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Definition of Run-on
1. Adjective. (verse) without a rhetorical pause between lines.
Definition of Run-on
1. Adjective. Continuing on where a rhetorical pause would be more appropriate. ¹
2. Noun. A run-on sentence. ¹
3. Noun. Any thing that runs on, as a run-on entry in a dictionary. ¹
4. Noun. (context: machining) The period when a power saw or other tool continues to run after being powered off. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Run-on
Literary usage of Run-on
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"The contract might run on to the expiration of the patent, or it might be terminated
the next day. There is nothing from which it can be inferred that the ..."
2. Annual Report by New Jersey Civil Service Commission (1908)
"They are run on ... all are through cars run on 30-minute headway. Two cars
required on this schedule, the first car leaving Franklin square at 0 am, ..."
3. Money and Banking: Illustrated by American History by Horace White (1911)
"On the following day there was a run on it by depositors, and it" closed its ...
On the 23d a run on the Trust Company of America began, and the bankers ..."
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