overline
1 of 2transitive verb
: to draw a line or lines over or above
overline
2 of 2noun
1
: a printed line usually underlined and of a smaller size or different typeface than the headline proper run above a headline and designed to introduce or identify the matter of the story or provoke to read on
2
: the title or explanatory matter above a picture or cartoon in a newspaper or periodical
3
: an insertion, correction, or alteration made above the printed or manuscript line it applies to —distinquished from underline
Word History
Etymology
Transitive verb
over entry 1 + line
Noun
over entry 3 + line
- phos
- radiationless
- radiations
- radiative
- radiatively
- radiator
- radiators
- radiatory
- radical
- radical axis
- radical cadence
- radical center
- radical chic
- radical empiricism
- radical expression
- radical plane
- Radical Republican
- radical sign
- radicalisation
- radicalisations
- radicalise
- radicalised
- radicalises
- radicalising
- radicalism