Library / English Dictionary

RUN ON

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Talk or narrate at length

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "run on" is one way to...):

speak; talk (use language)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue run on

Sense 2

Meaning:

Continue uninterrupted

Example:

The party kept going until 4 A.M.

Synonyms:

keep going; run on

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "run on" is one way to...):

continue; go along; go on; keep; proceed (continue a certain state, condition, or activity)

Verb group:

keep going; patronage; patronise; patronize; support (be a regular customer or client of)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Credits

 Context examples: 

The neighbourhood of Hampstead is just at present exercised with a series of events which seem to run on lines parallel to those of what was known to the writers of headlines as The Kensington Horror, or The Stabbing Woman, or The Woman in Black.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)