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overhand — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • advantage noun Something that puts you in a better or more favorable position than others.
  • ascendancy noun The quality of being in the ascendant; dominant control, supremacy.

Senses

overhand is used for these senses in English:

  • advantage (obsolete) Superiority; mastery; — used with of to specify its nature or with over to specify the other party.
  • ascendancy The quality of being in the ascendant; dominant control, supremacy.

advantage — full definition

  1. noun Something that puts you in a better or more favorable position than others.
  2. noun In tennis, the point scored right after deuce, needed to win the game.
  3. verb To give someone or something a favorable edge.

ascendancy — full definition

  1. noun The quality of being in the ascendant; dominant control, supremacy.
  2. noun Ellipsis of Protestant Ascendancy, a class of Protestant landowners and professionals that dominated political and social life in Ireland up to the early 20th century.
  3. noun A quantitative attribute of an ecosystem, defined as a function of the ecosystem's trophic network, and intended to indicate its ability to prevail against disturbance by virtue of its combined organization and size.

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