MOVE ON

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Move forward, also in the metaphorical sense

Example:

Time marches on

Synonyms:

advance; go on; march on; move on; pass on; progress

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "move on" is one way to...):

go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "move on"):

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)

Sentence frames:

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Credits

Context examples:

Some men are born to good luck: all they do or try to do comes right—all that falls to them is so much gain—all their geese are swans—all their cards are trumps—toss them which way you will, they will always, like poor puss, alight upon their legs, and only move on so much the faster.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Every joint of it was well grooved; and the door did not move on hinges, but up and down like a sash, which kept my closet so tight that very little water came in.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Get a move on, or we are done!

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Just as there are elements which rest, yet when in nature's course they move on their way and they touch—then pouf! and there comes a flash of light, heaven wide, that blind and kill and destroy some; but that show up all earth below for leagues and leagues.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It is always the way of events in this life, he continued presently: no sooner have you got settled in a pleasant resting-place, than a voice calls out to you to rise and move on, for the hour of repose is expired.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Before I move on to discuss the new moon, I want to make you aware of a very special date, March 20, when Mars will conjoin Jupiter, a once in two-year event that always happens in a different sign.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

At last he was persuaded to move on from the front of the Crown; and being now almost facing the house where the Bateses lodged, Emma recollected his intended visit the day before, and asked him if he had paid it.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)