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"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. |
| Domain | Definition |
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. | |
Crosswords: OVERS |
| Specialty definitions using "OVERS": Misers. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & 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. | |||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 99.29% | 556 | 11,235 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.53% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 0.18% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 560 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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. | |
| 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. |
| 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 resíduos da peneiração (mesh plus), perdas (casualty, losings). (various references) 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) residuo de tamizado (mesh plus), perdido (abandoned, astray, disappointed, forgiven, gotten lost, idle, irreparable, lost, missing, tainted). (various references) rester (left overs, left-overs, pickings, remains), matrester (leavings, left overs). (various references) yemek artıkları (kitchenmidden, left overs, remains). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "OVERS" (pronounced ō"verz) |
| 3 | -v er z | achievers, 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. | ||
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. | |
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