run-on

run-on
adjective
(verse) without a rhetorical pause between lines
• Ant: ↑end-stopped

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I. \\ˈ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷\ adjective
Etymology: from run on, past participle of run on
: continuing without rhetorical pause from one line of verse into another : characterized by enjambment — contrasted with end-stopped
II. \\ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷\ noun (-s)
: something (as a dictionary entry) that is run on

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/run"on', -awn'/, adj.
1. of or designating something that is added or run on: a run-on entry in a dictionary.
2. Pros. (of a line of verse) having a thought that carries over to the next line, esp. without a syntactical break.
n.
3. run-on matter.
4. Auto. after-run.
[1900-05; adj., n. use of v. phrase run on]

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run-onˈ adjective
In verse, carrying the sense on beyond the end of the line (see also ↑run on below)
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Main Entry: ↑run

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run-on «RUHN ON, -N», adjective, noun.
–adj.
1. Printing. a) continued or added without a break at the end: »

Run-on chapters may begin anywhere on a page.

b) = run-in. (Cf. ↑run-in)
2. Prosody. continuing without pause from one line of verse to another.
–n.
1. Printing. matter to be run on.
2. = run-on entry. (Cf. ↑run-on entry)

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adj.
1) [attrib.] denoting a line of verse in which a sentence is continued without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza
2) (of a sentence) containing two or more independent clauses that are not separated by a colon or semicolon

his sentences were often run-on or confused


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