What is "on the road"

On \On\ ([o^]n), prep. [OE. on, an, o, a, AS. on, an; akin to D. aan, OS. & G. an, OHG. ana, Icel. [=a], Sw. [*a], Goth. ana, Russ. na, L. an-, in anhelare to pant, Gr. 'ana`, Zend ana. The general signification of on is situation, motion, or condition with respect to contact or support beneath; as:

1. At, or in contact with, the surface or upper part of a thing, and supported by it; placed or lying in contact with the surface; as, the book lies on the table, which stands on the floor of a house on an island.

   I stood on the bridge at midnight.
   --Longfellow.

2. To or against the surface of; -- used to indicate the motion of a thing as coming or falling to the surface of another; as, rain falls on the earth.

   Whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken.
   --Matt. xxi. 44.

3. Denoting performance or action by contact with the surface, upper part, or outside of anything; hence, by means of; with; as, to play on a violin or piano. Hence, figuratively, to work on one's feelings; to make an impression on the mind.

4. At or near; adjacent to; -- indicating situation, place, or position; as, on the one hand, on the other hand; the fleet is on the American coast.

5. In addition to; besides; -- indicating multiplication or succession in a series; as, heaps on heaps; mischief on mischief; loss on loss; thought on thought.
   --Shak.

6. Indicating dependence or reliance; with confidence in; as, to depend on a person for assistance; to rely on; hence, indicating the ground or support of anything; as, he will promise on certain conditions; to bet on a horse; based on certain assumptions.

7. At or in the time of; during; as, on Sunday we abstain from labor. See At (synonym).

8. At the time of; -- often conveying some notion of cause or motive; as, on public occasions, the officers appear in full dress or uniform; the shop is closed on Sundays. Hence, in consequence of, or following; as, on the ratification of the treaty, the armies were disbanded; start on the count of three.

9. Toward; for; -- indicating the object of some passion; as, have pity or compassion on him.

10. At the peril of, or for the safety of. ``Hence, on thy life.''
    --Dryden.

11. By virtue of; with the pledge of; -- denoting a pledge or engagement, and put before the thing pledged; as, he affirmed or promised on his word, or on his honor.

12. To the account of; -- denoting imprecation or invocation, or coming to, falling, or resting upon; as, on us be all the blame; a curse on him.

    His blood be on us and on our children.
    --Matt. xxvii. 25.

13. In reference or relation to; as, on our part expect punctuality; a satire on society.

14. Of. [Obs.] ``Be not jealous on me.''
    --Shak.

    Or have we eaten on the insane root That takes the reason prisoner?
    --Shak.

    Note: Instances of this usage are common in our older writers, and are sometimes now heard in illiterate speech.

15. Occupied with; in the performance of; as, only three officers are on duty; on a journey; on the job; on an assignment; on a case; on the alert.

16. In the service of; connected with; a member of; as, he is on a newspaper; on a committee.

    Note: On and upon are in general interchangeable. In some applications upon is more euphonious, and is therefore to be preferred; but in most cases on is preferable.

17. In reference to; about; concerning; as, to think on it; to meditate on it.

    On a bowline. (Naut.) Same as Closehauled.

    On a wind, or On the wind (Naut.), sailing closehauled.

    On a sudden. See under Sudden.

    On board, On draught, On fire, etc. See under Board, Draught, Fire, etc.

    On it, On't, of it. [Obs. or Colloq.]
    --Shak.

    On shore, on land; to the shore.

    On the road, On the way, On the wing, etc. See under Road, Way, etc.

    On to, upon; on; to; -- sometimes written as one word, onto, and usually called a colloquialism; but it may be regarded in analogy with into.

    They have added the -en plural form on to an elder plural.
    --Earle.

    We see the strength of the new movement in the new class of ecclesiastics whom it forced on to the stage.
    --J. R. Green.

Road \Road\ (r[=o]), n. [AS. r[=a]d a riding, that on which one rides or travels, a road, fr. r[=i]dan to ride. See Ride, and cf. Raid.]

1. A journey, or stage of a journey. [Obs.]

   With easy roads he came to Leicester.
   --Shak.

2. An inroad; an invasion; a raid. [Obs.]
   --Spenser.

3. A place where one may ride; an open way or public passage for vehicles, persons, and animals; a track for travel, forming a means of communication between one city, town, or place, and another.

   The most villainous house in all the London road.
   --Shak.

   Note: The word is generally applied to highways, and as a generic term it includes highway, street, and lane.

4. [Possibly akin to Icel. rei[eth]i the rigging of a ship, E. ready.] A place where ships may ride at anchor at some distance from the shore; a roadstead; -- often in the plural; as, Hampton Roads.
   --Shak.

   Now strike your saile, ye jolly mariners, For we be come unto a quiet rode [road].
   --Spenser.

   On the road, or Uponthe road, traveling or passing over a road; coming or going; traveling; on the way.

   My hat and wig will soon be here, They are upon the road.
   --Cowper.

   Road agent, a highwayman, especially on the stage routes of the unsettled western parts of the United States; -- a humorous euphemism. [Western U.S.]

   The highway robber -- road agent he is quaintly called.
   --The century.

   Road book, a guidebook in respect to roads and distances.

   road kill See roadkill in the vocabulary.

   Road metal, the broken, stone used in macadamizing roads.

   Road roller, a heavy roller, or combinations of rollers, for making earth, macadam, or concrete roads smooth and compact. -- often driven by steam.

   Road runner (Zo["o]l.), the chaparral cock.

   Road steamer, a locomotive engine adapted to running on common roads.

   To go on the road, to engage in the business of a commercial traveler. [Colloq.]

   To take the road, to begin or engage in traveling.

   To take to the road, to engage in robbery upon the highways.

   Syn: Way; highway; street; lane; pathway; route; passage; course. See Way.

n. travelling about; "they took the show on the road"; "they lost all their games on the road" [syn: on tour]

On The Road is a live album (2 LPs, reissued on 1 CD) by English rock band Traffic, released in 1973. Recorded live in Germany, it features the Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory lineup plus extra keyboardist (for live performances) Barry Beckett.

The initial U.S. release of On the Road (Island/Capitol) 1973 was as a single LP consisting of: "The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys" (edited to 15:10), "Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory," "(Sometimes I Feel So) Uninspired" & "Light Up or Leave Me Alone."

The album reached number 40 in the UK and number 29 in the USA.

On the Road is a 1957 novel by Jack Kerouac.

On the Road may also refer to:

On the Road ( Chinese: 向世界出發) is a Cantonese television travel series produced by Television Broadcasts Limited in Hong Kong. The show is currently in its third season.

The meaning of the Chinese title is "Set off to the World", which gives a sense of the start of a journey to different parts of the global, experiencing different cultures and customs of different nations.

On the Road is the third studio album by American country music singer Lee Roy Parnell. It was released October 26, 1993 via Arista Nashville. The album produced four singles for Parnell, all of which charted on Billboard Hot Country Songs: the title track at #6, "I'm Holding My Own" at #3, a cover of the Hank Williams song "Take These Chains from My Heart" at #17, and "The Power of Love" at #51.

On the Road is a novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, based on the travels of Kerouac and his friends across America. It is considered a defining work of the postwar Beat and Counterculture generations, with its protagonists living life against a backdrop of jazz, poetry, and drug use. The novel, published in 1957, is a roman à clef, with many key figures in the Beat movement, such as William S. Burroughs (Old Bull Lee), Allen Ginsberg (Carlo Marx) and Neal Cassady (Dean Moriarty) represented by characters in the book, including Kerouac himself as the narrator Sal Paradise.

The idea for On the Road, Kerouac's second novel, was formed during the late 1940s in a series of notebooks, and then typed out on a continuous reel of paper during three weeks in April 1951. It was first published by Viking Press in 1957. After several film proposals dating from 1957, the book was finally made into a film, On the Road (2012), produced by Francis Ford Coppola and directed by Walter Salles.

When the book was originally released, The New York Times hailed it as "the most beautifully executed, the clearest and the most important utterance yet made by the generation Kerouac himself named years ago as 'beat,' and whose principal avatar he is." In 1998, the Modern Library ranked On the Road 55th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. The novel was chosen by Time magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005.

On the Road is the name given to The String Cheese Incident's taping project that exhaustively documents almost all of their live concerts and presents a refined version of each show's soundboard matrix mix in a three-disc set (also occasionally two or four, depending on a show's length). Starting with their spring 2002 tour, the band has released nearly every concert they have played through their independent record label, SCI Fidelity. At first, the CDs were encased in cardboard folding cases. Starting with the summer 2003 tour, the band switched to multiple-capacity jewel cases, and after a brief run in Denver in early 2004, all shows thereafter have been released exclusively online in both MP3 and FLAC formats, with only a few shows per tour being chosen for release on compact disc.

The band's live output and sales are both so prolific among loyal fans that they recently created a website to separate the sales of online-only shows from shows still available on disc.

"On the Road" is a song written by Bob McDill, and recorded by American country music artist Lee Roy Parnell. It was released in August 1993 as the lead-off single and title track from his album of the same name. It peaked at number 6 in the United States, and number 12 in Canada.

On the Road is a live album by the bluegrass band Country Gentlemen, recorded in 1963. It continues to offer some of the best collection of songs by the first classic lineup of the group. The album originally contained 13 songs, selection from 2 concerts in 1962 and 1963. In 2001, the Smithsonian Folkways re-released the album as a CD with 6 bonus tracks, recorded at Carnegie Hall on September 16, 1961.The album offers blend of folk and bluegrass music, while expanding compositions of Bill Monroe, Ralph Stanley as well as traditional songs to the more progressive bluegrass sound.

On the Road is a 1979 studio album by Count Basie.

At the 23rd Grammy Awards, Count Basie won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Big Band for On the Road.

On the Road is the eighth album released by American comedian George Carlin. It was recorded on October 3, 1976 at the Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California, and released in April 1977. The album was also included as part of the 1999 The Little David Years (1971-1977) box set.

The original LP included a "libretto" - a word-for-word transcript of the album.

On the Road would be Carlin's last album for three years because he suffered a heart attack in 1978 and took some time off afterwards before he would release A Place for My Stuff in 1981.

A warning label that says "R: Recommended Adult Listening" appears on the cover of the album. This was an early example of warning people that albums contain questionable content before the Parental Advisory label was invented.

On the Road is a 2012 adventure drama film directed by Walter Salles. It is an adaptation of Jack Kerouac's 1957 novel of the same name and stars an ensemble cast featuring Garrett Hedlund, Sam Riley, Kristen Stewart, Alice Braga, Amy Adams, Tom Sturridge, Danny Morgan, Elisabeth Moss, Kirsten Dunst, and Viggo Mortensen. The executive producer was Francis Ford Coppola. Filming began on August 4, 2010, in Montreal, Quebec, with a $25 million budget. The story is based on the years Kerouac spent travelling the United States in the late 1940s with his friend Neal Cassady and several other Beat Generation figures who would go on to fame in their own right, including William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg. On May 23, 2012, the film premiered in competition for the Palme d'Or at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. The film received mixed early reviews after it premiered at the film festival. The film also premiered at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival in September.

On the Road is the first DJ mix album by Miss Kittin.

"On the Road" is a single by Canadian country music artist Dick Damron. Released in 1976, it was the second single from his album Soldier of Fortune. The song reached number one on the RPM Country Tracks chart in Canada in March 1976.

On the Road (Czech: "Na cestě") is a documentary travelogue series on Czech Television. It is led by the creative director Mojmír Kučera. Czech Television broadcast it since 2006. Movies of the series cover the lifestyle, habits and the typical features of the regions around the world. Each episode takes 26 minutes and is presented by the voices of Czech actors Jiří Bartoška and Miroslav Donutil.

Category:Czech television series Category:Travel television series

On the Road is a self-published coffee table book written by NASCAR driver Jimmie Johnson and his wife Chandra, with photographs taken by Missy McLamb. It was released in September 2012.

On The Road is an album by The Dubliners released in Europe in 1973.

On the Road is an album by Art Farmer recorded in Los Angeles in 1976 and originally released on the Contemporary label.