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overhead
| overhead charges
| overhead expenses
| overhead projector
| overhead railway
| overhear
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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun overhead has 6 senses
- overhead(n = noun.possession) budget items, operating cost, operating expense - 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; Array is a kind of disbursal, disbursement, expense
- overhead(n = noun.time) command overhead, command processing overhead, command processing overhead time - (computer science) the processing time required by a device prior to the execution of a command; Array is a part of access time
- overhead(n = noun.location) disk overhead - (computer science) the disk space required for information that is not data but is used for location and timing; Array is a kind of disc space, disk space
- overhead(n = noun.artifact) viewgraph - a transparency for use with an overhead projector; Array is a kind of foil, transparency
- overhead(n = noun.artifact) Array - (nautical) the top surface of an enclosed space on a ship; Array is a part of cabin
- overhead(n = noun.act) smash - a hard return hitting the tennis ball above your head; Array is a kind of return
is a part of operating budget
is a kind of processing time
is a kind of ceiling
Adjective overhead has 1 sense
- overhead(a = adj.all) Array - located or originating from above; "an overhead crossing" Antonyms: subsurface, surface
Adverbial overhead has 2 senses
CIDE DICTIONARY
overhead, adv.
Aloft; above; in or attached to the ceiling or roof; in the story or upon the floor above; in the zenith. [1913 Webster]
"Also used adjectively; as, an overhead crane, gear, etc."
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"While overhead the moon
Sits arbitress." [1913 Webster]
Sits arbitress." [1913 Webster]
overhead, n.
- same as overhead expenses. [PJC]
- A compartment on a train, bus, or airplane used for storage of luggage or accessory equipment; called also
overhead compartment . [PJC] - 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 . [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
overhead, adv., adj., & n.
--adv.
1 above one's head.
2 in the sky or in the storey above.
--adj.
1 (of a driving mechanism etc.) above the object driven.
2 (of expenses) arising from general running costs, as distinct from particular business transactions.
--n. (in pl. or US in sing.) overhead expenses.
--adv.
1 above one's head.
2 in the sky or in the storey above.
--adj.
1 (of a driving mechanism etc.) above the object driven.
2 (of expenses) arising from general running costs, as distinct from particular business transactions.
--n. (in pl. or US in sing.) overhead expenses.
THESAURUS
overhead
above, abovestairs, airward, aloft, aloof, budget, budget items, burden of expenditure, carrying charge, ceiling, charges, cost, cost of living, cost-of-living allowance, cost-of-living index, costs, direct costs, disbursals, distributed costs, eaves, elevated, expenditures, expense, expense account, expenses, general expenses, high, high up, housetop, in the air, in the clouds, indirect costs, labor costs, lantern, liabilities, maintenance, material costs, on high, on stilts, on the peak, on tiptoe, operating costs, operating expense, outlay, over, overhead, penthouse, plafond, prime cost, raised, replacement cost, ridgepole, roof, roof garden, roof-deck, roofage, roofing, roofpole, rooftop, rooftree, shingles, skylight, skyward, slates, straight up, swindle sheet, tiles, tiptoe, to the zenith, top, unit cost, up, upper, upstairs, upward, upwardsROGET THESAURUS
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Height
N height, altitude, elevation, eminence, pitch, loftiness, sublimity, tallness, stature, procerity, prominence, colossus, giant, grenadier, giraffe, camelopard, mount, mountain, hill alto, butte, monticle, fell, knap, cape, headland, foreland, promontory, ridge, hog's back, dune, rising ground, vantage ground, down, moor, moorland, Alp, uplands, highlands, heights, knob, loma, pena, picacho, tump, knoll, hummock, hillock, barrow, mound, mole, steeps, bluff, cliff, craig, tor, peak, pike, clough, escarpment, edge, ledge, brae, dizzy height, tower, pillar, column, obelisk, monument, steeple, spire, minaret, campanile, turret, dome, cupola, skyscraper, pole, pikestaff, maypole, flagstaff, top mast, topgallant mast, ceiling, high water, high tide, flood tide, spring tide, altimetry, batophobia, satellite, spy-in-the-sky, high, elevated, eminent, exalted, lofty, tall, gigantic, Patagonian, towering, beetling, soaring, hanging (gardens), elevated, upper, highest, high reaching, insessorial, perching, upland, moorland, hilly, knobby, mountainous, alpine, subalpine, heaven kissing, cloudtopt, cloudcapt, cloudtouching, aerial, overhanging, incumbent, overlying, superincumbent, supernatant, superimposed, prominent, tall as a maypole, tall as a poplar, tall as a steeple, lanky, on high, high up, aloft, up, above, aloof, overhead, airwind, upstairs, abovestairs, in the clouds, on tiptoe, on stilts, on the shoulders of, over head and ears, breast high, over, upwards, from top to bottom, e meglio cader dalle finistre che dal tetto.
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