Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to review point by point," 1580s.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context idiomatic English) To look at carefully; to scrutinize; to analyze. 2 (context idiomatic English) To create a response or impression. 3 (context rugby English) To score a try
WordNet
examine so as to determine accuracy, quality, or condition; "check the brakes"; "Check out the engine" [syn: check, check up on, look into, check out, suss out, check over, check into]
happen in a particular manner; "how did your talk go over?" [syn: go off, come off]
fall forward and down; "The old woman went over without a sound" [syn: fall over]
Usage examples of "go over".
Suddenly I decided to give it up, go over, and take Alice out to Lawson's lecture, and afterwards take her to the Down Beat.
That didn't go over very well, they seemed to think that I should be buddy-buddies with them because I was an American.
He also had some of my strongest and most reliable Pern fans, like Marilyn and Harry Alm, go over the manuscript, so it isn’.
He would go over the components of an upcoming surgery in his head as he jogged every morning.
Here the reptile stopped and commenced to go over the poor devil carefully, and as it did so its back turned toward me for an instant, and in that instant I gave two mighty leaps that carried me out of the chamber into the corridor beyond, down which I raced with all the speed I could command.
Although I seemed to take so little pleasure in them (I reread these notes constantly, I go over things, I try to maintain a sense of the past since the earlier one was so cruelly stolen) I did not realize until they were lost how dependent I was upon them, the sheer emptiness of my need.
He had an impulse to go over, tie in hand as he was, and put the matter squarely before his father.