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Over

adverb

At or to a point across intervening space etc.. "Over there"

Throughout an area.

Throughout a period of time. Synonym: o'er.

Beyond the top or upper surface or edge; forward from an upright position.

Over the entire area. Synonym: all over. "She ached all over" , "Everything was dusted over with a fine layer of soot"

noun

(cricket) the division of play during which six balls are bowled at the batsman by one player from the other team from the same end of the pitch.

adjective

Having come or been brought to a conclusion. Synonyms: all over, complete, concluded, ended, terminated. "The affair is over, ended, finished" , "The abruptly terminated interview"

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"Over" Quotes from Famous Books

... called from having been made by horsemen with white shirts over their armour so as to recognise ...

— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of - the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. • Richard Hakluyt

... over the firelight, looked small and white; her beautiful eyes were fixed and grave. Then suddenly she lifted them to his with the artlessness of ...

— David Dunne - A Romance of the Middle West • Belle Kanaris Maniates

... better nature. However, he recurred to his cautions about the peril in a legal sense of tampering with the windows, bolts, and bars of the old decaying prison; which, in fact, precisely according to the degree in which its absolute power over its prisoners was annually growing less and less, grew more and more jealous of its own reputation, and punished the attempts to break loose with the more severity, in exact proportion as they were the more tempting by the ...

— Narrative And Miscellaneous Papers • Thomas De Quincey

... friends, to pause a while, in your mad career, and review the whole ground. It may be that some of you may yet see the error of your course. I cannot give you all up. I trust in God that you are not all given over to "hardness of heart and reprobacy of mind." A word to the reader. Pass on—hear me through—never mind my harsh expressions and uncouth language. Truth is not very palatable, to any of us, at all times. Crack ...

— A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin - or, An Essay on Slavery • A. Woodward

... with wet snow. The underside lights came on, and the lookout below began reporting patches of sea-spaghetti. Finally, the boat was dropped out and went circling away ahead, swinging its light back and forth over the water, and radioing back reports. Spaghetti. Spaghetti with a big school of screwfish working on it. Funnel-mouths working on the screwfish. Finally the speaker ...

— Four-Day Planet • Henry Beam Piper

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