over
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊ.və(ɹ)/
ipa: /aʊæ/
enpr: ō'vər
ipa: /ˈoʊ.vɚ/
rhymes: -əʊvə(ɹ)
Forms: form: o'er
form: ower
Etymology: From Middle English over, from Old English ofer, from Proto-West Germanic *obar, from Proto-Germanic *uber (“over”), from Proto-Indo-European *upér, related to *upó.
Akin to Scots ower (“over”), Yola oer, ower, owr (“over”), Saterland Frisian uur (“over”), West Frisian oer (“over, across”), Cimbrian übar (“over”), Dutch over (“over”), German ober, über, ueber (“over, above”), Limburgish euver, övver (“over”), Low German över, üöver (“over”), Luxembourgish iwwer (“over”), Mòcheno iber (“over”), Yiddish איבער (iber, “over”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål over (“over”), Faroese yvir (“over”), Icelandic yfir (“over”), Norwegian Nynorsk over, yver, yvi (“over”), Swedish över (“over”), Gothic 𐌿𐍆𐌰𐍂 (ufar, “over”), Latin super (“over, above”), Ancient Greek ὑπέρ (hupér, “over, above”), Albanian upri (“group of peasants”), Sanskrit उपरि (upári, “over”).
Doublet of uber, super, and hyper.
Senses: examples: text: That vase isn't exactly central. Could you move it over a couple of inches?
text: I slid over to make room for him to sit down.
text: Please pass the chocolates over to me.
text: "Come over to my house and play!" — "Sure, I'll bring over a pizza."
text: He's driven over from Bristol.
text: In the future, when space travel is affordable to everyone, we'll be able to pop over to the Moon for a weekend.
glosses: Describing a physical change of position or state.
From one position or location to another, horizontally or approximately so, or along a route visualised as "across".
examples: text: I need to cross the river. Can you take me over in your boat?
glosses: Describing a physical change of position or state.
Across from one side of something to the other.
examples: text: I looked up just as a helicopter flew over.
glosses: Describing a physical change of position or state.
So as to pass above.
examples: text: The fence is too high. I don't think I'll be able to get over.
text: The boiling milk bubbled over onto the cooker top.
glosses: Describing a physical change of position or state.
Up one side of something, across, and then down the other side.
examples: text: The car rolled to the edge of the cliff and went straight over.
glosses: Describing a physical change of position or state.
Across something, such as an edge, and then downwards.
examples: text: He tipped the bottle over, and the water came gushing out.
text: That building just fell over!
glosses: Describing a physical change of position or state.
From an upright position to a horizontal one.
examples: text: Bend the end of that wire over to make a hook.
text: He bent over to touch his toes.
text: The leaves have curled over.
glosses: Describing a physical change of position or state.
So as to fold towards or onto itself.
examples: text: Paint it over with a darker colour.
text: It's starting to cloud over.
glosses: Describing a physical change of position or state.
On top of something, or so as to cover something.
examples: text: Put the card face down, and don't turn it over until I say so.
text: I can't sleep on my back. I have to roll over onto my side.
glosses: Describing a physical change of position or state.
So as to reverse up/down orientation, or otherwise change orientation by rotating.
examples: text: Swap those cables over. The red one should be in the left socket.
glosses: Describing a physical change of position or state.
So as to reverse or exchange position(s).
examples: text: He came over to our way of thinking on the new project.
text: I switched over to Channel 9.
text: I signed the property over to him.
text: This advertisement doesn't clearly get the idea over.
glosses: Expressing figurative movement from one position or state across to another.
examples: text: I'll see you over at the club.
text: Look over there!
glosses: Indicating a direction or location away from the speaker, usually roughly horizontally or visualised as such.
examples: text: Let's talk over the project at tomorrow's meeting.
text: Let me think that over.
text: I'm going to look over our department's expenses.
text: During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant[…]
ref: 1661, John Fell, The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond:
glosses: Thoroughly; completely; from beginning to end.
examples: text: I'm not over bothered about going to the party.
text: If you're over tentative then you'll get nowhere.
text: She seemed a placid creature altogether - eminently respectable - perhaps not over intelligent.
ref: 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 12, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 158:
glosses: To a high or excessive degree; overly; see also over-.
examples: text: The show ran ten minutes over.
text: We tried to stick to budget, but in the end we went twenty dollars over.
glosses: Beyond or in excess of what is correct or expected.
examples: text: Carry the shortfall over and we'll make it up tomorrow.
glosses: To a future time.
examples: text: We missed the last bus home so we stayed over.
text: Can I sleep over?
glosses: Overnight (throughout the night).
examples: text: I lost my paper and I had to do the entire assignment over.
glosses: Indicating repetition.
Again; another time; once more; over again.
raw_tags: with do
examples: text: I said the magic word three times over, and the secret door slid open.
glosses: Indicating repetition.
Used for rhetorical effect to reinforce that something was done the stated number of times.
glosses: See also individual entries for phrasal verbs: go over, hand over, run over, take over, win over, etc.
Derived terms: absent over leave
algebra over a field
algebra over a ring
all over
all-over
all over again
all over bar the shouting
all over but the crying
all over but the shouting
all over hell's half acre
all over one like a cheap suit
all over oneself
all-over painting
all over someone like a rash
all over the ballpark
all over the board
all over the gaff
all over the lot
all over the map
all over the place
all over the place like a mad woman's custard
all over the shop
all over the show
all over with
arcover
arc-over
arse over tip
arse over tit
ask over
ass over elbows
ass over teacups
ass over teakettle
a watched pot never boils over
backover
base over apex
bend over
bend over backward
bend over backwards
bind over
black over Bill's mother's
blow me over
blow over
boil over
bowl over
brim over
bring over
bubble over
build a bridge and get over it
burned-over district
burnover
buy over
cabover
call over
cap over the windmill
carry over
change over
change-over
check over
chew over
cloud over
coilover
comb-over
comb over
combover
come on over
come-over
come over
come Yorkshire over
composition over inheritance
crawl over each other
cross over
cross-over
crow over
crying over spilt milk
cry over spilt milk
cutover
day-over-day
death warmed over
don't cry over spilled milk
do over
do-over
dote over
double over
draw a sponge over the slate
draw a veil over
fail over
fall over
fall over oneself
fall over one's feet
fawn over
feels over reals
flash over
flick over
flip over
flopover
fly-over
flyover
fold-over
foldover
forge over
fork over
freeze over
frontover
fucked over
fuck over
fuss over
game-over
get one over on
get one's leg over
get over
get over on
get over oneself
get over the line
get something over with
gill-over-the-ground
give over
glance over
glaze over
gloss over
go gaga over
going-over
going over
gold over
go over
go over as well as a lead balloon
go over like a lead balloon
go over like a lead zeppelin
go over someone's head
go over to the majority
Grange-over-Sands
half seas over
hand-over
handover
hand over
hand over fist
hand over hand
hand over head
hang over
hangover
hang over someone's head
hat over the windmill
haul someone over the coals
have one's name written all over
have over
have something over with
haze over
headless over heels
head over ears
head over heels
heal over
heel over
heels over head
help a lame dog over a stile
hold over
holdover
hold over one's head
hold over someone's head
hunch over
hung over
hung-over
I can't hear you over the sound of
iced-over
ice over
it ain't over till it's over
it ain't over till the fat lady sings
it ain't over 'til the fat lady sings
it ain't over until the fat lady sings
it isn't over till the fat lady sings
it isn't over 'til the fat lady sings
it isn't over until the fat lady sings
Joever
keel over
kickover
kick over the traces
kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate
knock over
knock someone over with a feather
Lancashire over the sands
Lancashire over the water
land up over
lateover
lay over
layover
lean over backwards
leave over
left-over
leftover
leg-over
lie over
liftover
like death warmed over
live over the brush
look over
look over one's shoulder
lord it over
lord over
lunatics have taken over the asylum
maiden over
make-over
make over
marry over the broomstick
mind over matter
mist over
moreover
mouse over
mouseover
mouse-over
move over
mull over
non-over-the-counter
not look a day over
once over
once-over
once-over-lightly
one over the eight
out over one's skis
over 9000
over a barrel
overachieve
over again
over against
overage
overall
overalls
over and above
over and done
over and done with
over and over
over and over again
over and under
over-anxious
overarm
overboard
over bridge
over-burning
overcast
over celebrate
over celebrated
overcoat
over-compensate
over-dressed
over easy
overfamiliar
over hard
overhead
over head and ears
over-heat
over here
over-industrious
overish
over joyous
Over Kellet
over-kingdom
overland
overleaf
overlength
over light
overling
overloading
overly
over medium
overmore
overmost
over my dead body
over night
over nine thousand
over one's head
over one's skis
over open sights
over rate
overreach
overrobe
overscaling
oversea
overshoot
overshot
overside
oversman
oversocks
over square
overstand
Over Staveley
over-stimulation
Over Stowey
over the bender
over the board
over the counter
over the edge
over the fence
over the head
over the hill
over the hills and far away
over the hump
over the left
over the left shoulder
over the line
over the moon
over the odds
over the rainbow
over there
over the river
over the river and through the woods
over the top
over the transom
over the way
over the wicket
over time
over-time
over to
overturn
over-value
Over Wallop
over well
over with
papering over
paper over
paper over the cracks
pass a sponge over the slate
pass over
pick over
piss all over
playover
popover
pore over
pour-over
pour-over will
pull one over
pullover
pull over
pull someone over the coals
pull the wool over somebody's eyes
pull the wool over someone's eyes
push over
put a blanket over
put one over
put over
rake over
rake over old coals
rake over the coals
rame over
read over
rise over run
rockover
roll-over
roll over
roll over in one's grave
roof over one's head
run over
run roughshod over
run the rule over
scoot over
screw over
set over
shake over
ship over
shove over
sign over
Simple Simon over
skate over
skinned over
sleep over
sleepover
slipover
slur over
smooth over
somewhere over the rainbow
sparkover
spillover
spill over
stand over
start over
stay over
stayover
step over
stepover
stop over
stop-over
strikeover
super over
swap over
swing over
switchover
take-over
take over
talk over
talk over someone's head
the party is over
the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
thereover
there's no point crying over spilt milk
there's no use crying over spilt milk
the world over
think over
throw one's cap over the windmill
throw one's hat over the fence
throw one's hat over the wall
throw one's hat over the windmill
throw over
thumb-over
ticking-over
tick over
tide over
tie over
time over
tip over
topple over
tower over
trip over
trip over one's own two feet
turn over
turn over a new leaf
turn over in one's grave
two bald men fighting over a comb
typeover
under and over
under over
until hell freezes over
until the cows freeze over
up and over door
up-over
value over replacement player
voice-over
voice over broadband
voice over IP
Voice over NR
wake-over
walk all over
walk-over
walk over
warmed-over
warm over
wash over
washover
watch over
water over the dam
when heck freezes over
when Hell freezes over
when hell freezes over
whereover
wingover
win over
winterover
winter-over syndrome
work over
workover
wrapover
written all over it
written all over someone's face
yarn over
yarnover
yarn-over
year-over-year