overhead vs toll

overhead

noun
  • The expense of a business not directly assigned to goods or services provided. 

  • Data or steps of computation used only to facilitate the computations in the system and not directly related to the actual program code or data being processed. 

  • Any cost or expenditure (monetary, time, effort or otherwise) incurred in a project or activity, which does not directly contribute to its progress or outcome. 

  • Wasted money. 

  • An overhead projector. 

  • A sheet of transparent material with an image used with an overhead projector; an overhead transparency. 

  • The items or classes of expense not directly assigned to goods or services provided. 

  • The ceiling of any enclosed space below decks in a vessel. 

  • The system of overhead wires used to power electric transport, such as streetcars, trains, or buses. 

  • A compartment above the seats for stowing luggage in a passenger aircraft. 

  • An overhead throw. 

  • A smash. 

adj
  • kicked over one's own head 

  • located above, especially over the head 

adv
  • Above one's head; in the sky. 

toll

noun
  • A fee paid for some liberty or privilege, particularly for the privilege of passing over a bridge or on a highway, or for that of vending goods in a fair, market, etc. 

  • A fee for using any kind of material processing service. 

  • Loss or damage incurred through a disaster. 

  • A tollbooth. 

  • A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding. 

  • The act or sound of tolling. 

verb
  • To summon by ringing a bell. 

  • To draw; entice; invite; allure. 

  • To make a sound as if made by a bell. 

  • To levy a toll on (someone or something). 

  • To announce by tolling. 

  • To suspend. 

  • To take as a toll. 

  • To pay a toll or tallage. 

  • To impose a fee for the use of. 

  • To ring (a bell) slowly and repeatedly. 

  • To lure with bait; tole (especially, fish and animals). 

  • To tear in pieces. 

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