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prépositionadjectifcourant dans les dialogues

  • Royaume-Uni//ˈɒn.tuː//
  • Écosse//ˈɔn.tʉ//
  • //ˈɑn.tu//
  • //ˈɔn.tu//

Arriving upon or on top of (speaking of a physical or metaphorical movement).

préposition

  1. 1

    Arriving upon or on top of (speaking of a physical or metaphorical movement).

    My cat just jumped onto the keyboard.

    A new drug has just come onto the market.

    Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.

    That original list of 2,315 solutions was embedded in the game’s code. That means the game was playable offline and could be downloaded onto phones or computers. The solutions to the original Wordle game were predetermined through October 20, 2027. The New York Times (NYT) hasn’t said if it plans to make any more changes or additions to that initial list.

  2. 2

    familierAware of.

    The thought-police were onto my plans of world domination.

  3. 3

    Being an onto function with a codomain of (see below).

    The exponential function maps the set of real numbers onto the set of positive real numbers.

Étymologie

From on + to, after into. Compare Saterland Frisian antou (“up to”).

adjectif

  1. 1

    Attaining each of the values in its codomain; having its image equal to its codomain.

    Considered as a function on the real numbers, the exponential function is not onto, as it never takes on values less than or equal to zero.

Les pages voisinesL'ordre alphabétique suit les règles de la langue, pas la valeur des octets : un accent ne départage que deux mots par ailleurs identiques, et l'espagnol range le Ñ comme une lettre à part entière.

Contenu lexical issu du Wiktionary, sous licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · Entrée d'origine · Version des données 2026-08-23

Rang parmi les mots du corpus OpenSubtitles 2018 — des sous-titres de films et de séries, donc de la langue parlée et non écrite (CC BY-SA 3.0).