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overhead
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation)
- (adjective, noun): enPR: ??v?-h?d', IPA(key): /???v??h?d/
- (adverb): enPR: ?'v?-h?d?, IPA(key): /???v??h?d/
- (General American)
- (adjective, noun): enPR: ??v?r-h?d', IPA(key): /?o?v??h?d/
- (adverb): enPR: ?'v?-h?d?, IPA(key): /?o?v??h?d/
- Rhymes: -?d
Etymology 1
From Middle English owerheved, over-hed, over hede (adverb), from Old English oferh?afod (adverb), equivalent to over- +? head. Compare German Low German overhoopt, överhoopt, German überhaupt.
Adjective
overhead (comparative more overhead, superlative most overhead)
- located above, especially over the head
- (soccer) kicked over one's own head
Derived terms
- overhead crane
Translations
Noun
overhead (countable and uncountable, plural overheads)
- (uncountable, business, accounting) The expense of a business not directly assigned to goods or services provided.
- (countable, business, accounting) The items or classes of expense not directly assigned to goods or services provided.
- (uncountable) 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.
- (uncountable, business) Wasted money.
- (tennis) A smash.
- (nautical) The ceiling of any enclosed space below decks in a vessel.
- A compartment above the seats for stowing luggage in a passenger aircraft.
- (transport) The system of overhead wires used to power electric transport, such as streetcars, trains, or buses.
- (computing) 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.
- (juggling, by ellipsis) An overhead throw.
Derived terms
Translations
Adverb
overhead (comparative more overhead, superlative most overhead)
- Above one's head; in the sky.
- (archaic) Per head; for each individual.
Translations
Etymology 2
- (Sense 1) Abbreviation of overhead projector.
- (Sense 2) Back-formation from overhead projector.
Noun
overhead (plural overheads)
- (countable) An overhead projector.
- (countable) A sheet of transparent material with an image used with an overhead projector; an overhead transparency.
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overheard
English
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /o?.v?.h?d/
Verb
overheard
- simple past tense and past participle of overhear
overheard From the web:
- what overheard means
- overheard what does it mean
- overhead cost
- what i overheard as an escape room actor
- what reporter overheard yoho
- what i overheard in waitrose
- overhead expenses
- what do overheard mean
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