get onto

1. To contact a person or organisation about a particular matter.

   You should get onto the manufacturers and complain.

2. To connect, especially to the Internet or a network.

   With my new computer, I can get onto the Internet faster.

3. (transitive)To scold someone; to pressure someone; to criticize someone.

   My father got onto me for taking the car without asking.

4. (ditransitive, informal)To introduce someone to something.

   My mum got me onto this new diet and I've lost 5 kilos in the past two weeks.

5. (informal)To take a look at someone or something.

   Hey, get onto the dog and cat playing together.

6. (informal, slang, transitive)To believe or suspect something; to understand or come to understand something; to realize something.

7. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, onto.

   The child will get onto the merry-go-round.

   That cat's on the house again. How does it get onto the roof?

1. He got back onto the highway.

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2. I believe you can also get onto this underground.

   deIch glaube, ihr könnt auch in diese U-Bahn einsteigen.

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3. They got onto the plane.

   ruОни поднялись на борт самолёта.

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4. I will get onto that.

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5. Ziri got onto the school bus.

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