English > go on: 5 senses > verb 1, stative| Meaning | Continue a certain state, condition, or activity. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s |
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| Model | They go on moving |
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| Synonyms | continue, proceed, go along, keep |
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| Narrower | hold | Remain in a certain state, position, or condition |
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| ride | Continue undisturbed and without interference |
| run on, keep going | Continue uninterrupted |
| Broader | act, move | Perform an action, or work out or perform (an action) |
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| Opposite | discontinue | Come to or be at an end |
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| Similar to | continue, uphold, carry on, bear on, preserve | Keep or maintain in unaltered condition |
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| continue | Continue after an interruption / interruption |
| Spanish | continuar, guardar, proseguir, seguir |
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| Catalan | continuar, guardar, prosseguir, seguir |
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English > go on: 5 senses > verb 2, change| Meaning | Come to pass. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Something is ----ing PP; It ----s that CLAUSE |
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| Synonyms | happen, hap, pass off, occur, pass, fall out, come about, take place |
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| Caused by | effect, effectuate, set up | produce |
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| trip, actuate, trigger, activate, set off, spark off, spark, trigger off, touch off | put in motion or move to act |
| Narrower | anticipate | Be a forerunner of or occur earlier than |
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| arise, come up | Result or issue / issue |
| backfire, backlash, recoil | Come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect |
| befall, bechance, betide | Become of |
| break, recrudesce, develop | happen / happen |
| break | happen or take place |
| chance | Be the case by chance |
| come | Come to pass |
| come around, roll around | happen regularly |
| concur, coincide | happen simultaneously |
| develop | Be gradually disclosed or unfolded |
| fall | occur at a specified time or place |
| fall, shine, strike | touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly |
| give | Occur |
| go off, come off, go over | happen in a particular manner |
| happen, materialize, materialise | come into being |
| happen, befall, bechance | happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance |
| intervene | Occur between other event or between certain points of time |
| proceed, go | Follow a certain course |
| recur, repeat | happen or occur again |
| result | Come about or follow as a consequence |
| supervene | take place as an additional or unexpected development |
| synchronize, synchronise, contemporize, contemporise | happen at the same time |
| transpire | come about, happen, or occur |
| turn out | prove to be in the result or end |
| Spanish | acaecer, acontecer, llegar a ocurrir, llegar a pasar, ocurrir, pasar, sobrevenir, suceder, tener lugar |
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| Catalan | esdevenir-se, ocórrer, passar, sobrevenir, succeir, tenir lloc |
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English > go on: 5 senses > verb 3, motion| Meaning | Move forward, also in the metaphorical sense. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s |
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| Synonyms | advance, progress, pass on, move on, march on |
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| Entailed by | approach, near, come on, go up, draw near, draw close, come near | Move towards |
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| Narrower | close in, draw in | Advance or converge on |
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| creep up, sneak up | Advance stealthily or unnoticed |
| edge, inch | Advance slowly, as if by inches |
| elapse, lapse, pass, slip by, glide by, slip away, go by, slide by, go along | pass by |
| encroach, infringe, impinge | Advance beyond the usual limit |
| forge | Move ahead steadily |
| pass, overtake, overhaul | Travel past |
| penetrate | make one's way deeper into or through |
| press on, push on, plough on | Continue moving forward |
| ratchet, rachet up, ratchet down | Move by degrees in one direction only |
| string, string along | Move or come along |
| Broader | travel, go, move, locomote | change location |
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| See also | go | change location |
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| Opposite | withdraw, retreat, pull away, draw back, recede, pull back, retire, move back | pull back or move away or backward |
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| Spanish | adentrarse, anticipar, avanzarse, avanzar, internarse |
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| Catalan | anticipar, avançar-se, endinsar-se, internar-se |
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