To go over Meaning, Definition & Usage

Definitions

1. . (a) To traverse; to cross, as a river, boundary, etc.; to change sides.

   I must not go over Jordan. Deut. iv. 22.

   Let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan. Deut. iii. 25.

   Ishmael . . . departed to go over to the Ammonites. Jer. xli. 10.

   (b) To read, or study; to examine; to review; as, to go over one's accounts.

   If we go over the laws of Christianity, we shall find that . . . they enjoin the same thing. Tillotson.

   (c) To transcend; to surpass. (d) To be postponed; as, the bill went over for the session. (e) (Chem.) To be converted (into a specified substance or material); as, monoclinic sulphur goes over into orthorhombic, by standing; sucrose goes over into dextrose and levulose.