Dictionary Entry
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.
8 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 17 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To impend or hang over.
- 2transitive verb
To hang over; to jut or project over.
- 3intransitive verb
To jut over.
- 4noun
In a general sense, that which just out or projects; a projection; also, the measure of the projection; as, the overhang is five feet.
- 5noun
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.
- 6noun
The portion of the bow or stem of a vessel that projects over the water beyond the water line.
- 7noun
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.
- 8noun
projection that extends beyond or hangs over something else
- 9verb
be suspended over or hang over
"This huge rock beetles over the edge of the town"
Synonyms
- 10verb
project over
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