Synonyms for onto


Grammar : Adj
Spell : on-too, awn-; unstressed on-tuh, awn-
Phonetic Transcription : ˈɒn tu, ˈɔn-; unstressed ˈɒn tə, ˈɔn-


Définition of onto

Origin :
  • 1580s, as on to, from on + to. Appeared much later than parallel into. As a closed compound (on analogy of into), first recorded 1715.
  • adj to
  • adj upon
Example sentences :
  • He tossed them onto the table, and Hal Dozier rolled his smoke in silence.
  • Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
  • If you'd been onto your job, things would have been smooth as silk.
  • Extract from : « Chip, of the Flying U » by B. M. Bower
  • But it must be something new, or we should have got onto it.
  • Extract from : « It Happened in Egypt » by C. N. Williamson
  • With a word of farewell, he climbed out of the cockpit and onto a wing.
  • Extract from : « The Solar Magnet » by Sterner St. Paul Meek
  • I can mention his name now without Ketury's landin' onto me like a snowslide.
  • Extract from : « Cy Whittaker's Place » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • I'd punch anybody that christened a middle name like that onto me.
  • Extract from : « The Depot Master » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • If that's so, every one of the Old Home House eleven was onto their jobs.
  • Extract from : « The Depot Master » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • Everybody's onto 'em, hangin' over each other, and lookin' soft at each other.
  • Extract from : « Shavings » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • In a moment he's onto Emil, an' begins to w'irl his hypnotic rope.
  • Extract from : « Faro Nell and Her Friends » by Alfred Henry Lewis
  • Not but what once we're onto his angles, he sort o' oozes into our regyards.
  • Extract from : « Faro Nell and Her Friends » by Alfred Henry Lewis

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