"press on" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "presses on",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pressing on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pressed on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pressed on",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "press on (third-person singular simple present presses on, present participle pressing on, simple past and past participle pressed 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 with particle (on)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1951 April, D. S. Barrie, “British Railways: A Survey, 1948-1950”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 225",
          "text": "British Railways are, however, pressing on with the introduction of standard equipment, and in this, the fourth year of unified working, standard locomotives and rolling stock will be coming into service in considerable numbers.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017 July 23, Brandon Nowalk, “The great game begins with a bang on Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club",
          "text": "And now she has the real dilemma: press on to King’s Landing, where I have no doubt she could get as close to killing Cersei as anyone else, or double back to Winterfell to reunite with her family.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to persist, continue to advance"
      ],
      "id": "en-press_on-en-verb-YbMoe7pc",
      "links": [
        [
          "persist",
          "persist"
        ],
        [
          "advance",
          "advance"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) to persist, continue to advance"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "press ahead"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "continue to advance",
          "word": "hota"
        },
        {
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "continue to advance",
          "word": "whakatorotoro"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "uporstvovatʹ",
          "sense": "continue to advance",
          "word": "упорствовать"
        },
        {
          "code": "cy",
          "lang": "Welsh",
          "sense": "continue to advance",
          "word": "bwrw ymlaen"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-press on.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/53/En-au-press_on.ogg/En-au-press_on.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/53/En-au-press_on.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "press on"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "presses on",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pressing on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pressed on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pressed on",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "press on (third-person singular simple present presses on, present participle pressing on, simple past and past participle pressed on)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs with particle (on)",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1951 April, D. S. Barrie, “British Railways: A Survey, 1948-1950”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 225",
          "text": "British Railways are, however, pressing on with the introduction of standard equipment, and in this, the fourth year of unified working, standard locomotives and rolling stock will be coming into service in considerable numbers.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017 July 23, Brandon Nowalk, “The great game begins with a bang on Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club",
          "text": "And now she has the real dilemma: press on to King’s Landing, where I have no doubt she could get as close to killing Cersei as anyone else, or double back to Winterfell to reunite with her family.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to persist, continue to advance"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "persist",
          "persist"
        ],
        [
          "advance",
          "advance"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) to persist, continue to advance"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-press on.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/53/En-au-press_on.ogg/En-au-press_on.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/53/En-au-press_on.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "press ahead"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "continue to advance",
      "word": "hota"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "continue to advance",
      "word": "whakatorotoro"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "uporstvovatʹ",
      "sense": "continue to advance",
      "word": "упорствовать"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "continue to advance",
      "word": "bwrw ymlaen"
    }
  ],
  "word": "press on"
}