Eavesdrop vs Overhead - What's the difference?
eavesdrop | overhead |
(senseid)To hear a conversation one is not intended to hear; to listen in.
The dripping of rain from the eaves of a house
The space around a house on which such water drips
A concealed aperture through which an occupant of a building can surreptitiously listen to people talking at an entrance to the building
The act of intentionally hearing a conversation not intended to be heard
located above, especially over the head
(soccer) kicked over one's own head
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, date=February 12
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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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, 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.}}
(countable) An overhead projector.
(countable) A sheet of transparent material with an image used with an overhead projector; an overhead transparency.
English heteronyms
As nouns the difference between eavesdrop and overhead
is that eavesdrop is the dripping of rain from the eaves of a house 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 a verb eavesdrop
is (senseid)to hear a conversation one is not intended to hear; to listen in.As an adjective overhead is
located above, especially over the head.As an adverb overhead is
above one's head; in the sky.eavesdrop
English
Verb
(eavesdropp)- I hope nobody was eavesdropping on our conversation last night, since it got so personal.
Usage notes
To eavesdrop usually implies the listener is purposefully trying to hear the conversation of others. To (overhear) is more often accidental.Synonyms
* (hear conversation one is not intended to hear) overhearDerived terms
* eavesdropperNoun
(en noun)Synonyms
* eavesdripoverhead
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.