[
US
/ˈoʊvɝˈhɛd/
]
ADVERB
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above your head; in the sky
planes were flying overhead -
above the head; over the head
bring the legs together overhead
NOUN
- (computer science) the processing time required by a device prior to the execution of a command
- 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
- (computer science) the disk space required for information that is not data but is used for location and timing
- a transparency for use with an overhead projector
- (nautical) the top surface of an enclosed space on a ship
- a hard return hitting the tennis ball above your head
ADJECTIVE
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located or originating from above
an overhead crossing
How To Use overhead In A Sentence
- The music picked up the tempo and overhead a saxophone played sweet jazz.
- A woodpecker called loudly in the beech wood; a "wish-wish" in the air overhead was caused by the swift motion of a wood-pigeon passing from "holt" to "hurst," from copse to copse. The Life of the Fields
- Lord Grade could estimate the cost of your clothes at a glance (adding 50\% for overheads and a 50\% markup), having been in the schmutter business before deciding that there was a brighter future dancing the Charleston. The Guardian World News
- Spider crabs stalked the seabed; wrasse, blennies, shannies and rockling darted over the reefs, and pollack wheeled overhead.
- If you manage your overhead costs properly, you will impact directly on your bottom line cost base.
- Overhead, a mewing cry announced the passing of a white-tailed sea eagle, which was being mobbed by agitated gulls.
- It is due to the high overhead and the unhandiness of the previous fault-tolerance systems.
- Tarl stood up and grabbed her bag from the overhead.
- It was being pulleyed by several cords of thick rope overhead.
- The chimney, usually of lath and plaster, ending overhead in a cone and funnel for the smoke, was so roomy in old cottages as to accommodate almost the whole family sitting around the fire of logs piled in the reredosse in the middle, and there they carried on their winter's work. The Life of Thomas Telford
