runoverとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

run over (third-person singular simple present runs over, present participle running over, simple past ran over, past participle run over)

1. (intransitive, idiomatic) To exceed the allotted time.

   Synonym: overrun (intransitive)

   The previous presentation ran over and ours had to start late.

2. (transitive) To cross by running.

   The athletes must run over the bridge to reach the finish line.

   • 1957 December, H. R. Stones, “The Hellingly Hospital Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 871:

     A further loop siding is passed at Park House, and, just before reaching the power house, the line runs over a 20-ton Avery wagon weighbridge.

3. (transitive, idiomatic) To drive over, causing injury or death.

   Synonym: overrun (transitive)

   Can you believe somebody would just run over a cat like that?

4. (transitive, by extension) To mistreat out of disregard.

   Synonym: overrun (transitive)

   • 1987 February 1, LeRoy Burroughs Jr., “Come Inside And Speak To Us!”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 28, page 4:

     It is time that all bisexuals and gays that are in prison become unified and stop letting the administration and other inmates run over them.

5. (transitive, idiomatic) To describe briefly; to summarize or recapitulate; to go through or consider quickly.

   Before we start the project, let's just run over who is doing what.

   • 2005, Paul Carter, Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, Crows Nest, NSW: Allen and Unwin, page 199:

     Each man was running over the what ifs in his mind.

6. (transitive, idiomatic) To rehearse quickly.

   You'd better run over your statement before going on the platform.

7. (ambitransitive) To overflow.

   Synonym: overrun (intransitive)

   The bath water nearly ran over.

8. (rugby) To score a try.
   • 2010 December 31, “Magners League: Cardiff Blues 27-25 Osprey”, in BBC‎:

     Andrew Bishop then ran over in the closing stages, but it was too late.

9. (engineering) To have rotation in such direction that the crank pin traverses the upper, or front, half of its path in the forward, or outward, stroke; said of a crank which drives, or is driven by, a reciprocating piece.

使用する際の注意点

• The verb and the particle are generally inseparable, even when the object is a pronoun.
  • However, in the sense of "to drive over" (a thing or person), the pair is often separated: He didn't see the raccoon in time to brake, and sadly he ran it over; or, He didn't see the raccoon in time to brake, and sadly he ran over it.

アナグラム

• overrun