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Overhead   /ˈoʊvərhˈɛd/   Listen
Overhead

adverb
1.
Above your head; in the sky.
2.
Above the head; over the head.
adjective
1.
Located or originating from above.
noun
1.
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.  Synonyms: budget items, operating cost, operating expense.
2.
(computer science) the processing time required by a device prior to the execution of a command.  Synonyms: command overhead, command processing overhead, command processing overhead time.
3.
(computer science) the disk space required for information that is not data but is used for location and timing.  Synonym: disk overhead.
4.
A transparency for use with an overhead projector.  Synonym: viewgraph.
5.
(nautical) the top surface of an enclosed space on a ship.
6.
A hard return hitting the tennis ball above your head.  Synonym: smash.



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"Overhead" Quotes from Famous Books



... over the waves with the foam dashing on her bows, a long white track in her wake, and a dense black cloud curling overhead. Suddenly the cloud was rent by a fork of flame, which was as suddenly quenched, but again it burst upwards, and at last triumphed; shooting up into the sky with a mighty roar, while below there glowed a fierce fiery furnace, against which was strongly depicted ...
— Erling the Bold • R.M. Ballantyne
... Manelli, complaining sadly about the high overhead of murder. "And where does that get ...
— Supermind • Gordon Randall Garrett
... came and Jack could look about him, they were traversing a narrow path through jungle so thick that the sky could scarcely be seen overhead. ...
— Jack Haydon's Quest • John Finnemore
... wood of its walls and floor—all rudely smoothed with the broadaxe and the whipsaw—hung overhead in massive beams. From these low, blackened timbers there swung many antique lamps, splendid enough for a palace and strangely out of place in a log house of the wilderness. On the rough walls there were also ...
— Round Anvil Rock - A Romance • Nancy Huston Banks
... the stout Captain Stubbard, who thought no small beer of his gunnery, to hear that it was held in very light esteem by the "Frenchified young man overhead," as he called Caryl Carne, to his landlady. And it would have amazed him to learn that this young man was a captain of artillery, in the grand army mustering across the sea, and one of the most able among plenty of ability, and favoured by ...
— Springhaven - A Tale of the Great War • R. D. Blackmore


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