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Definitions for Overhang
[1] to hang or be suspended over: A great chandelier overhung the ballroom.
[2] to extend, project, or jut over: A wide balcony overhangs the garden.
[3] to impend over or threaten, as danger or evil; loom over: The threat of war overhung Europe.
[4] to spread throughout; permeate; pervade: the melancholy that overhung the proceedings.
[5] Informal . to hover over, as a threat or menace: Unemployment continues to overhang the economic recovery.
[6] to hang over; project or jut out over something below: How far does the balcony overhang?
[7] something that extends or juts out over; projection.
[8] the extent of projection, as of the bow of a ship.
[9] Informal . an excess or surplus: an overhang of office space in midtown.
[10] a threat or menace: to face the overhang of foreign reprisals.
[11] Architecture . a projecting upper part of a building, as a roof or balcony.
[12] to project or extend beyond (a surface, building, etc)
[13] (tr) to hang or be suspended over
[14] (tr) to menace, threaten, or dominate
[15] a formation, object, part of a structure, etc, that extends beyond or hangs over something, such as an outcrop of rock overhanging a mountain face
[16] the amount or extent of projection
[17] aeronautics half the difference in span of the main supporting surfaces of a biplane or other multiplane the distance from the outer supporting strut of a wing to the wing tip
[18] finance the shares, collectively, that the underwriters have to buy when a new issue has not been fully taken up by the market
Words related to Overhang
loom, extend, impend, portend, project, poke, command, jut, endanger, protrude, menace, pouch, threaten, overtop, beetle
Words nearby Overhang
overground, overgrow, overgrowth, overhand, overhand knot, overhang, overhasty, overhaul, overhead, overhead camshaft, overhead door
Origin of Overhang
First recorded in 1590–1600; over- + hang
Synonyms for Overhang
beetle, command, endanger, extend, impend, jut, loom, menace, overtop, poke, portend, pouch, project, protrude, threaten, be imminent, be suspended, cast a shadow, dangle over, droop over, flap over, rise above, stand out, stick out, swing over, tower above