OVERS

  

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OVERS

"OVERS" is a plural of: over.

Date "OVERS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1918. (references)

"OVERS" is a common misspelling or typo for: covers, over, overt.


Specialty Definition: OVERS

DomainDefinition

Building & Civil Engineering

A reject from screening, either oversize or undersize. Source: European Union. (references)

Publishing & Graphic Arts

Extra sheets printed to make up for spoiled or impeerfect ones. Source: European Union. (references)
 Extra paper allowed on all quantities as spoils to be expected in the process in question. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Synonym: OVERS

Synonym by domain: screenings (building & civil engineering, transportation).

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Crosswords: OVERS

Specialty definitions using "OVERS": Misers. (references)

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Commercial Usage: OVERS

DomainTitle

Books

  • Mini-meal cookbook : tasty recipes especially created for hamburger makers, mini-deep fryers, instant hot water heaters, and small toaster-broiler overs (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Photo Album: OVERS

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

A wild cat train: no stop overs / Tho. Worth. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Usage Frequency: OVERS

"OVERS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 99.29% of the time. "OVERS" is used about 560 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (plural)99.29%55611,235
Noun (proper)0.53%3202,518
Lexical Verb (-s form)0.18%1339,140
                    Total100.00%560N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: OVERS

Expressions using "OVERS": left overs paper overs. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "OVERS": overs-a-day, overs-a-side.

Ending with "OVERS": cross-overs, hand-overs, left-overs, limited-overs, make-overs, stop-overs, take-overs, voice-overs.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: OVERS

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

voice overs

524

cross overs

4

make overs

46

home make overs

4

coil overs

43

coil installing overs

4

extreme make overs

35

effects overs sound voice

4

fit overs

23

comb overs

4

overs

13

left overs

3

overs sleep

13

abc extreme make overs

3

for hang overs

13

left meal overs

3

coil control ground overs

11

coil matrix overs

3

make overs virtual

8

overs pop

3

hair make overs

6

job overs voice

3

make online overs

5

basketball cross overs

3

mouse overs

4

2 coil overs skunk

3

make overs room

4

coil overs skunk2

3

coil king overs

4

celebrity make overs

3

cartoon voice overs

4

free make overs virtual

3

free make overs

4

coil mustang overs

3

commercial voice overs

4

beauty make overs

3

business overs voice

4

disney overs voice

3

coil install overs

4

radio voice overs

3

coil drop overs zone

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: OVERS

Language Translations for "OVERS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

overskud (efficiency, electric utility surplus, oddments, over plus, over sheets, paper overs, plus sheets, profit, spoils, surplus), sigterest (materials, mesh plus, oversize, rejects, retained fraction), ekstra ark (over plus, over sheets, paper overs, plus sheets, spoils). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

zeefrest (materials, mesh plus, oversize, rejects, retained fraction, screenings), inschiet (over plus, over sheets, paper overs, plus sheets, spoils). (various references)

   

French

  

surclasse (oversize), refus de tamis, refus (oversize), passes, passe (over plus, over sheets, paper overs), matériaux criblés (oversize), feuilles de passe (over sheetes, overplus), chaperon (over sheets, overplus). (various references)

   

German

  

Zuschuss (contribution, grant, grant-in-aid, subsidy), Siebrueckstand (mesh plus, screenings). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

πρόσθετα τυπογραφικά φύλλα για συμπλήρωση κακεκτύπων (over plus, over sheets, paper overs, plus sheets, spoils), υπόλειμμα κοσκινίσματος (mesh plus). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

tartalékpéldányok. (various references)

   

Italian

  

osso (bone), residuo del setacciato (mesh plus), residuo al setaccio (mesh plus). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oversay

   

Portuguese

  

resíduos da peneiração (mesh plus), perdas (casualty, losings). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

передача (abalienation, cession, communication, conveyance, delivery, devolution, drive, handing over of, handover, take-over, take-overs, transfer, transferal, transference, transferral, transmission, transmittal, transmittance, transmittion). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

residuo de tamizado (mesh plus), perdido (abandoned, astray, disappointed, forgiven, gotten lost, idle, irreparable, lost, missing, tainted). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

rester (left overs, left-overs, pickings, remains), matrester (leavings, left overs). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yemek artıkları (kitchenmidden, left overs, remains). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: OVERS

Derivations

Words beginning with "OVERS": oversad, oversale, oversales, oversalt, oversalted, oversalting, oversalts, oversanguine, oversaturate, oversaturated, oversaturates, oversaturating, oversaturation, oversaturations, oversauce, oversauced, oversauces, oversaucing, oversave, oversaved, oversaves, oversaving, oversaw, overscale, overscaled, overscrupulous, oversea, overseas, oversecretion, oversecretions, oversee, overseed, overseeded, overseeding, overseeds, overseeing, overseen, overseer, overseers, oversees, oversell, overselling, oversells, oversensitive, oversensitiveness, oversensitivenesses, oversensitivities, oversensitivity, overserious, overseriously, overservice. (additional references)

Words ending with "OVERS": allovers, approvers, bedcovers, carryovers, changeovers, clovers, codiscovers, covers, crossovers, cutovers, disapprovers, discovers, drovers, dustcovers, earthmovers, estovers, flashovers, flopovers, flyovers, glovers, groovers, handovers, hangovers, hardcovers, holdovers, hovers, improvers, layovers, leftovers, lovers, makeovers, movers, passovers, plovers, popovers, provers, pullovers, pushovers, recovers, rediscovers, removers, reprovers, rollovers, rovers, runovers, shovers, sleepovers, slipcovers, slipovers, softcovers, spillovers. (additional references)

Words containing "OVERS": controversial, controversialism, controversialisms, controversialist, controversialists, controversially, controversies, controversy, coverslip, coverslips, extroversion, extroversions, introversion, introversions, introversive, introversively, noncontroversial, retroversion, retroversions, uncontroversial, uncontroversially. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "OVERS"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "OVERS" (pronounced ō"verz)
3-v er zachievers, avers, beavers, believers, bolivars, cabdrivers, cadavers, caregivers, carvers, cavers, changeovers, covers, delivers, discovers, dissolvers, divers, drivers, elvers, endeavors, favors, fevers, flavors, givers, grievers, hangovers, holdovers, hovers, Lavers, layovers, leftovers, levers, lifesavers, livers, lovers, maneuvers, movers, nonbelievers, observers, plovers, preservers, receivers, recovers, relievers, retrievers, revolvers, rivers, rollovers, savers, savors, screwdrivers, servers, severs, shavers, shivers, Silvers, slivers, solvers, stivers, stopovers, survivors, takeovers, turnovers, uncovers, underachievers, waivers, weavers, woodcarvers.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: OVERS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: roves, servo, verso.

Words within the letters "e-o-r-s-v"

-1 letter: eros, ores, over, revs, roes, rose, rove, sore, voes.

-2 letters: ers, oes, ore, ors, ose, res, rev, roe, ser, voe.

-3 letters: er, es, oe, or, os, re, so.

 Words containing the letters "e-o-r-s-v"
 

+1 letter: bevors, corves, covers, droves, groves, hovers, lovers, movers, proves, rovers, servos, shover, shrove, soever, solver, stover, strove, troves, versos, vireos, vomers, voters, vowers.

 

+2 letters: avowers, bravoes, clovers, corvees, corvets, coverts, devisor, devoirs, devours, drovers, erosive, evokers, fervors, glovers, governs, grooves, grovels, ivories, louvers, louvres, nervous, observe, obverse, obverts, oeuvres, ovaries, oversad, oversaw, oversea, oversee, overset, oversew, oversup, overuse, plovers, provers, reavows, removes, renvois, resolve, reverso, revisor, revokes, revolts, revotes, savored, savorer, shovers, solvers, stovers, trovers, vectors, velours, vendors, verbose, verismo, version, vetoers, viroses, visored, voguers, voicers, voiders, votress, voyeurs, wolvers.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Derivations
11. Rhymes
12. Anagrams
13. Bibliography


  

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