"run the rule over" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "runs the rule over",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "running the rule over",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ran the rule over",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "run the rule over",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "run<,,ran,run> the rule over"
      },
      "expansion": "run the rule over (third-person singular simple present runs the rule over, present participle running the rule over, simple past ran the rule over, past participle run the rule over)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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        {
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          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2018 May 4, Tom English, “Steven Gerrard: A 'seriously clever or recklessly stupid' Rangers appointment”, in BBC Sport",
          "text": "The captain used to to run the rule over every new recruit, like a protective father inspecting the boy his darling daughter had brought home to tea. He was obsessive about it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To examine carefully and thoroughly."
      ],
      "id": "en-run_the_rule_over-en-verb-ZmsdUQ08",
      "links": [
        [
          "examine",
          "examine"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, idiomatic) To examine carefully and thoroughly."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-run the rule over.ogg",
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ed/En-au-run_the_rule_over.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "run the rule over"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "runs the rule over",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "running the rule over",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ran the rule over",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "run the rule over",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "run<,,ran,run> the rule over"
      },
      "expansion": "run the rule over (third-person singular simple present runs the rule over, present participle running the rule over, simple past ran the rule over, past participle run the rule over)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2018 May 4, Tom English, “Steven Gerrard: A 'seriously clever or recklessly stupid' Rangers appointment”, in BBC Sport",
          "text": "The captain used to to run the rule over every new recruit, like a protective father inspecting the boy his darling daughter had brought home to tea. He was obsessive about it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To examine carefully and thoroughly."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "examine",
          "examine"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, idiomatic) To examine carefully and thoroughly."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ed/En-au-run_the_rule_over.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "run the rule over"
}