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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
In practicality, many importers incur these costs themselves and then pass some of these costs onto consumers so that these businesses can maintain healthy profit margins.
More than a quarter of a century later, Foster will step onto that same field Saturday night needing to prove himself anew against another team wearing the loathsome cardinal and gold.
Both men separately stumbled onto the bizarre bacteriophage phenomenon in the 1910s, when the bacteria they were growing mysteriously vanished.
A mum with kids requiring refrigerated medicines for cancer rang up with her voice cracking because she could not afford her £5 prepayment top-up and asked to be put onto a credit direct debit.
She suffered multiple injuries when she fell forwards onto the floor and she died days later in hospital.
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