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Is over a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of over?
Definition
adj (English)
1. Finished; ended; concluded.not-comparable
2. (informal, of an ongoing situation) Hopeless; irrecoverable.Examples: "We're keeping our marriage going for the sake of the kids, but really it's over."informalnot-comparable
3. (informal) Visiting one's home or other location.Examples: "My sister's over for the week."informalnot-comparable
4. (informal) Having an excess in a particular respect.Examples: "This steak is well over. (overcooked)"; "We had some complaints about short weight, so now we make sure that all our bags of potatoes are a bit over. (overweight)"informalnot-comparable
5. (professional wrestling slang) Of a wrestler: generating a reaction from fans.not-comparableslang
adv (English)
1. (often in compounds) To a high or excessive degree; overly; see also over-.Examples: "I'm not over bothered about going to the party."; "If you're over tentative then you'll get nowhere."; "She seemed a placid creature altogether - eminently respectable - perhaps not over intelligent."in-compoundsnot-comparableoften
2. Indicating repetition.Examples: "I lost my paper and I had to do the entire assignment over."USnot-comparableusually
noun (English)
1. (cricket) A set of six legal balls bowled.Examples: "Jones hit four boundaries in the first over."; "In an emotional and electric atmosphere at Lord's, both sides scored 241 in their 50 overs and were level on 15 when they batted for an extra over apiece."
2. (informal) Something having an excess of a particular property.Examples: "I went fishing but caught mostly overs."; "In today's golf tournament we recorded three unders and twenty overs."informal
3. (gambling) A bet that a particular sporting statistic, such a points scored in a game, will be above a certain stated value.
prep (English)
1. Expressing spatial relationship or movement.Examples: "There was a big fire over the other side of town."; "My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price."informal
2. Expressing comparison.Examples: "Sales are down this quarter over last."
3. (mathematics) Divided by.Examples: "Two over six equals one over three."Synonyms: on
4. (poker) Separates the three of a kind from the pair in a full house.Examples: "9♦9♠9♣6♥6♠ = nines over sixes"
5. (music, more common in speech) Separates the primary chord of a slash chord from the bass note
intj (English)
1. (procedure word, military) A radio procedure word meaning that the station is finished with its transmission and is expecting a response.Examples: "Bravo Six, this is Bravo Six Four. Stand by for ten mike report one dash three, over."; "Bravo Six Four, this is Bravo Six Actual. Send your traffic, over."; "How do you receive? Over!"
2. (obsolete, slang) Ellipsis of over the left shoulder (“expressing disbelief etc.”).abbreviationalt-ofellipsisobsoleteslang
verb (English)
1. (UK, transitive, dialect, obsolete) To go over, or jump over.Examples: "He overed the fence in good style."UKdialectalobsoletetransitive
2. (UK, intransitive, dialect, obsolete) To run about.Examples: "The cattle have been overing all day because of the flies."UKdialectalintransitiveobsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary