Over and above

Definition

over /'ǝƱvǝ(r)/ adv part ၁။ (က) ေအာက္သို႔။ ငိုက္လ်က္။ စိုက္လ်က္။ Don't knock that vase over. ❍The wind must have blown it over. ❍ He bent over to pick up the book. ❍ She leaned over and whispered in his ear. (ခ) တစ္ဖက္မွတစ္ဖက္သို႔။ Turn the patient over onto his front. ❍ Turn over the page. ❍ The car skidded off the road and rolled over and over down the slope. (ဂ) ဘက္သို႔။ ဆီသို႔။ ဆီကို။ ဆီမွာ။ Take these letters over to the post office. ❍ He rowed us over to the other side of the lake. ❍ He has gone over to/is over in France. ❍ Let's ask some friends over (ie to our home). ❍ Put the tray over there (eg on the other side of the room). ၂။ လံုးလံုး။ အလံုးစံု။ The lake is completely frozen over. ❍ Cover her over with a blanket. သူ႕ကို ေျခဆံုးေခါင္းဆံုး ေစာင္ၿခံဳ ေပးလိုက္။ ၃။ က်န္လ်က္။ If there's any food (left) over, put it in the fridge. ❍ I'll have just $ 10 over when I've paid my debts. ❍ 7 into 30 goes 4 with 2 over. ၄။ အထက္။ ပို၍။ children of fourteen and over ❍ It's two metres long or a bit over. See also ABOVE adv ၂ Compare UNDER ၄ ❍ AGE n ၅။ ( esp US ) အစအဆံုး။ အလံုးစံု။ He repeated it several times over until he could remember it. ❍ We did the house over (ie decorated it) and bought new furniture. ၆။ အဆံုးတိုင္။ အၿပီးသတ္လ်က္။ နိဂံုးခ်ဳပ္လ်က္။ Their relationship is over. ❍ By the time we arrived the meeting was over. ❍ Thank goodness that's over. ၇။ အျခားတစ္ဖက္သို႔ ေျပာင္းလ်က္။ He's gone over to the enemy (ie joined them). ❍ Please change the wheels over (eg put the front wheels at the back). ၈။ (ေရဒီယိုတယ္လီဖုန္း ဆက္သြယ္ရာ၌) ဒါပဲ။ Message received. Over (ie It is your turn to speak). prep ၁။ (ဤေနရာ၌ above ျဖင့္ အစားမထိုးရေပ)။ အထက္တြင္။ အုပ္၍။ အေပၚက။ Spread a cloth over the table. ❍ She put a rug over the sleeping child. ❍ He wore an overcoat over his suit. ❍ He put his hand over her mouth to stop her screaming. ❍ ABOVE prep ၂။ အေပၚက။ အထက္တြင္။ They held a large umbrella over her. ❍ The balcony juts out over the street. ❍ There was a lamp (hanging) over the table. Compare ABOVE prep ၁, UNDER ၁ ❍ ABOVE prep ၃။ (က) ကဲ၍။ ေက်ာ္၍။ ျဖတ္၍။ a bridge over the river ❍ run over the grass ❍ escape over the border ❍ look over the hedge. (ခ) ထိုမွာ ဘက္တြင္။ အျခားတစ္ဖက္တြင္။ He lives over the road /way. ❍ Over the river is private land. (ဂ) ေက်ာ္၍။ climb over a wall ❍ jump over the stream ❍ go over the mountains. ၄။ (esp with all ) တစ္ဝန္းလံုးတြင္။ တစ္လႊား၌။ Snow is falling (all) over the country. ❍ He's famous all over the world. ❍ He sprinkled sugar over his cereal. ၅။ မက။ over 3 million copies sold ❍ She stayed in Lagos (for) over a month. ❍ He's over two metres tall. ❍ She's well over fifty. Compare UNDER ၄ ❍ ABOVE prep ၆။ အေပၚ။ ကို။ He ruled over a great empire. ❍ She has only the director over her. ❍ He has little control over his emotions. Compare UNDER ၅, BELOW ၇။ (က) အတြင္း။ မွာ။ discuss it over lunch ❍ Over the next few days they got to know the town well. (ခ) အတြင္း။ We shall be away over (ie until after) Christmas and the New Year. (ဂ) ေက်ာ္လြန္၍။ ေက်ာ္လြန္ရန္။ We're over the worst of the recession. ❍ It took her ages to get over her illness. ၈။ ႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္၍။ an argument over money ❍ a disagreement over the best way to proceed. ၉။ မွာ။ ျဖင့္။ We heard it over the radio. ❍ She wouldn't tell me over (ie when speaking on) the phone. ၁၀။ ၾကားက။ I couldn't hear what he said over the noise of the traffic. n (ခရစ္ကက္ကစားနည္းတြင္) ေဘာလံုးပစ္ေပး လွည့္က်သူက အစဥ္လိုက္ပစ္ေပးေသာ ေဘာလံုး ေျခာက္လံုး တစ္စု။ dismiss two batsmen in the same over. ❏ (all) over again [ IDM ] အစမွ ေနာက္တစ္ႀကိမ္ ထပ္၍။ He did the work so badly that I had to do it all over again myself. ❏ over against sth [ IDM ] ႏိႈင္းစာပါက။ the benefits of private education over against state education. ❏ over and above [ IDM ] အျပင္။ The waiters get good tips over and above their wages. ❍ There are other factors over and above those we have discussed. ❏ over and over (again) [ IDM ] အႀကိမ္ႀကိမ္။ အထပ္ထပ္ အခါခါ။ I've told you over and over again not to do that. ❍ Say the words over and over to yourself. over- pref ၁။ (အေပၚ၊ အျပင္၊ အလံုးစံုဟု အနက္ရိွေသာ ေရွ႕ဆက္)။ overcoat ❍ overarching ❍ overhang ❍ overall ❍ over-head. Compare SUPER- ၂။ (အလြန္၊ အပို၊ တရားလြန္၊ လြန္လြန္ကဲကဲဟု အနက္ရိွေသာ ေရွ႕ဆက္)။ overgeneralize ❍ overwork ❍ overemphasis ❍ overtime ❍ overambitious ❍ over-anxious ❍ overconfident ❍ over-sensitive ❍ overindulgence ❍ over-aggressively. Compare HYPER-

Examples

1. Perry glanced at the clock over the door.
2. The Simpsons live in a flat over the shop.
3. We could see the Angolan flag flying over the governor’s palace.
4. She came and stood over him as he lay on the bed.
5. Government troops fired a few shots over their heads.
6. Flocks of geese flew over
7. calling loudly.
8. She put her hands over her ears.
9. Carlson replaced the blanket over the dead man.
10. The roads were already covered over with a few feet of snow.
11. [all over] : She spilled coffee all over my new dress.
12. Several bridges over the River Danube were destroyed.
13. I crossed over to the other side of the street.
14. From your window there is a magnificent view over the gardens.
15. Three prisoners had escaped by climbing over a six-metre high fence.
16. A four-day journey over the Taurus mountains
17. Sandra’s brother lives just over the road from our house.
18. The airport was right over on the far side of Newcastle.
19. He turned over and went to sleep.
20. Rolling over on my back
21. I looked up at the sky.
22. He turned the card over and saw that it was the ace of spades.
23. The car skidded across the road and flipped over.
24. The drought has spread over much of the southern US.
25. Children were rushing around madly all over the place.
26. [all over] : The festival attracts music lovers from all over the world.
27. A senior manager showed us over the factory.
28. Engineers are busy checking over the equipment.
29. The main entrance is further over on the left.
30. Pull over to the side of the road and let me drive.
31. She leaned over and whispered in my ear.
32. Would you move over and make room for me?
33. Why don’t you come over and have dinner with us sometime?
34. I think the kids are over at Pam’s place.
35. Lawrence walked over to the window and looked out.
36. [over here/there] : Helen was born in Australia
37. but she’s been living over here for 11 years.
38. I bent over to tie my shoe.
39. I’ve brought you a glass of milk. Mind you don’t knock it over.
40. Carey fell over and broke his leg while playing ice hockey.
41. Lava flowed over the rim of the volcano.
42. Aileen was lying unconscious on the bed with her legs hanging over the side.
43. I peered over the edge of the crater into the darkness below.
44. There are worries over the future of the steel industry.
45. We spent a whole hour arguing over the meaning of two words.
46. Moore’s fourth marriage was over after only 18 months.
47. [be all over] : When the war began in August 1914
48. they said it would be all over by Christmas.
49. [over and done with] : We’re all so relieved that the trial is over and done with.
50. Losing her brother was a terrible shock and she isn’t over it yet.
51. Malaria is a serious illness and you’re not going to be over it in a couple of days.
52. [get over something] : He’ll soon get over his disappointment.
53. Kitchener demanded total control over the army.
54. The Church today has little influence over the way people lead their lives.
55. The period in which the Kaiser ruled over Germany
56. We’re going to scrap the whole plan and start over.
57. [over to] : We went over to Internet banking because it saved time and money.
58. [change/switch/swap/go over] : In Sweden they switched over from driving on the left to driving on the right.
59. You row and I’ll sit in the back of the boat and steer – then later on we’ll change over.
60. Over the last few years we have seen a sudden increase in the number of cases of food poisoning.
61. Most hotels are fully booked over the holiday weekend.
62. Over coffee our host told us a little about the history of the house.
63. We chatted over lunch.
64. [left over] : There was a lot of food left over after the party.
65. Yeltsin was elected by a large majority with over 45 million votes.
66. Over 50 per cent of the company’s shares are owned by the government.
67. [and over] : The pension will be paid to people aged 65 and over.