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overhead

/ˈoʊvɚˈhɛd/

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What does overhead mean?

adjective

  1. Located above, especially over the head.
  2. Kicked over one's own head.

noun

  1. The expense of a business not directly assigned to goods or services provided.
More meanings (15)

noun

  1. The items or classes of expense not directly assigned to goods or services provided.
  2. Any cost or expenditure (monetary, time, effort or otherwise) incurred in a project or activity, which does not directly contribute to its progress or outcome.
  3. Wasted money.
  4. A smash.
  5. The ceiling of any enclosed space below decks in a vessel.
  6. A compartment above the seats for stowing luggage in a passenger aircraft.
  7. The system of overhead wires used to power electric transport, such as streetcars, trains, or buses.
  8. Data or steps of computation used only to facilitate the computations in the system and not directly related to the actual program code or data being processed.
  9. An overhead throw.
  10. A type of bridge, also commonly known as an overpass or flyover, which carries one form of traffic over another.
  11. An overhead projector.
  12. A sheet of transparent material with an image used with an overhead projector; an overhead transparency.

adverb

  1. Above one's head; in the sky.
  2. (archaic) Per head; for each individual.

preposition

  1. Above.

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IPA pronunciation

/ˈoʊvɚˈhɛd/

CMU Pronouncing Dictionary

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Then just overhead came a sound like an iron bedstead being knocked about, and the low angry growling of some large animal.
H. G. (Herbert George) WellsThe island of Doctor MoreauProject Gutenberg ebook #159
Squirrels were chattering, birds singing, and overhead honked the wild-fowl driving up from the south in cunning wedges that split the air.
Jack LondonThe call of the wildProject Gutenberg ebook #215
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I rode on, hour after hour, in the darkness and solitude, the prairie all round and a firmament of frosty stars overhead.
Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) BirdA Lady's Life in the Rocky MountainsProject Gutenberg ebook #755
The overhead arrangement of valves was adopted, and in later designs push-rods were eliminated, the overhead cam-shaft being adopted in their place.
Evelyn Charles Vivian; W. Lockwood (William Lockwood) MarshA History of AeronauticsProject Gutenberg ebook #874
She is the equal of Mary Browne in this department, while her overhead is the best of any woman in the game.
William T. (William Tatem) TildenThe Art of Lawn TennisProject Gutenberg ebook #1451