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TO RUN ON

Definition: TO RUN ON

TO RUN ON

1. (a) To be continued; as, their accounts had run on for a year or two without a settlement. (b) To talk incessantly. (c) To continue a course. (d) To press with jokes or ridicule; to abuse with sarcasm; to bear hard on. (e) (Print.) To be continued in the same lines, without making a break or beginning a new paragraph.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: TO RUN ON

English words defined with "TO RUN ON": basilisktrain set, Tram car. (references)
Specialty definitions using "TO RUN ON": BeOS, BI-FUEL VEHICLECONVERTED VEHICLEGNU Network Object Model EnvironmentJava Virtual MachineLaning and Zierler, legacy systemMicrosoft Windowsnews-ink, NEXTSTEPPOOL2Real Programmers Don't Use Pascalsoftware portage, symmetric multiprocessingTYMNETUltrixWabiServer, Win32s. (references)
Etymologies containing "TO RUN ON": intercourse. (references)

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Use in Literature: TO RUN ON

TitleAuthorQuote

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

It was useless to run on.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: TO RUN ON

SubjectTopicQuote

Civil Liberties

Moldova

The Government also dissolved the Press Concern, an institution that provided space for a number of independent media and journalists' organizations, including the Moldpress news agency; the Government turned over control of the Press Concern's building to the State Chancellery to run on a for-profit basis. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Expression: TO RUN ON

Expression using "TO RUN ON": to run on all fours. Additional references.

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

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Modern Translation: TO RUN ON

Language Translations for "TO RUN ON"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

csak beszél tovább, bekezdés nélkül folytat. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

"引く (to cull, to run on a curtailed schedule, to thin out). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

まびく (to cull, to run on a curtailed schedule, to thin out). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

otay unray onay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: TO RUN ON

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "n-n-o-o-r-t-u"

-1 letter: turnon, unroot, untorn.

-3 letters: noon, noun, onto, root, roto, rout, runt, toon, torn, toro, tour, turn, unto.

-4 letters: noo, nor, not, nun, nut, oot, ort, our, out, rot, run, rut, ton, too, tor, tun, urn.

-5 letters: no, nu, on, or, to, un, ut.

 Words containing the letters "n-n-o-o-r-t-u"
 

+1 letter: notturno.

 

+2 letters: nonauthor, unrooting.

 

+3 letters: contouring, counterion, motoneuron, neurotoxin, nonauthors, noncountry, nonroutine, nonsupport, northbound, outsnoring.

 

+4 letters: boutonniere, conjuration, continuator, conurbation, counterions, inopportune, motoneurons, neurotoxins, nitrogenous, nonauditory, noncomputer, noncustomer, nonroutines, nonsupports, outfrowning, outscorning, subornation, unmonitored.

 

+5 letters: boutonnieres, conjurations, construction, conterminous, continuators, contribution, conurbations, counterpoint, countertenor, countrywoman, countrywomen, fluorination, incorruption, introduction, motoneuronal, neuroanatomy, nonconductor, noncongruent, noncountries, noncustomers, nonpetroleum, nonvoluntary, overcounting, recontouring, refoundation, subornations, unconformity, uncontrolled.

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

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Alternative Orthography: TO RUN ON


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 4F      52 55 4E      4F 4E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01001111 00100000 01010010 01010101 01001110 00100000 01001111 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#79 &#32 &#82 &#85 &#78 &#32 &#79 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 004F      0052 0055 004E      004F 004E

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5449252554824948

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Quotations: Fiction
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Expressions
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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