MOVE ON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does move on mean? 

• MOVE ON (verb)
  The verb MOVE ON has 1 sense:

1. move forward, also in the metaphorical sense

  Familiarity information: MOVE ON used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOVE ON (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Move forward, also in the metaphorical sense

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

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

Context example:

Time marches on

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:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

“We had better move on, Mr. Weston,” said she, “we are detaining the girls.”

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Researchers have closely studied how cells move on 2-D surfaces, such as tissue culture plates.

(New Mechanism of Cell Movement Revealed, NIH)

Active materials are those that move on their own.

(Tiny swimming 'doughnuts' deliver the biomedical goods, National Science Foundation)

Now, then! Move on, there, move on!

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Steiner is the fifth man you’ve lost since I signed on with you, and I know the name of the sixth if I don’t get a move on.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The doctor stopped outright, although he did not speak, and it was some seconds before he seemed able to move on.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

"Must I move on, sir?" I asked.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

"You've got to cut it short. Be sure and lock the front door. I'll go out the back. Get a move on!"

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Now let’s move on to November, which will have an enormous, positive emphasis on your career.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

I feel like a novice lumbering through a bog in a mist, jumping from one tussock to another in the mere blind effort to move on without knowing where I am going.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)