overhead

Above your head or high in the sky.

• A bird flew overhead.
• Dark clouds gathered overhead as we walked home.
• We heard a helicopter passing overhead.

Similar words: above, up above

Opposites: below

Common phrases: fly overhead, pass overhead, directly overhead

Above you, especially directly above your head.

• The overhead lights were bright.
• Put your bag in the overhead locker.
• Workers repaired the overhead power cables.

Common phrases: overhead lights, overhead wires, overhead locker

Describing a kick made by lifting your foot above your head to send the ball backwards.

• He scored with an overhead kick.
• Her overhead effort flew just wide of the goal.
• The crowd cheered his spectacular overhead goal.

Similar words: bicycle

Common phrases: overhead kick, an overhead goal

Regular costs of running a business, such as rent, that are not costs of making individual products.

• Rent is our biggest overhead.
• The company reduced its overhead by moving offices.
• High overhead costs left little room for profit.

Similar words: running costs, operating expenses

Common phrases: reduce overhead, overhead costs, high overhead

Money spent without gaining anything useful.

• That useless fee was pure overhead.
• He called the unnecessary spending overhead.
• They treated every wasted dollar as overhead.

Similar words: waste

Common phrases: unnecessary overhead, pure overhead, wasted overhead

Above someone or something.

• Stars shone overhead the sleeping town.
• A thick canopy spread overhead the travelers.
• Clouds gathered overhead the distant hills.

How to use it: overhead someone/something (Branches formed a green roof overhead the path.)

Similar words: above, over

Opposites: below, under

Common phrases: overhead someone, overhead the trees