Verb: run on 'rún'ón
- Continue uninterrupted
"The disease will run on unchecked";
- keep going
- Talk or narrate at length
"She ran on about her vacation for hours"
- Operate or function using something
"The generator run ons diesel fuel";
- run by
- Without a rhetorical pause between lines, used in verse
"The poet used run-on lines to create a sense of urgency and flow"
- A sentence in which two or more independent clauses are joined without proper punctuation or conjunctions
"The teacher marked several run-ons in the essay"
- (cricket) runs scored from a delivery after the ball has been declared dead
"The batsman managed to get a run-on before the fielder could return the ball"
Derived forms: run-ons, ran on, run on, runs on, running on
Type of: continue, go along, go on, keep, proceed, speak, talk
Antonym: end-stopped
Encyclopedia: Run on
Run-on