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View definitions for overhead

overhead

adjective as in up above

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adverb as in up above

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noun as in general, continuing costs of operation

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Whether you’re a late-night reader or prefer to illuminate your room without any overhead bulbs, a lamp can provide a function and be a creature comfort.

For example, new software could give astronomers a heads up for when and where satellites are expected to pass overhead.

We also dispatch personnel to substations to assess and repair any issues that arise during the day, and utilize overhead and underground crews to assess and repair any issues.

Astronomers would peer through an eyepiece to guide the telescope by hand, keeping up with the stars as they spun by overhead.

The company said it increased marketing investment by 270 basis points — or around $480 million — though this increase was partially offset by 230 basis points of overhead and marketing expense savings.

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Twin buglers played “Taps” and three police helicopters flew overhead in the missing-man formation.

But they have high fixed costs—overhead, maintenance, staff, and power.

A Molotov cocktail tumbled in an arc overhead and erupted briefly in a blaze.

U.S. warplanes roaring overhead unleashed missiles and precision-guided bombs, but they could do nothing to solve this problem.

Bulbs strung among branches in the overhead wild hibiscus tree form a radiant canopy.

Out of the darkening sky rang the twanging call of a night-hawk, and the cluck of a dozing hen sounded from the foliage overhead.

The gigantic pylon, its shoulders breaking the sky four-square far overhead, seemed the prodigious portal of another world.

The long dry fingers of the palm trees rattled overhead, and looking up, he saw the divine light of the starry heavens.

Coming to a gate of red stone, Yung Pak asked the meaning of the carved arrow in the arch overhead.

And the lead wire from the aerials, well grounded, was brought directly in from overhead and connected with the radio set.

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On this page you'll find 36 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to overhead, such as: aerial, atop, skyward, upward, hanging, and on high.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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