ON meaning: Positioned at the surface of

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General (29 matching dictionaries)

on: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ON, -on, on: Merriam-Webster
ON, ON, -on, on: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
ON, on: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
-on, on: Collins English Dictionary
on: Vocabulary.com
O'N, ON, On, On, o'n, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, oN: Wordnik
on: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
ON, -on, on, on-: Wiktionary
-on, on: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
-on, on: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
on: Infoplease Dictionary
ON, -on, o.n, on: Dictionary.com
on: Online Etymology Dictionary
on: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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On: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
on: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
on: Rhymezone
on: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
on: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
ON, on: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
on: FreeDictionary.org
on: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
on: Mnemonic Dictionary
ON: TheFreeDictionary.com
on: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)

Paris Cookbook (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)

MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
On: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
On (disambiguation), On: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

On (disambiguation), on: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)

on: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
online medical dictionary (No longer online)
Multiple Sclerosis Encyclopaedia (No longer online)
On (disambiguation), -on, o.n, on: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)

Encyclopedia of the Orient (No longer online)
ON: Acronym Finder
AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
on: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)

On: Easton Bible
On, On: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)

ON: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)

on, on, on: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
on: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
On [the rocker], on: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)

ON: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ adjective:  In the state of being active, functioning or operating.
▸ adjective:  Happening; taking place; being or due to be put into action.
▸ adjective:  (informal) Of a person, used to express agreement to or acceptance of a proposal or challenge made by that person; most commonly with subject "you" (see you're on).
▸ adjective:  Fitted; covering or being worn.
▸ adjective:  (postpositive) Of a stated part of something, oriented towards the viewer or other specified direction.
▸ adjective:  (chiefly UK, informal, usually negative) Acceptable, appropriate.
▸ adjective:  (often negative) Possible; capable of being successfully carried out.
▸ adjective:  (e.g. of points in a game) Available; remaining.
▸ adjective:  (informal) Destined; involved, doomed.
▸ adjective:  (baseball, informal) Having reached a base as a runner and being positioned there, awaiting further action from a subsequent batter.
▸ adjective:  (cricket) Within the half of the field on the same side as the batsman's legs; the left side for a right-handed batsman.
▸ adjective:  (snooker, postpositive) Of a ball, being the next in sequence to be potted, according to the rules of the game.
▸ adjective:  (acting, drama, roleplaying games) Acting in character.
▸ adjective:  (informal, of a person) Performative or funny in a wearying manner.
▸ adjective:  (euphemistic) Menstruating.
▸ adverb:  To an operating state.
▸ adverb:  So as to cover or be fitted.
▸ adverb:  Along, forwards (continuing an action), onwards.
▸ adverb:  In continuation, at length.
▸ adverb:  (obsolete in the US) Later.
▸ adverb:  Of betting odds, denoting a better-than-even chance. See also odds-on.
▸ adverb:  (snooker) Of a ball, into a pottable position.
▸ verb:  (Singapore, Philippines, Malaysia, Nigeria, transitive, colloquial) To switch on.
▸ noun:  In the Japanese language, a pronunciation, or reading, of a kanji character that was originally based on the character's pronunciation in Chinese, contrasted with kun.
▸ noun:  (linguistics) Initialism of Old Norse. [The language of Scandinavia until the 14th century, the common ancestor of modern Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Faroese, and Icelandic.]
▸ noun:  Abbreviation of Ontario, a province of Canada. [A province in eastern Canada. Capital: Toronto.]

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off, inactive, disconnected, idle, disengaged

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