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run-on

[ ruhn-on, -awn ]

adjective

  1. of or designating something that is added or run on:

    a run-on entry in a dictionary.

  2. Prosody. (of a line of verse) having a thought that carries over to the next line, especially without a syntactical break.


noun

  1. run-on matter.
  2. Automotive. after-run.

run on

verb

  1. intr to continue without interruption
  2. to write with linked-up characters
  3. printing to compose text matter without indentation or paragraphing
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


noun

  1. printing
    1. text matter composed without indenting
    2. ( as modifier )

      run-on text matter

    1. a word added at the end of a dictionary entry whose meaning can be easily inferred from the definition of the headword
    2. ( as modifier )

      a run-on entry

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of run-on1

First recorded in 1900–05; adj., noun use of verb phrase run on
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Example Sentences

Winding, run-on sentences are common; so are fishermen.

There was a coy, sometimes run-on exuberance about many indie bands in the aughts, though few encapsulated that as expressively as the Welsh group Los Campesinos!

These suggest a heightened attention to potential hazards, but they also evoke the joyous run-on reels of avant-garde diarists like the filmmaker Jonas Mekas.

Sometimes, the phrases are like run-on sentences; elsewhere, they are poetic, rhetorical, filled with pauses and hesitations.

She obviously inspired joy as much as run-on sentences.

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