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  1. (intransitive) To travel over (an area, etc); to roam, wander. [from 15th c.]
  2. (transitive) To rove over or through.
  3. (obsolete, intransitive) To exercise the power of something over something else; to cause to submit to, over. [16th-19th c.]
  4. (transitive) To bring (something) into a specified position or relationship (especially, of opposition) with something else. [from 16th c.]
  5. (intransitive, mathematics, computing, followed by over) Of a variable, to be able to take any of the values in a specified range.
  6. (transitive) To classify.
  7. (intransitive) To form a line or a row.
  8. (intransitive) To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.
  9. (transitive) To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose in the proper order.
  10. (transitive) To place among others in a line, row, or order, as in the ranks of an army; usually, reflexively and figuratively, to espouse a cause, to join a party, etc.
  11. (biology) To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region.
  12. To separate into parts; to sift.
  13. To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near.
  14. (baseball) Of a player, to travel a significant distance for a defensive play.