overhangn.

Brit.

/ˈəʊvəhaŋ/, U.S.

/ˈoʊvərˌ(h)æŋ/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: over- prefix, hang n.

Etymology: < over- prefix + hang n., after overhang v. or to hang over (see hang v.). With sense 1b compare overhanging n. With sense 3 compare earlier hangover n. 3.

a. Nautical. The projection of the upper parts of a ship at the bow or stern beyond a point vertically above the waterline; the part of the ship that projects in this way; the length of this projection.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > high position > overhanging > [noun]

overhanging1548

propendence1615

oversail1688

overhang1853

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > either extremity of vessel > [noun] > projection beyond keel

run1607

way1607

rakea1621

overhang1853

1853 T. P. Jordeson in Brit. Patent 1162 2 The after part [of the raft]..is formed with a great ‘overhang’.

1892 Field 19 Nov. 793/1 She [sc. a yacht] has a considerable overhang of bow. Such overhang..is only of advantage in rough water sailing.

1927 G. Bradford Gloss. Sea Terms 123/2 Overhang, the amount a vessel's bow or stern projects beyond the stem or stern post.

1982 P. Clissold Layton's Dict. Naut. Words (rev. ed.) Overhang, projection of upper part of stern abaft rudder-post.

b. gen. The fact of overhanging or projecting; an overhanging or projecting part, esp. of rocks or a building; the extent to which something overhangs.

ΚΠ

1860 Sci. Amer. 18 Aug. 117/3 Your correspondent gives, as a rule, an overhang of ¾ inch to the saw.

1883 Standard 3 Aug. 5/6 The amphibious reptiles are prevented from escaping by the overhang of the rim of the basin.

1926 P. W. Laidler Tavern of Ocean 185 It became usual..to leave little four-foot passages between the houses to allow of the overhang and drip of the thatch.

1960 Times 22 Oct. 9/4 One lone perch will take up residence in a deep undercut or an overhang of bushes in much the same manner as a big trout.

1983 J. S. Foster Struct. & Fabric (rev. ed.) I. iii. 41/2 A horizontal overhang is sufficient for low buildings.

c. Electrical Engineering. The part of an armature winding which projects beyond the armature core.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > motor > [noun] > armature of > parts of

overhang1915

the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electrical engineering > armature > [noun] > core or frame of > projection beyond

overhang1915

1915 M. Walker Specif. & Design Dynamo-electr. Machinery vii. 172 (caption) Dimensions of the overhang of concentric coils.

1936 M. G. Say & E. N. Pink Performance & Design of Alternating Current Machines x. 193 The problem of the estimation of eddy current losses in overhang conductors is very difficult.

1999 IEE Proc. Sci., Measurem. & Technol. 146 299 (heading) Effect of the overhang capacitance on fast-rising surge distribution in winding of a large AC motor.

d. Aeronautics (a) (The length of) the part of a wing beyond its outermost point of support; (b) (in a biplane or multiplane) (the length of) the part of a wing that extends beyond the tip of an adjacent wing.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > [noun] > plane or aerofoil > wing > length beyond outermost support

overhang1915

society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > [noun] > plane or aerofoil > wing > part extending beyond tip of adjacent wing

overhang1915

1915 Flight 9 Apr. 248/2 In plan form the main planes, of which the upper one has a slight overhang, have a pronounced taper towards the tips.

1953 J. H. Stevens Shape of Aeroplane i. 29 The weight of the overhang when on the ground was taken by wires attached to kingposts protruding from the top plane above the outer pair of interplane struts.

1977 Aeroplane Monthly May 274/2 The B.E.2e was..distinguished by the large overhang of the upper wing extensions.

e. In a record player turntable unit: the distance of the stylus point beyond the centre of the turntable when the pickup arm is aligned along a radius.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > sound recording or reproducing equipment > [noun] > record-playing equipment > needle or stylus > positioning to avoid distortion

overhang1937

1937 Radio Engin. Mar. 17/1 The overhang..is the distance between the center of the turntable and the needle point when the needle point is in line with the centers of the base and turntable.

1958 S. Kelly in E. Molloy High Fidelity Sound Reproduction viii. 139 With a 7¹/ ₂ in. arm, this [sc. minimum distortion] requires an offset angle of 24¹/ ₂° and an overhang of 0·56 in.

1988 V. Capel Audio & Hi-Fi Engineer's Pocket Bk. 57 The effective length of the arm L is the straight distance from the pivot to the stylus, while D is the distance from the pivot to the turntable centre. The difference between them is the overhang.

2. Economics.

a. An excess or build-up of any factor in an economy or market which has, or is likely to have, an undesirable effect upon it.

ΚΠ

1922 Amer. Econ. Rev. 12 14 Higher prices of materials and services added to the cost of war and weighted its overhang.

1987 Times 24 Sept. 25/4 We now have a case of good old-fashioned market indigestion. Retail demand is thin and there is a stock overhang in the market.

1990 Economist 22 Sept. 43/1 Even if interest rates fall, this surge has left a dearth of potential first-time buyers, as well as an overhang of unsold houses.

b. An excess of (estimated) expenditure over available or budgeted funds; a quantity of securities or commodities large enough to cause prices to fall if offered for sale.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > [noun] > overspending > over budget

overhang1953

overrun1956

1953 Sun (Baltimore) 13 May 4/2 Humphrey pointed out that no revenue has been provided to cover the $81,000,000,000 ‘overhang’ of appropriations which will be outstanding at the close of this fiscal year.

1974 Financial Times 19 July 22/8 The dollar overhang has disappeared, the Middle East war has ended.

1995 Observer 23 July (Business section) 1/3 Brian Davis, chief executive of the Nationwide, said the society's repossessions had increased slightly because of long-term debt. ‘We are getting to the stage where the overhang has to find its way out of the system.’

3. In sound recording and reproduction: the (usually undesired) continued oscillation of a system, esp. a loudspeaker, after the cessation of the signal causing it. Also in extended use. Cf. hangover n. 3.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > [noun] > quality of reproduced sound

scratch1908

quality1913

surface noise1914

coloration1925

ambient noise1926

wow1932

pre-echo1935

hangover1940

presence1950

ambience1953

naturalness1966

overhang1971

the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic phenomena > signal > [noun] > unwanted part of signal > types of

stray1901

atmospherics1905

static1905

pickup1925

ambient noise1926

background1927

ground noise1929

hum1929

Johnson noise1929

microphonic1929

thermal noise1930

parasitic1943

flicker noise1947

overhang1971

1971 J. Earl How to choose Pickups & Loudspeakers v. 126 When the cone oscillates at resonance it vibrates quite violently unless well damped. This can cause ‘over-hang’ effects at the bass end.

1988 V. Capel Audio & Hi-Fi Engineer's Pocket Bk. 179 Ringing and overhang are displayed as a decaying train of oscillation after each burst.

1995 Irish Times 2 Oct. 18 The main auditorium..has a number of drawbacks for the listener..a lack of presence in the lower range of the cello and an at times almost churchy overhang in the acoustic.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

overhangv.

Brit.

/ˌəʊvəˈhaŋ/, U.S.

/ˌoʊvərˈhæŋ/

Inflections: Past tense and past participle overhung;

Forms: see over- prefix and hang v.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: over- prefix, hang v.

Etymology: < over- prefix + hang v. Compare to hang over (see hang v.). Compare Middle Dutch overhangen (intransitive; Dutch overhangen (intransitive and transitive)), Middle Low German ȫverhangen (intransitive), ȫverhengen (transitive), German †überhangen (intransitive), überhängen (intransitive and transitive), †überhenken (transitive), and also Middle High German überhāhen (transitive).The word apparently became obsolete at the end of the Old English period and was re-formed in the 16th cent.

a. transitive. To hang over, be suspended above (something); to project or jut out above. Also of a hill, building, etc.: to rise steeply up from.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > high position > overhanging > overhang [verb (transitive)]

overhangOE

overdight1581

overdrip1587

overwhelm1593

overdrop1608

juttya1616

overbrow1718

overlean1827

overplume1854

overlop1893

oversail1912

OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) xxxiv. 467 Þæs muntes cnol mid þeosterlicum gehnipum eall oferhangen wæs.

OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) iii. xiv. 202 Sume ælþeodige men..oferhangene mid toslitenum claðum, swa þæt hi wæron ful neah nacode gesewene.

1558 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Seuen First Bks. Eneidos vi. Sig. R.ij What shuld I now rehearse the beastly Centaures rable all? Whom ouer hangs a stone that euermore doth seeme to fall.

1583 R. Harrison Treat. 122 Psalm in R. Harrison & R. Browne Writings (1953) 112 Their braunches..do so ouerhange and annoye the lanes.

c1600 (?c1395) Pierce Ploughman's Crede (Trin. Cambr. R.3.15) (1873) 426 His hosen ouerhongen his hokschynes on eueriche a side.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iii. i. 13 As fearefully, as doth a galled Rocke O're-hang and iutty his confounded Base.

1655 R. Boyle Parthenissa ii. vi. 93 A Vally all over-hung with lofty Trees.

1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey III. xiv. 4 With cliffs, and nodding forests over-hung.

1773 T. Hull Prodigal Son i. 3 High on the Mountain's Summit, that o'er-hangs The swelling Flood.

1805 W. Wordsworth Waggoner i. 165 Sky, hill, and dale, one dismal room..overhung with gloom.

1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 327 Ascend the hill which overhangs the city.

1902 H. James Wings of Dove I. v. xiii. 280 The balcony that overhung, with pretensions, the general entrance.

1942 E. Langley Pea Pickers i. ii. 22 An ancient family hotel, which overhung the street with damp black towers and turrets.

1987 R. Manning Corridor of Mirrors iv. 29 The river is fairly wide. Hazels and willows overhang its banks.

b. transitive. figurative. To loom over, overshadow; to threaten.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > occurrence > future events > [verb (transitive)] > approach or be in store for

expect1598

overhang1607

impend1652

touch1791

1607 B. Barnes Divils Charter iv. ii A foule red vengeance ouer hangs his head.

1653 tr. F. Carmeni Nissena 96 What mischiefe might overhang him and Nissena.

1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho IV. xiii. 309 She observed..the dark melancholy, that overhung him.

1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. I. iii. v. 165 Tempestuous times..over-hang the slumbrous administration of the renowned Wouter Van Twiller.

1839 G. P. R. James Louis XIV III. 308 A war which had been visibly overhanging them for more than two years.

1890 Spectator 17 May As if life were always overhung by a possibility almost as depressing as a known liability to madness.

1959 Dict. National Biogr. 1941–50 944/1 The..household was continually overhung by the threat of insolvency.

1998 D. J. Enright Egyptian in Birmingham 13 Surely the world's burst conscience overhangs this island.

c. transitive. Economics. Of a factor, circumstance, etc.: to affect (a market or economy) unfavourably.

ΚΠ

1902 Econ. Jrnl. 12 433 Another cause of the premature ending of the boom is undoubtedly the prospect of dearer money which overhangs the market.

1940 G. Crowther Paying for War 31 There is a mass of 5 per cent war debt overhanging the money market.

1977 Time 8 Aug. 39/2 But a pesky psychological climate is overhanging the securities markets.

2. intransitive. To hang over; to project beyond the base; to jut out above.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > high position > overhanging > overhang [verb (intransitive)]

hangOE

to hang outc1400

stoop1422

overhang1567

overreach1610

beetlea1616

shelvea1616

oversail1674

impend1780

deject1825

whave1847

overtopple1855

1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) vii. f. 90 Stretching out their limmes to Heauen that ouerhangs on hie.

1606 W. Warner Continuance Albions Eng. xv. xcviii. 388 Whose holy Noses ouer-hang at Markets, Staules, and Sacks.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 547 The rest was craggie cliff, that overhung Still as it rose, impossible to climbe.

1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 29 When it leans towards you, they say it over-hangs.

1790 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 80 181 The spire may overhang so much from the perpendicular towards Blancnez.

a1878 E. Caswall Tale of Tintern (1907) viii. ix. 119 No cloud O'erhung, and on the glassy flood Smote the broad day.

1887 J. J. Hissey Holiday on Road 174 The sea keeps eating the cliffs away here. Do you notice yonder how they overhang?

1925 W. Cather Professor's House ii. iii. 200 The walls were perpendicular, where they weren't actually overhanging, and they were anything from eight hundred to a thousand feet high.

1996 Sunday Tel. 13 Oct. (Review section) 28/6 Our cupboards don't need a kick plinth because we have extended the worktops so they overhang.

3. transitive. To cover or adorn with hangings or other objects. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > covers or hangings > [verb (transitive)] > cover or furnish with hangings

tapetc1369

hang1451

estale1508

tapestrya1640

drapery1824

overhang1834

drape1847

slip-cover1886

1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus i. iv, in Fraser's Mag. Nov. 590/2 Neither is any Drawing-room a Temple, were it never so begilt and overhung.

1986 Pract. Gardening Dec. 59/2 The effect is enhanced by the background of the courtyard walls—a plain grey surface broken only with thin white horizontal lines and dramatic black corners, but overhung with elegant traditional tiles.

4. transitive. To support from above. rare.

ΚΠ

1904 N.E.D. Overhang, v. 4, to support from above.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	overhang
释义	overhangn. Brit. /ˈəʊvəhaŋ/, U.S. /ˈoʊvərˌ(h)æŋ/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: over- prefix, hang n. Etymology: < over- prefix + hang n., after overhang v. or to hang over (see hang v.). With sense 1b compare overhanging n. With sense 3 compare earlier hangover n. 3. 1. a. Nautical. The projection of the upper parts of a ship at the bow or stern beyond a point vertically above the waterline; the part of the ship that projects in this way; the length of this projection. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > high position > overhanging > [noun] overhanging1548 propendence1615 oversail1688 overhang1853 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > either extremity of vessel > [noun] > projection beyond keel run1607 way1607 rakea1621 overhang1853 1853 T. P. Jordeson in Brit. Patent 1162 2 The after part [of the raft]..is formed with a great ‘overhang’. 1892 Field 19 Nov. 793/1 She [sc. a yacht] has a considerable overhang of bow. Such overhang..is only of advantage in rough water sailing. 1927 G. Bradford Gloss. Sea Terms 123/2 Overhang, the amount a vessel's bow or stern projects beyond the stem or stern post. 1982 P. Clissold Layton's Dict. Naut. Words (rev. ed.) Overhang, projection of upper part of stern abaft rudder-post. b. gen. The fact of overhanging or projecting; an overhanging or projecting part, esp. of rocks or a building; the extent to which something overhangs. ΚΠ 1860 Sci. Amer. 18 Aug. 117/3 Your correspondent gives, as a rule, an overhang of ¾ inch to the saw. 1883 Standard 3 Aug. 5/6 The amphibious reptiles are prevented from escaping by the overhang of the rim of the basin. 1926 P. W. Laidler Tavern of Ocean 185 It became usual..to leave little four-foot passages between the houses to allow of the overhang and drip of the thatch. 1960 Times 22 Oct. 9/4 One lone perch will take up residence in a deep undercut or an overhang of bushes in much the same manner as a big trout. 1983 J. S. Foster Struct. & Fabric (rev. ed.) I. iii. 41/2 A horizontal overhang is sufficient for low buildings. c. Electrical Engineering. The part of an armature winding which projects beyond the armature core. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > motor > [noun] > armature of > parts of overhang1915 the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electrical engineering > armature > [noun] > core or frame of > projection beyond overhang1915 1915 M. Walker Specif. & Design Dynamo-electr. Machinery vii. 172 (caption) Dimensions of the overhang of concentric coils. 1936 M. G. Say & E. N. Pink Performance & Design of Alternating Current Machines x. 193 The problem of the estimation of eddy current losses in overhang conductors is very difficult. 1999 IEE Proc. Sci., Measurem. & Technol. 146 299 (heading) Effect of the overhang capacitance on fast-rising surge distribution in winding of a large AC motor. d. Aeronautics (a) (The length of) the part of a wing beyond its outermost point of support; (b) (in a biplane or multiplane) (the length of) the part of a wing that extends beyond the tip of an adjacent wing. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > [noun] > plane or aerofoil > wing > length beyond outermost support overhang1915 society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > [noun] > plane or aerofoil > wing > part extending beyond tip of adjacent wing overhang1915 1915 Flight 9 Apr. 248/2 In plan form the main planes, of which the upper one has a slight overhang, have a pronounced taper towards the tips. 1953 J. H. Stevens Shape of Aeroplane i. 29 The weight of the overhang when on the ground was taken by wires attached to kingposts protruding from the top plane above the outer pair of interplane struts. 1977 Aeroplane Monthly May 274/2 The B.E.2e was..distinguished by the large overhang of the upper wing extensions. e. In a record player turntable unit: the distance of the stylus point beyond the centre of the turntable when the pickup arm is aligned along a radius. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > sound recording or reproducing equipment > [noun] > record-playing equipment > needle or stylus > positioning to avoid distortion overhang1937 1937 Radio Engin. Mar. 17/1 The overhang..is the distance between the center of the turntable and the needle point when the needle point is in line with the centers of the base and turntable. 1958 S. Kelly in E. Molloy High Fidelity Sound Reproduction viii. 139 With a 7¹/ ₂ in. arm, this [sc. minimum distortion] requires an offset angle of 24¹/ ₂° and an overhang of 0·56 in. 1988 V. Capel Audio & Hi-Fi Engineer's Pocket Bk. 57 The effective length of the arm L is the straight distance from the pivot to the stylus, while D is the distance from the pivot to the turntable centre. The difference between them is the overhang. 2. Economics. a. An excess or build-up of any factor in an economy or market which has, or is likely to have, an undesirable effect upon it. ΚΠ 1922 Amer. Econ. Rev. 12 14 Higher prices of materials and services added to the cost of war and weighted its overhang. 1987 Times 24 Sept. 25/4 We now have a case of good old-fashioned market indigestion. Retail demand is thin and there is a stock overhang in the market. 1990 Economist 22 Sept. 43/1 Even if interest rates fall, this surge has left a dearth of potential first-time buyers, as well as an overhang of unsold houses. b. An excess of (estimated) expenditure over available or budgeted funds; a quantity of securities or commodities large enough to cause prices to fall if offered for sale. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > [noun] > overspending > over budget overhang1953 overrun1956 1953 Sun (Baltimore) 13 May 4/2 Humphrey pointed out that no revenue has been provided to cover the $81,000,000,000 ‘overhang’ of appropriations which will be outstanding at the close of this fiscal year. 1974 Financial Times 19 July 22/8 The dollar overhang has disappeared, the Middle East war has ended. 1995 Observer 23 July (Business section) 1/3 Brian Davis, chief executive of the Nationwide, said the society's repossessions had increased slightly because of long-term debt. ‘We are getting to the stage where the overhang has to find its way out of the system.’ 3. In sound recording and reproduction: the (usually undesired) continued oscillation of a system, esp. a loudspeaker, after the cessation of the signal causing it. Also in extended use. Cf. hangover n. 3. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > [noun] > quality of reproduced sound scratch1908 quality1913 surface noise1914 coloration1925 ambient noise1926 wow1932 pre-echo1935 hangover1940 presence1950 ambience1953 naturalness1966 overhang1971 the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic phenomena > signal > [noun] > unwanted part of signal > types of stray1901 atmospherics1905 static1905 pickup1925 ambient noise1926 background1927 ground noise1929 hum1929 Johnson noise1929 microphonic1929 thermal noise1930 parasitic1943 flicker noise1947 overhang1971 1971 J. Earl How to choose Pickups & Loudspeakers v. 126 When the cone oscillates at resonance it vibrates quite violently unless well damped. This can cause ‘over-hang’ effects at the bass end. 1988 V. Capel Audio & Hi-Fi Engineer's Pocket Bk. 179 Ringing and overhang are displayed as a decaying train of oscillation after each burst. 1995 Irish Times 2 Oct. 18 The main auditorium..has a number of drawbacks for the listener..a lack of presence in the lower range of the cello and an at times almost churchy overhang in the acoustic. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). overhangv. Brit. /ˌəʊvəˈhaŋ/, U.S. /ˌoʊvərˈhæŋ/ Inflections: Past tense and past participle overhung; Forms: see over- prefix and hang v. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: over- prefix, hang v. Etymology: < over- prefix + hang v. Compare to hang over (see hang v.). Compare Middle Dutch overhangen (intransitive; Dutch overhangen (intransitive and transitive)), Middle Low German ȫverhangen (intransitive), ȫverhengen (transitive), German †überhangen (intransitive), überhängen (intransitive and transitive), †überhenken (transitive), and also Middle High German überhāhen (transitive).The word apparently became obsolete at the end of the Old English period and was re-formed in the 16th cent. 1. a. transitive. To hang over, be suspended above (something); to project or jut out above. Also of a hill, building, etc.: to rise steeply up from. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > high position > overhanging > overhang [verb (transitive)] overhangOE overdight1581 overdrip1587 overwhelm1593 overdrop1608 juttya1616 overbrow1718 overlean1827 overplume1854 overlop1893 oversail1912 OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) xxxiv. 467 Þæs muntes cnol mid þeosterlicum gehnipum eall oferhangen wæs. OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) iii. xiv. 202 Sume ælþeodige men..oferhangene mid toslitenum claðum, swa þæt hi wæron ful neah nacode gesewene. 1558 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Seuen First Bks. Eneidos vi. Sig. R.ij What shuld I now rehearse the beastly Centaures rable all? Whom ouer hangs a stone that euermore doth seeme to fall. 1583 R. Harrison Treat. 122 Psalm in R. Harrison & R. Browne Writings (1953) 112 Their braunches..do so ouerhange and annoye the lanes. c1600 (?c1395) Pierce Ploughman's Crede (Trin. Cambr. R.3.15) (1873) 426 His hosen ouerhongen his hokschynes on eueriche a side. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iii. i. 13 As fearefully, as doth a galled Rocke O're-hang and iutty his confounded Base. View more context for this quotation 1655 R. Boyle Parthenissa ii. vi. 93 A Vally all over-hung with lofty Trees. 1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey III. xiv. 4 With cliffs, and nodding forests over-hung. 1773 T. Hull Prodigal Son i. 3 High on the Mountain's Summit, that o'er-hangs The swelling Flood. 1805 W. Wordsworth Waggoner i. 165 Sky, hill, and dale, one dismal room..overhung with gloom. 1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 327 Ascend the hill which overhangs the city. 1902 H. James Wings of Dove I. v. xiii. 280 The balcony that overhung, with pretensions, the general entrance. 1942 E. Langley Pea Pickers i. ii. 22 An ancient family hotel, which overhung the street with damp black towers and turrets. 1987 R. Manning Corridor of Mirrors iv. 29 The river is fairly wide. Hazels and willows overhang its banks. b. transitive. figurative. To loom over, overshadow; to threaten. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > occurrence > future events > [verb (transitive)] > approach or be in store for expect1598 overhang1607 impend1652 touch1791 1607 B. Barnes Divils Charter iv. ii A foule red vengeance ouer hangs his head. 1653 tr. F. Carmeni Nissena 96 What mischiefe might overhang him and Nissena. 1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho IV. xiii. 309 She observed..the dark melancholy, that overhung him. 1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. I. iii. v. 165 Tempestuous times..over-hang the slumbrous administration of the renowned Wouter Van Twiller. 1839 G. P. R. James Louis XIV III. 308 A war which had been visibly overhanging them for more than two years. 1890 Spectator 17 May As if life were always overhung by a possibility almost as depressing as a known liability to madness. 1959 Dict. National Biogr. 1941–50 944/1 The..household was continually overhung by the threat of insolvency. 1998 D. J. Enright Egyptian in Birmingham 13 Surely the world's burst conscience overhangs this island. c. transitive. Economics. Of a factor, circumstance, etc.: to affect (a market or economy) unfavourably. ΚΠ 1902 Econ. Jrnl. 12 433 Another cause of the premature ending of the boom is undoubtedly the prospect of dearer money which overhangs the market. 1940 G. Crowther Paying for War 31 There is a mass of 5 per cent war debt overhanging the money market. 1977 Time 8 Aug. 39/2 But a pesky psychological climate is overhanging the securities markets. 2. intransitive. To hang over; to project beyond the base; to jut out above. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > high position > overhanging > overhang [verb (intransitive)] hangOE to hang outc1400 stoop1422 overhang1567 overreach1610 beetlea1616 shelvea1616 oversail1674 impend1780 deject1825 whave1847 overtopple1855 1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) vii. f. 90 Stretching out their limmes to Heauen that ouerhangs on hie. 1606 W. Warner Continuance Albions Eng. xv. xcviii. 388 Whose holy Noses ouer-hang at Markets, Staules, and Sacks. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 547 The rest was craggie cliff, that overhung Still as it rose, impossible to climbe. View more context for this quotation 1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 29 When it leans towards you, they say it over-hangs. 1790 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 80 181 The spire may overhang so much from the perpendicular towards Blancnez. a1878 E. Caswall Tale of Tintern (1907) viii. ix. 119 No cloud O'erhung, and on the glassy flood Smote the broad day. 1887 J. J. Hissey Holiday on Road 174 The sea keeps eating the cliffs away here. Do you notice yonder how they overhang? 1925 W. Cather Professor's House ii. iii. 200 The walls were perpendicular, where they weren't actually overhanging, and they were anything from eight hundred to a thousand feet high. 1996 Sunday Tel. 13 Oct. (Review section) 28/6 Our cupboards don't need a kick plinth because we have extended the worktops so they overhang. 3. transitive. To cover or adorn with hangings or other objects. rare. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > covers or hangings > [verb (transitive)] > cover or furnish with hangings tapetc1369 hang1451 estale1508 tapestrya1640 drapery1824 overhang1834 drape1847 slip-cover1886 1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus i. iv, in Fraser's Mag. Nov. 590/2 Neither is any Drawing-room a Temple, were it never so begilt and overhung. 1986 Pract. Gardening Dec. 59/2 The effect is enhanced by the background of the courtyard walls—a plain grey surface broken only with thin white horizontal lines and dramatic black corners, but overhung with elegant traditional tiles. 4. transitive. To support from above. rare. ΚΠ 1904 N.E.D. Overhang, v. 4, to support from above. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1853v.OE
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