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Scrabble Points: | Base[2] | DW[4] | TW[6]
WWF Points: | Base[3] | DW[6] | TW[9]

1. Being in operation: The television is on.

2. Under or behaving as if under observation: A minister is always on.

3. Informal Functioning or performing at a high degree of competence or energy: The goalie is really on.

4. Planned; intended: We have nothing much on for this weekend.

5. Happening; taking place: The parade is on.

6. Baseball Having reached base safely; on base: Two runners are on.

1. In or into a position or condition of being supported by or in contact with something: Put the coffee on.

2. In or into a position of being attached to or covering something: Put your clothes on.

3. In the direction of something: He looked on while the ship docked.

4. Toward or at a point lying ahead in space or time; forward: The play moved on to the next city.

5. In a continuous course: He worked on quietly.

6. In or into performance or operation: Turn on the radio.

7. In progress or action; in a state of activity: The show must go on.

8. In or at the present position or condition: stay on; hang on.

9. In a condition of being scheduled for or decided upon: There is a party on tonight.

1. on and off Intermittently.

2. on and on Without stopping; continuously.

1. Used to indicate position above and supported by or in contact with: The vase is on the table. We rested on our hands and knees.

2. Used to indicate contact with or extent over (a surface) regardless of position: a picture on the wall; a rash on my back.

3. Used to indicate location at or along: the pasture on the south side of the river; a house on the highway.

4. Used to indicate proximity: a town on the border.

5. Used to indicate attachment to or suspension from: beads on a string.

6. Used to indicate figurative or abstract position: on the young side, but experienced; on her third beer; stopped on chapter two.

7. Used to indicate actual motion toward, against, or onto: jumped on the table; the march on Washington.

8. Used to indicate occurrence at a given time: on July third; every hour on the hour.

9. Used to indicate the particular occasion or circumstance: On entering the room, she saw him.

10. Used to indicate the object affected by actual, perceptible action: The spotlight fell on the actress. He knocked on the door.

11. Used to indicate the object affected by a figurative action: Have pity on them.

12. Used to indicate the object of an action directed, tending, or moving against it: an attack on the fortress.

13. Used to indicate the object of perception or thought: gazed on the vista; meditated on his actions.

14. Used to indicate the agent or agency of a specified action: cut his foot on the broken glass; talked on the telephone.

15. Used to indicate a medicine or other corrective taken or undertaken routinely: went on a strict diet.

16. Used to indicate a substance that is the cause of an addiction, a habit, or an altered state of consciousness: high on dope.

17. Used to indicate a source or basis: "We will reach our judgments not on intentions or on promises but on deeds and on results” ( Margaret Thatcher).

18. Used to indicate a source of power or energy: The car runs on methane.

19. Used to indicate the state or process of: on leave; on fire; on the way.

20. Used to indicate the purpose of: travel on business.

21. Used to indicate a means of conveyance: ride on a train.

22. Used to indicate availability by means of: beer on tap; a physician on call.

23. Used to indicate belonging to: a nurse on the hospital staff.

24. Used to indicate addition or repetition: heaped error on error.

25. Concerning; about: a book on astronomy.

26. Concerning and to the disadvantage of: We have some evidence on him.

27. At the expense of; compliments of: drinks on the house.

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