Meaning
3 sensesArriving upon or on top of (speaking of a physical or metaphorical movement).
My cat just jumped onto the keyboard.
A new drug has just come onto the market.
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наna
(informal)Aware of.
The thought-police were onto my plans of world domination.
Being an onto function with a codomain of (see below).
The exponential function maps the set of real numbers onto the set of positive real numbers.
Examples
514 sentencesI helped Tom onto the bus.
Я допоміг Тому зайти в автобус.
Tom held onto Mary.
Том тримався за Мері.
ruТом держался за Мэри.
I'll hang onto that for you.
I'll hang onto it for now.
Tom went out onto the street.
ruТом вышел на улицу.
Translations
8 languagesРусский
By meaning 1
upon; on top of:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
upon; on top of:
Origin
From on + to, after into. Compare Saterland Frisian antou (“up to”).From on + to, after into. Compare Saterland Frisian antou (“up to”).
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Antonyms
2 antonymsWord family
21 related wordsCollocations
4 patterns- hold onto
- held onto the
- out onto the
- onto the rope