TO RUN OVER

  

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TO RUN OVER

Definition: TO RUN OVER

TO RUN OVER

1. (a) To overflow; as, a cup runs over, or the liquor runs over. (b) To go over, examine, or rehearse cursorily. (c) To ride or drive over; as, to run over a child.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: TO RUN OVER

English words defined with "TO RUN OVER": To slight off. (references)
Specialty definitions using "TO RUN OVER": 100BaseVGActiveXCommon Architecture for Next Generation Internet Protocol. (references)
Etymologies containing "TO RUN OVER": OrlopSuperfluenceTranscur. (references)

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Modern Usage: TO RUN OVER

DomainUsage

Screenplays

You leave your navigator lying around, naturally somebody is going to run over him. (Death Race 2000; writing credit: Ib Melchior; Robert Thom)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: TO RUN OVER

AuthorQuotation

Dante Alighieri

To run over better waters the little vessel of my genius now hoists her sails, as she leaves behind her a sea so cruel.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: TO RUN OVER

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Hong Kong

Originally named the Strategic Sewage Disposal Scheme (SSDS), the project was beset by geo-technical and contract problems that caused it to run over budget and behind schedule. (references)

Human Rights

Switzerland

The unarmed Hercouet was trying to evade police arrest after stealing a car, and he allegedly attempted to run over the officers. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Modern Translation: TO RUN OVER

Language Translations for "TO RUN OVER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

koere mod tungespidsen (to pass the point facing, to run over the facing point), befare et sporskifte mod spidsen (to pass the point facing, to run over the facing point), befare et sporskifte i modgaaende retning (to pass the point facing, to run over the facing point), befare et sporskifte (to run over a point, to take a point). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

het wissel tegen de punt berijden (to pass the point facing, to run over the facing point), een wissel berijden (to run over a point, to take a point). (various references)

   

French

  

prendre l'aiguille par la pointe (to pass the point facing, to run over the facing point), prendre l'aiguille en pointe (to pass the point facing, to run over the facing point), franchir une aiguille (to run over a point, to take a point), aborder l'aiguille par la pointe (to pass the point facing, to run over the facing point), aborder l'aiguille en pointe (to pass the point facing, to run over the facing point). (various references)

   

German

  

überfließen (brim, brim over, flood, gush, inundate, overflow, run over, to overflow), überfahren (come over, cross over, drive over, ferry across, go over, go through, knock down, overrun, run over, take across, to knock down, to run down). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

περνώ ψαλίδι (to run over a point, to take a point), διέρχομαι μια βελόνη αλλαγής (to run over a point, to take a point), διέρχομαι αλλαγή τροχιάς (to run over a point, to take a point), διέλευση αλλαγής κατ'αιχμή (to pass the point facing, to run over the facing point). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

túlcsordul (overflow, to overflow, to run high), elgázol (to run down), átszalad (to run through), átfut (look over, overrun, run across, to give sg the once-over, to look into, to run through, to scan). (various references)

   

Italian

  

prendere lo scambio di punta (to pass the point facing, to run over the facing point), oltrepassare uno scambio (to run over a point, to take a point), oltrepassare un deviatoio (to run over a point, to take a point), impegnare lo scambio di punta (to pass the point facing, to run over the facing point). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

予算の '超えそう (may threatening to run over the budget). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

otay unray overay

   

Portuguese

  

transpor uma agulha (to run over a point, to take a point), passar uma agulha (to run over a point, to take a point). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

franquear una aguja (to run over a point, to take a point), abordar la aguja de punta (to pass the point facing, to run over the facing point). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: TO RUN OVER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-n-o-o-r-r-t-u-v"

-1 letter: overturn, turnover.

-2 letters: overrun, runover.

-3 letters: enroot, retorn, return, rooter, router, tenour, torero, tourer, trover, turner, unroot, unrove.

-4 letters: noter, outer, outre, overt, rerun, retro, rotor, rouen, route, roven, rover, tenor, toner, trone, trove, truer, tuner, vertu, voter.

-5 letters: euro, note, onto, oven, over, rent, root, rote, roto, roue, rout, rove, ruer, rune, runt, tern.

 Words containing the letters "e-n-o-o-r-r-t-u-v"
 

+4 letters: arteriovenous, overconstruct, overnutrition, prerevolution, revolutionary.

 

+5 letters: overconstructs, overnutritions, overproduction, overregulation, oversaturation, revolutionizer.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: TO RUN OVER


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 4F      52 55 4E      4F 56 45 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01001111 00100000 01010010 01010101 01001110 00100000 01001111 01010110 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#79 &#32 &#82 &#85 &#78 &#32 &#79 &#86 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 004F      0052 0055 004E      004F 0056 0045 0052

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

54492525548249563952

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Quotations: Familiar
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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