Word Study
overhead
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." [1913 Webster]
"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
overhead
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.For further exploring for "overhead" in Webster Dictionary Online