Go

[gəʊ] or [go]

Definition

(noun.) a board game for two players who place counters on a grid; the object is to surround and so capture the opponent's counters.

(noun.) a time for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else); 'it's my go'; 'a spell of work'.

(verb.) be abolished or discarded; 'These ugly billboards have to go!'; 'These luxuries all had to go under the Khmer Rouge'.

(verb.) be spent; 'All my money went for food and rent'.

(verb.) move away from a place into another direction; 'Go away before I start to cry'; 'The train departs at noon'.

(verb.) follow a procedure or take a course; 'We should go farther in this matter'; 'She went through a lot of trouble'; 'go about the world in a certain manner'; 'Messages must go through diplomatic channels'.

(verb.) pass, fare, or elapse; of a certain state of affairs or action; 'How is it going?'; 'The day went well until I got your call'.

(verb.) be or continue to be in a certain condition; 'The children went hungry that day'.

(verb.) be awarded; be allotted; 'The first prize goes to Mary'; 'Her money went on clothes'.

(verb.) lead, extend, or afford access; 'This door goes to the basement'; 'The road runs South'.

(verb.) be ranked or compare; 'This violinist is as good as Juilliard-trained violinists go'.

(verb.) be sounded, played, or expressed; 'How does this song go again?'.

(verb.) be contained in; 'How many times does 18 go into 54?'.

(adj.) functioning correctly and ready for action; 'all systems are go' .

Editor: Michel--From WordNet

Definition

(p. p.) Gone.

(v. i.) To pass from one place to another; to be in motion; to be in a state not motionless or at rest; to proceed; to advance; to make progress; -- used, in various applications, of the movement of both animate and inanimate beings, by whatever means, and also of the movements of the mind; also figuratively applied.

(v. i.) To move upon the feet, or step by step; to walk; also, to walk step by step, or leisurely.

(v. i.) To be passed on fron one to another; to pass; to circulate; hence, with for, to have currency; to be taken, accepted, or regarded.

(v. i.) To proceed or happen in a given manner; to fare; to move on or be carried on; to have course; to come to an issue or result; to succeed; to turn out.

(v. i.) To proceed or tend toward a result, consequence, or product; to tend; to conduce; to be an ingredient; to avail; to apply; to contribute; -- often with the infinitive; as, this goes to show.

(v. i.) To apply one's self; to set one's self; to undertake.

(v. i.) To proceed by a mental operation; to pass in mind or by an act of the memory or imagination; -- generally with over or through.

(v. i.) To be with young; to be pregnant; to gestate.

(v. i.) To move from the person speaking, or from the point whence the action is contemplated; to pass away; to leave; to depart; -- in opposition to stay and come.

(v. i.) To pass away; to depart forever; to be lost or ruined; to perish; to decline; to decease; to die.

(v. i.) To reach; to extend; to lead; as, a line goes across the street; his land goes to the river; this road goes to New York.

(v. i.) To have recourse; to resort; as, to go to law.

(v. t.) To take, as a share in an enterprise; to undertake or become responsible for; to bear a part in.

(v. t.) To bet or wager; as, I'll go you a shilling.

(n.) Act; working; operation.

(n.) A circumstance or occurrence; an incident.

(n.) The fashion or mode; as, quite the go.

(n.) Noisy merriment; as, a high go.

(n.) A glass of spirits.

(n.) Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance; push; as, there is no go in him.

(n.) That condition in the course of the game when a player can not lay down a card which will not carry the aggregate count above thirty-one.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

v. n. [1]. Move, pass, proceed, advance, make progress, go on.[2]. Walk, go on foot.[3]. Travel, journey.[4]. Depart, set out, go away.[5]. Reach, extend.[6]. Contribute, concur, tend, avail, have effect, be of use, be of service.[7]. Fare, eventuate, turn out.[8]. Be considered, be reckoned, be esteemed.[9]. Be about, be on the point.

interj. Begone, avaunt, aroynt, get you gone, be off, go along, off with you, get along with you, go your way, go about your business.

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Definition

v.i. to pass from one place to another: to be in motion: to proceed: to walk: to depart from: to lead in any direction: to extend: to tend: to be about to do: to pass in report: to pass as in payment: to be accounted in value: to happen in a particular way: to turn out: to fare: to give way:—pr.p. gō′ing; pa.t. went; pa.p. gone (gon).—n. affair matter as in 'a pretty go:' fashion as in 'all the go:' energy activity.—adj. Go′-ahead′ dashing energetic.—ns. Go′-between′ Gō′er-between′ (Shak.) one who is agent between two parties; Go′-by escape by artifice: evasion: any intentional disregard: in coursing the act of passing by or ahead in motion.—adj. Go-to-meet′ing (coll.) used of clothes good and fit for public use.—Go about (B.) to set one's self about: to seek: to endeavour; Go about one's business to attend to one's duties: to be off; Go abroad to go to a foreign country: to leave one's house; Go against to invade: to be repugnant to; Go aside to err: to withdraw retire; Go at to attack; Go beyond (B.) to overreach; Go down to sink decline: to be believed or accepted; Go far to last long; Go for to pass for: to attack: to take up a line of policy; Go for nothing to have no value; Go hard with to be in real difficulty or danger; Go in and out to come and go freely; Go in for to be in favour of: to aim after; Go in unto to have sexual intercourse with; Go it to act in a striking or dashing manner—often in imperative by way of encouragement; Go off to leave: to die: to explode: to fade; Go on to proceed; Go one better to take a bet and add another more to it: to excel another in fitness for some purpose; Go one's way to depart; Go out to become extinct or expire; Go over to study to examine; Go the whole hog to go to the fullest extent; Go through to perform thoroughly to accomplish; Go through fire and water to undertake any trouble or risks for one's end (from the usage in ancient ordeals); Go to come now (a kind of interjection like the L. agedum the Gr. ἄγε νυν); Go to pieces to break up entirely to be dismembered; Go to the wall to be pushed aside passed by; Go under to be called by some title or character: to be overwhelmed or ruined to die; Go well to prosper; Go with to accompany: to agree accord; Go without saying to be plainly self-evident (Fr. Cela va sans dire).—Great go a degree examination compared with Little go a preliminary examination in the university of Cambridge; Let go to release to quit hold of; No go not possible: of no use.

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