over
IPA: ˈoʊvɝ
noun
- (cricket) A set of six legal balls bowled.
- Any surplus amount of money, goods delivered, etc.
- (rare, dialectal or obsolete) A shore, riverbank.
- A village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL3770).
- A suburban area in Winsford, Cheshire West and Chester district, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ6366).
- A hamlet in Almondsbury parish, South Gloucestershire district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref ST5882)
- A hamlet near Gloucester in Highnam parish, Tewkesbury district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref SO8119).
- A village in Seevetal, Lower Saxony, Germany.
verb
- (UK, transitive, dialect, obsolete) To go over, or jump over.
- (UK, intransitive, dialect, obsolete) To run about.
adjective
- Discontinued; ended or concluded.
- (professional wrestling slang) wrestler or faction that is popular with the audience.
adverb
- Thoroughly; completely; from beginning to end.
- (often in compounds) To an excessive degree; overly.
- From an upright position to a horizontal one.
- Horizontally; left to right or right to left.
- From one side of something to another, passing above it.
- From one position or state to another.
- Overnight (throughout the night).
- (US, usually with do) Again; another time; once more; over again.
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Examples of "over" in Sentences
- _Lie down and roll over and over_, as fast as you can.
- [_Her tresses fall suddenly over her head, as she is leaning out so, and stream over_ PÉLLÉAS]
- Bring the knotted end over the long twine, forming a bight, then _over_ and _under_ its own twine with the single tie (_H_).
- Bring down the upper ropes over the second log (Fig. 41), cross the lower ropes _over_ the upper ones and turn them back (Fig. 42).
- Roll the third log over the lower ropes and make the weaving loop as with the other two, _always_ crossing the lower rope _over_ the upper (Fig. 43).
- He esteems those who staunchly oppose him, and seeks to gain them over by generosity: for those who _come over_ he ever has a secret contempt; for those who desert him, hatred.
- The praise and much of the intro for U2 was warranted but Bono had to keep sliding back into the topic at hand (the aids epidemic in Africa) over and over as if it were some cheap commercial plug in
- Having passed the Styx, (much the smallest of the rivers,) you walk over a pile of large rocks, and are on the banks of Lethe; and looking back, you will see a line of men and women descending the high hill from the cave, which runs _over_ the river Styx.
- One day Betty was looking over from Mary Beck's and saw that the east window and the pear-tree branch were in plain sight; so the two girls invented a system of signals: one white handkerchief meant _come over_, and two meant _no_, but a single one in answer was for _yes_.
- Scott has grown-up to be a brisk-hearted jovial young man and Advocate: in vacation-time he makes excursions to the Highlands, to the Border Cheviots and Northumberland; rides free and far, on his stout galloway, through bog and brake, over the dim moory Debatable Land, over Flodden and other fields and places, where, though he yet knew it not, his work lay.
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