English Dictionary

run on

verb

(idiomatic) To continue without interruption / Using a certain time zone. / (idiomatic) To continue talking for a long time. / To operate with a particular energy source.

I can't believe the meeting ran on for three hours!

意味（1）

(idiomatic) To continue without interruption

We can't afford for the performance to run on for more than the specified time.

意味（2）

Using a certain time zone.

I was still running on daylight savings time.

意味（3）

(idiomatic) To continue talking for a long time.

She ran on and wouldn't let anyone get a word in edgeways.

意味（4）

To operate with a particular energy source.

This car runs on bio-alcohol.

意味（5）

To make numerous drafts or demands for payment, as upon a bank.

Accordingly, depositors may run on a bank upon the receipt of adverse economic news that induces them to revise their assessment of a bank's soundness.

意味（6）

(printing, historical) To carry on or continue (e.g. the type for a new sentence) without making a break or commencing a new paragraph.

意味（7）

(transitive, dated) To press with jokes or ridicule; to abuse with sarcasm; to bear hard on.