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adverb

Overhead adv. Aloft; above; in or attached to the ceiling or roof; in the story or upon the floor above; in the zenith. "While overhead the moon Sits arbitress." Note: Also used adjectively; as, an overhead crane, gear, etc.

Overhead engine, a vertical steam engine in which the cylinder stands above the crank.

Overhead work, a general term in manufactories for countershafting and gearing, when overhead.

noun

overhead n.

Same as overhead expenses.

A compartment on a train, bus, or airplane used for storage of luggage or accessory equipment; called also overhead compartment.

(Sports) 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.

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Etymology of 'Overhead'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Overhead" Quotes from Famous Books

... out along the Bois, the leaves were overhead, And I saw a regiment of the line that swung in blue and red; The youth of things, the joy of things, they made my heart to beat, And the quick-step lilting and the tramp of feet! Flic flac, flic flac, ...

— Punch or the London Charivari, September 9, 1914 • Various

... from my grandfather's house was very grand. Standing up, right opposite, was the steep Castle rock, with its crown buildings and circular battery towering high overhead. They seemed almost to hang over the verge of the rock. The houses on the opposite side of the Grassmarket were crowded under the esplanade ...

— James Nasmyth's Autobiography • James Nasmyth

... a clear night overhead, and the stars were shining. Orion in particular was making the most of his bright belt and golden sword. But the moon was only a poor thin crescent. There was just one great, jagged, black and gray cloud in the sky, ...

— At the Back of the North Wind • George MacDonald

... large square room, with brick floor, rough shack walls and smoky rafters overhead from which pended strings of garlic, red peppers and herbs. The light was supplied ostensibly by two tallow dips, but in reality by the glowing wood embers of the great open stove bricked into one ...

— The Four Pools Mystery • Jean Webster

... have a beauty of their own, those great fens," he said, "a beauty of the sea, of boundless expanse and freedom. Overhead the arch of heaven spreads more ample than elsewhere, and that vastness gives such cloud-lands, such sunrises, such sunsets, as can be seen ...

— Immortal Memories • Clement Shorter

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