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3 Weuse over when one thing covers another.
10 Ais over B.

There is cloud over the South of England.
And we use over when one thing crosses another. (Across is also
possible.)

i Ais (moving) over/across B.

Electricity cables stretch over/across the fields.
The plane was flying over/across the Channel.

4 Weusually use over to mean ‘more than’.
‘How old are you?’ ‘Over thirty.’
He’s over two metres tall.
There were over fifty people at the party. |
But we use above in some expressions,
particularly when we are thinking of a vertical scale.
Examples are: above zero (for temperatures); above sea-level, above
average.
Db _ For the difference between over and across, see 4.
For other meanings of above and over, see a good dictionary.

4 across and over

1. Weuse both across and over to mean ‘on the other side of' or ‘to the
other side of’.
His house is just over/across the road.
Try to jump over/across the stream.

2 Weprefer over to talk about a movement to the
other side of something high.
Why is that woman climbing over the wall?

(NOT ... efmbingaeress wall?)
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