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going-over

going-over

14 4.9
A careful check of something to find problems
  • noun
  • /ˈɡoʊɪŋ ˈoʊvər/
translation icon : revisión
  • After the presentation, she requested a going-over of the feedback to ensure all points were addressed.
  • a thorough going-over
  • going over the evidence
  • spend hours going over

Examples

  • The team spent hours doing a thorough going-over of the project report before the final submission.

  • Not going over the material at all before a big test is a huge mistake.

    Blog text (15)
  • You ask how long should you spend going over the material of this book?

  • And we would sit with groups of us would spend hours going over the data and saying what kind of questions could she ask?

  • But The New York Times spent three months going over these documents.

  • You must always begin your morning with going over your schedule and your goals.

  • We all took one more round of going over the data and simply focused on all cases where we had either a single mark or three marks.

    Academic text (2002)
  • Buster and Libby, the manager, are going over books and records.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • He spent all his time locked in his library going over his ledgers.

    Fiction book (1994)
  • We're going over all the orbital scans, all wavelengths, looking for that one clue that'll lead us to the find.

    Fiction book (1994)

Synonyms

review
vsgoing-over
490 3.0

A check by a doctor to see progress or problems

is usually more thorough and focused on careful full checking
inspection
vsgoing-over
  • Formal
356 2.5

A careful official check to see if something meets rules and is safe

is more general and not necessarily official or rule focused
scrutiny
vsgoing-over
168 5.5

A close, careful look at something to find mistakes or problems

is less intense and more generally careful rather than extremely close
scan
vsgoing-over
138 3.8

A careful check of something using a device

is usually manual and deeply thorough rather than device or quick based
examination
vsgoing-over
110 2.3

Careful study of something to find problems or details

is broader and focuses on a thorough overall check rather than formal study
survey
vsgoing-over
97 2.8

An inspection in which someone looks carefully to check condition

is the same idea but can be deeper and more detailed
walk-through
vsgoing-over
4 4.2

An inspection where people go through a place to check for problems

is more general and not limited to a single occasion of checking
thorough analysis
vsgoing-over
3 3.5

A careful study that looks at all parts of something

is a practical careful check rather than an in-depth study
walkthrough
vsgoing-over
2 3.9

A guided tour of a place to check its condition

is broader and not always a guided physical tour for checking
fine-toothed review
vsgoing-over
5.0

A careful, detailed check of a document or record to find small errors

is a careful overall check without such extreme focus on tiny parts
scrutinization
vsgoing-over
  • US
7.2

A careful, close look at something to find small details

is the general careful check rather than naming the exact act

Antonyms

256 3.8

Fail to care for someone or something you should look after

How Thorough

audit
69 4.4
going-over
14 4.9
to review
  • Literature
252 2.9
check
720 1.0
glance
222 1.4

Surface Forms

going-over singular
going-overs plural

Morphology

going-over = going (transparent) = over + going

Derived directly from the verbal phrase 'go over' (gerund 'going' + 'over') meaning to examine; the noun simply nominalizes that action and is readily inferable. [Postprocessing: moved 'over' from base_words to prefix]

Etymology

The word going-over comes from the phrase go over, which literally means 'to move across' or 'to look at again'. Imagine someone walking slowly over a room and checking every corner — so a going-over is a careful, thorough check.