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adverb

Overhead adv. Aloft; above; in or attached to the ceiling or roof; in the story or upon the floor above; in the zenith. "While overhead the moon Sits arbitress." Note: Also used adjectively; as, an overhead crane, gear, etc.

Overhead engine, a vertical steam engine in which the cylinder stands above the crank.

Overhead work, a general term in manufactories for countershafting and gearing, when overhead.

noun

overhead n.

Same as overhead expenses.

A compartment on a train, bus, or airplane used for storage of luggage or accessory equipment; called also overhead compartment.

(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.

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Etymology of 'Overhead'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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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