overgo

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English overgon, from Old English ofergān (“to pass over, beyond, across, traverse, cross, transgress, overstep, overrun, overcome, overspread, conquer, come upon, overtake, seize, attack, pass off, pass away, end, overreach”), equivalent to over- +‎ go. Cognate with Dutch overgaan, German übergehen, Swedish övergå.

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /əʊvəˈɡəʊ/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)

Verb

overgo (third-person singular simple present overgoes, present participle overgoing, simple past overwent, past participle overgone)

  1. (archaic) To cross, go over (a barrier etc.); to surmount. [from 8th c.]
  2. (obsolete) To pass (a figurative barrier); to transgress. [8th–19th c.]
    • 1882, John Payne, trans., The Thousand Nights and One Night, vol 3:
      How many an one in its vanities hath gloried and taken pride, / Till froward and arrogant thus he grew and did all bounds o'ergo!
  3. (intransitive, UK, dialectal) To pass by, pass away; often, to go unnoticed. [from 9th c.]
  4. To spread across (something); to overrun. [from 10th c.]
  5. To go over, move over the top of, travel across the surface of; to traverse, travel through. [from 13th c.]
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
      forward rode, and kept her readie way / Along the strond, which as she ouer-went, / She saw bestrowed all with rich aray / Of pearles and pretious stones of great assay […]
    • 1625, Francis Bacon, The Praise of Knowledge:
      The fixed stars overgo Saturn, and so in them and all the rest, all is but one motion, and the nearer the earth the slower – a motion also whereof air and water do participate, though much interrupted.
  6. To go beyond; to exceed, surpass. [from 13th c.]
    • c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
      O, what cause have I, / Thine being but a moiety of my grief, / To overgo thy plaints and drown thy cries!
    • 1992, Domna C Stanton, Discourses of Sexuality, page 177:
      He seeks to persuade the queen not merely to emulate the Amazons' vigilant territoriality but to overgo them by emulating the Spaniards' rampant invasiveness.
  7. To get the better of; to overcome, overpower. [from 13th c.]
    • 1594, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Nash[e], The Tragedie of Dido Queene of Carthage: […], London: […] Widdowe Orwin, for Thomas Woodcocke, […], →OCLC; reprinted as Dido, Queen of Carthage (Tudor Facsimile Texts; 72), Old English Drama Students’ Facsimile edition, [Amersham, Buckinghamshire]: [[…] [E]ditor of the Tudor Facsimile Texts (i.e., John S. Farmer)], 1914, →OCLC, (please specify the Google Books page):
      Both barking Scylla, and the sounding rocks, / The Cyclops' shelves, and grim Ceraunia's seat, / Have you o'ergone, and yet remain alive.
  8. (obsolete) To overtake, go faster than. [15th–17th c.]
  9. (obsolete) To cover.
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Etymology 2

Blend of overlapping +‎ oligonucleotide.

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈəʊvəɡəʊ/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)

Noun

overgo (plural overgoes)

  1. (genetics) A sequence of overlapping oligonucleotides, used to design hybridization.
    • 1999, Birren & Green, Genome Analysis, page 207:
      Mixtures of such specific "overgo" probes can be used to screen arrayed library filters by DNA-DNA hybridization [...].
    • 2004, Detrich, Westerfield & Zon, The Zebrafish: Genetics, Genomics and Informatics, page 318:
      Hybridization of multiple overgoes produces many clones, perhaps 40 clones at a time.

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