What's the difference between overhead and overread?
Overhead
Definition:
(adv.) Aloft; above; in or attached to the ceiling or roof; in the story or upon the floor above; in the zenith.
Example Sentences:
(1) As May delivered her statement in the chamber, police helicopters hovered overhead and a police cordon remained in place around Westminster, but MPs from across the political spectrum were determined to show that they were continuing with business as usual.
(2) Overhead wire problems were causing delays on the east coast mainline into London King's Cross.
(3) Jesús Navas played a one-two with Touré down the right and from his awkward cross the England squad goalkeeper fumbled the ball inside his six-yard area from where Fernando scored with an overhead kick as dextrous as it was surprising.
(4) As fighter jets screamed overhead and tanks churned up the sand, it looked and sounded like the violent protests sweeping the Middle East had spread to the wealthy emirate of Abu Dhabi.
(5) A population based case control study of adult haematological malignancy and distance from, and magnetic fields associated with, overhead (OH) power lines has been carried out in the North West and Yorkshire regions of England.
(6) His body was found on the pavement of Portman Avenue, in East Sheen, an affluent west London suburb, shortly before 7.45am on 9 September last year, just after flight BA76 from Luanda, the Angolan capital, passed overhead.
(7) It cites a battery of reasons, including removing the market distortion and overheads involved in trying to set a price that covers an agency's costs and encouraging the uptake of information and the beneficial innovation that will result.
(8) I used to hear Canada geese sail overhead to a Stoke Newington reservoir behind where I lodged in my London days.
(9) The total lender's unit cost per request received, including direct labor, materials, fringe benefits, and overhead, was $1.526 for originals mailed postpaid by lender, and $1.534 for photocopies mailed.
(10) A Guardian analysis has found: A Luxembourg unit of Shire, the FTSE-100 drug firm behind attention deficit pill Adderall, received more than $1.9bn in interest income from other group companies in the last five years, paying corporation tax of less than $2m over four of the years despite minimal overheads.
(11) Nadal takes the advantage with two overhead smashes - one returned, the other not.
(12) Military helicopters hovered overhead as supporters and opponents of the Muslim Brotherhood clashed in the streets below.
(13) Canalization and drainage of rivers, streams and marches since the beginning of malaria outbreak, widespread use of pesticides during the antimalaria spraying campaigns, only overhead irrigation, permanent maintenance of the lined canal system, induced many ecological constraints to possible snail habitats.
(14) Yaya Toure picked him out with a forensic, scooped pass that he played with the outside of his right boot and Bony watched it drop before trying to score with an overhead kick.
(15) This analytical system has the advantage of providing data on distribution of element concentration in a given specimen in overhead view without involving destruction of the tissue architecture.
(16) Charities which play this game – especially those which go to such pains to show how little they spend on “overheads” – are complicit in the perpetuation of an idea which is harming the sector and ultimately harms society.
(17) For repositioning we used a modified overhead-extension (Extensionsreposition).
(18) At 6pm it sounds like a war zone outside the office: you can hear nothing but sirens and the almost continuous drone of helicopters overhead.
(19) I won’t forget Dean Ashton’s overhead kick , Adrián’s goal or singing Paolo Di Canio’s name for the last time at this special stadium.
(20) London Liverpool Street and lines to East Anglia will be affected for even longer, from December 24 until January 2, with rail diversions and the replacement buses in place to allow for work on signalling, track and overhead power lines.
Overread
Definition:
(v. t.) To read over, or peruse.
Example Sentences:
(1) A correlation coefficient of 0.92 (p less than 0.001) was found between the two instruments, with the Pulsair having a statistically significant tendency to overread the Goldmann slightly in this situation.
(2) Each computer statement, however, must be carefully overread by the physician, for failure to do so may result in overlooking significant electrocardiographic findings.
(3) To validate the compression method, qualitative evaluation was performed by two physicians overreading the ECGs by comparing the reconstructed waveforms with the original uncompressed data.
(4) In the lower nasal compartment the correspondence between CT and plain film readings was 57%, with a notable tendency to overread the plain films.
(5) The program consists of the following components: (1) alphanumeric data entry, (2) ECG wave form digitization, (2) calculation of test results, (4) physician overread, and (5) editor function for remeasurements.
(6) Lymphangiograms similarly were of questionable value, being interpreted as positive in twenty-one patients but histologically involved in only seven patients (overread, 67 per cent.
(7) The implications of this variability in radiographic readings for public health decisions was illustrated in Minnesota, where selective overreading of radiographs of female subjects created an illusion of a generalized environmental problem rather than an occupational exposure.
(8) Other disagreements resulted from the trained grader's overreading photographs of eyes with lesions simulating diabetic retinopathy.
(9) Review of another series of 40 Pap smears that had been reported previously as positive for C. trachomatis showed only 25 with inclusions, an observation suggesting that routine Pap smears are being overread for chlamydial infection.
(10) On the other hand, the presence of overlying pleural abnormalities as well as technical factors may contribute to overreading of interstitial disease.
(11) Maybe i'm overreading this, but the photo has a touch of the famous Bullingdon club photo about it.
(12) This computerized exercise ECG digitization-interpretation program is accurate and reproducible for the quantitative assessment of ST changes and requires minimal time allotment for physician overread.
(13) A system that combines probit analysis and principle components transformation coupled with maximum likelihood decision theory, through identification of the complexes most subject to classification error in the initial review process and by correcting residual errors automatically, can decrease the number of complexes which need to be overread by a human editor.
(14) Both jackets showed the same pattern of frequency response, overreading at less than 10 Hz and underreading at 10-25 Hz.
(15) The improvement is based largely on an increased true-positive rate without an increased false-positive rate, regardless of the decision criteria of the radiologist (overall willingness to "overread" or "underread").
(16) Compared with conventional angiography, both magnetic resonance angiography and duplex scanning tended to overread the degree of stenosis.
(17) The current systems can provide quality control of technician performance, acquisition equipment, and physician overreading.
(18) We conclude that severe disease of the contralateral carotid artery can lead to overreading ipsilateral disease and that velocity determinations should be interpreted cautiously under such circumstances.
(19) This overreading was greatest for the Mini-Wright and Ferraris devices, and less so for the original Wright and Vitalograph meters.
(20) The least-experienced observer consistently underread whereas the more experienced observer slightly overread exophthalmometry, relative to the senior observer.