"cling on" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "clings on",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clinging on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clung on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clung on",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "cling<,,clung> on"
      },
      "expansion": "cling on (third-person singular simple present clings on, present participle clinging on, simple past and past participle clung on)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs formed with \"on\"",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011 December 29, Keith Jackson, “SPL: Celtic 1 Rangers 0”, in Daily Record:",
          "text": "And although they were pushed harder than even Lennon might have expected on a night of galeforce winds, they clung on to the lead Ledley gave them for all they were worth until their rivals had blown themselves out and surrendered top spot.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Bournemouth (circa 1880)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 59:",
          "text": "In a summation of changed times, we have a lost station site in Bournemouth (now occupied by a coach park) as well as its former hotel (still clinging on as apartments).",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To hold on tightly; to grip hard or adhere."
      ],
      "id": "en-cling_on-en-verb-FSGZZOWD",
      "links": [
        [
          "hold on",
          "hold on"
        ],
        [
          "grip",
          "grip"
        ],
        [
          "adhere",
          "adhere"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(sometimes figurative) To hold on tightly; to grip hard or adhere."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "sometimes"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "cling on"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "clings on",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clinging on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clung on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "clung on",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "cling<,,clung> on"
      },
      "expansion": "cling on (third-person singular simple present clings on, present participle clinging on, simple past and past participle clung on)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs formed with \"on\"",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011 December 29, Keith Jackson, “SPL: Celtic 1 Rangers 0”, in Daily Record:",
          "text": "And although they were pushed harder than even Lennon might have expected on a night of galeforce winds, they clung on to the lead Ledley gave them for all they were worth until their rivals had blown themselves out and surrendered top spot.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Bournemouth (circa 1880)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 59:",
          "text": "In a summation of changed times, we have a lost station site in Bournemouth (now occupied by a coach park) as well as its former hotel (still clinging on as apartments).",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To hold on tightly; to grip hard or adhere."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "hold on",
          "hold on"
        ],
        [
          "grip",
          "grip"
        ],
        [
          "adhere",
          "adhere"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(sometimes figurative) To hold on tightly; to grip hard or adhere."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "sometimes"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "cling on"
}