Over meaning
Put rocks over a cave entrance; threw a shawl over her shoulders.
The director presides over the meeting. There is no one over him in the department.
Summer is over.
An example of over is the location of a roof to a house.
An example of over is a leader of a pack of animals compared to the others.
A sign over the door; a hawk gliding over the hills.
Horse and rider overed the stile with ease.
The change that came over you.
An argument over methods.
Climbed the ladder and peered over.
The river froze over. Engineers sealed the tunnel entrance over.
Counted his cards over; had to do it over.
Made me write it ten times over.
Lots of food left over.
Overpass; overcoat.
Overlord.
Overturn.
Overcharge.
The water was over my shoulders.
Over ten miles; over a thousand dollars.
A chat over coffee.
Wandered all over.
Sign the property over.
Think the problem over. Let's read the memo over.
Stay a day over.
To fall over a cliff, to trip over a chair.
We discussed it over dinner.
Spread the icing over the cake.
Shutters over the windows.
He cast a spell over them.
Watching over a flock, hovering over the baby.
Over his signature.
Fly over the lake.
A city over the border.
Over the past ten years.
A moderate increase over his current salary, a gift costing over five dollars.
Stay over Easter.
Chose the red hat over the blue one.
We did it over his objections.
A quarrel over politics.
Over the telephone or radio.
6 over 3 is 2
Three hours or over.
Please stay over.
The wound healed over.
Think it over.
Do it over; many times over.
Over in England, come over here.
They won him over.
Hand over the money.
His career is over.
To be three hours over for the week.
Overwhelm.
Overgrowth, overprint.
Overrate, oversell, oversleep.
Overeager, overlong.
I lost my paper and I had to do the entire assignment over.
Let's talk over the project at tomorrow's meeting.
Let me think that over.
I'm going to look over our department's expenses.
Let's go over scene 3 from the top.
He tipped the bottle over, and the water came gushing out.
That building just fell over!
He bent over to touch his toes.
Slide the toilet-paper dispenser's door over when one roll is empty in order to reveal the other.
I moved over to make room for him to sit down.
- Hold the sign up over your head. climb up the ladder and look over [the roof].
- Across or spanning.There is a bridge over the river.
- In such a way as to cover.Drape the fabric over the table; there is a roof over the house.
- From one physical position to another via an obstacle that must be traversed vertically, first upwards and then downwards.The dog jumped over the fence.I'll go over [the fence] first and then help you.Let's walk over the hill to get there.
Four over two equals two over one.
We got over the engineering problems and the prototype works great.
I am over my cold and feel great again.
I know the referee made a bad call, but you have to get over it [your annoyance with the referee's decision].
She is finally over [the distress of] losing her job.
He is finally over his [distress over the loss of the relationship with his] ex-girlfriend.
We triumphed over difficulties.
The bill was passed over the veto.
It was a fine victory over their opponents.
How do you receive? Over!
A village over the border.
To rule over a nation.
- As opposed to; contrasted with.
- In addition to:Travel expenses over and above entertainment costs.
- Again and again; repeatedly.
- Completely finished; done:Let's get the shopping over with.
- again; another time; anew
- over the whole extent; from end to end
- in addition to; more than; besides
- repeatedly; time after time
- finished; completed; pastLet's get this job over with.
Idioms and Phrasal Verbs
Origin of over
- Middle English from Old English ofer- uper in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- Middle English from Old English ofer uper in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Old English ofer, from Proto-Germanic *uber, from Proto-Indo-European *upér-, a comparative form of *upo; akin to Dutch over, German ober, über, Old High German ubir, ubar, Danish over, Swedish över, Icelandic yfir, Gothic ðŒ¿ð†ðŒ°ð‚ (ufar), Latin super, Ancient Greek ὑπÎÏ (hupér), Albanian epër (“superior"), Sanskrit उपरि (upari).
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