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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(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. — deniko
Tom held onto Mary.
Том тримався за Мері. — deniko
ruТом держался за Мэри. — sharptoothed
I'll hang onto that for you.
I'll hang onto it for now.
Tom went out onto the street.
ruТом вышел на улицу. — odexed
Translations
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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