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AND SO ON
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Continuing in the same way
Synonyms:
and so forth; and so on; etc.; etcetera
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Context examples:
The work put into it made it dear, and so on.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
These cells then do the same to their neighbours, and so on.
(Plants can tell time even without a brain, University of Cambridge)
This can be abused to steal sensitive information such as credit card numbers, passwords, chat messages, emails, photos and so on.
(Digital security researchers publicly reveal vulnerability in WPA2 WiFi protocol, Wikinews)
Thus, the pair of lovers could be jarred apart by misunderstood motives, by accident of fate, by jealous rivals, by irate parents, by crafty guardians, by scheming relatives, and so forth and so forth; they could be reunited by a brave deed of the man lover, by a similar deed of the woman lover, by change of heart in one lover or the other, by forced confession of crafty guardian, scheming relative, or jealous rival, by voluntary confession of same, by discovery of some unguessed secret, by lover storming girl's heart, by lover making long and noble self-sacrifice, and so on, endlessly.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Georgiana added to her How d'ye do? several commonplaces about my journey, the weather, and so on, uttered in rather a drawling tone: and accompanied by sundry side-glances that measured me from head to foot—now traversing the folds of my drab merino pelisse, and now lingering on the plain trimming of my cottage bonnet.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Her knowledge of her father and Elizabeth inclined her to think that the sacrifice of one pair of horses would be hardly less painful than of both, and so on, through the whole list of Lady Russell's too gentle reductions.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Then they measured my right thumb, and desired no more; for by a mathematical computation, that twice round the thumb is once round the wrist, and so on to the neck and the waist, and by the help of my old shirt, which I displayed on the ground before them for a pattern, they fitted me exactly.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
To you, he will talk of farming; to me, of drawing or music; and so on to every body, having that general information on all subjects which will enable him to follow the lead, or take the lead, just as propriety may require, and to speak extremely well on each; that is my idea of him.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
You see that he has begun by writing “The ... game ... is,” and so on.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
If he talks of a radiator it is a battleship, of an oil pump a cruiser, and so on.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
