RUN ON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does run on mean? 

• RUN ON (verb)
  The verb RUN ON has 2 senses:

1. talk or narrate at length

2. continue uninterrupted

  Familiarity information: RUN ON used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RUN ON (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

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

keep going; run on

Context example:

The party kept going until 4 A.M.

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

 Context examples 

“Lizzy,” cried her mother, “remember where you are, and do not run on in the wild manner that you are suffered to do at home.”

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

They could only run half the distance that normal rats could run on a treadmill before tiring out.

(Star-like cells may help the brain tune breathing rhythms, National Institutes of Health)

I was so absorbed in that wonderful diary of Jonathan Harker and that other of his wife that I let the time run on without thinking.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He seemed made to run on forever.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

“My dear,” said my mother suddenly, “take the money and run on. I am going to faint.”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

They generally run on the same theme—courtship; and promise to end in the same catastrophe—marriage.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

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(Differential Display, NCI Thesaurus)

Sordid and selfish as I knew it was, and as I tortured myself by knowing that it was, to let my mind run on my own distress so much, I was so devoted to Dora that I could not help it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Their first pause was at the Crown Inn, an inconsiderable house, though the principal one of the sort, where a couple of pair of post-horses were kept, more for the convenience of the neighbourhood than from any run on the road; and his companions had not expected to be detained by any interest excited there; but in passing it they gave the history of the large room visibly added; it had been built many years ago for a ball-room, and while the neighbourhood had been in a particularly populous, dancing state, had been occasionally used as such;—but such brilliant days had long passed away, and now the highest purpose for which it was ever wanted was to accommodate a whist club established among the gentlemen and half-gentlemen of the place.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

At first he had been prone to turn upon his pursuers, jealous of his dignity and wrathful; but at such times Mit-sah would throw the stinging lash of the thirty-foot cariboo-gut whip into his face and compel him to turn tail and run on.

(White Fang, by Jack London)