overhead

English Online Dictionary. What means overhead‎? What does overhead mean?

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation)
  • (adjective, noun): enPR: ōʹvə-hĕd', IPA^(key): /ˈəʊvəˌhɛd/
  • (adverb): enPR: ō'və-hĕdʹ, IPA^(key): /ˌəʊvəˈhɛd/
• (General American)
  • (adjective, noun): enPR: ōʹvər-hĕd', IPA^(key): /ˈoʊvɚˌhɛd/
  • (adverb): enPR: ō'və-hĕdʹ, IPA^(key): /ˌoʊvɚˈhɛd/
• Rhymes: -ɛd

Etymology 1

From Middle English owerheved, over-hed, over hede (adverb), from Old English oferhēafod (adverb), equivalent to over- +‎ head. Compare German Low German overhoopt, överhoopt, German überhaupt.

Adjective

overhead (comparative more overhead, superlative most overhead)

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

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Noun

overhead (countable and uncountable, plural overheads)

1. (uncountable, business, accounting) The expense of a business not directly assigned to goods or services provided.
2. (countable, business, accounting) The items or classes of expense not directly assigned to goods or services provided.
3. (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.
4. (uncountable, business) Wasted money.
5. (tennis) A smash.
6. (nautical) The ceiling of any enclosed space below decks in a vessel.
7. A compartment above the seats for stowing luggage in a passenger aircraft.
8. (transport) The system of overhead wires used to power electric transport, such as streetcars, trains, or buses.
9. (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.

10. (juggling, by ellipsis) An overhead throw.

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Adverb

overhead (comparative more overhead, superlative most overhead)

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

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Preposition

overhead

1. Above.

Etymology 2

(Sense 1) Abbreviation of overhead projector.

(Sense 2) Back-formation from overhead projector.

Noun

overhead (plural overheads)

1. (countable) An overhead projector.
2. (countable) A sheet of transparent material with an image used with an overhead projector; an overhead transparency.

Anagrams

• headover