overhang
Americanverb (used with object)
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to hang or be suspended over.
A great chandelier overhung the ballroom.
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to extend, project, or jut over.
A wide balcony overhangs the garden.
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to impend over or threaten, as danger or evil; loom over.
The threat of war overhung Europe.
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to spread throughout; permeate; pervade.
the melancholy that overhung the proceedings.
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Informal. to hover over, as a threat or menace.
Unemployment continues to overhang the economic recovery.
verb (used without object)
noun
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something that extends or juts out over; projection.
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the extent of projection, as of the bow of a ship.
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Informal. an excess or surplus.
an overhang of office space in midtown.
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a threat or menace.
to face the overhang of foreign reprisals.
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Architecture. a projecting upper part of a building, as a roof or balcony.
verb
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to project or extend beyond (a surface, building, etc)
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(tr) to hang or be suspended over
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(tr) to menace, threaten, or dominate
noun
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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
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the amount or extent of projection
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aeronautics
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half the difference in span of the main supporting surfaces of a biplane or other multiplane
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the distance from the outer supporting strut of a wing to the wing tip
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finance the shares, collectively, that the underwriters have to buy when a new issue has not been fully taken up by the market
Etymology
Origin of overhang
Example Sentences
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AI disruption is likely the larger overhang and remains evident in the disorderly nature of selloffs in software, financials services, and other sectors, such as private credit markets, exposed to the adoption of new technologies.
From Barron's
However, the lack of a full recovery in the automotive segment still poses a major overhang for analog semiconductors, overshadowing their burgeoning data-center businesses.
From MarketWatch
Markets were largely anticipating the decision, given how oral arguments in the case had played out, and it removed an ongoing overhang that had been lurking in the background.
From Barron's
“In our view, if it weren’t for the overhang of an impending equity raise, the shares would be up on this,” they say.
A dog has been rescued after falling through an overhanging ledge of snow and spending a wintry night out on a mountain in the Highlands.
From BBC
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