Dictionary entry details
• GO ON (verb)
Meaning:
Continue a certain state, condition, or activity
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Synonyms:
continue; go on; go along; keep; proceed
Context examples:
Keep on working! / We continued to work into the night / Keep smiling / We went on working until well past midnight
Hypernyms (to "go on" is one way to...):
act; move (perform an action, or work out or perform (an action))
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "go on"):
hold (remain in a certain state, position, or condition)
keep going; run on (continue uninterrupted)
ride (continue undisturbed and without interference)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s VERB-ing
Sentence example:
They go on moving
Meaning:
Come to pass
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
come about; hap; happen; occur; take place; go on; fall out; pass off; pass
Context examples:
What is happening? / The meeting took place off without an incidence / Nothing occurred that seemed important
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "go on"):
contemporise; contemporize; synchronise; synchronize (happen at the same time)
come around; roll around (happen regularly)
happen; materialise; materialize (come into being; become reality)
bechance; befall; happen (happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance)
bechance; befall; betide (become of; happen to)
coincide; concur (happen simultaneously)
backfire; backlash; recoil (come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect)
chance (be the case by chance)
break (happen or take place)
fall; shine; strike (touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly)
turn out (prove to be in the result or end)
come off; go off; go over (happen in a particular manner)
recur; repeat (happen or occur again)
develop (be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest)
break; develop; recrudesce (happen)
arise; come up (result or issue)
intervene (occur between other event or between certain points of time)
transpire (come about, happen, or occur)
give (occur)
operate (happen)
supervene (take place as an additional or unexpected development)
go; proceed (follow a certain course)
come (come to pass; arrive, as in due course)
fall (occur at a specified time or place)
anticipate (be a forerunner of or occur earlier than)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
It ----s that CLAUSE
Meaning:
Move forward, also in the metaphorical sense
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
advance; march on; move on; progress; pass on; go on
Context example:
Time marches on
Hypernyms (to "go on" is one way to...):
go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "go on"):
elapse; glide by; go along; go by; lapse; pass; slide by; slip away; slip by (pass by)
rachet up; ratchet; ratchet down (move by degrees in one direction only)
edge; inch (advance slowly, as if by inches)
close in; draw in (advance or converge on)
overhaul; overtake; pass (travel past)
string; string along (move or come along)
plough on; press on; push on (continue moving forward)
encroach; impinge; infringe (advance beyond the usual limit)
creep up; sneak up (advance stealthily or unnoticed)
penetrate (make one's way deeper into or through)
forge (move ahead steadily)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Meaning:
Continue talking
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
proceed; continue; carry on; go on
Context examples:
I know it's hard, / but there is no choice / carry on--pretend we are not in the room
Hypernyms (to "go on" is one way to...):
speak; talk (exchange thoughts; talk with)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "go on"):
jog; ramble; ramble on (continue talking or writing in a desultory manner)
segue (proceed without interruption; in music or talk)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE
Somebody ----s VERB-ing
Meaning:
Start running, functioning, or operating
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
come on; go on; come up
Context examples:
the lights went on / the computer came up
Hypernyms (to "go on" is one way to...):
get going; go; start (begin or set in motion)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Antonym:
go off (stop running, functioning, or operating)
