Wiktionary
a. Continuing on where a rhetorical pause would be more appropriate. n. 1 A run-on sentence. 2 Any thing that runs on, as a run-on entry in a dictionary. 3 (context machining English) The period when a power saw or other tool continues to run after being power#Verbed off.
WordNet
adj. (verse) without a rhetorical pause between lines [ant: end-stopped]
Wikipedia
In hydrology, run-on refers to surface runoff from an external area that flows on to an area of interest. A portion of run-on can infiltrate once it reaches the area of interest. Run-on is common in arid and semi-arid areas with patchy vegetation cover and short but intense thunderstorms. In these environments, surface runoff is usually generated by a failure of rainfall to infiltrate into the ground quickly enough (this runoff is termed infiltration excess overland flow). This is more likely to occur on bare soil, with low infiltration capacity. As runoff flows downslope, it may run-on to ground with higher infiltration capacity (such as beneath vegetation) and then infiltrate.
Run-on is an important process in the hydrological and ecohydrological behaviour of semi-arid ecosystems. Tiger bush is an example of a vegetation community that develops a patterned structure in response to, in part, the generation of runoff and run-on.
Run On or run-on may refer to:
- Run-on, in hydrology, the process or measure of surface water infiltration
- Run-on sentence, a grammatical construction
- Nuclear run-on, a test to identify genes
- Run On (band)
- " God's Gonna Cut You Down" (also known as "Run On" or "Run On for a Long Time"), a folk song covered by many artists
Usage examples of "run-on".
I read the note twice, my mind blank except for a clinical and bemused response to all the misspellings and run-on sentences.
Away from home, liberated from my responsibility for meals, my unexecuted calculations steal into my dreams like engine run-on and leave me blithering with this diminished store of nurture and the fact of my unpreparedness.
His senses on overload, it sounded like one long run-on sentence spoken by many voices without any taking a breath.
It didn't matter that there was no signature at the bottomLisa June recognized the bloated phrasing, the comical misspellings, the plodding run-on sentences.
It didn't matter that there was no signature at the bottom—Lisa June recognized the bloated phrasing, the comical misspellings, the plodding run-on sentences.