overhang
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vərˈhæŋ; verb (used with object)
1.
to hang or be suspended over: A great chandelier overhung the ballroom.
2.
to extend, project, or jut over: A wide balcony overhangs the garden.
3.
to impend over or threaten, as danger or evil; loom over: The threat of war overhung Europe.
4.
to spread throughout; permeate; pervade: the melancholy that overhung the proceedings.
5.
Informal. to hover over, as a threat or menace: Unemployment continues to overhang the economic recovery.
verb (used without object)
6.
to hang over; project or jut out over something below: How far does the balcony overhang?
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noun
7.
something that extends or juts out over; projection.
8.
the extent of projection, as of the bow of a ship.
9.
10.
a threat or menace: to face the overhang of foreign reprisals.
11.
Architecture. a projecting upper part of a building, as a roof or balcony.
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| overhang | |
| —vb , -hangs, -hanging, -hung | |
| 1. | to project or extend beyond (a surface, building, etc) |
| 2. | (tr) to hang or be suspended over |
| 3. | (tr) to menace, threaten, or dominate |
| —n | |
| 4. | 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 |
| 5. | the amount or extent of projection |
| 6. | aeronautics |
| a. half the difference in span of the main supporting surfaces of a biplane or other multiplane | |
| b. the distance from the outer supporting strut of a wing to the wing tip | |
| 7. | finance the shares, collectively, that the underwriters have to buy when a new issue has not been fully taken up by the market |
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Word Origin & History
overhang
1599 (v.), from over + hang (q.v.). The noun meaning "fact of overhanging" is attested from 1864.
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Example sentences
Tree frogs use aquatic habitats to reproduce by laying eggs on leaves that overhang freshwater.
Rain was coming up and under the overhang into the concourse as a nearby tornado siren wailed.
The geriatric overhang now seems to have been dealt with.
Not only is it able to climb a vertical wall, it can even manage one with an overhang.
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