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What does over mean?
Definitions in simple English

over

Something is over when it has finished, usually referring to an event. When the movie was over we left the movie theater. In a location above something. He stepped over the dog. From one side to the other. They went over the bridge. If you invite someone over, you invite them to your house. They had him over for tea. A number divided by another. Eight over two is four.

over

An over in a cricket match is six balls bowled from one end. The captain told me I would have to bowl the next over.

over

at or to a point across intervening space etc come over and see us some time over there (= complete, ended, terminated) having come or been brought to a conclusion the harvesting was complete the affair is over, ended, finished the abruptly terminated interview throughout an area he is known the world over throughout a period of time stay over the weekend beyond the top or upper surface or edge; forward from an upright position a roof that hangs over (cricket) the division of play during which six balls are bowled at the batsman by one player from the other team from the same end of the pitch (= all over) over the entire area the wallpaper was covered all over with flowers she ached all over everything was dusted over with a fine layer of soot

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Simple sentences

The sky clouded over.
I am afraid to jump over the ditch.
I was nearly run over by a car.
We got the meeting over with quickly.
I've been waiting for you for over an hour.
A helicopter circled over us.
It's almost over.
He will take over the business when his father retires.
The boy standing over there is my son.
The worst is over.
We live in that apartment just over the street.
What are you going to do over the weekend?
His horse jumped over the fence.
I suppose it's different when you think about it over the long term.
I lived in Nagoya for over a month.
It is not rare at all to live over ninety years.
It would be fun to see how things change over the years.
The vacation is over now.
It's over between us. Give me back my ring!
Shocked by the events of September 11th, politicians all over the world condemned the terrorists for their reprehensible deed.
What happened? There's water all over the apartment.
There's no point in arguing over tastes.
My mother prefers the arbitrary selection of the lottery machines over my lucky numbers.
Teachers must get tired of rectifying the same mistakes over and over again in their students' papers.
I'm going to sit on the bench over there next to the street lamp.
I've got mosquito bites all over my arm.
The sky is over our heads.
I had a quarrel with him over money.

Movie subtitles

All the guys in my family and neighborhood have been drooling over her.
This is Yoon's house and our house is over here.
You flew over us several times, You know very well where we are.
The opponent is an empire which has subdued over a third of the world.
There are some unpleasant rumors now spreading about Princess Euphemia over this.
Over twenty thousand people have applied to join the Nippon special zone.
Will the Japan they hand over have any value?
Can you send him and the test unit over there after I make arrangements there?
What's come over you?
They ruled over a land that was in some ways still mired in the Dark Ages.
For centuries, the old spice route ran from the Indian Ocean over land across the Arabian peninsula, into the Ottoman Empire, and then from Venice into Europe.
Over time, the effect was to raise productivity, incomes, nutrition and even height.
A church that even now sends missionaries out all over the world!
Well of course we don't really have final say over where we get sent, but. I have been praying to be sent to my favorite place in the whole world.
What's come over you?!
Oort wanted to detect and analyse that emission too, as soon as the war was over.
The receiver changed frequency very slowly over a one or two hour period.
He's over there.
Let's leave for Africa, for the Regency of Algiers over which the French flag now flies.
God is watching over me.
Your convent's been here over 200 years - and you don't speak Arabic?
He hasn't heard from you in over a month.
Watch over my son.
I'll watch over him.
A catcher's a kid who catches bags of PBJs that someone throws over the fence into the yard.
I'm saying you should take it over and do it right.
Shouldn't you be over there with your new friends?
You fucking screwed over your best friend.
Then the kids would turn against Frankie, and I could take over the peanut racket.
And since you won't take responsibility, as of today, I'm taking over the peanut racket, and I guarantee every sandwich I sell.
So, Nick, why did you decide to take over the PBJ racket?
Please, just think this over.
That's it. Game over.
Where's the box? -Over there.
Over here.
It's over there.
There it is, over there.
More over there!

News and current affairs

But if the human capacity for destruction knows few limits, the ability to start over again is just as remarkable.
Similar demands were heard all over Europe, where the anti-Nazi or anti-fascist resistance was often led by leftists, or indeed Communists, and prewar conservatives were frequently tainted by collaboration with fascist regimes.
The swing to the left, to social-democratic welfare states, occurred all over Western Europe.
In 1989, it looked as if the dark legacy of World War II, the enslavement of Eastern Europe, was finally over.
The good news is that, following President Hu Jintao's recent visit to Washington, both America and China have been taking positive steps to resolve their differences over the bilateral current-account balance.
For almost two generations, Abba Eban was Israel's voice - its messenger to the high and mighty among the nations as well as to the Jewish people all over the world.
As an Arabist by training, immersed in Arab and Muslim culture, he always hoped that the glorious Arab past could be rejuvenated, that an Arab and Muslim culture of tolerance could triumph over fanaticism and extremism.
The time for business as usual is over.
Bottom trawlers drag heavy nets over the ocean bottom, destroying magnificent, unexplored, and endangered marine species in the process.
Such areas not only permit the regeneration of species, but also provide ecological benefits that spill over to neighboring unprotected areas.
One estimate puts the cumulative spills over the past 50 years at approximately 10 million barrels - twice the size of the BP spill.
Indeed, in closing their skies, European governments seem to have given safety absolute priority over everything else.
And, over time, Israeli settler disengagement from the West Bank and East Jerusalem has become just as impossible as any attempt by Israel to expel its remaining Arabs.
By means of a binding UN Security Council resolution, Kosovo could be granted full and exclusive authority over its citizens and territory, as well as limited capacity for action on the international scene.
Most economic research suggests that gold prices are very difficult to predict over the short to medium term, with the odds of gains and losses being roughly in balance.
In 1989, liberal democracy triumphed over the socialist ideology incarnated and promoted by the Soviet Bloc.
The recently created European Banking Authority has only limited powers over national supervisors, whose daily work is guided mainly by national considerations.
Abroad, Egyptian lawmakers were so exercised over the prospect of the French head of state sharing a bed with his girlfriend that several vented their disapproval on the floor of the parliament.
Likewise, India is all in a quandary over how to handle protocol during Sarkozy's impending visit to the subcontinent as the guest of honor at the country's Republic Day celebrations on January 26.
This controversy has threatened to cast a pall over a much-heralded summit between two of the world's great democracies.
If he really is as head-over-heels in love with Bruni as he claims, and plans to marry her imminently, why not take advantage of his upcoming trip to India and make this a wedding to remember?
By building up savings over a few years, the farmers eventually become creditworthy, or have enough cash to purchase vitally necessary inputs on their own.
And what happens in 2009 may jeopardize some of the positive results of 1989, including the peaceful reunification of Europe and the triumph of democratic principles over nationalist, if not xenophobic, tendencies.
So, as rumors fly of secret marriage ceremonies either already concluded or in the works, could the trouble brewing in India over the French president's very public love life be behind the rush to have the couple legally wed?

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