get onto
See also: get on to
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]get onto (third-person singular simple present gets onto, present participle getting onto, simple past got onto, past participle (UK) got onto or (US, Australia) gotten onto)
- To contact a person or organisation about a particular matter.
- You should get onto the manufacturers and complain.
- To connect, especially to the Internet or a network.
- With my new computer, I can get onto the Internet faster.
- (transitive) To scold someone; to pressure someone; to criticize someone.
- My father got onto me for taking the car without asking.
- (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.
- (informal) To take a look at someone or something.
- Hey, get onto the dog and cat playing together.
- 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 90:
- “Get onto the bloke with the face fringe.”
- (informal, transitive, slang) To believe or suspect something; to understand or come to understand something; to realize something.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, onto.
- The child will get onto the merry-go-round.
Usage notes
[edit]The usage "to introduce someone to something" always requires an object both before and after onto. The other meanings only require an object after onto.
Synonyms
[edit]Translations
[edit]move onto an object
contact a person or organisation
connect to the Internet or a network
scold someone
introduce someone to something
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