English dictionary: words starting with ove

noun

An enclosed compartment, usually part of a cooker, for cooking and heating food.

Usage examples:

Bake the dish in a preheated oven

adjective

Sold already prepared for cooking

Usage examples:

An oven-ready chicken

noun

A small, drab tropical american bird belonging to a diverse family, many members of which make domed nests of mud.

Usage examples:

Suboscines, which include flycatchers, ant-birds, woodcreepers, and ovenbirds, are now diverse in t…

noun

A small, drab tropical american bird belonging to a diverse family, many members of which make domed nests of mud.

Usage examples:

Suboscines, which include flycatchers, ant-birds, woodcreepers, and ovenbirds, are now diverse in t…

adjective

Dried up, shrivelled.

adjective

Extremely hot.

Usage examples:

The oven-like temperatures inside the club

adjective

Able to be used in an oven

Usage examples:

Is this dish ovenproof?

noun

An enclosed compartment, usually part of a cooker, for cooking and heating food.

Usage examples:

Bake the dish in a preheated oven

noun

Dishes that can be used for cooking food in the oven.

Usage examples:

There, he was dazzled by stores filled with ‘beautiful, heavy copper pots and pans, white-porcelain…

noun

Dishes that can be used for cooking food in the oven.

Usage examples:

There, he was dazzled by stores filled with ‘beautiful, heavy copper pots and pans, white-porcelain…

preposition

Extending directly upwards from.

Usage examples:

I saw flames over berlin

noun

Expressing passage or trajectory across an area.

Usage examples:

He leant over and tapped me on the hand

prefix

Excessively; to an unwanted degree.

Usage examples:

Overambitious

Beyond the top or upper surface or edge

phrase

In addition to

Usage examples:

They receive extra money over and above the usual welfare payments., they do random searches and pa…

phrase

Completely finished

Usage examples:

She gets unpleasant tasks over and done with as quickly as possible., i knew i had to talk to jack …

adverb

Repeating many times

Usage examples:

We have to explain the same thing over and over before he understands.

idiom

Happening or done many times

Usage examples:

I read the article over and over till it made sense.

phrase

Used to emphasize that one completely opposes something.

Usage examples:

She moves into our home over my dead body

idiom

If you say something will happen over your dead body, you mean that you will do everything you can to prevent it

Usage examples:

"joe says he's going to buy a motorbike." "over my dead body!"

idiom

To speak to or ask permission from someone who has more authority than the person who you would normally go to in that situation

Usage examples:

Amanda was refusing to give me the week off so i went over her head and spoke to the boss.

phrase

Old and past one's best.

Usage examples:

A once famous ballerina, now over the hill

idiom

No longer able to do something well because of age

Usage examples:

I don’t think of myself as being over the hill yet.

To be very pleased

Usage examples:

She was over the moon about/with her new bike.

phrase

Extremely happy; delighted.

Usage examples:

They're going on holiday on wednesday so they're all over the moon

idiom

More than something is really worth

Usage examples:

It's a nice enough car but i'm sure she paid over the odds for it.

idiom

Far more than usual or expected

adverb

To an excessive or exaggerated degree.

Usage examples:

Some performances go over the top

adjective

Excessive or exaggerated.

Usage examples:

Failed, over-the-top attempts at humour

phrasal verb

To give something or someone that you control to someone else

Usage examples:

Eventually he turned over control of the company to his son., they are identifying the guilty and t…

phrase

If you do something all over again, you start again from the beginning

Usage examples:

It's already taken me two hours - i don't want to have to do it all over again., after the accident…

adverb

Repeating many times

Usage examples:

We have to explain the same thing over and over before he understands.

adjective

Too full of light

Usage examples:

In some places, residents are disturbed by over-bright street lighting., the more vivid colours are…