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Definition: On |
OnAdjective1. In operation or operational; "left the oven on"; "the switch is in the on position". 2. (of events) planned or scheduled; "the picnic is on, rain or shine"; "we have nothing on for Friday night". 3. Performing or scheduled for duties; "I'm on from five to midnight"; "Naval personnel on duty in Alaska"; "her on-duty hours were 11p.m. to 7 a.m.". Adverb1. With a forward motion; "we drove along admiring the view"; "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; "his spirit lives on"; "shall I read on?". 3. In a state required for something to function or be effective; "turn the lights on"; "get a load on" is slang for "drink enough to become intoxicated". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"On" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "pain", "force", "iniquity". |
Date "on" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Note: On \On\, adverb [See On, preposition]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Bible | On light; the sun, (Gen. 41:45, 50), the great seat of sun-worship, called also Bethshemesh (Jer. 43:13) and Aven (Ezek. 30:17), stood on the east bank of the Nile, a few miles north of Memphis, and near Cairo, in the north-east. The Vulgate and the LXX. Versions have "Heliopolis" ("city of the sun") instead of On in Genesis and of Aven in Ezekiel. The "city of destruction" Isaiah speaks of (19:18, marg. "of Heres;" Heb. 'Ir-ha-heres, which some MSS. read Ir-ha-heres, i.e., "city of the sun") may be the name given to On, the prophecy being that the time will come when that city which was known as the "city of the sun-god" shall become the "city of destruction" of the sun-god, i.e., when idolatry shall cease, and the worship of the true God be established. In ancient times this city was full of obelisks dedicated to the sun. Of these only one now remains standing. "Cleopatra's Needle" was one of those which stood in this city in front of the Temple of Tum, i.e., "the sun." It is now erected on the Thames Embankment, London. "It was at On that Joseph wooed and won the dark-skinned Asenath, the daughter of the high priest of its great temple." This was a noted university town, and here Moses gained his acquaintance with "all the wisdom of the Egyptians." Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Tips from 1870 | Usage: On, Over, Upon. "Mary called upon her friend." Say, "called on her friend." "The Senator prevailed over his friends to support his bill." Say, "prevailed upon his friends." "The candidate prevailed over his enemies." Usage: In, On. "He is a person in whom you can rely." "That is a man in whose statements you can depend." Use on for in. Source: Slips of Speech. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Ontario
(In Detail) (In Detail) Motto: Ut Incepit Fidelis Sic Permanet (Loyal she began, loyal she remains) Capital Toronto Largest City Toronto Area
- Total
- % fresh water4th largest
(2nd lgst prov.)
1 076 395 km²
14.7%Population
- Total (2001)
- DensityRanked 1st
11 874 400
12.94/km²Admittance into Confederation
- Date
- OrderProv. of Canada
joined Confed.
1867
1Time zone UTC -5 & -6
Postal information
Postal abbreviation
Postal code prefix
ON
K,L,M,N,PISO 3166-2 CA-ON Parliamentary
representation
House seats
Senate seats
103
24Premier Dalton McGuinty (Liberal) Lieutenant Governor James K. Bartleman
Government of Ontario
This article describes the Canadian province. For other usages, see Ontario (disambiguation).
Ontario is the most populous of Canada's provinces. It is found in east-central Canada. Its capital is Toronto. Ottawa, the national capital of Canada, is also in Ontario. It has a population (2001) of 11 874 400 (Ontarians) and an area of 1 076 395 km².
Geography
Ontario is bounded on the north by Hudson Bay, on the east by Quebec, on the west by Manitoba, and on the south by the American states of Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York. Most of the American border lies within the four Great Lakes on which Ontario has coastline: Lake Superior, Lake Huron (including Georgian Bay), Lake Erie, and Lake Ontario (from which the province takes its name); as well as the Saint Lawrence River.The largest city and capital of the province is Toronto, the main component of the Golden Horseshoe conurbation surrounding the western portion of Lake Ontario. The capital of Canada, Ottawa, is in the far east of the province, on the Ottawa River which forms most of the border with Quebec.
Northern Ontario is entirely upon the rugged terrain of the Canadian Shield. Ontario's highest point is the Ishpatina Ridge.
See List of communities in Ontario.
The province consists of three main geographical regions: the Canadian Shield in the western and central portions, a mainly infertile area rich in minerals and studded with lakes and rivers; the Hudson Bay Lowlands in the northeast, mainly swampy and forested; and the most populous (90%) and temperate region, the fertile Great Lakes-Saint Lawrence Valley in the southeast. Industry and agriculture are concentrated in this region, which has access by the Saint Lawrence Seaway to the Atlantic Ocean.
Increasing immigration from all parts of the world, especially to Toronto and its surroundings, are rapidly diversifying the province's ethnic makeup. About 10% of the population of Ontario is French-Canadian (Franco-Ontariens).
Economy
The province's main industry is manufacturing, found mainly in the Golden Horseshoe, the most industrialized area in the country. Important products include motor vehicles, iron, steel, food, electrical appliances, machinery, chemicals, and paper. The high-tech sector is also important, especially around Markham, Waterloo and Ottawa.
Agriculture is also significant in the St. Lawrence River Valley, and mining, especially around Sudbury, is important in the Canadian Shield. Ontario's rivers make it rich in hydroelectric energy.
History
Before the arrival of the Europeans, the region was inhabited both by Algonquian (Ojibwa, Cree and Algonquin) and Iroquoian (Iroquois and Huron) tribes. The French explorer Étienne Brûlé explored part of the area in 1610-12. The English explorer Henry Hudson sailed into Hudson Bay in 1611 and claimed the area for England, but Samuel de Champlain reached Lake Huron in 1615 and French missionaries began to establish posts along the Great Lakes. French settlement was hampered by their hostilities with the Iroquois, who would ally themselves with the British.
The British established trading posts on Hudson Bay in the late 17th century and began a struggle for domination of Ontario. The Treaty of Paris (1763) ended the French and Indian War by awarding nearly all of France's North American possessions (New France) to Britain. The region now called Ontario was annexed to Quebec in 1774. The Constitutional Act of 1791 split Quebec into The Canadas: Upper Canada west of the Ottawa River, and Lower Canada east of it.
American troops in the War of 1812 burned Toronto in 1813. After the war, many settlers from the British Isles immigrated to Upper Canada, and began to chafe against the aristocratic Family Compact that governed the region, much as the Château Clique ruled Lower Canada. Accordingly, rebellion in favour of responsible government rose in both regions; Louis-Joseph Papineau led the Patriotes Rebellion in Lower Canada, and William Lyon Mackenzie led the Upper Canada Rebellion. For more on the rebellions of 1837, see History of Canada.
Although both rebellions were crushed, the British government sent Lord Durham to investigate the causes of the unrest. He recommended that self-government be granted and that the colonies be re-merged in an attempt to assimilate the Quebecois - the British of Upper Canada were now the majority in the Canadas. Accordingly, the two colonies were merged into the Province of Canada in 1841, with Ontario becoming known as Canada West. Parliamentary self-government was granted in 1849.
Fearful of aggression from the United States during the unrest of the American Civil War, Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia negotiated to merge under Canadian Confederation in 1867. Conflict between the two parts of the Province of Canada caused them to split and join Confederation as separate provinces, Ontario and Quebec.
Beginning with the construction of the transcontinental railway through the Prairies to British Columbia, Ontario industry flourished. Mineral exploitation began in the early 20th century. The nationalist movement in Quebec drove many businesses out of the province to Ontario, and Toronto took over from Montreal as the largest city and economic centre of Canada.
The main provincial political parties are the Progressive Conservatives, Liberals, and New Democrats. Mike Harris's right-wing Progressive Conservatives defeated the left-wing New Democrats in 1995; his government implemented a neoliberal program of cuts to social spending and taxes (the "Common Sense Revolution") that balanced the budget but was blamed for widespread suffering and poverty, especially in Toronto. In particular, the government's critics accused his cuts to the environmental ministry of leading to the lack of oversight that caused the "Walkerton tragedy," an outbreak of E. coli due to contaminated water in Walkerton, Ontario, that caused a number of deaths and illnesses in May 2000. In a resulting inquiry, it was revealed that the government was warned that such an incident was likely to occur with the hasty privatization of water testing labs, but they ignored it. Harris stepped down in 2002 and was replaced by Ernie Eves. Eves' government has been chiefly notable for stopping Harris' plan to privatize the public electricity utility, Ontario Power Generation (formerly Ontario Hydro), but not before some parts of the utility had been sold to private interests.
In the Ontario general election, 2003, Eves and the Progressive Conservatives were defeated, and Dalton McGuinty's Liberals won a majority government.
See also
- Canada
- List of Canadian provinces and territories
- List of cities in Canada
- List of Ontario premiers
- List of Lieutenant Governors of Ontario
- List of communities in Ontario
- List of Ontario counties
- List of Canadian provincial and territorial symbols
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Ontario."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
ON | English | Octane number | Chemical Industry |
| ON THE MOVE | English | Application Support Services for Distributed Mobile Multimedia | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: OnSynonyms: on duty(p) (adj), on(p) (adj), on-duty(a) (adj), along (adv). (additional references) |
| Antonym: off (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Sequence | Adverb: forward, onward; forth, on, ahead, under way, en route for, on one's way, on the way, on the road, on the high road, on the road to; in progress; in mid progress; in transitu. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: On |
| Non-English Usage: "On" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Basque (good), Catalan (where), Czech (he), Estonian (is, is/have), Finnish (have, is, were), French (one, people, they, we, you), Papago (salt), Polish (he), Serbo-Croatian (he, it), Turkish (deca-, ten), Turkmen (ten). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Please tell me that their lawyer hasn't pinned their hopes on a phone bill (A Few Good Men; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin) Everything dead on earth, except us. A chance for Mother Nature to start again (Batman & Robin; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman) You know, one of those manure spreaders jackknifed on the Santa Ana. God-awful mess (Fletch; writing credit: Andrew Bergman) You took Albert Einstein for a ride on that thing (I.Q.; writing credit: Andy Breckman and Michael Leeson.) Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area, and you multiply, and multiply, until every natural resource is consumed (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski.) | |
Lyrics | Take on me, take me on (Take On Me; performing artist: A-ha) 'Cause it feels just like I'm walking on broken glass (Walking On Broken Glass; performing artist: Annie Lennox) Raindrops are fallin' on my head, they keep fallin' ("Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head"; performing artist: B.J. Thomas) I know I'm hard on you sometimes (Still On Your Side; performing artist: BBMak) We'll make heaven a place on earth (Heaven Is A Place On Earth; performing artist: Belinda Carlisle) | |
Clever | We are all alike, on the inside. (references; author: Mark Twain) Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. (references; author: W.C. Fields) I do benefits for all religions -- I'd hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality. (references; author: Bob Hope) No hand signals… Driver on Viagra (references; author: unknown) Ban on Soliciting Dead in Trotwood (references; author: unknown) | |
Tongue Twisters | A leaky rear latch on the listing bark lifted right up and the water rushed in. (references; author: unknown) A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk, but the stump thunk the skunk stunk. (references; author: unknown) Bright blows the broom on the brook's bare brown banks. (references; author: unknown) Cows graze in droves on grass that grows on grooves in groves. (references; author: unknown) Kris Kringle carefully crunched on candy canes. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | On the Street (1999) Hanged On a Twisted Cross (1996) Brian Wilson: On Tour (2003) On the Wings of the Monarch (2001) Feast on Scraps (2002) | |
Song Titles | Wasted On The Way (performing artist: Stills & Nash Crosby) Last Thing On My Mind, The (performing artist: Neil Diamond) Break On Through (performing artist: The Doors) Riders On The Storm (performing artist: The Doors) On Broadway (performing artist: The Drifters) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | A female patient is lying on a bed with a technician positioning the patient's head in preparation for radiotherapy. This photograph was used in the NCI publication "When Someone in Your Family Has Cancer". Credit: Michael Anderson (photographer). |  | Shown here are a patient (young girl) and nurse, both seated on the floor. The nurse is teaching the girl about procedures and techniques associated with chemotherapy. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). |
 | Structures on the terminal abdominal segments may be used to identify some mosquito genera such as the presence or absence of hair tufts. Credit: CDC. |  | If some of the tufts on the median ventral brush are attached to the saddle, which encircles the tenth abdominal segment completely, the genus is identified as Psoraphora. Credit: CDC. |
 | "Scherk's Surface 2" by Carlos César de Araújo. Click on Edit inside DPGraph for more information. |  | "Sphere With Axes" by Yehia Muhsen. Click on Edit inside DPGraph to see how to draw axes as zero diameter tubes. |
 | Buzz Aldrin Stepping on Lunar Surface. Credit: NASA. |  | Buzz Aldrin on Lunar Surface. Credit: NASA. |
 | SeaWiFS 30 August 1999 view of Dennis - click on image for larger view. For Hi-Res view visit the SeaWiFS Homepage. Credit: NASA. |  | "Antares" on the Frau Mauro Highlands. Credit: NASA. |
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| "On the road" by Michel Post Commentary: "On the dutch highway." | "Cave on beach" by Emma McCreary Commentary: "Looking out of a cave on the Oregon Coast near Bandon." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | Brahm's "Lullaby" played on piano. | | "Aloha Oe" played on vibraphone with Brazilian style percussion accompaniment. |
| A typical English folk melody played on piano. | | West African percussion style with South American melodic material played on a synthesizer. |
| Staccato tones on bass and percussion in a very active manner. | | A mandolin showcasing a fast strumming style with lots of reverb on the sound. |
| Folk style melody played in a hymn-like manner using block chords on piano. | | A minor melody on guitar with heavy low tones sporadically played. |
| Deep crescendo and decrescendo chords played on a synthesizer. | | Pop style melody on piano with some distant reverbed tones. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Aeschylus | A great ox stands on my tongue. |
Alcaeus | Wine is a peep-hole on a man. |
Alexander Pope | On wrongs swift vengeance waits. |
Benjamin Franklin | Applause waits on success. |
George Herbert | Spend not on hopes. |
John Florio | Praise the sea; on shore remain. |
Louis XVIII | A king should die on his feet. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Beauty rests on necessities. |
Sarah Orne Jewett | Wrecked on the lee shore of age. |
Wendell Phillips | One on God's side is a majority. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Magna Carta | 1215 | Further, if we have led or sent him upon military service, he shall be relieved from guard in proportion to the time during which he has been on service because of us. (reference) |
John Locke | 1690 | After considering it well on all sides, I can find but two. (Second Treatise of Government) |
US Declaration of Independence | 1776 | He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. (reference) |
US Constitution | 1791 | Ratification was completed on June 21, 1788. (reference) |
US Bill of Rights | 1795 | Amendment V. No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation. (reference) |
Amendment to US Constitution | 1795-1992 | The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice-President, shall be the Vice-President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed, and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice-President; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. (reference) |
Marbury v. Madison | 1803 | Ought the judges to close their eyes on the constitution, and only see the law? (reference) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | A similar movement is going on before our own eyes. (reference) |
The Emancipation Proclamation | 1862 | "That the executive will on the 1st day of January aforesaid, by proclamation, designate the States and parts of States, if any, in which the people thereof, respectively, shall then be in rebellion against the United States; and the fact that any State or the people thereof shall on that day be in good faith represented in the Congress of the United States by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such States shall have participated shall, in the absence of strong countervailing testimony, be deemed conclusive evidence that such State and the people thereof are not then in rebellion against the United States." (Abraham Lincoln) |
Abraham Lincoln | 1863 | We are met on a great battlefield of that war. (The Gettysburg Address) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | Let every body on the Hill hear me if they can. |
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | It was Moral Philosophy that our idol lectured on. |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | Now, it is a fact, that there was nothing at all particular about the knocker on the door, except that it was very large |
So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish | Douglas Adams | All eyes were on Ford |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Now, after he had won the crown of martyrdom (though with no longer a head to wear it on), the point might be looked upon as settled |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | This had filled him with jealousy, and he had done what he could on all occasions to injure Madeleine |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | And his father had told him if he wanted anything to write home to him and, whatever he did, never to peach on a fellow |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Come on, Lord Hastings, will you go with me |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | We were born on it, and we got killed on it, died on it. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | The two gentlemen, and some others, were so generous and kind as to furnish me with provisions, and see me on board |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Put on clean clothes. (references) | |
Walk your dog on a leash. (references) | ||
Try sucking on ice chips. (references) | ||
Business | This field takes on two general forms. (references) | |
Compliance will be on a voluntary basis. (references) | ||
FIV is a permanent guest on the commission. (references) | ||
Children | Kenya | These are a heavy burden on most families. (references) |
Marshall Islands | Child abuse and neglect were considered to be on the increase. (references) | |
Belarus | Higher education also is available at no cost on a competitive basis. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Guinea-Bissau | Many depend on the charity of NGO's. (references) |
Chile | He was briefly imprisoned and released on bail. (references) | |
Indonesia | There were 194,596 IDP's on the island of Java. (references) | |
Discrimination | Saudi Arabia | There is legal and systemic discrimination based on sex and religion. (references) |
Swaziland | The law reportedly has been used on occasion to bring moral suasion to bear against employers. (references) | |
Saudi Arabia | The law forbids discrimination based on race, but not nationality, although such discrimination occurs. (references) | |
Economic History | Spain | Canary Islands are on GMT. (references) |
Fiji | Sitiveni Rabuka on May 14, 1987. (references) | |
Korea | Numbers are based on boneless meat. (references) | |
Human Rights | Sri Lanka | Many such cases drag on for years. (references) |
Portugal | Tuberculosis was also on the rise. (references) | |
Saint Kitts and Nevis | A prison on Nevis houses 20 inmates. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Malaysia | Hearings on the case ended in March. (references) |
Chile | CONADI offices were occupied on a number of occasions. (references) | |
Malaysia | A verdict on the case had not been announced by year's end. (references) | |
Minorities | Pakistan | Three other clerics were killed on the same day. (references) |
Comoros | Anti-Christian rhetoric was broadcast on the radio. (references) | |
Congo | Birth on national territory does not necessarily confer citizenship. (references) | |
Political Economy | BRAZIL | The ban remains on Duram and White wheats. (references) |
Zimbabwe | Infringements on citizens' privacy continued. (references) | |
NICARAGUA | The DAI and ATP taxes are based on CIF value. (references) | |
Political Rights | Mauritania | The unused cards are discarded on the floor. (references) |
Honduras | There is one female justice on the Supreme Court. (references) | |
Dominican Republic | Women fill 5 of the 16 seats on the Supreme Court. (references) | |
Trade | Eq. Guinea | It operates on the GSM standard. (references) |
Nicaragua | DAI and ATP are based on CIF value. (references) | |
South Africa | VAT is payable on nearly all imports. (references) | |
Travel | Guyana | Traffic moves on the left. (references) |
Mauritius | Traffic drives on the left. (references) | |
Colombia | Never hail one on the street. (references) | |
Women | Kazakhstan | There is very little reporting on rape in the press. (references) |
Zambia | Ignorance of the law on the part of victims is a problem. (references) | |
Ecuador | It also focuses on young women and Afro-Ecuadorian women. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Poland | In 1998 statutes on trafficking were revised. (references) |
Georgia | The suit was to be decided on a case-by case-basis. (references) | |
Azerbaijan | Many rely on the safety net of the extended family. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ZEUS, n. The chief of Grecian gods, adored by the Romans as Jupiter and by the modern Americans as God, Gold, Mob and Dog. Some explorers who have touched upon the shores of America, and one who professes to have penetrated a considerable distance to the interior, have thought that these four names stand for as many distinct deities, but in his monumental work on Surviving Faiths, Frumpp insists that the natives are monotheists, each having no other god than himself, whom he worships under many sacred names. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Art Linkletter | Nope. I love the lecture platform. I love the question and answers. It's there. You're walking on a rope again. |
Dennis Miller | Hey, if I wanted to read a book, I'd buy one on tape. |
Jesse Ventura | Taxes were never raised on my watch. In four years, there was never a tax raise, they were all lowered. |
John Hartmann | William Clinton came to town riding on inflation. Took a town named Whitewater, introduced to our nation. |
Julie Andrews | My. Well, a lot of people have passed on. And Dudley, I think, is one of the saddest of them all. What a waste. |
Linda Thompson | Met Priscilla. But only a couple of times. Priscilla was really not on the scene as much as people might assume. |
Rosie O'Donnell | Sunday, the Tony awards, first on PBS, then on CBS. This will be the stage I make my big singing opening number. |
Rush Limbaugh | Freedom didn't work on the first day. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | Observations on the value of peace with other nations are unnecessary. |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | Here punishment falls on the guilty only, and as precise proof is required against him as against a freeman. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | Government must realize the effect of its operations on the whole economy. |
Dwight Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | Moral stamina means more energy and more productivity, on the farm and in the factory. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | Agriculture and resources A strong America also depends on its farms and natural resources. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | Now let me turn, however, to a more encouraging report on another front. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | So far I have concentrated largely on domestic matter. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | Americans are the most generous people on Earth. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Drug use is on the decline. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | We'll be deliberate, yet time is not on our side. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "On" is generally used as a preposition (except "of") -- approximately 92.82% of the time. "On" is used about 696,667 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Preposition (except "of") | 92.82% | 646,658 | 17 |
| Adverb (prepositional) | 7.16% | 49,914 | 170 |
| Total | 100.00% | 696,667 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "on" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| On | Last name | 300 | 28,542 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "On" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "pain", "force", "iniquity". | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "on". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Gallio | N/A | Biblical | Lives on milk |
| Onam | N/A | Biblical | Same as On |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| France | S.O.I.Tec - Silicon on Insulator Technologies S.A. | Hong Kong | Shui On Construction And Materials Ltd. |
| Japan | Livin' on the EDGE Co., Ltd. | USA | Log On America, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "on": a blot on escutcheon ♦ a blot on one's escutcheon ♦ a chip on one's shoulder ♦ a glut on the market ♦ a map mounted on cloth ♦ A murrain on you ♦ a pat on the back ♦ a plague on him! ♦ a poor hand on the violin ♦ a town on the sea ♦ absent on leave ♦ abut on ♦ accented on the last syllable ♦ accident on the way to and from work ♦ accumulate interest on the capital ♦ act on ♦ act on one's own responsibility ♦ act on petition ♦ act on principle ♦ act on the authority of ♦ act on the defensive ♦ act on the square ♦ action on a bill ♦ Action on Smoking and Health ♦ Action on the case ♦ ad astride on ♦ ad on foot ♦ ad on no account ♦ ad on record ♦ ad on stilts ♦ ad on the contrary ♦ ad on the light fantastic toe ♦ ad on the offensive ♦ ad on the road ♦ ad on the whole ♦ ad on trial ♦ ad trippingly on the tongue ♦ add on ♦ add on security ♦ adjudicate on smth. ♦ advance on ♦ advice on pending works message ♦ advise on ♦ Advisory Committee on Research into Minorities ♦ agree on ♦ agree on smth. ♦ agreed on all hands ♦ agriculture on terraces ♦ alight on ♦ alight on one's feet ♦ alight on water/to ♦ all hands on deck! ♦ all quiet on the front ♦ Along on ♦ and so on ♦ Angola on the Lake ♦ annual limit on intake ♦ appear on television ♦ appear on the horizon ♦ appear on the stage ♦ arrangement on matters of competition ♦ arrive dead on time ♦ arrive on the dot ♦ arrive on time ♦ as one makes one's bed so one must lie on it ♦ as time went on ♦ attack on freedom of faith and freedom of worship ♦ attempt on smb.'s life ♦ attend on ♦ attend on smb. ♦ attendant on smb. ♦ authority on ♦ avenge oneself on ♦ away on leave ♦ babble on ♦ back on ♦ back on to ♦ backtrack on smth. ♦ bag on the side ♦ balance of cash on hand ♦ balance on current account ♦ ban on exports ♦ ban on going out ♦ ban on imports ♦ ban on nuclear weapons ♦ ban on smoking ♦ bang on ♦ bang on smth. ♦ bang on time ♦ bang one's fist on the table ♦ bang the door on ♦ bank on ♦ bank on smth. ♦ banks'account on term ♦ banquet on smth. ♦ bargain on ♦ barge in on smb. ♦ barmy on the crumpet ♦ base on ♦ base on balls ♦ base oneself on. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "on": on-again, on-air, on-and, on-and-a-half-stones, on-and-off, on-any, on-are, on-bar, on-beam, on-beat, on-board, On-broadway, on-call, on-call duty, on-call mission, on-call target, on-call wave, on-camera, on-campus, on-card, on-carriage, on-cell, on-centre, on-chip, on-column, on-coming, on-complete, on-cost, on-costs, on-counter, on-course, on-court, on-cue, on-demand, on-deserves, on-disk, on-driven, on-duty, on-exchange, on-farm, on-field, on-form, on-full, on-going, on-goings, on-grade, on-green, on-growing, on-guard, on-guess, on-hand, on-hands, On-hanger, on-heat, on-high, on-in, on-ish, on-it, on-itis, on-job, on-key, on-lapping, on-lead, on-lend, on-lending, on-lent, on-licence, on-licences, on-license, on-licensed, on-line, on-line, On-Line Analytical Processing, on-line charter, On-Line Computer system, on-line database, on-line help, on-line processing, On-Line Transaction Processing, on-line vs off-line online on linepredicate, on-linehelp, on-load, on-loading, on-loan, on-location, on-looker, on-lookers, On-looking, on-market, on-negative, on-off, on-off keying, on-off switch, on-one, on-or-off, on-pack, on-pass, on-peak, on-phase, on-pitch, on-position, on-premises-only, On-profs, on-ramp, on-record, on-road, on-roll, on-route charter, on-rushing, on-scene, on-scene, on-screen, on-season fare, on-set, on-ship, on-shore, on-show, on-side, on-sight, on-sights, on-singular, on-site, on-site verification, on-sized, on-slaught, on-song, on-spot, on-squadron, on-stage, on-stand, on-stream, on-street, on-style, on-substrate, On-susan, on-switch, on-table, on-target, on-task, on-television, on-the, on-the-ball, on-the-block, on-the-box, on-the-case, on-the-edge, on-the-fence, on-the-field, on-the-fly, on-the-ground, on-the-hoof, on-the-hour, on-the-job, on-them, on-the-move, on-the-record, on-the-road, on-the-run, on-the-scene, on-the-spot, on-the-spot investigation, on-the-tarmac, on-the-wall, on-the-water, on-this, on-time, on-timer, on-to, on-to-one, on-trade, on-train, On-trent, on-trial, on-trip, on-type, on-u, on-vehicle, on-ward, On-wye, on-you, on-zone. | |
Ending with "on": Ap-ono-get-on, bolted-on, carry-on, cast-on, dried-on, edge-on, end-on, face-on, flick-on, following-on, full-on, goings-on, growing-on, hammer-on, hang-on, holder-on, is-dependent-on, Jah-bul-on, laying-on, long-on, lookers-on, odds-on, one-phase-on, open-on, power-on, press-on, ride-on, right-on, scarfed-on, screw-on, sell-on, side-on, sideways-on, signing-on, Sila-on, snap-on, spot-on, spray-on, square-on, staying-on, strap-on, switched-on, switch-on, try-on, turned-on, turn-on, two-phase-on, two-phases-on, walk-on. | |
Containing "on": Bangor-on-dee, Barton-on-humber, Berwick-on-tweed, Bexhill-on-sea, Bourton-on-the-water, Bowness-on-windermere, Brompton-on-swale, Brough-on-humber, Burnham-on-crouch, Burnham-on-sea, Burton-on-trent, Clacton-on-sea, corn-on-the-cob, Dalton-on-tees, Dorchester-on-thames, fly-on-the-wall, Frinton-on-sea, Harrow-on-the-hill, Hay-on-wye, Henley-on-thames, Lee-on-solent, Leigh-on-sea, Leonards-on-sea, Mac-on-risc, Mac-on-unix, Middleton-on-the-wolds, month-on-month, Morton-on-swale, Motif-on-sun, Newcastle-on-tyne, News-on-sunday, Nextstep-on-intel, Niagara-on-the-lake, Nt-on-alpha, print-on-paper, Purity-on-tap, Rhos-on-sea, Ross-on-wye, Solaris-on-intel, Solaris-on-sparc, Southend-on-sea, Stockton-on-tees, Stoke-on-trent, Stow-on-the-wold, Strand-on-the-green, Sutton-on-trent, Swannson-on-wheels, two-on-one, Unix-on-intel, unix-on-the-desktop, video-on-demand, Walton-on-thames, Walton-on-the-naze, Westcliff-on-sea, windows-on-unix, year-on-year. | |
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