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onto
1[ on-too, awn-; unstressed on-tuh, awn- ]
onto-
2- a combining form meaning “being,” used in the formation of compound words:
ontogeny.
onto-
1combining_form
- existence or being
ontology
ontogeny
onto
2/ ˈɒntə; ˈɒntʊ /
preposition
- to a position that is on
step onto the train as it passes
- having become aware of (something illicit or secret)
the police are onto us
- into contact with
get onto the factory
Usage
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of onto1
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Example Sentences
For his part, Bratton is disappointed but not surprised that the same narrative is already being mapped onto Fry and Spencer.
So it might be me projecting my desires onto Archer to want to just get away from work for a few weeks.
I was sick in street gutters, onto my desk, at dinners with friends.
Gang tattoos are still inked onto his face, like scarlet letters.
Where these laser-like missiles are falling out of the sky onto a city and you have to stop each of them from hitting the targets?
I put down my haid, and was just kinda dragged up the aisle and onto the platform.
His untidy hair was rumpled, as if someone had been hanging onto it while in the process of giving him the shiner.
Either: we cannot give you what you ask, so fall back onto the defensive; or, go ahead, we will give you the means.
But momentum was sufficient to carry Jeff Weedham's roadster out onto the road.
Black Hood let the clutch slap in and the roadster bounded back onto the tarvia drive.
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