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Definition: Go Over |
Go OverVerb1. Hold a review (of troops). 2. Examine so as to determine accuracy, quality, or condition; "check the brakes"; "Check out the engine". 3. Happen in a particular manner; "how did your talk go over?". 4. Fall forward and down; "The old woman went over without a sound". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Go OverSynonyms: check (v), check into (v), check out (v), check over (v), check up on (v), come off (v), fall over (v), go off (v), look into (v), review (v), survey (v), suss out (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Improbity | Disgrace oneself, dishonor oneself, demean oneself; derogate, stoop, grovel, sneak, lose caste; sell oneself, go over to the enemy; seal one's infamy. |
Inquiry | Look for, look about for, look out for; scan, reconnoiter, explore, sound, rummage, ransack, pry, peer, look round; look over, go over, look through, go through; spy, overhaul. |
Inversion | Verb: be inverted; turn round, turn about, turn to the right about, go round, go about, go to the right about, wheel round, wheel about, wheel to the right about; turn over, go over, tilt over, topple over; capsize, turn turtle. |
Passage | Verb: pass, pass through; perforate; (hole); penetrate, permeate, thread, thrid, enfilade; go through, go across; go over, pass over; cut across; ford, cross; pass and repass, work; make one's way, thread one's way, worm one's way, force one's way; make a passage form a passage; cut one's way through; find its way, find its vent; transmit, make way, clear the course; traverse, go over the ground. |
Repetition | Rehearse; do over again, say over again; ring the changes on; harp on the same string; din in the ear, drum in the ear; conjugate in all its moods tenses and inflexions, begin again, go over the same ground, go the same round, never hear the last of; resume, return to, recapitulate, reword. |
Tergiversation | Verb: change one's mind, change one's intention, change one's purpose, change one's note; abjure, renounce; withdraw from; (relinquish); waver, vacillate; wheel round, turn round, veer round; turn a pirouette; go over from one side to another, pass from one side to another, change from one side to another, skip from one side to another; go to the rightabout; box the compass, shift one's ground, go upon another tack. |
Apostatize, change sides, go over, rat; recant, retract; revoke; rescind; (abrogate); recall; forswear, unsay; come over, come round to an opinion; crawfish, crawl. | |
Wit | Bomb, fall flat; go over like a lead balloon. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Go Over |
| English words defined with "go over": hash over ♦ Refar, rehash ♦ To go over, To run over, To turn one's coat, To walk over. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "go over": FLOP. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "go over": transgression. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | My smoking doesn't go over at all. (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls) That's what I'll do, I'll go over there and do the right thing. (What Women Want; writing credit: Josh Goldsmith; Cathy Yuspa) Because then he'll want to get back together but I'll have to tell him we're not getting back together but I can't do that over the phone so I'll have to go over there and then we will get back together because I'm spineless and completely co-dependent! (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro) C'mon, Ray, we're gonna go over to Elton's. (Five Easy Pieces; writing credit: Carole Eastman; Bob Rafelson) It's stupid not to get up and go over and talk to her. (You're In Love, Charlie Brown; writing credit: Charles M. Schulz) | |
Lyrics | That someone's gotta go over there (Draft Dodger Rag; performing artist: Phil Ochs) | |
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![]() | Wet and oil-covered survivors of USS Helena (CL-50) go over papers after their rescue from the waters of the Central Solomons, 6 July 1943. Photographed on board another U.S. Navy warship, possibly USS Nicholas (DD-449). Helena had been sunk by Japanese torpedos on the previous night. Credit: NAVY. | ![]() | Go over the top with U.S. Marines / John A. Coughlin. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | E-e-e-yah-yip Go over with U.S. Marines. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Go over the top with the tank that will win the war! / Phifer. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | E-e-e-yah-yip Go over with U.S. Marines. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | We must go over all the seams which we have made, and see if they hold. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | A person with hereditary pancreatitis usually has the typical symptoms that come and go over time. Episodes last from 2 days to 2 weeks. (references) | |
If your blood sugars tend to go over the acceptable levels (105 mg/dl or below for fasting, 120 mg/dl or below 2 hours after a meal) you may need to take insulin injections. (references) | ||
Tourette syndrome (TS) is an inherited, neurological disorder characterized by multiple involuntary movements and uncontrollable vocalizations called tics that come and go over years. (references) | ||
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | FLOP, v. Suddenly to change one's opinions and go over to another party. The most notable flop on record was that of Saul of Tarsus, who has been severely criticised as a turn-coat by some of our partisan journals. |
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Expressions using "go over": can go over ♦ go over again ♦ go over an account ♦ go over big ♦ go over like a lead balloon ♦ go over quickly ♦ go over smth. with a fine comb ♦ go over the cliff ♦ go over the ground ♦ go over the law ♦ go over the top ♦ go over to ♦ go over to france ♦ go over to smb. ♦ go over to the enemy ♦ go over to the other side ♦ go over with a bang ♦ To go over ♦ to go over the head of a person ♦ To go over to or To join ♦ to go over to the majority. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "go over"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | rishikoj (look back, reconsider, review, revise), ndryshoj parti, dal mbanë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مر (acrid, bitter, embittered, go along, go by, go past, pass, pass by), عبر (across, act out, carry, clothe, come, come across, conceive, couch, cross, emit, enunciate, express, express oneself, fly, get through, give voice to, jibe, jump, mouth, navigate, negotiate, pass, phrase, run, signify, slice through, span, swim, track, trans, transit, ventilate, voice), خرق القانونة, إجتاز (accomplish, cover, cross, detour, navigate, outdistance, overpass, overshoot, pound, pull through, rise, roll by, traverse, voyage, walk), أعاد (bring round, carry back, get back, give back, iterate, keep, push out, put back, reestablish, remit, repay, repeat, resit, restart, restore, return, revert, send back, take back, throw back), راجع (check, check up on, consult, contact, reassess, returnable, review, revise), درس (case, classes, consideration, din into, elaborate, examine, excogitate, instruction, learn, learning, lecture, lesson, period, profess, read, read up, reading, study, talk over, teach, think out, tutor, view). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | пресичам (come across, congeal, cross, cut across, intercross, interrupt, intersect, intervene, overpass, pass through, passage, transect, traverse, truncate), преглеждам (examine, inspect, look at, look over, look through, overhaul, review, revise, run back, take a look at, vet), преминавам през (pass over, sweep), повтарям (echo, geminate, ingeminate, re echo, recrudesce, reduplicate, rehearse, renew, repeat, replay, reproduce, rerun, say over), имам успех (pay off, score, succeed as, take, take on). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 過去 (former, past, previous, to go over, to pass by), 過 (to cross, to get along, to give, to go over, to hand over, to live, to pass). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | projít (come through, get by, get through, go through, perambulate), popovídat si, přeplout (cross, go across), přeletìt (cross, go across, overfly, overshoot), překontrolovat (check smth. out, go through, scrutinize, test, vet), přejít (come over, cross, get across, get over, go across, overpass, pass, pass on, pass over, slide, traverse), dopadnout (apprehend, capture, hound down, hunt down, land, pitch, receive, seize, strike), být přijat (be accepted, get into). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | trykklar (can go over, good for print, ready for print), trykfærdig (can go over, good for print, ready for print). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | fiat voor afdrukken (can go over, good for print, ready for print). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | käydä läpi (go through, look over, pass through, undergo). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | traverser (go across), repasser, réviser, récapituler, passer (go, go beyond, go by, to go through), examiner (go into), étudier. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | untersuchen (analyse, analyze, check, enquire into, examine, explore, inquire into, investigate, look into, pick over, pick through, probe, research, scan, scrutinize, see into, sound out, study, survey, test, to analyse, to analyzeUS, to determine, to examine, to explore, to inspect, verify), umschalten (change, change over, commute, convert, flick a switch, pull a lever, push a lever, shift, switch, switch over, to shift, turn over, zap), umkippen (come round, fall over, keel over, knock over, overturn, pass out, roll over, tilt, tilt over, tip, tip over, tip up, to faint, to fall over, to keel over, to switch completely, topple down, turn over, upset), sich ansehen (look around, look at, see, see over, see round), schnell saubermachen, hinübergehen (cross, cross over, cut across, go across, to go over, walk across, walk over), durchsuchen (Frisk, hunt, rummage, scour, search, search through, shake down, to hunt, to search), durchgehen (be allowed, be non-stop, be passed, be tolerated, bolt, check through, comb through, come through, cover, elope, go through, pass through, peruse, run off, run through, sift, slip by, slip past, to peruse, walk through), besichtigen (have a look at, inspect, look over, review, tour, view, visit), ankommen (arrival, arrive, catch on, come, come across, come along, come down, end up, get, get in, get over, get to, go down, go down well, hinge, move in, pull in, take off, to arrive, wander in), übertreten (break, break its banks, cross, disobey, go beyond, infringe, overstep, to transgress, transfer, transgress, transgressed, trespass, violate), überfahren (come over, cross over, drive over, ferry across, go through, knock down, overrun, run over, take across, to knock down, to run down, to run over). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κάνω εντύπωση (strike, take effect), μεταβαίνω, εξετάζω (consider, examine, inquire, investigate, look over, probe, pry, query, question, quiz, screen, scrutinise, think about), ανασκοπώ (review). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לעבור על "מותר (exceed), לעבור על (run over). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | megvizsgál (examine, inspect, investigate, look at, look into, look over, scrutinize, to analyse, to analyze, to assay, to explore, to inspect, to look into, to probe, to scan, to search, to see into, to sift, to test, to vet), átpártol (to change sides, to come over, to desert, to go over, to turn over), átnéz (look into, review, revise, run through, to go through, to look into, to look over, to look through, to review, to revise, to sub), átmegy valamin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | melintasi (transit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | superare (be over, cap, clear, come through, exceed, excel, get over, get through, negotiate, outclass, outdo, outgo, outmatch, outnumber, outrange, outstrip, overcome, overrun, overtake, pass, ride out, round, surmount, surpass, top, upstage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 越す (to go over). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | "す (to cross, to filter, to go over, to pass, to strain, to tide over). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | gow noon, goll tessen (cross, cross as road, go across, pass across, traverse), goll harrish (cross, cross as road, elapse, exceed, get beyond, overpass, roll on, span, traverse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ogay overay revisar (brush up, clip, correct, review, revise), passar por cima de (bypass, override, overstep), examinar (assay, canvass, catechize, check, check up on, cross, discuss, enquire, examine, explore, eye, have out, inquire, inspect, look, look over, look through, overhaul, peruse, probe, question, quiz, run over, scan, test, traverse, turn out, verify, vet, view), descer (come down, descend, down, drop, fall, get down, get off, go down, lower, prolapse, sink, step down). (various references) verifica (check, control, examine, prove, screen, test, verify), trece peste (bestride, bridge, clear, draw, get over, jump, override, overrule, overrun, pass over, span, stride, surmount, tread), trece de partea adversã, traversa (course, cross, go through, pass across, perambulate, run, shoot, step across, traverse), revedea (read, re-examine, review, revise), retuşa (retouch), repeta (con, ingeminate, iterate, re echo, reaffirm, recapitulate, reduplicate, rehearse, reiterate, repeat, resound, review), examina (canvass, comb, consider, contemplate, debate, examine, explore, inspect, investigate, look at, look over, observe, overhaul, overlook, peer, pry into, quiz, review, scout, scrutinize, search, study, talk over, verify, view, visit, weigh), a-şi schimba religia. (various references) обвести (lead round), опрокинуться, быть отложенным, преодолеть (get over, get the best of, outdo, overcome, pull through, tide over). (various references) pregledati (audit, check, examine, go through, inspect, look over, look through, overhaul, perlustrate, peruse, prospect, survey, view), preći (change over, cote, cover, cover ground, cross, march, overpass, pass over, pass through, shade, shift, transit, traverse). (various references) volcar (capsize, knock over, overthrow, overturn, pull over, push over, tip over, tip up, topple, turn over, upset), visitar (attend, call at, call on, call upon, come by, come over, come round, do, frequent, go on a visit, look round, look up, pay a call, see, see over, tour, treat, visit), revisar (audit, check, check over, check up on, examine, inspect, look at, look over, overhaul, revise, service, supervise, verify, vet), retocar (alter, freshen, refresh, refreshing, retouch, touch up), repasar a (go through, overhaul, vet), repasar (brush up, get up, go through, learn up, repass, review, revise), recorrer (accomplish, beat, bridge, cover, do, go through, March, pass through, passed, perambulate, range, roam, rove, tour, tramp, travel, walk, wander), pasarse (bandy, go, go bad, go off, pass over, stew), pasar por encima, pasar (blow over, bypass, come, come about, come by, come down, come in, come off, cross, dilute, draw, elapse, enact, ensue, expend, function, gait, get, get across, get by, get over, get through, give, go, go by, go off, go on, go past, go through, goffer, hand, hand down, hand on, hand over, happen, kick around, knot, lapse, last, light out, line, live, live through, move, occupy, occur, outdo, overstep, overtake, pass, pass across, pass away, pass by, pass off, pass on, pass round, passing, pop in, post, proceed, put across, put down, reach, relay, render, ride by, roll by, run, shift, skip, smuggle, spend, strain, suffer, swallow, take away, throw out, tick away, tick by, to pass, to spend, touch, tough, turn, turn about, turn around, turn over, wear off, wear on, while), examinar (consider, examine, explore, go into, go through, inquire, inquire into, inspect, look at, look into, look over, look through, observe, overlook, ponder, probe, quiz, rake, review, search, study, talk out, tempt, test, vet, view), escudriñar (examine, inquire into, investigate, look at, ransack, scan, scrutinize, study), atravesar (break through, cross, cut across, go across, go beyond, outstep, overpass, Pierce, put, transfer, traverse). (various references) gå över (look through, pass off, pass over, put across, subside), mottagas, kontrollera (audit, check, check out, check up, check up on, control, monitor, screen, supervise, verify, visit), finkamma (comb out, comb with a fine-tooth comb), övergå (cross, devolve, exceed, outrun, pass, pass over, shade, turn). (various references) yapmak (accomplish, achieve, acquit oneself, act, architect, build, carry out, carve out, contrive, create, do, engineer, establish, execute, fashion, father, fulfil, fulfill, get, go through, have, implement, land, make, perform, perpetrate, ply, practice, practise, produce, profess, put on, put through, set, take, transact, turn out, weave), tekrarlamak (duplicate, ingeminate, iterate, play back, rebroadcast, recap, recapitulate, recrudesce, recur, re-enact, rehearse, reiterate, relapse, renew, repeat, replicate, retell, return, revise, say, say over), taraf değiştirmek (change sides, desert, pass up, turn one's coat), sunmak (bring in, confer, dish, dish up, emcee, exhibit, furnish, go through, help smb. to smth., hold forth, initiate, introduce, lay, Lodge, offer, pass in, pitch, prefer, present, proffer, put forward, put in, put to, put up, render, report, represent, serve up, shew, submit, table, tender), muayene etmek (check up, examine, explore, go through, inspect, sound, survey, test out), ince eleyip sık dokumak (be too fussy, be too particular, fuss, go over smth. with a fine comb, go through, niggle, pick holes in, pick over, refine, scrutinize, sift, split, split hairs), ayrıntılar üzerinde durmak (go through). (various references) перечитувати (reread), перекинутися (coup, purl). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | transeam, transeamus, transeant, transeas, transeat, transeunt, transeunte, transeuntem, transeuntes, transeuntesque, transeunti, transeuntibus, transi, transibimus, transibis, transibit, transibitis, transibo, transibunt, transiebant, transiebat, transiens, transient, transierant, transierat, transierimus, transierint, transieris, transierit, transieritis, transiero, transierunt, transieruntque, transiet, transii, transiit, transimus, transire, transirem, transiremus, transirent, transireque, transires, transiret, transissemus, transissent, transisset, transistisque, transit, transite, transitis, transito, transitque, transitu, transitum, transiturus, transitus, transivi, transivimus, transivit, transivitque. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Acts Chapter 27, Verse 19 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai th trith autoceireV thn skeuhn tou ploiou erriyamen |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et tertia die suis manibus armamenta navis proiecerunt |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And the thridde dai with her hoondis thei castiden awei the instrumentis of the schip. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And the thyrde daye we cast out with oure awne hondes the tacklynge of the shippe. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And the third day we cast out with our own hands the tackling of the ship. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And the third day we cast out with our own hands the tackling of the ship. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And on the third day, they let all the sailing apparatus go over the side. |
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| Language | Acts Chapter 27, Verse 19 |
| Albanian | Ditën e tretë, hodhën me duart e tyre, pajisjet e anijes në det. |
| Cebuano | Ug sa ikatulo ka adlaw, pinaagi sa ilang kaugalingong mga kamot ilang gipanglabog sa dagat ang mga kasangkapan sa sakayan. |
| Croatian | a treæi dan svojim rukama izbaciše brodsku opremu. |
| Danish | Og på den tredje Dag udkastede de med egne Hænder Skibets Redskaber. |
| Dutch | En den derden dag wierpen wij met onze eigen handen het scheepsgereedschap uit. |
| Finnish | ja kolmantena päivänä he omin käsin viskasivat mereen laivan kaluston. |
| French | et le troisième jour nous y lançâmes de nos propres mains les agrès du navire. |
| German | Und am dritten Tage warfen wir mit unseren Händen aus die Gerätschaft im Schiffe. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Hari berikutnya lagi awak-awak kapal itu membuang pula perkakas-perkakas kapal ke laut dengan tangan mereka sendiri. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | dan lusanya membuangkan beberapa perkakas kapal dengan tangan sendiri. |
| Italian | il terzo giorno con le proprie mani buttarono via l'attrezzatura della nave. |
| Maori | A i toru o nga ra ka maka atu e ratou ki o ratou ringa nga mea ake o te kaipuke. |
| Norwegian | og den tredje dag kastet vi med egne hender skibets redskap i sjøen. |
| Rumanian | wi a treia zi, noi, cu mknile noastre, am lepqdat uneltele corqbiei. |
| Russian | Б ОБ ФТЕФЙК НЩ УЧПЙНЙ ТХЛБНЙ П'ТПУБМЙ У ЛПТБ'МС ЧЕЭЙ. |
| Shuar | Menaintiú tsawant nankaamasmatai iisha ii uwejéjain kanunam Kárak iruniarmia nusha Entsá utsankarmiaji. |
| Spanish | y al tercer día, con sus propias manos arrojaron los aparejos del barco. |
| Swahili | Siku ya tatu, wakaanza pia kutupa majini vifaa vya meli kwa mikono yao wenyewe. |
| Swedish | På tredje dagen kastade de med egna händer ut skeppsredskapen. |
| Uma | Kamepulo-na tena, topobago hi kapal mpotadi rewa-rewa kapal hi rala tahi'. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: groove. | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-o-o-r-v" | |
-1 letter: grove. | |
-2 letters: ergo, goer, gore, ogre, over, rove. | |
-3 letters: ego, erg, goo, gor, ore, reg, rev, roe, veg, voe. | |
-4 letters: er, go, oe, or, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-o-o-r-v" | |
+1 letter: grooved, groover, grooves, overdog. | |
+2 letters: governor, groovers, groovier, overdogs, overgoad, overgrow, overlong, regroove. | |
+3 letters: governors, grooviest, moviegoer, overdoing, overgoads, overgrown, overgrows, regrooved, regrooves. | |
+4 letters: ergonovine, moviegoers, overbought, overcoming, overdosage, overdosing, overgoaded, overgovern, overgrowth, overhoping, overjoying, overloving, overvoting, regrooving, virologies. | |
+5 letters: aboveground, ergonovines, governorate, microgroove, noncoverage, overblowing, overboiling, overbooking, overcooking, overcooling, overdosages, overemoting, overflowing, overgoading, overgoverns, overgrowing, overgrowths, overholding, overloading, overlooking, overlording, overprogram, oversmoking, oversoaking, overthought, overtoiling, overtopping, overvoltage, overworking, overwrought, rotogravure. | |
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