Word Type
Over can be an adjective, a noun, an interjection, a preposition or an adverb.
over used as an adjective:
- Finished; ended or concluded.
"The show is over." - (as a prefix): To excess.
"He is over-zealous."
Adjectives are are describing words. An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun (examples: small, scary, silly). Adjectives make the meaning of a noun more precise. Learn more →
over used as a noun:
- A set of 6 balls bowled
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
over used as an interjection:
- In radio communications: end of sentence, ready to receive reply.
"How do you receive? Over!"
An interjection is an abrupt remark like Oh! or Dear me, or Eww. It is usually used to express the strong emotions of the speaker. The sentence 'Congratulations! You won the gold medal!' shows the use of 'congratulations' as an interjection. Learn more →
over used as a preposition:
- On top of; above; higher than; further up.
"Hold the sign up over your head." - Across or spanning.
"There is a bridge over the river." - In such a way as to cover.
"Drape the fabric over the table." - More than; to a greater degree.
"I prefer the purple over the pink." - Beyond; past; exceeding; too much or too far.
"I think I’m over my limit for calories for today." - Divided by.
"four over two equals two over one." - As compared to.
"Sales are down this quarter over last." - From one position or state to another.
"Please pass that over to me." - From one physical position to another via an obstacle that must be traversed vertically, first upwards and then downwards.
"The dog jumped over the fence." - From one state to another via a hindrance that must be solved or defeated; or via a third state that represents a significant difference from the first two.
"We got over the engineering problems and the prototype works great."
Prepositions are used to show the relationship between a noun or pronoun and another word. Examples of prepositions are: in, during, beside, after, for. In the sentence "Sows suffer in factory farms." The preposition "in" tells us the position of the sow relative to the factory farm. Learn more →
over used as an adverb:
- Again; another time; once more.
"I lost my paper and I had to do the entire assignment over." - Thoroughly; completely; from beginning to end.
"Let's talk over the project at tomorrow's meeting." - From an upright position to being horizontal.
"He tipped the bottle over, and the water came gushing out." - Horizontally; left to right or right to left.
"Slide the toilet-paper dispenser's door over when one roll is empty in order to reveal the other." - Overnight .
"We stayed over at Grandma's."
An adverb is a word that modifies an adjective (very red), verb (quietly running), or another adverb (very carefully). Learn more →
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What type of word is over?
- Adjective usage: The show is over.
- Adjective usage: He is over-zealous.
- Adjective usage: The latest policy was over-conservative.
- Interjection usage: How do you receive? Over!
- Preposition usage: Hold the sign up over your head.
- Preposition usage: There is tree over the lawn.
- Preposition usage: Climb up the ladder and look over [the roof].
- Preposition usage: There is a bridge over the river.
- Preposition usage: Drape the fabric over the table.
- Preposition usage: There is a roof over the house.
- Preposition usage: I prefer the purple over the pink.
- Preposition usage: I think I’m over my limit for calories for today.
- Preposition usage: four over two equals two over one.
- Preposition usage: Sales are down this quarter over last.
- Preposition usage: Please pass that over to me.
- Preposition usage: He came over to our way of thinking on the new project.
- Preposition usage: Come over and play!
- Preposition usage: I'll bring over a pizza.
- Preposition usage: The dog jumped over the fence.
- Preposition usage: Two people approach a fence. I'll go over [the fence] first and then help you.
- Preposition usage: Let's walk over the hill to get there.
- Preposition usage: We got over the engineering problems and the prototype works great.
- Preposition usage: I am over my cold and feel great again.
- Preposition usage: I know the referee made a bad call, but you have to get over it [your annoyance with the referee's decision].
- Preposition usage: She is finally over [the distress of] losing her job.
- Preposition usage: He is finally over his [distress over the loss of the relationship with his] ex-girlfriend.
- Adverb usage: I lost my paper and I had to do the entire assignment over.
- Adverb usage: Let's talk over the project at tomorrow's meeting.
- Adverb usage: Let me think that over.
- Adverb usage: I'm going to look over our department's expenses.
- Adverb usage: Let's go over scene 3 from the top.
- Adverb usage: He tipped the bottle over, and the water came gushing out.
- Adverb usage: That building just fell over!
- Adverb usage: He bent over to touch his toes.
- Adverb usage: Slide the toilet-paper dispenser's door over when one roll is empty in order to reveal the other.
- Adverb usage: I moved over to make room for him to sit down.
- Adverb usage: We stayed over at Grandma's.
- Adverb usage: Can I sleep over?
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of over are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of over, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).