Aerial vs Overhead - What's the difference?
aerial | overhead |
Living or taking place in the air.
* 1782 , (Joseph Priestley), Disquisitions relating to matter and spirit , I:
Positioned high up; elevated.
Ethereal, insubstantial; imaginary.
* 1714 , (Bernard Mandeville), The Fable of the Bees :
Pertaining to the air or atmosphere; atmospheric.
Pertaining to a vehicle which travels through the air; airborne; relating to or conducted by means of aircraft.
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, title= A rod, wire, or other structure for receiving or transmitting radio, television signals etc.
A move, as in dancing or skateboarding, involving one or both feet leaving the ground.
* 2002 , Joseph A. Kotarba, John M. Johnson, Postmodern Existential Sociology (page 78)
(photography) aerial photography
* 2010 , Jean Hartley, Africa's Big Five and Other Wildlife Filmmakers
located above, especially over the head
(soccer) kicked over one's own head
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(uncountable, business, accounting) The expense of a business not directly assigned to goods or services provided.
(countable, business, accounting) The items or classes of expense not directly assigned to goods or services provided.
(uncountable) Any cost or expenditure (monetary, time, effort or otherwise) incurred in a project or activity, which does not directly contribute to the progress or outcome of the project or activity.
(uncountable, business) Wasted money.
(tennis) A .
(nautical) The ceiling of any enclosed space below decks in a vessel
(transport) The system of overhead wires used to power electric transport, such as streetcars, trains, or buses.
(computing) data or steps of computation that is only used to facilitate the computations in the system and is not directly related to the actual program code or data being processed.
(juggling, by ellipsis) An overhead throw.
Above one's head; in the sky.
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(countable) An overhead projector.
(countable) A sheet of transparent material with an image used with an overhead projector; an overhead transparency.
English heteronyms
As adjectives the difference between aerial and overhead
is that aerial is living or taking place in the air while overhead is located above, especially over the head.As nouns the difference between aerial and overhead
is that aerial is a rod, wire, or other structure for receiving or transmitting radio, television signals etc while overhead is (uncountable|business|accounting) the expense of a business not directly assigned to goods or services provided or overhead can be (countable) an overhead projector.As an adverb overhead is
above one's head; in the sky.aerial
English
(wikipedia aerial)Adjective
(en adjective)- A soul [...] was first conceived to be an aerial , or an igneous substance, which animates the body during life, and makes its escape at death [...].
- the great Recompence in view, for which the most exalted Minds have with so much Alacrity, sacrifis'd their Quiet, Health, sensual Pleasures, and every inch of themselves, has never been any thing else but the Breath of Man, the Aerial Coyn of Praise.
Ed Pilkington
‘Killer robots’ should be banned in advance, UN told, passage=In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.}}
Noun
(en noun)- In their dancing, clubbers were flamboyant. They experimented with new dance steps and improvisations, including risky maneuvers and aerials in which women were flipped into the air.
- Hemment is on record as being the first person to film aerials of wildlife – he filmed a flock of wild ducks early in 1911, possibly on Rainey's Louisiana property.
Usage notes
Some make a distinction between an (antenna) and an (term), with the former used to indicate a rigid structure, and the latter consisting of a wire strung in the air. For those who do not make a distinction, (antenna) is more commonly used in the United States and (term) is more commonly used in the United Kingdom.Synonyms
* (device for receiving or transmitting) antennaDerived terms
* aerial cableway * aerial camera * aerial ladder * aerial photograph * aerial photography * aerial ping pong * aerial railway * aerial ropeway * aerial runway * aerial survey * aerial surveyingAnagrams
*overhead
English
Etymology 1
Adjective
(en adjective)- Place your luggage in the overhead bins.
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Noun
- Network overhead''' is the header data that is required to route and transport data over network, whereas fork '''overhead is the additional time and memory cost of creating and managing new processes within operating system.
