overhead

adjective · noun · adverb · prepositionB1

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Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

more overhead

Superlative

most overhead

1.
Located above, especially over the head.
Place your luggage in the overhead lockers.
2.
(soccer) Kicked over one's own head.

Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

overheads

1.
(uncountable)(uncountable, business, accounting) The expense of a business not directly assigned to goods or services provided.
2.
(countable)(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)(uncountable, business) Wasted money.
5.
(countable, uncountable)(tennis) A smash.
6.
(countable, uncountable)(nautical) The ceiling of any enclosed space below decks in a vessel.
7.
(countable, uncountable)A compartment above the seats for stowing luggage in a passenger aircraft.
8.
(countable, uncountable)(transport) The system of overhead wires used to power electric transport, such as streetcars, trains, or buses.
9.
(countable, uncountable)(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.
Network overhead is the header data that is required to route and transport data over the network, whereas fork overhead is the additional time and memory cost of creating and managing new processes within the operating system.
10.
(countable, uncountable)(juggling, by ellipsis) An overhead throw.
11.
(countable, uncountable)(transport) A type of bridge, also commonly known as an overpass or flyover, which carries one form of traffic over another.
12.
(countable)An overhead projector.

Trạng từ

adverb

Comparative

more overhead

Superlative

most overhead

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

preposition

1.
Above.

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English owerheved, over-hed, over hede, from Old English oferhēafod, equivalent to over- + head. Compare overhoopt, överhoopt, überhaupt. overchief.