onto

See also: ónto, ontó, öntő, on to, onto-, and -onto

English

Alternative forms

• on to (UK, Ireland and Commonwealth countries including Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, etc.)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (stressed)
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɒn.tuː/

    • Audio (Southern England):

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  • (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɔn.tu/
  • (Northern US or cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈɑn.tu/
• (UK) (unstressed, before consonants) IPA^(key): /ˈɒn.tə/
  • (US) (unstressed, before consonants) IPA^(key): /ˈɔn.tə/
  • (Northern US or cot–caught merger, unstressed form, before consonants) IPA^(key): /ˈɑn.tə/
• (UK) (unstressed, before vowels) IPA^(key): /ˈɒn.tʊ/
  • (US) (unstressed, before vowels) IPA^(key): /ˈɔn.tʊ/
  • (Northern US or cot–caught merger, unstressed form, before vowels) IPA^(key): /ˈɑn.tʊ/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: on‧to
• Rhymes: (unstressed, before consonants) -ɒntə

Preposition

onto

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Onto (mathematics)

Wikipedia

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

   Antonyms: off, (colloquial) off of

   My cat just jumped onto the keyboard.

   A new drug has just come onto the market.

   • 2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 70:

     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.

   • 2022 February 15, David Goldman, “Why your Wordle answers might now be different than your friends’”, in CNN Business‎:

     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. (informal) Aware of.

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

3. (mathematics) 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.

Derived terms

• back onto
• be onto
• be onto something
• call onto the carpet
• clock onto
• come onto
• cop onto
• cotton onto
• crack onto
• freeze onto
• get onto
• glomb onto
• glom onto
• glomp onto
• hang onto
• hang onto your hat
• hold onto
• hold onto your hat
• jump onto
• latch onto
• log onto
• map onto
• mitten onto
• onto function
• put onto
• set onto
• sign onto
• stumble onto
• wig onto

Translations

upon; on top of

Albanian: please add this translation if you can Arabic: عَلَى (ar) (ʕalā) Egyptian Arabic: على (ʕala), عـ (ʕa) Bulgarian: върху (bg) (vǎrhu), на (bg) (na) Czech: please add this translation if you can Danish: please add this translation if you can Dutch: please add this translation if you can Esperanto: sur (eo) (with -n) Estonian: please add this translation if you can Faroese: please add this translation if you can Finnish: -lle (fi) (allative case); (+ genitive) päälle (fi) French: sur (fr) German: auf (de) Gothic: 𐌰𐌽𐌰 (ana) (+ accusative) Greek: Ancient: ἐπί (epí) (+ accusative) Hebrew: על (he) (al) Hungarian: please add this translation if you can Icelandic: ofan á, á (is) Ido: adsur (io) Igbo: please add this translation if you can Indonesian: please add this translation if you can Irish: ar Italian: su (it) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: ser (ku) Ladin: please add this translation if you can Ladino: please add this translation if you can Lala-Roba: please add this translation if you can Latvian: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can Maltese: please add this translation if you can Marathi: -च्या वर (-cyā var) Norwegian: Norwegian Bokmål: please add this translation if you can Norwegian Nynorsk: please add this translation if you can Occitan: subre (oc), sus (oc), sobre (oc) Polish: na (pl) Portuguese: sobre (pt), no (pt) m, na (pt) f Russian: на (ru) (na) Slovak: please add this translation if you can Slovene: please add this translation if you can Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: na Spanish: sobre (es) Swahili: please add this translation if you can Swedish: upp på Turkish: üstünde (tr), üstüne (tr) Veps: please add this translation if you can Volapük: please add this translation if you can Võro: please add this translation if you can Votic: allative case Welsh: ar (cy)

Adjective

onto (not comparable)

1. (mathematics, of a function) Attaining each of the values in its codomain; having its image equal to its codomain.

   Synonym: surjective

   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.

Translations

surjective — see surjective

See also

• (mathematics): one-to-one, injective, bijective

See also

• unto

Anagrams

• Noto, Toon, noot, noto-, oont, tono-, toon

Kankanaey

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʔonˈto/ [ʔʊnˈto]
• (Tadian) IPA^(key): /ʔonˈto/ [ʔʊnˈto]
• Rhymes: -o
• Syllabification: on‧to

Noun

ontó

1. vegetable

References

• Morice Vanoverbergh (1933), “ontó”, in A Dictionary of Lepanto Igorot or Kankanay. As it is spoken at Bauco (Linguistische Anthropos-Bibliothek; XII)‎, Mödling bei Wien, St. Gabriel, Österreich: Verlag der Internationalen Zeitschrift „Anthropos“, →OCLC, page 328

Mansaka

Etymology

From untu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *quntu.

Noun

onto

1. tooth