ˈrun-over
Also runover.
[f. run v.]
1. An act of running over, esp. with the eyes; a hasty perusal. Also, an instance of overrunning a time limit.
| a 1814 Intrigues of Day ii. i. in New Brit. Theatre I. 97 The newspapers are probably arrived, and I'll just give them a run-over. 1937 Printers' Ink Monthly May 42/1 Runovers, occasions when the [radio] program itself overruns its allotted time. 1947 J. Bertram Shadow of War vi. 203 The shifts of the P.O.W. in stowing his loot, and..the amount that can be carried by one man on his own person, even through a ‘run-over’ and a ‘strip-search’. 1963 Times 27 Sept. 12/4 Lord Home, the Foreign Secretary, today met Mr. Dean Rusk, the American Secretary of State, for nearly three hours and had what was called ‘a very full runover’ of matters of mutual concern. |
2. In Printing, etc., the action or an instance of continuing matter into a margin, or on to a subsequent line or page.
| 1934 Webster, Run-over, an extension, as of printed matter, beyond the space allotted; overmatter; also, U.S., the part of an article continued from a preceding page. 1956 N. R. Ker Pastoral Care 21 The runover to avoid breaking a word at the end of the last line on fos. 49v, 50v, 68r, marked by a dot at the end of the line and another before the runover itself. 1969 in Halpert & Story Christmas Mumming in Newfoundland 192 The placing of the speech designations has been regularized, the run-over of lines in narrow newspaper columns abandoned, [etc.]. 1976 H. MacInnes Agent in Place ix. 96 The typescript finished each line neatly—no runovers onto the right-hand margin. |