ONTO

Definition: ONTO

ONTO

Preposition

1. On the top of; upon; on. See On to, under On, prep.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "ONTO" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Note: Onto \On"to\, preposition. [On to. Compare to Into.]. (references)

Computing

Mathematics

Tips from 1870

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Discovery

Pitch upon, fall upon, light upon, hit upon, stumble upon, pop upon; come across,come onto; meet with, meet up with, fall in with.

Crosswords: ONTO

Sepedi (oven).

You know for something you've been holding onto for so long, you're pretty quick to let it go. (Sweet Home Alabama; writing credit: C. Jay Cox)

You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; writing credit: Frances Walsh)

I'm onto you. (In the Line of Fire; writing credit: Jeff Maguire)

You think whenever your brain has a thought, it has to just drop down onto your tongue like a gumball (The Four Seasons; writing credit: Alan Alda)

Is he coming onto me (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

I'm holding onto (Tell Me; performing artist: Billie Myers)

You can tell my arms to go back onto the phone (Achy Breaky Heart; performing artist: Billy Ray Cyrus)

Like you were walking onto a yacht ("You're So Vain"; performing artist: Carly Simon)

I don't know when that road turned onto the road I'm on (RUNNING ON EMPTY; performing artist: JACKSON BROWN)

This reflection of light unfolding onto itself (Anarchy Through Capitolism; performing artist: Kottonmouth Kings)

Are you wrinkled with burden? Come onto Church for a FAITH LIFT! (references; author: unknown)

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References

• The World Market for Direct-Process Electrostatic Photocopying Equipment Operated by Reproducing the Original Image Directly onto the Copy: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

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Books

• From Ashes Onto Life: Lenten Sermons and Hymns (reference)

• Holding Onto the American Dream: How Small Business Can Conquer Financial Problems (reference)

• Onto Azteca (reference)

• Onto the Yellow School Bus and Through the Gates of Hell (reference)

• Out of the Air and onto the Ground: The Clarence Davids Story (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Onto Rugged Shores: Voyage of LST534 (reference)

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Music

• Hold Onto I.D. (reference)

• Hold Onto Me (reference)

• Out of the Races and Onto the Tracks [EP] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Konexx Koupler - Acoustic Coupler Straps Onto Handset (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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The image shows a close-up of a patient's body prior to radiation treatment. A lighted scale is projected onto the body to exactly line up the treatment with the tumor site. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Shown is a mother holding a toddler on her hip, standing at a kitchen counter. She is putting a lid onto a jar filled with preserves. There are additional jars on the counter. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

Water Hyacinth in a Louisiana pond can act as a breeding ground for Anopheles quadrimaculatus, Mansonia and Culex mosquitoes, which anchor onto the plants, and are protected from waves. Credit: CDC.

The aerosol generators or "fogging machines" range from small hand-held backpack units, to units that fit onto all terrain vehicles, as well as large truck mounted units. Credit: CDC.

Saturn V S-II hoisted onto Test Stand. Credit: NASA.

On the edge of the Kalahari Desert in Namibia, sand dunes are encroaching onto once-fertile lands in the north. Healthy vegetation appears red in this image; in the center, notice the lone red dot. It is the result of a center-pivot irrigation system, evidence that at least one optimistic farmer continues to work the fields despite the approaching sand. Credit: NASA.

"Loading outfit onto cable railway" At Station Morrison, Colorado Astro party of C.V. Hodgson. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

View from the top of the south tower of the Golden Gate Bridge looking down onto the deck of the bridge. The surface of the water is more than 700 feet below. Credit: America's Coastlines.

"Buy boat" ROBERT LEE, working with the Oyster Recovery Partnership, maneuvers among pallets of oyster hatchery bags. Volunteers from the Bay Bus Partnership Project in the water prepare the pallets to be loaded onto the boat. Credit: America's Coastlines.

"Penguins jumping onto the ice-foot." In: "Scott's Last Expedition ....", 1913. Dodd, Mead, and Company. New York. Volume II. Page 64. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

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Dancing had not formally started, but now Willie climbed onto the platform

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Health

The drug can also be rubbed onto mucous tissues. (references)

When light strikes the cornea, it bends--or refracts--the incoming light onto the lens. (references)

Hookworm eggs are passed in human feces onto the ground where they develop into infective larvae. (references)

Business

The ricambistisi then sell onto the retail outlets and to smaller ricambisti. (references)

In addition, CEMs are required to be retrofitted onto all stacks at all power plants. (references)

In recent years there have been an increasing number of vehicle emissions measuring technologies that have come onto the market. (references)

Civil Liberties

Uzbekistan

When the women tried to assemble again on March 23, police reportedly ordered many of them onto waiting buses. (references)

China

The authorities do not consider persons who receive dissident e-mail publications responsible for having gotten onto a mailing list, but forwarding those messages to others is illegal. (references)

Switzerland

The practice has been in effect since 1995, when a district court upheld fines levied on Scientologists by the city for accosting passersby to invite them onto their premises to sell them books and administer personality tests. (references)

Economic History

Yemen

In Sanaa, raw sewage runs onto major thoroughfares in some parts of the city. (references)

Australia

What is certain is that businesses and consumers are hopping onto the e-commerce juggernaut. (references)

Canada

US companies can log onto MERX (www.merx.cebra.com) free of charge to view and search open tenders. (references)

Human Rights

Bulgaria

In August 24 prisoners protested poor conditions at the Sofia Central Prison by climbing onto the roof of the jail. (references)

Guatemala

Unknown assailants also threw a live fragmentation grenade onto the back porch of her house the night before the trial began. (references)

Ghana

On May 9, police used tear gas to control a portion of the crowd who began destroying seats and tossing them onto the field during a soccer match at the Accra Sports Stadium. (references)

Indigenous People

Venezuela

However, the Caracas city government and the Metropolitan Police maintained a policy of forcing the Warao to return to the delta by rounding them up and loading them onto buses. (references)

Malaysia

Nonetheless, indigenous people in the state of Sarawak continued to protest the alleged encroachment by state and private logging and plantation companies onto land that they consider to be theirs under customary rights. (references)

Political Economy

Ireland

The Green Party emerged onto the Irish political scene during the European Parliament election of June 9, 1994, winning seats in Dublin and in Leinster. (references)

Trade

Romania

As a general rule, under the "duty suspension" method the importer should not pay duty at importation and will become liable to duty if later places any products onto Romanian market. (references)

Korea

A confirmed L/C through a U.S. bank is recommended because it prevents unwanted changes of the original L/C, and it shifts responsibility for collection onto the familiar banks involved, rather than onto the seller. (references)

Travel

Spain

The weather in the northern coastal regions (looking onto the Atlantic and the Bay of Biscay) is temperate and generally rainy throughout the year, and temperatures are neither very low in winter nor very high in summer. (references)

Women

Taiwan

There also are credible reports of a small number of women being trafficked onto the island for purposes of prostitution (see 6.c. and 6.f.), and reports of a larger number of women who enter for purposes of engaging in prostitution. (references)

Worker Rights

Belgium

The container was loaded in Italy, shipped by rail to Germany, trucked through Belgium, and loaded onto a ferry at the Belgian port of Zeebrugge bound for Waterford, Ireland. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "ONTO": batten onto ♦ be onto ♦ be onto smb. ♦ be onto smth. ♦ data overflow onto a neighboring cell ♦ fall onto ♦ fasten onto smb. ♦ freeze onto ♦ get onto ♦ jump onto ♦ leech onto ♦ load onto ♦ lock onto ♦ onto land ♦ open onto ♦ sew onto ♦ shove the responsibility onto smb. ♦ step onto. Additional references.

Ending with "ONTO": clinging-onto, half-onto.

Afrikaans

vashou (hang, hang onto, hold, retain), hou (hang, hang onto, hold, keep, retain), behou (conserve, hang, hang onto, hold, keep, maintain, preserve, rescue, retain, save). (various references)

Albanian

në (against, at, in, inside, into, on, per, to, under, upon, within), mbi (aboard, above, across, beyond, on, over, up). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فوق (above, across, atop, before, on, on top of, over, overhead, up, upon, upstairs), ‏على (across, at, below, causal, exalt, in, lift, to, upon, vocalic), ‏طل على. (various references)

Bulgarian 

върху (at, on, over, upon), о (against, oh), на (aboard, against, at, by, for, in, into, of, on, over, per, to, unto, up, upon, with). (various references)

Chinese 

到﹍之上 . (various references)

Czech

nahoru na, na (about, aft, against, at, by, for, in, into, on, over, per, to, upon, with). (various references)

Danish

holde (hang onto, hold, retain), bevare (hang onto, hold, retain). (various references)

Dutch

surjectief. (various references)

Esperanto

teni (hang onto, hold), almeti (attach, put onto). (various references)

Faeroese

taka um (hang onto, hold, retain), halda (account, accredit, believe, celebrate, deem, guess, hang onto, have a subscription, hold, presume, retain, suppose, surmise, take in). (various references)

Finnish

tiedon ylivuoto viereiseen soluun (data overflow onto a neighboring cell), pitää (consider, hang onto, hold, keep, look upon, maintain, regard, retain), alapuolella (alalle, below, beneath, on, onto the lower side, under). (various references)

French

surjectif. (various references)

Frisian

hâlde (hang onto, hold, retain). (various references)

German

auf (at, for, in, into, on, open, pointinghinweisend, to, toward, towards, up, upon, waitingwartend), hinaus (forth, out). (various references)

Greek 

πάνω σε (atop, down on, on, upon), πάνω (over, up), επάνω σε (upon), επάνω εισ. (various references)

Hebrew 

על פני (in front of, on top of, past), על גבי (atop, on, on top of), על (about, above, by, height, on, to, toward, towards, unto, upon). (various references)

Hungarian

-re (by, for, on, to, unto), -ra (by, for, on, to, unto). (various references)

Italian

in cima a, a (a, at, beside, by, for, from, in, inside, into, of, on, per, to, toward, towards, up, upon, with, within). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

降り掛かる (to befall, to fall onto), 袖の露 (tears falling onto the sleeve), 男はけしからんから懲らしめてやれ (the boy is undisciplined so put him onto the right tracks), がっちり屋 (burning with desire for something, firmly, greedily, gulping down, guzzling, latched onto, locked onto, tightwad), 指輪に名前を彫る (to carve name onto a ring), 打ち寄せる (to attack, to break onto, to wash ashore), 剣山 , 叩きつける (to slap something onto, to strike, to throw), 叩き付ける (to slap something onto, to strike, to throw). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たたきつける (to slap something onto, to strike, to throw), がっぷり (firmly, latched onto, locked onto), そでのつゆ (tears falling onto the sleeve), うちよせる (to attack, to break onto, to wash ashore), ふりかかる (to befall, to fall onto, to happen), けんざん (checking figures, meeting, seeing, verification of accounts). (various references)

Korean 

의 위에. (various references)

Malay

pegang (hang onto, hold, retain), memegang (hang onto, hold, retain). (various references)

Manx

er (during, for, on, on him). (various references)

Papiamen

tene (hang onto, hold, retain), nister (hang onto, hold, retain, sneeze). (various references)

Pig Latin

ontoay.(various references)

Portuguese

para cima de (upon), para (about to, for, in, in order to, per, to, toward, towards), em direção a (bound, to, toward, towards, upon). (various references)

Romanian

pe (a, around, at, by, on, over, per, upon). (various references)

Russian 

на (a, against, at, by, for, for !мес!, in, inside, into, on, over, per, to, toward, towards, upon, upwards, within). (various references)

Scottish

cum (celebrate, contain, hang onto, hold, keep, retain). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

put (drive, flesh, passage, path, road, time, to, tour, towards, trip, way), ka (to, toward, unto). (various references)

Somali

isku (onto oneself). (various references)

Spanish

encima de (above, atop, besides, in addition to, on, on top of, over, over and above, up, upon). (various references)

Sranan

ori (hang onto, hold, retain). (various references)

Swedish

till (at, by, for, into, more, of, on, over, till, to, toward, towards, until, unto, with). (various references)

Tagalog

itagò (hang onto, hold, retain). (various references)

Thai

ไปยัง (around, at, for). (various references)

Turkish

-e (at, into, to), üzerine (above, over, upon), üstüne (atop, atop of, nothing like, over). (various references)

Turkmen 

tirkemek (hook onto, latch onto). (various references)

Ukrainian

у (among, amongst, at, in, inside, into, off, on, with, within), ва, на (against, at, by, from, in favor of, in favour of, into, on, round, to, toward, towards, upon). (various references)

Welsh

cadw (hang onto, hold, keep, preserve, save). (various references)

Zulu

-bamba (hang onto, hold, retain). (various references)

in-. (various references)

on. (various references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "ONTO": ontogeneses, ontogenesis, ontogenetic, ontogenetically, ontogenies, ontogeny, ontological, ontologically, ontologies, ontologist, ontologists, ontology. (additional references)

Words ending with "ONTO": conto, pronto. (additional references)

Words containing "ONTO": brontosaur, brontosaurs, brontosaurus, brontosauruses, contort, contorted, contorting, contortion, contortionist, contortionistic, contortionists, contortions, contortive, contorts, contos, contour, contoured, contouring, contours, deontological, deontologies, deontologist, deontologists, deontology, frontogeneses, frontogenesis, frontolyses, frontolysis, fronton, frontons, gerontocracies, gerontocracy, gerontocrat, gerontocratic, gerontocrats, gerontologic, gerontological, gerontologies, gerontologist, gerontologists, gerontology, gerontomorphic, iontophoreses, iontophoresis, iontophoretic, iontophoretically, micropaleontologic, micropaleontological, micropaleontologies, micropaleontologist, micropaleontologists. (additional references)

Misspellings

"ONTO" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: antfo, Anto, bonto, conto, donot, Entlo, fonto, Jnto, monto, Montxo, Noho, noton, notu, Octo, octob, Octu, odno, Ohno, Ohta, ohto, oino, Oito, onbo, oncho, ongo, onio, Onkom, onlt, ono, onor, onot, Onoto, onoy, onta, ontal, ontel, ontho, onti, ontic, onton, ontop, ontos, ontro, onty, ornot, Orto, Ostro, oton, otso, ounto, ownio, owto, ponto, ronto, Snto, zont. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: toon.

-1 letter: noo, not, oot, ton, too.

-2 letters: no, on, to.

+1 letter: conto, snoot, tondo, toons, toyon.

+2 letters: bonito, boston, bouton, contos, cotton, croton, enroot, gentoo, lotion, motion, mouton, nostoc, notion, option, photon, ponton, potion, pronto, proton, ratoon, snoots, snooty, stolon, thoron, tondos, toyons, trogon, tycoon, unroot, wonton.

+3 letters: amotion, arnotto, biotron, bonitos, booting, bostons, botonee, boutons, bowknot, cartoon, coconut, coition, concoct, connote, consort, contort, contour, control, coolant, coontie, coranto, cornuto, coronet, cottons, cottony, crotons, crouton, donator, duotone, ecotone, eftsoon, emotion, enroots, entozoa, eobiont, festoon, finfoot, footing, footman, footmen, fronton, gentoos, hooting, hornito, isotone, kiloton, looting, lotions, matzoon, metopon, momento, monitor, monocot, montero, moonlet, moonlit, moonset, mooting, motions, moutons, nitroso, nonstop, nostocs, notions, nutwood, octagon, octanol, odonate, odorant, options, oration, orotund, ortolan, ottoman, outdone, outgone, outworn, ovation, oxytone, ozonate, patroon, photons, platoon, pontons, pontoon, portion, potions, pronota, protons, ratoons, rattoon, rooting, snooted, soliton, soonest, sooting, stolons, tandoor, testoon, thorons, tompion, tooling, tooting, topknot, toponym, torchon, tornado, torsion, tortoni, towmond, towmont, trogons, tycoons, typhoon, unroots, wontons.