Overhead vs Upper - What's the difference?
overhead | upper | Synonyms |
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
That which is higher, contrasted with the lower.
(shoemaking) The piece of leather, etc., that forms the top part of a shoe above the sole.
A stimulant such as amphetamine that increases energy and decreases appetite.
At a higher level, rank or position.
Situated on higher ground, further inland, or more northerly.
(geology, of strata or geological time periods) younger, more recent
(education) Of or pertaining to a secondary school.
Overhead is a synonym of upper.
As adjectives the difference between overhead and upper
is that overhead is located above, especially over the head while upper is at a higher level, rank or position.As nouns the difference between overhead and upper
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 upper is that which is higher, contrasted with the lower.As an adverb overhead
is above one's head; in the sky.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.
Derived terms
* computational overheadAdverb
(en adverb)Etymology 2
: (Sense 1) Abbreviation of overhead projector . : (Sense 2)Noun
(en noun)upper
English
Noun
(en noun)- As the restless sleeper here, I'll take the lower berth. You take the upper .