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On   /ɑn/  /ɔn/   Listen
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adverb
1.
With a forward motion.  Synonym: along.  "The horse trotted along at a steady pace" , "The circus traveled on to the next city" , "Move along" , "March on"
2.
Indicates continuity or persistence or concentration.  "Shall I read on?"
3.
In a state required for something to function or be effective.  "Get a load on"
adjective
1.
In operation or operational.  "The switch is in the on position"  Antonym: off.
2.
(of events) planned or scheduled.  "We have nothing on for Friday night"  Antonym: off.



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"On" Quotes from Famous Books



... dozen such spurts, particularly if they come close together and show a certain co-ordination, are enough to make a practitioner celebrated, and even immortal. Nature, indeed, conspires against all such genuine originality, and I have no doubt that God is against it on His heavenly throne, as His vicars and partisans unquestionably are on this earth. The dead hand pushes all of us into intellectual cages; there is in all of us a strange tendency to yield and have done. Thus the ...
— In Defense of Women • H. L. Mencken

... and seemed ashamed, as though she were committing a fault. We followed her, enchanted, and went back through the kitchen, now dark and deserted. The flickering light of the candle was reflected here and there on the curves of the copper pots and glass bowls. The house was sleeping. We crossed the hall, and went up a broad wooden staircase, polished ...
— In the Field (1914-1915) - The Impressions of an Officer of Light Cavalry • Marcel Dupont

... at the farther side, I struck into the thickest part of the forest, and, losing sight of my attendants, I wandered about for some time till morning, when on a sudden I heard several voices among the trees. In an instant four ruffians surrounded me, and, had not your powerful arm interposed, I should have ...
— Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers • Various

... great wish had come upon him to walk beside the sea; to listen to the roll and boom of long, grey breakers; to gaze on an unfruitful, desolate wilderness of waters; and to forget in those sights all that he could forget, and if he could not forget then to remember all that he ...
— Irish Fairy Tales • James Stephens

... the news of the early declines and recoveries in Great Lakes, Tavistock leading the Fanning-Smith crowd on to make heavier and heavier plunges, Dumont could see in imagination the battle-field—the floor of the Stock Exchange—as plainly as if ...
— The Cost • David Graham Phillips


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