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
- noun Something that puts you in a better or more favorable position than others.
- noun In tennis, the point scored right after deuce, needed to win the game.
- verb To give someone or something a favorable edge.
ascendancy — full definition
- noun The quality of being in the ascendant; dominant control, supremacy.
- 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.
- 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.