14 PHRASE All over a place means in every part of it. □ …the letters she received from people all over the world.
15 PHRASE Over here means near you, or in the country you are in. □ Why don't you come over here tomorrow evening?
16 PHRASE Over there means in a place a short distance away from you, or in another country. □ The cafe is just across the road over there. □ She'd married some American and settled down over there.
➋ over ◆◆◆ /oʊ və r /
1 PREP If something is over a particular amount, measurement, or age, it is more than that amount, measurement, or age. □ I carried out a survey of over a thousand patients. □ I met George well over a year ago. ● ADV Over is also an adverb. □ …people aged 65 and over.
2 PHRASE Over and above an amount, especially a normal amount, means more than that amount or in addition to it. □ Expenditure on education has gone up by seven point eight per cent over and above inflation.
3 ADV [be ADV , n ADV , ADV after v] If you say that you have some food or money over , you mean that it remains after you have used all that you need. □ Larsons pay me well enough, but there's not much over for luxuries when there's two of you. □ Primrose was given an apple, left over from our picnic lunch.
4 ADV [ADV after v] If you do something over , you do it again or start doing it again from the beginning. [AM ] □ She said if she had the chance to do it over, she would have hired a press secretary.
5 PHRASE If you say that something happened twice over , three times over and so on, you are stating the number of times that it happened and emphasizing that it happened more than once. [EMPHASIS ] □ He had to have everything spelled out twice over for him.
6 PHRASE If you do something over again , you do it again or start doing it again from the beginning. [BRIT ] □ If I was living my life over again I wouldn't have attended so many committee meetings.
7 PHRASE If you say that something is happening all over again , you are emphasizing that it is happening again, and you are suggesting that it is tiring, boring, or unpleasant. [EMPHASIS ] □ The whole process started all over again. □ He had to prove himself all over again.
8 PHRASE If you say that something happened over and over or over and over again , you are emphasizing that it happened many times. [EMPHASIS ] □ He plays the same songs over and over. □ 'I don't understand it,' he said, over and over again.
➌ over ◆◆◆ /oʊ və r /
1 ADJ [v-link ADJ ] If an activity is over or all over , it is completely finished. □ Warplanes that have landed there will be kept until the war is over. □ I am glad it's all over.
2 PREP If you are over an illness or an experience, it has finished and you have recovered from its effects. □ I'm glad that you're over the flu. □ She was still getting over the shock of what she had been told.
3 PREP If you have control or influence over someone or something, you are able to control them or influence them. □ He's never had any influence over her. □ The oil companies have lost their power over oil price and oil production.
4 PREP You use over to indicate what a disagreement or feeling relates to or is caused by. □ …public concern over the possible relationship between behaviour and the intake of certain food additives. □ Staff at some air and sea ports are beginning to protest over pay.
5 PREP If something happens over a particular period of time or over something such as a meal, it happens during that time or during the meal. □ Many strikes over the last few years have not ended successfully. □ Over breakfast we discussed plans for the day. □ …discussing the problem over a cup of coffee.
6 PREP You use over to indicate that you give or receive information using a phone, radio, or other piece of electrical equipment. □ I'm not prepared to discuss this over the phone. □ The head of state addressed the nation over the radio.
7 PHRASE The presenter of a radio or television programme says ' over to someone' to indicate the person who will speak next. □ With the rest of the sports news, over to Colin Maitland.
8 CONVENTION When people such as the police or the army are using a radio to communicate, they say ' Over ' to indicate that they have finished speaking and are waiting for a reply. [FORMULAE ]
9 N‑COUNT In cricket, an over consists of six correctly bowled balls. □ At the start of the last over, the Welsh county were favourites.
PREFIX over-
forms words that refer to a quality of action that exists or is done to too great an extent. For example, if someone is being over-cautious , they are being too cautious.
over|achieve /oʊ vərətʃiː v/ (overachieves , overachieving , overachieved ) VERB If someone overachieves in something such as school work or a job, they work very hard, especially in a way that makes them tired or unhappy. They want to be successful because it is very important to them to do well and not because they enjoy what they are doing. □ [V ] …emotions such as guilt, compulsion to please or overachieve, or depression. ● over|achiev|er (overachievers ) N‑COUNT □ He comes from a family of overachievers.
over|act /oʊ vəræ kt/ (overacts , overacting , overacted ) VERB If you say that someone overacts , you mean they exaggerate their emotions and movements, usually when acting in a play. □ [V ] Sometimes he had overacted in his role as Prince.
o ver-a ge
1 ADJ If you are over-age , you are officially too old to do something. □ He was a couple of months over-age for the youth team.