Go Over

  

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Definition: Go Over

Go Over

Verb

1. 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 Over

Synonyms: 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)

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Synonyms within Context: Go Over

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: Go Over

English words defined with "go over": hash overRefar, rehashTo 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)

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Modern Usage: Go Over

DomainUsage

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)

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

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Commercial Usage: Go Over

DomainTitle

Books

  • Betsy & Tacy Go over the Big Hill (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Image Slideshow: Go Over

Illustrations:
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Photo Album: Go Over

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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.

  

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

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Use in Literature: Go Over

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

We must go over all the seams which we have made, and see if they hold.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Go Over

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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

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Expressions: Go Over

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.

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Modern Translation: Go Over

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), (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

   

Portuguese

  

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)

   

Romanian

  

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)

   

Russian 

  

обвести (lead round), опрокинуться, быть отложенным, преодолеть (get over, get the best of, outdo, overcome, pull through, tide over). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

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)

   

Spanish

  

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)

   

Swedish

  

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)

   

Turkish

  

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)

   

Ukrainian

  

перечитувати (reread), перекинутися (coup, purl). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Go Over

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 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.

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Bible Trace: Go Over

LanguageDateSourceActs Chapter 27, Verse 19
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintKai th trith autoceireV thn skeuhn tou ploiou erriyamen
Latin405VulgateEt tertia die suis manibus armamenta navis proiecerunt
Middle English1395WyclifAnd the thridde dai with her hoondis thei castiden awei the instrumentis of the schip.
Renaissance English1526TyndaleAnd the thyrde daye we cast out with oure awne hondes the tacklynge of the shippe.
Jacobean English1611King JamesAnd the third day we cast out with our own hands the tackling of the ship.
Victorian English1833WebsterAnd the third day we cast out with our own hands the tackling of the ship.
Basic English1964OgdenAnd on the third day, they let all the sailing apparatus go over the side.

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

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Matched Bible Translations: Go Over

LanguageActs Chapter 27, Verse 19
AlbanianDitën e tretë, hodhën me duart e tyre, pajisjet e anijes në det.
CebuanoUg sa ikatulo ka adlaw, pinaagi sa ilang kaugalingong mga kamot ilang gipanglabog sa dagat ang mga kasangkapan sa sakayan.
Croatiana treæi dan svojim rukama izbaciše brodsku opremu.
DanishOg på den tredje Dag udkastede de med egne Hænder Skibets Redskaber.
DutchEn den derden dag wierpen wij met onze eigen handen het scheepsgereedschap uit.
Finnishja kolmantena päivänä he omin käsin viskasivat mereen laivan kaluston.
Frenchet le troisième jour nous y lançâmes de nos propres mains les agrès du navire.
GermanUnd am dritten Tage warfen wir mit unseren Händen aus die Gerätschaft im Schiffe.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariHari berikutnya lagi awak-awak kapal itu membuang pula perkakas-perkakas kapal ke laut dengan tangan mereka sendiri.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lamadan lusanya membuangkan beberapa perkakas kapal dengan tangan sendiri.
Italianil terzo giorno con le proprie mani buttarono via l'attrezzatura della nave.
MaoriA i toru o nga ra ka maka atu e ratou ki o ratou ringa nga mea ake o te kaipuke.
Norwegianog den tredje dag kastet vi med egne hender skibets redskap i sjøen.
Rumanianwi a treia zi, noi, cu mknile noastre, am lepqdat uneltele corqbiei.
RussianБ ОБ ФТЕФЙК НЩ УЧПЙНЙ ТХЛБНЙ П'ТПУБМЙ У ЛПТБ'МС ЧЕЭЙ.
ShuarMenaintiú tsawant nankaamasmatai iisha ii uwejéjain kanunam Kárak iruniarmia nusha Entsá utsankarmiaji.
Spanishy al tercer día, con sus propias manos arrojaron los aparejos del barco.
SwahiliSiku ya tatu, wakaanza pia kutupa majini vifaa vya meli kwa mikono yao wenyewe.
SwedishPå tredje dagen kastade de med egna händer ut skeppsredskapen.
UmaKamepulo-na tena, topobago hi kapal mpotadi rewa-rewa kapal hi rala tahi'.

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

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Anagrams: Go Over

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.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Fiction
9. Quotations: Non-fiction
10. Expressions
11. Translations: Modern
12. Translations: Ancient
13. Bible Trace
14. Anagrams
15. Bibliography


  

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