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overhead (iou)



overhead adverb, noun, & adjective. OE.
[from OVER- + HEAD noun.]
A. adverb.
Taken together, overall; on average. Formerly also, in each case, one with another. Long obsolete exc. Scot. OE.
a. Above one's head; on high, in the sky, esp. in or near the zenith; on the floor above. LME.
M. Mitchell The dark cedars on either side..met in an arch overhead. G. Greene In Herr Braun's cellar the husbands heard the knocker hammering overhead. G. Lord Overhead, the..cloud had covered nearly half the sky.
b. So as to be completely submerged or immersed. Freq. also fig. (foll. by in). M17.
Headlong, precipitately. LME-L16.
b. noun.
A blow over the head in fencing. Only in ME.
The sky, the firmament. M19.
In pl. & (chiefly N. Amer.) sing. Overhead expenses (see sense C.4 below). E20.
An overhead stroke in tennis, badminton, etc. M20.
An overhead projector; an overhead transparency. L20.
C. adjective.
Placed or situated overhead or at a distance above the ground; (of a mechanism) situated above the object driven. L19.
T. Heggen The wardroom, where one overhead light burned dimly.
Overall, average. Chiefly Scot. L19.
Of a stroke in tennis, badminton, etc.: made with the racket above one's head. E20.
Of expenses: incurred in the upkeep of plant and premises, not attributable to individual products or items. E20.
Special collocations: overhead camshaft: mounted above the cylinder block of an internal-combustion engine. overhead projector a projector which projects an image from a horizontally-positioned transparency on to a vertical screen by means of light passed upwards through the transparency and then through lenses mounted above it. overhead transparency a sheet of acetate film containing an image for projection by an overhead projector. overhead valve: seated in the top of the combustion chamber of an internal-combustion engine, facing the piston.