overhang
overhang is a 8-letter English word with 10 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To impend or hang over. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- transitive verb. To impend or hang over.
- transitive verb. To hang over; to jut or project over.
- intransitive verb. To jut over.
- noun. In a general sense, that which just out or projects; a projection; also, the measure of the projection; as, the overhang is five feet.
- noun. Specifically: The projection of an upper part (as a roof, an upper story, or other part) of a building beyond the lower part; as, the overhang of a roof, of the eaves, etc.
- noun. The portion of the bow or stem of a vessel that projects over the water beyond the water line.
- noun. The projection of a part beyond another part that is directly below it, or beyond a part by which it is supported; as, the overhang of a shaft; i. e., its projection beyond its bearing.
- noun. projection that extends beyond or hangs over something else
- verb. be suspended over or hang over
"This huge rock beetles over the edge of the town"
- verb. project over
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