ALL meanings of overhang
o·ver·hang
O o - verb with object overhang to hang or be suspended over: A great chandelier overhung the ballroom. 1
- verb with object overhang to extend, project, or jut over: A wide balcony overhangs the garden. 1
- verb with object overhang to impend over or threaten, as danger or evil; loom over: The threat of war overhung Europe. 1
- verb with object overhang to spread throughout; permeate; pervade: the melancholy that overhung the proceedings. 1
- verb with object overhang Informal. to hover over, as a threat or menace: Unemployment continues to overhang the economic recovery. 1
- verb without object overhang to hang over; project or jut out over something below: How far does the balcony overhang? 1
- noun overhang something that extends or juts out over; projection. 1
- noun overhang the extent of projection, as of the bow of a ship. 1
- noun overhang Informal. an excess or surplus: an overhang of office space in midtown. 1
- noun overhang a threat or menace: to face the overhang of foreign reprisals. 1
- noun overhang Architecture. a projecting upper part of a building, as a roof or balcony. 1
- transitive verb overhang extend further than 1
- noun overhang sth that hangs over 1
- noun overhang surplus amount 1
- verb overhang If one thing overhangs another, it sticks out over and above it. 0
- countable noun overhang An overhang is the part of something that sticks out over and above something else. 0
- verb overhang If one thing overhangs another, it is supported by it and hangs down its sides. 0
- verb overhang to project or extend beyond (a surface, building, etc) 0
- verb overhang to hang or be suspended over 0
- verb overhang to menace, threaten, or dominate 0
- noun overhang a formation, object, part of a structure, etc, that extends beyond or hangs over something, such as an outcrop of rock overhanging a mountain face 0
- noun overhang the amount or extent of projection 0
- noun overhang half the difference in span of the main supporting surfaces of a biplane or other multiplane 0
- noun overhang the distance from the outer supporting strut of a wing to the wing tip 0
- noun overhang the shares, collectively, that the underwriters have to buy when a new issue has not been fully taken up by the market 0
- verb transitive overhang to hang or project over or beyond 0
- verb transitive overhang to loom over; threaten 0
- intransitive verb overhang to hang over; project or jut out over something 0
- noun overhang the projection of one thing over or beyond another 0
- noun overhang the amount of such projection 0
- noun overhang an overhanging or projecting part, as the part of a ship's stern projecting beyond the sternpost 0
- noun overhang one half the difference in span of the two wings on a biplane or the distance from the last outer strut to the tip of the wing on a monoplane 0
- noun overhang a projection of one part of a structure over another 0
- noun overhang a surplus, as of a commodity, relative to current demand 0
- noun overhang an excess of money in circulation, relative to the amount of goods and services available for purchase 0