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{
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_text": "Structurally equivalent to go onward.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "goes on",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "going on",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "went on",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "gone on",
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"participle",
"past"
]
}
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},
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"name": "en-verb"
}
],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
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"word": "going on"
},
{
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"word": "goings-on"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "go on then"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "on about"
},
{
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"word": "on and on"
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{
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"word": "what's going on"
}
],
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{
"text": "The meeting seemed to go on forever.",
"type": "example"
}
],
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"To continue in extent."
],
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"links": [
[
"continue",
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],
[
"extent",
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],
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"(intransitive) To continue in extent."
],
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{
"word": "endure"
},
{
"word": "persist"
}
],
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"intransitive"
]
},
{
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{
"text": "I think I've said enough now; I'm not sure I should go on.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "He went on walking even when the policeman told him to stop.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, page 84",
"text": "She crept up the stairs [...] On she went, across the landing, from which sprang the tall window, and up the next flight until she reached the top.",
"type": "quotation"
}
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"To continue an action."
],
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[
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]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To continue an action."
],
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{
"word": "keep on"
},
{
"word": "carry on"
},
{
"word": "advance"
},
{
"word": "forthgo"
},
{
"word": "proceed"
},
{
"word": "resume"
}
],
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"intransitive"
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},
{
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"examples": [
{
"text": "He went on to win a gold medal.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter III",
"text": "[…] while not a super-goof like some of the female goofs I'd met, she was quite goofy enough to be going on with.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2012, The Onion Book of Known Knowledge, page 63",
"text": "The kid who starts a business selling candy out of his locker always goes on to be a major sleazeball later in life.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"To proceed."
],
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[
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],
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"(intransitive) To proceed."
],
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{
"word": "carry on"
},
{
"word": "continue"
},
{
"word": "proceed"
}
],
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{
"_dis1": "25 28 42 2 2",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "continue",
"word": "continuar"
},
{
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "continue",
"word": "pokračovat"
},
{
"_dis1": "25 28 42 2 2",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "continue",
"word": "vytrvat"
},
{
"_dis1": "25 28 42 2 2",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "continue",
"word": "fortsætte"
},
{
"_dis1": "25 28 42 2 2",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "continue",
"word": "doorgaan"
},
{
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"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "continue",
"word": "verder gaan"
},
{
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"english": "to continue",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "continue",
"word": "jatkua"
},
{
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"code": "fi",
"english": "to expand upon",
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"sense": "continue",
"word": "jatkaa"
},
{
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "continue",
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"code": "fi",
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"roman": "e.g. \"kokous venyi myöhään yöhön\"",
"sense": "continue",
"tags": [
"informal"
],
"word": "venyä"
},
{
"_dis1": "25 28 42 2 2",
"code": "fr",
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"sense": "continue",
"word": "continuer"
},
{
"_dis1": "25 28 42 2 2",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "continue",
"word": "continuar"
},
{
"_dis1": "25 28 42 2 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"note": "continue in action",
"sense": "continue",
"word": "weitermachen"
},
{
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"code": "de",
"english": "continue in extent",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "continue",
"word": "weitergehen"
},
{
"_dis1": "25 28 42 2 2",
"code": "de",
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},
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"sense": "continue",
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"_dis1": "25 28 42 2 2",
"code": "is",
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"sense": "continue",
"word": "haltu áfram"
},
{
"_dis1": "25 28 42 2 2",
"code": "it",
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"sense": "continue",
"word": "continuare"
},
{
"_dis1": "25 28 42 2 2",
"code": "la",
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"sense": "continue",
"word": "pergō"
},
{
"_dis1": "25 28 42 2 2",
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "continue",
"word": "tęsti"
},
{
"_dis1": "25 28 42 2 2",
"code": "pt",
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"sense": "continue",
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},
{
"_dis1": "25 28 42 2 2",
"code": "ru",
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"roman": "prodolžátʹ",
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"imperfective"
],
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"sense": "continue",
"word": "lean air"
},
{
"_dis1": "25 28 42 2 2",
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{
"_dis1": "25 28 42 2 2",
"code": "tr",
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"word": "devam etmek"
},
{
"_dis1": "25 28 42 2 2",
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"sense": "continue",
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"imperfective"
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"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "continue",
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{
"text": "Will you stop going on about your stupid holiday.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "Sam goes on and on about Pokémon.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "Don't ask Sam about Pokémon, because he'll go on and on.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2002, Jane Green, Bookends, trade paperback, published 2003, page 67",
"text": "\"I don't believe you.\" I shake my head. \"How on earth did you remember that? I must have told you years ago.\"[…]\n\"First of all, you go on about it far more than you think you do,[…].\"",
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"To talk frequently or at great length; to talk about (a subject) in that manner."
],
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[
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[
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[
"at great length",
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],
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"(intransitive) To talk frequently or at great length; to talk about (a subject) in that manner."
],
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{
"word": "blather"
},
{
"word": "prattle"
},
{
"word": "rabbit"
},
{
"word": "chatter"
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"sense": "talk about a subject frequently or at great length",
"word": "jauhaa"
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"sense": "talk about a subject frequently or at great length",
"word": "jankuttaa"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 3 3 88 3",
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "talk about a subject frequently or at great length",
"word": "jankata"
},
{
"_dis1": "3 3 3 88 3",
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "talk about a subject frequently or at great length",
"word": "vatvoa"
},
{
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "make a decision based on",
"word": "käyttää"
},
{
"_dis1": "8 12 15 38 27",
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{
"text": "What's going on?",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "I really don't want to know what goes on between you and your boyfriend behind closed doors.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 1948, page 43",
"text": "At the time, with the D-Day invasion of Europe going on, their heroism was hardly noticed. Plenty of other heroes were dying elsewhere. Plenty of bigger bits of history were being made.",
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"To happen (occur)."
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[
"occur",
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"(intransitive) To happen (occur)."
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"word": "come to pass"
},
{
"word": "take place"
},
{
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"word": "tapahtua"
},
{
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"sense": "happen",
"word": "olla meneillään"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 5 6 4 81",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "happen",
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},
{
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},
{
"_dis1": "4 5 6 4 81",
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"word": "bí ar siúl"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 5 6 4 81",
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"word": "tarlaigh"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 5 6 4 81",
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{
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{
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"word": "pasar"
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"_dis1": "4 5 6 4 81",
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},
{
"_dis1": "4 5 6 4 81",
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{
"_dis1": "4 5 6 4 81",
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"sense": "happen",
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"imperfective"
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"sense": "travel by",
"word": "matkustaa"
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
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"text": "Go on! You were saying about those other ones too?",
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"word": "fiddlesticks"
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{
"word": "go on with you"
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{
"word": "horsefeathers"
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{
"word": "pull the other one"
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{
"word": "bullshit"
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"text": "Go on! You can do it!",
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"Expressing encouragement, see come on."
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"(especially Australia, New Zealand) Expressing encouragement, see come on."
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{
"word": "you go, girl"
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{
"word": "come on"
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"text": "—So three hundred on the chair then, and can we do two-fifty on the clock?\n—Go on, then.",
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"(especially British) Yes; okay; it's a deal."
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{
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"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
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},
{
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{
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{
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"text": "We can't go on what this map says; it's twenty years out of date.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "I didn't make a decision because I didn't have anything to go on.",
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