"on end" meaning in English

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          "text": "These batteries last for hours on end.",
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          "ref": "1964 July, Mary Allen, “A Woman's View of the New Coaches”, in Modern Railways, page 9",
          "text": "The arrangement of some seats facing and some one behind the other, bus fashion, seems a sensible compromise; I am one of those who do not enjoy staring at my fellow travellers for perhaps hours on end.",
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        "without interruption, without stopping, continuously"
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        "(idiomatic) without interruption, without stopping, continuously"
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          "_dis1": "91 9",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "continuously, long",
          "word": "nonstop"
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          "_dis1": "91 9",
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          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "neprerývno",
          "sense": "continuously, long",
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          "word": "непреры́вно"
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          "_dis1": "91 9",
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          "roman": "podrjád",
          "sense": "continuously, long",
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          "word": "подря́д"
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        "upright; erect; endways"
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          "upright",
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          "erect",
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          "endways",
          "endways"
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        "(dated) upright; erect; endways"
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          "_dis1": "0 100",
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        {
          "_dis1": "4 96",
          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "upright, erect, endways",
          "word": "hirta"
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          "_dis1": "4 96",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "upright, erect, endways",
          "word": "hochkant"
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          "sense": "upright, erect, endways",
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          "roman": "stojmjá",
          "sense": "upright, erect, endways",
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          "roman": "dýbom",
          "sense": "upright, erect, endways",
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          "word": "ды́бом"
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          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "upright, erect, endways",
          "word": "de canto"
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  "word": "on end"
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        "without interruption, without stopping, continuously"
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        "(idiomatic) without interruption, without stopping, continuously"
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        "(dated) upright; erect; endways"
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "continuously, long",
      "word": "nonstop"
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "neprerývno",
      "sense": "continuously, long",
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        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "непреры́вно"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "podrjád",
      "sense": "continuously, long",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "подря́д"
    },
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      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "upright, erect, endways",
      "word": "hirta"
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      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "upright, erect, endways",
      "word": "hochkant"
    },
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "upright, erect, endways",
      "word": "do góry nogami"
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      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "stojmjá",
      "sense": "upright, erect, endways",
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        "neuter"
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      "word": "стоймя́"
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      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "dýbom",
      "sense": "upright, erect, endways",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "ды́бом"
    },
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "upright, erect, endways",
      "word": "de canto"
    }
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  "word": "on end"
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