get onto en · VERB
Meanings
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To contact a person or organisation about a particular matter.
You should get onto the manufacturers and complain.
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To connect, especially to the Internet or a network.
With my new computer, I can get onto the Internet faster.
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(transitive) To scold someone; to pressure someone; to criticize someone.
My father got onto me for taking the car without asking.
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(ditransitive, informal) To introduce someone to something.
My mum got me onto this new diet and I've lost 5 kilos in the past two weeks.
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(informal) To take a look at someone or something.
Hey, get onto the dog and cat playing together.
“Get onto the bloke with the face fringe.”
1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 90:
- (informal, slang, transitive) To believe or suspect something; to understand or come to understand something; to realize something.
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, onto.
The child will get onto the merry-go-round.
That cat's on the house again. How does it get onto the roof?
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| gotten onto | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | Australia, US | lexicographic |
| gets onto | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| got onto | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | UK | lexicographic |
| got onto | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| getting onto | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |
Relateds
Synonyms
board (to move onto an object) · log on (to connect to a network) · scold (to scold) · reprimand (to scold)
Translations (5)
fi läksyttää (scold someone) · fi mennä kyytiin (move onto an object) · fi yhdistää (connect to the Internet or a network) · fi saada aloittamaan (introduce someone to something) · fi ottaa yhteys (contact a person or organisation)