Synonyms of the word

overhead

• adj. located above, especially over the head.
• adj. (soccer) kicked over one's own head.
• n. (uncountable, business, accounting) The expense of a business not directly assigned to goods or services…
• n. (countable, business, accounting) The items or classes of expense not directly assigned to goods or services…
• n. (uncountable) Any cost or expenditure (monetary, time, effort or otherwise) incurred in a project or activity,…
• n. (uncountable, business) Wasted money.
• n. (tennis) A smash.
• n. (nautical) The ceiling of any enclosed space below decks in a vessel.
• n. (transport) The system of overhead wires used to power electric transport, such as streetcars, trains,…
• n. (computing) Data or steps of computation that is only used to facilitate the computations in the system…
• n. (juggling, by ellipsis) An overhead throw.
• adv. Above one's head; in the sky.
• n. (countable) An overhead projector.
• n. (countable) A sheet of transparent material with an image used with an overhead projector; an overhead…

ceiling

• n. The surface that bounds the upper limit of a room.
• n. The upper limit of an object or action.
• n. (aviation) The highest altitude at which an aircraft may fly.
• n. (mathematics) The smallest integer greater than or equal to a given number.
• n. (nautical) The inner planking of a vessel.
• v. present participle of ceil.

disbursal

• n. The act of disbursing money.
• n. The amount of money paid for something (especially the amount that may be tax-deductable).

disbursement

• n. The act, instance, or process of disbursing.
• n. Money paid out or spent.

elevated

• v. simple past tense and past participle of elevate.
• adj. Raised, particularly above ground level.
• adj. Increased, particularly above a normal level.
• adj. Of a higher rank or status.
• n. An elevated railway.

expense

• n. A spending or consuming. Often specifically an act of disbursing or spending funds.
• n. That which is expended, laid out, or consumed. Sometimes with the notion of loss or damage to those on…
• n. (obsolete) Loss.
• v. (transitive) To charge a cost against an expense account; to bill something to the company for which one…

foil

• n. A very thin sheet of metal.
• n. (uncountable) Thin aluminium/aluminum (or, formerly, tin) used for wrapping food.
• n. A thin layer of metal put between a jewel and its setting to make it seem more brilliant.
• n. (figuratively) In literature, theatre/theater, etc., a character who helps emphasize the traits of the…
• n. (figuratively) Anything that acts by contrast to emphasise the characteristics of something.
• n. (fencing) A very thin sword with a blunted (or foiled) tip.
• n. A thin, transparent plastic material on which marks are made and projected for the purposes of presentation…
• n. (heraldry) A stylized flower or leaf.
• n. Shortened form of hydrofoil.
• n. Shortened form of aerofoil/airfoil.
• v. To prevent (something) from being accomplished.
• v. To prevent (someone) from accomplishing something.
• v. To blunt; to dull; to spoil.
• v. (obsolete) To tread underfoot; to trample.
• n. Failure when on the point of attainment; defeat; frustration; miscarriage.
• n. One of the incorrect answers presented in a multiple-choice test.
• n. (hunting) The track of an animal.
• v. (mathematics) To expand a product of two or more algebraic expressions, typically binomials.
• v. (obsolete) To defile; to soil.

return

• v. (intransitive) To come or go back (to a place or person).
• v. (intransitive) To go back in thought, narration, or argument.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To turn back, retreat.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To turn (something) round.
• v. (transitive) To place or put back something where it had been.
• v. (transitive) To give something back to its original holder or owner.
• v. (transitive) To take back something to a vendor for a refund.
• v. To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
• v. (tennis) To bat the ball back over the net in response to a serve.
• v. (card games) To play a card as a result of another player's lead.
• v. (cricket) To throw a ball back to the wicket-keeper (or a fielder at that position) from somewhere in…
• v. (transitive) To say in reply; to respond.
• v. (intransitive, computing) To relinquish control to the calling procedure.
• v. (transitive, computing) To pass (data) back to the calling procedure.
• v. (transitive, dated) To retort; to throw back.
• v. (transitive) To report, or bring back and make known.
• v. (by extension, Britain) To elect according to the official report of the election officers.
• n. The act of returning.
• n. A return ticket.
• n. An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect, or the act of returning it.
• n. An answer.
• n. An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, etc…
• n. Gain or loss from an investment.
• n. (taxation, finance): A report of income submitted to a government for purposes of specifying exact tax…
• n. (computing) A carriage return character.
• n. (computing) The act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure.
• n. (computing) A return value: the data passed back from a called procedure.
• n. A short perpendicular extension of a desk, usually slightly lower.
• n. (American football) Catching a ball after a punt and running it back towards the opposing team.
• n. (cricket) A throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket.
• n. (architecture) The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building,…

smash

• n. The sound of a violent impact; a violent striking together.
• n. (Britain, colloquial) A traffic accident.
• n. (colloquial, entertainment) Something very successful.
• n. (tennis) A very hard overhead shot hit sharply downward.
• n. (colloquial, archaic) A bankruptcy.
• v. To break (something brittle) violently.
• v. (intransitive) To be destroyed by being smashed.
• v. To hit extremely hard.
• v. (figuratively) To ruin completely and suddenly.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To defeat overwhelmingly; to gain a comprehensive success.
• v. (US) To deform through continuous pressure.
• v. (transitive, slang, vulgar, of a man) To have sexual intercourse with.

transparency

• n. (uncountable) The quality of being transparent; transparence.
• n. (uncountable) Openness; accessibility to scrutiny.
• n. (countable, photography) A translucent film-like material with an image imprinted on it, viewable by shining…
• n. (countable) A transparent object.
• n. (signal processing) Sufficient accuracy to make the compressed result perceptually indistinguishable from…

viewgraph

• n. A graph (or similar chart) produced as a transparency for use with an overhead projector.