On and on

Definition

on /ɒn / prep ၁။ (also fml upon ) (က) ေပၚမွာ၊ ေပၚမွ၊ ေပၚတြင္၊ တြင္၊ မွာ၊ ကို။ a picture on the wall ❍ a drawing on the blackboard ❍ dirty marks on the ceiling ❍ Leave the glasses on the table. ❍ sit on the grass ❍ leaves floating on the water ❍ travel on the continent (Compare: in Europe) ❍ the diagram on page 5 (Compare: in the next chapter/ paragraph) ❍ stick a stamp on an envelope ❍ a carpet on the floor ❍ hit sb on the head. (ခ) ေပၚမွ၊ ေပၚတြင္၊ တြင္၊ မွာ၊ ကို။ a roof on a house ❍ stand on one foot ❍ lie on one's back ❍ a blister on one's foot ❍ a ring on one's finger ❍ lean on me/ on my arm ❍ a flag on a pole ❍ a coat on a hook ❍ hanging on a string ❍ riding on a bicycle/ on horseback ❍ a hat on one's head ❍ sit on a chair ❍ ( fig ) have sth on one's mind. ၂။ ေပၚမွာ၊ ေပၚတြင္။ on the plane from London to New York ❍ travel on the bus/ the tube/ the coach (Compare: travel by bus, etc; sitting in the bus, etc) ❍ have lunch on the train. ၃။ မွာ။ မွ။ Have you got any money on you? ❍ The burglar was caught with the stolen goods still on him. ❍ WEAR v ၄။ (က) တြင္၊ မွာ။ (အေမရိကန္တို႔က on ကို ျမႇဳပ္၍သံုးေလ့ရိွသည္။ ) on Sunday(s) ❍ ( US ) They're arriving Sunday. ❍ on May the first/ the first of May ❍ on the evening of May the first (Compare: in the evening) ❍ on this occasion ❍ on a sunny day in August ❍ on your birthday/ Christmas day. Compare IN 1 prep ၃, AT ၂ ❍ MORNING, TIME (ခ) (also upon ) တြင္၊ မွာ။ On my arrival home/ On arriving home I discovered the burglary. ❍ On (my) asking for information I was told I must wait. ❍ He flew home on the death of his parents. ၅။ ႏွင့္ပတ္သက္၍။ နဲ႔ပတ္သက္လို႔။ speak/ write/ lecture on Shakespeare ❍ an essay on political economy ❍ a programme on 20th-century music ❍ while we're on the subject (ie talking about it). ❍ ABOUT prep ၆။ တြင္၊ မွာ၊ က။ be on the committee/ staff/ jury/ panel ❍ Which/Whose side are you on (ie Which of two or more different views do you support)? ၇။ ျဖင့္။ ႏွင့္။ ကို။ live on bread and water ❍ gorge oneself on sweets ❍ be on (ie unable to stop taking) heroin ❍ Most cars run on petrol. ❍ The doctor put me on these tablets. ၈။ ဆီသို႔။ သို႔။ ကို။ march on the capital ❍ turn one's back on sb ❍ pull/ draw a knife on sb (ie to attack them) ❍ creep up on sb ❍ On the left you can see the palace. ၉။ (sometimes fml upon ) တြင္၊ မွာ။ a town on the coast ❍ a house on the main road ❍ a house on a council estate ❍ a village on the border ❍ drive on the M25 ❍ boats moored on both sides of the river ❍ hedges on either side of the road ❍ I moved to Leeds just on (ie almost exactly) a year ago. ၁၀။ (also fml upon ) တြင္။ မွာ။ အရ။ ျဖင့္။ a story based on fact ❍ have sth on good authority ❍ arrested on a charge of theft ❍ On your advice I applied for the job. ❍ You have it on my word (ie I promise you it will happen, etc). ၁၁။ ျဖင့္။ ႏွင့္။ live on a pension/one's savings/ a student grant ❍ be on a low wage ❍ feed a family on £ 50 a week ❍ an operation on the National Health Service ❍ ( infml ) Drinks are on me. ဒီတစ္ဝိုင္းကို ငါဒကာခံမယ္။ ၁၂။ ျဖင့္။ ႏွင့္။ တြင္။ play a tune on the flute ❍ information available on computer/ disc/ tape ❍ broadcast on the TV/ radio ❍ speak on the telephone. ၁၃။ (also fml upon ) အေပၚ။ မွာ။ a tax on tobacco ❍ charge interest on the loan ❍ a strain on our resources. ၁၄။ အေပၚ။ မွာ။ ကို။ a ban on imports ❍ He's rather hard on his kids. ❍ ( infml ) Don't go too heavy on the (ie give me too much) sugar. ၁၅။ ႏွင့္စာလွ်င္။ This month's unemployment figures are 20 000 up on last month. ၁၆။ ျဖင့္။ ႏွင့္။ လ်က္။ on business/ holiday ❍ go on an errand ❍ on loan for a week ❍ on special offer. ၁၇။ ကို။ မွာ။ You can phone me on 0181-530 3906. ၁၈။ (also fml upon ) ( fml ) တစ္ခုၿပီးတစ္ခု။ suffer disaster on disaster ❍ Wave (up) on wave of violence spread through the city. adv part ၁။ ဆက္၍။ He worked on without a break. ❍ If you like a good story, read on. ❍ They wanted the band to play on. ❍ The war still went on (ie continued). ❍ He slept on through all the noise. ၂။ တိုင္ေအာင္။ အထိ။ ဆက္၍။ ဆက္ၿပီး။ run/ walk/ hurry on to the end of the lane ❍ Please send my letter on to my new address. ❍ from that day on (ie from then until now) ❍ On with the show (ie Let it begin/ continue)! ၃။ (က) ဝတ္၊ တပ္၊ ေဆာင္း (လ်က္၊ ပါ)။ Put your coat on. ❍ Why doesn't she have her glasses on? ❍ Your hat's not on straight. (ခ) ဖံုး၊ တပ္ (လ်က္၊ ထား၊ ပါ)။ Make sure the lid is on. ❍ Leave it with the cover on. ❍ The skirt is finished—I'm now going to sew a pocket on. Compare OFF adv part ၂ ၄။ (က) ဖြင့္လ်က္။ The lights were all on. ❍ The TV is always on in their house. ❍ Someone has left the tap on (ie The water is running). ❍ I can smell gas— is the oven on? ❍ Make sure you put the handbrake on. လက္ဆြဲဘရိတ္ ဆြဲထား ဖို႔ မေမ့ႏွင့္။ (ခ) (လွ်ပ္စစ္၊ ေရ စသည္) ရၿပီ၊ ရမည္။ We were without electricity for three hours but it's on again now. ❍ Is the water on? Compare off adv part ၅ ၅။ (ပြဲ၊ စစ္ စသည္) ျပလ်က္၊ ျဖစ္လ်က္။ The show was already on when we arrived. ❍ The strike has been on now for six weeks. ❍ There's a war on, you know. ၆။ ျပမည္ (သို႔) ရိွသည္။ Is the match on at 2 pm or 3pm? ❍ The postal strike is still on (ie has not been cancelled). Compare OFF adv part ၄ ၇။ (ေဖ်ာ္ေျဖမႈ အစီအစဥ္ စသည္) ျပေနသည္၊ ရိွသည္။ Look in the TV guide to see what's on. ❍ There's a good play on at the local theatre. ❍ What time is the news on? ၈။ (အစီအစဥ္) ရိွသည္။ Have we got anything on (ie any plans, appointments, etc) for this evening? ၉။ (က) (ေဖ်ာ္ေျဖမႈ အစီအစဥ္) ရိွသည္။ I'm on in five minutes. ❍ What time is the group on? Compare off adv part ၉ (ခ) (အလုပ္) ဝင္သည္၊ ဝင္မည္။ တာဝန္ခ်ိန္ျဖစ္သည္။ The night nurse is/ goes on at 7pm. Compare OFF adv part ၇ ၁၀။ (ယာဥ္ ေပၚသို႔) တက္သည္။ The bus driver waited until everybody was on. ❍ Four people got on. ၁၁။ (ေခါင္းခ်င္း) ဆိုင္။ (ေဘး) တိုက္။ enter the harbour broadside on ❍ The cars crashed head on. ❏ be on [ IDM ] ( infml esp Brit ) လက္ေတြ႕က်သည္။ မွန္ကန္သည္။ လက္ခံသည္။ That just isn't on. ❍ You're on (ie I accept the bet, suggestion, etc)! ❏ be on (for sth) [ IDM ] ( infml ) ပါဝင္သည္။ Are you on for tomorrow's game? ❏ be/ go/ keep on about sth [ IDM ] ( infml derog ) ခိုညည္းသလို ညည္းသည္ (သို႔) ေတာင္စဥ္ေရမရ ေျပာသည္။ What's he on about now? ❏ be/ go/ keep on at sb (to do sth) [ IDM ] ( infml derog ) နားပူသည္။ He was on at me again to lend him money. ❍ They kept on at him until he confessed. သူဝန္မခံမခ်င္း စစ္ေၾကာ ေမးျမန္းၾကသည္။ Compare BE ONTO SB (ONTO) ❏ on and on [ IDM ] မရပ္မနား။ အဆက္မျပတ္။ ဆက္တိုက္။ He kept moaning on and on. ❏ on to prep = ONTO

Examples

1. Chad was asleep on the floor in a heap of blankets.
2. He left a note for you on the kitchen table.
3. Who was the first man on the moon?
4. Jimmy sat on a high stool with his hands on the table.
5. Alanis dropped her books on the desk.
6. We could hear the rain falling on the roof.
7. There were several interesting posters on the wall.
8. He had a lot of blood on his arm.
9. The key is hanging on a hook in the hall.
10. Evelyn leaned over and kissed him on the cheek.
11. What kind of paper was the letter typed on?
12. Can you see what’s written on the blackboard?
13. He’s coming home on Wednesday.
14. My birthday is on the 27th of November.
15. They met on a rainy day in January.
16. He propped himself up on an elbow and looked me in the eye.
17. She gets down on her knees every night and prays for her family.
18. Can you skate backwards on one leg?
19. The house was built on a beautiful piece of land.
20. A school on the outskirts of Glasgow
21. The princess is buried on a small island.
22. Wilson spent his childhood on a farm in Ireland.
23. Gordie’s grandparents live on Crescent Drive.
24. A small village on the east coast of Scotland
25. A town on the Mississippi
26. The hotel stands on the water’s edge just outside Henley.
27. The future of the charity will be one of the items on the agenda.
28. My name’s not on the list of candidates – why not?
29. I cut my hand on a piece of glass from the broken window.
30. She bumped her head really hard on the door.
31. Come on
32. put your socks on
33. you’ll be late for school.
34. She had on a simple silk dress with a pattern of roses.
35. She was wearing a ring on the third finger of her left hand.
36. You look funny with glasses on.
37. Hannah fixed her grey eyes on me once again.
38. He kept his eyes on the flickering flames.
39. Eastenders is on TV tonight.
40. I usually listen to the news on the radio while I’m driving to work.
41. What time is the football match on?
42. There’s a wedding on in the church.
43. I have to write a report on the Civil War for homework.
44. A conference on language teaching
45. Students should be offered accurate information on subjects like sex and contraception.
46. They talked on through the night.
47. Read on to find out the rest of the story.
48. I stayed on after everyone else had left.
49. He kept on saying ‘Where are the kids?’ over and over again.
50. We can’t go on putting more and more taxpayers’ money into these projects without giving them some results.
51. They walked on beside the river to a cafe they knew.
52. When I didn’t know the answer
53. the teacher kindly moved on to the next student.
54. We got on the train at Bournville.
55. I’ll get some work done while I’m on the plane.
56. Much of the work is done on computer.
57. I recorded our conversation on my tape recorder.
58. The film was released on DVD last month.
59. I bought the album on tape when it first came out in 1996.
60. Is the heating on? I’m freezing.
61. She had left her light on and I went in to turn it off.
62. When you turn the computer on
63. it goes through a procedure called booting.
64. He has been going on expeditions since he was eleven years old.
65. I’ll take you on a tour of the factory.
66. I met him when I was on a Mediterranean cruise.
67. She’s on antibiotics for a mild eye infection.
68. Some of the young people were obviously high on drugs.
69. There are only three directors on the board.
70. Mr Cook was strongly criticized by some of the MPs on the committee.
71. I’m glad to have a player like you on our team.
72. On being made aware of complaints
73. he informed the committee.
74. They exchanged a firm handshake on parting.
75. Report to the reception desk on arrival.
76. Using a cave as shelter
77. the two men survived on wild berries and raw fish.
78. He lives on a diet of coffee and cigarettes.
79. [run on something] : Why can’t they make a car that runs on water?
80. This video recorder runs on batteries.
81. He was just managing to survive on a small student grant.
82. The 1.3 billion who live on less than £1 a day have waited far too long for these changes.
83. How to travel around Europe on £40 a day.
84. The rough weather had little effect on the ship.
85. The attacks on Walters in the newspaper have been entirely unfair.
86. Call us on 0800 0900017.
87. Subscriptions are down by 66
88. 000 on last year and that is a serious situation.
89. This would be a significant improvement on the £15 million profit figure achieved last time.
90. Drink up! The next round’s on me.
91. Wait! She’ll be on in a couple of seconds.