"go on" | Definition and Related Words

go on

Verb

Continue a certain state, condition, or activity (synset 202690747)
"Keep on working!"; "We continued to work into the night"; "Keep smiling"; "We went on working until well past midnight"

is a type of: act, move - perform an action, or work out or perform (an action)
subtypes:
- hold - remain in a certain state, position, or condition
- keep going, run on - continue uninterrupted
- ride - continue undisturbed and without interference
same as: continue, go along, keep, proceed
verb group:
- bear on, carry on, continue, preserve, uphold - keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last
- continue - continue after an interruption
Come to pass (synset 200340744)
"What is happening?"; "The meeting took place off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important"
subtypes:
- break, develop, recrudesce - happen
- arise, come up - result or issue
- result - come about or follow as a consequence
- intervene - occur between other event or between certain points of time
- transpire - come about, happen, or occur
- give - occur
- supervene - take place as an additional or unexpected development
- go, proceed - follow a certain course
- come - come to pass; arrive, as in due course
- fall - occur at a specified time or place
- anticipate - be a forerunner of or occur earlier than
- develop - be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest
- recur, repeat - happen or occur again
- come off, go off, go over - happen in a particular manner
- come around, roll around - happen regularly
- happen, materialise, materialize - come into being; become reality
- bechance, befall, happen - happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance
- bechance, befall, betide - become of; happen to
- coincide, concur - happen simultaneously
- backfire, backlash, recoil - come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect
- chance - be the case by chance
- break - happen or take place
- fall, shine, strike - touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly
- turn out - prove to be in the result or end
- contemporise, contemporize, synchronise, synchronize - happen at the same time
same as: come about, fall out, hap, happen, occur, pass, pass off, take place
Move forward, also in the metaphorical sense (synset 201996535)
"Time marches on"

is a type of: go, locomote, move, travel - change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
subtypes:
- forge - move ahead steadily
- penetrate - make one's way deeper into or through
- creep up, sneak up - advance stealthily or unnoticed
- encroach, impinge, infringe - advance beyond the usual limit
- plough on, press on, push on - continue moving forward
- string, string along - move or come along
- overhaul, overtake, pass - travel past
- close in, draw in - advance or converge on
- edge, inch - advance slowly, as if by inches
- rachet up, ratchet, ratchet down - move by degrees in one direction only
- elapse, glide by, go along, go by, lapse, pass, slide by, slip away, slip by - pass by
same as: advance, march on, move on, pass on, progress
Continue talking (synset 200783045)
"`I know it's hard', he continued, `but there is no choice'"; "carry on--pretend we are not in the room"

is a type of: speak, talk - exchange thoughts; talk with
subtypes:
- segue - proceed without interruption; in music or talk
- jog, ramble, ramble on - continue talking or writing in a desultory manner
same as: carry on, continue, proceed
Start running, functioning, or operating (synset 201529393)
"the lights went on"; "the computer came up"

is a type of: get going, go, start - begin or set in motion

same as: come on, come up

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