verb (used with object), o·ver·hung, o·ver·hang·ing.
- to hang or be suspended over: A great chandelier overhung the ballroom.
- to extend, project, or jut over: A wide balcony overhangs the garden.
- to impend over or threaten, as danger or evil; loom over: The threat of war overhung Europe.
- to spread throughout; permeate; pervade: the melancholy that overhung the proceedings.
- Informal. to hover over, as a threat or menace: Unemployment continues to overhang the economic recovery.
verb (used without object), o·ver·hung, o·ver·hang·ing.
- to hang over; project or jut out over something below: How far does the balcony overhang?
noun
- something that extends or juts out over; projection.
- the extent of projection, as of the bow of a ship.
- Informal. an excess or surplus: an overhang of office space in midtown.
- a threat or menace: to face the overhang of foreign reprisals.
- Architecture. a projecting upper part of a building, as a roof or balcony.
verb (ˌəʊvəˈhæŋ) -hangs, -hanging or -hung
- to project or extend beyond (a surface, building, etc)
- (tr) to hang or be suspended over
- (tr) to menace, threaten, or dominate
noun (ˈəʊvəˌhæŋ)
- 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
- the amount or extent of projection
- aeronautics
- half the difference in span of the main supporting surfaces of a biplane or other multiplane
- the distance from the outer supporting strut of a wing to the wing tip
- finance the shares, collectively, that the underwriters have to buy when a new issue has not been fully taken up by the market
v.1590s, from over- + hang (v.). Related: Overhung; overhanging. n.“fact of overhanging,” 1864, from overhang (v.).