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Overhead vs Overlap - What's the difference?

overhead | overlap |

As nouns the difference between overhead and overlap

is that 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 while overlap is something that overlaps or is overlapped.

As an adjective overhead

is located above, especially over the head.

As an adverb overhead

is above one's head; in the sky.

As a verb overlap is

to extend over and partly cover something.

overhead

English

Etymology 1

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • located above, especially over the head
    • Place your luggage in the overhead bins.
  • (soccer) kicked over one's own head
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=February 12 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Man Utd 2 - 1 Man City , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=It was Rooney, however, who produced a moment of inspiration to score a stunning overhead kick that will live forever in the memory of United's fans and extended City's dismal sequence of only one league win in their last 27 visits to Old Trafford. }}

    Noun

  • (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.
    • 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.
  • (juggling, by ellipsis) An overhead throw.
    • Derived terms
    * computational overhead

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Above one's head; in the sky.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead , and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet: or anon we shot into a clearing, with a colored glimpse of the lake and its curving shore far below us.}}

    Etymology 2

    : (Sense 1) Abbreviation of overhead projector . : (Sense 2)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (countable) An overhead projector.
  • (countable) A sheet of transparent material with an image used with an overhead projector; an overhead transparency.
    • English heteronyms

    overlap

    English

    (wikipedia overlap)

    Verb

    (overlapp) (intransitive)
  • To extend over and partly cover something.
    • the mousemat overlapped the edge of the desk
  • To have an area, range, character or function in common.
    • The two maps overlapped at the east and west edges
  • * '>citation
    • Memento unfolds over 22 scenes—or, more accurately, 22 strands of time, the main strand (in color) moving backward in increments, and another strand (in black and white) going forward, though the two overlap profoundly.
  • (mathematics) Used of sets that have some elements in common.
    • The set (all men) overlaps the set (vegetarians)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something that overlaps or is overlapped
  • (rugby) a situation in the game where an attacking line has more players in it than the defensive line coming to meet it. The attacking side may exploit the overlap'' by using their superior numbers to break the opposition's defensive line. If attackers outnumber defenders by more than one player this is often termed a ''two man overlap'' or ''three man overlap'', etc. If the attacking side fails to break through usually due to poor execution, they are said to ''waste an overlap .