encourage you to go to any of the websites that rate charities and see what the overhead is compared to the amount that actually goes to research, families, etc.
6-Year-Old Girl with Brain Cancer Hid Love Notes for Her Parents to Find After Her Death » E-Mail 2009
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Tomorrow (Monday): While we'll start out our day nice and bright, cloudiness gradually moves in overhead with the approach of the next system.
Forecast: A sunny Sunday around 70 Brian Jackson 2010
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The overhead is too high for all of the government mandated rules and regulations now.
Senate committee starts revising health care reform proposal 2009
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I have a hard time imagining investing a few billion in overhead gantries and another 10 or 20 billion in new equipment would yield efficiencies that make it worth it.
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