overhead

1. 1.

   above your head; in the sky

   “planes were flying overhead”
2. 2.

   above the head; over the head

   “bring the legs together overhead”

1. 1.

   located or originating from above

   “an overhead crossing”

   Antonymssurfacesubsurface

Other forms of overhead

plural

overheads·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about overhead

What does overhead mean?

overhead means "the expense of maintaining property (e.g., paying property taxes and utilities and insurance); it does not include depreciation or the cost of financing or income taxes". That is the primary sense; the word has 9 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in overhead?

overhead has 3 syllables: o-ver-head. The stress falls on "o". In IPA it is /ˈoʊvɚˈhɛd/.

What is another word for overhead?

Close synonyms include operating expense, operating cost, budget items, command processing overhead time, command processing overhead. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of overhead?

The recorded antonyms are surface, subsurface.

Is overhead a common word?

overhead is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with overhead?

34 words rhyme with overhead. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.