Overkill vs Overhead - What's the difference?
overkill | overhead |
(literally) A destructive capacity that exceeds that needed to destroy an enemy; especially with nuclear weapons.
(idiomatic) An unnecessary excess of whatever is needed to achieve a goal.
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 overkill and overhead
is that overkill is a destructive capacity that exceeds that needed to destroy an enemy; especially with nuclear weapons while overhead is the expense of a business not directly assigned to goods or services provided.As a verb overkill
is to destroy something with more (nuclear) force than is required.As an adjective overhead is
located above, especially over the head.As an adverb overhead is
above one's head; in the sky.overkill
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Noun
(-)- 24 hours of TV coverage of the US election verged on overkill .
- Should I give you yet more homework, or would that be overkill ?
overhead
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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.