Going
['gəʊɪŋ] or ['ɡoɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) advancing toward a goal; 'persuading him was easy going'; 'the proposal faces tough sledding'.
(adj.) in full operation; 'a going concern' .
Typist: Malcolm--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Go
(n.) The act of moving in any manner; traveling; as, the going is bad.
(n.) Departure.
(n.) Pregnancy; gestation; childbearing.
(n.) Course of life; behavior; doings; ways.
Edited by Henry
Definition
n. the act of moving: departure: (B.) course of life.—Going forth (B.) an outlet; Goings or Goings out (B.) utmost extremity: departures or journeys; Goings on behaviour.
Checker: Noelle
Examples
- They possess significance only as movements toward something away from what is now going on. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Pray Heaven that I am going away from, have compassion on my uncle! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I'm a-going off! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I believe that he would have come all the way had it not been that Dr. Ferrier, who lives near me, was going down by that very train. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- And then let us be going. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I find from Riderhood and you together, that there are suspicions against both men, and I'm not going to take upon myself to decide betwixt them. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- You are not going to introduce yourself to Mr. Darcy! Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Now, I am going to examine you out of my own head. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Aye, very true, my dear, cried the latter, though Jane had not spoken a wordI was just going to say the same thing. Jane Austen. Emma.
- You've hit it, ma'am: it's quite certain that it was her, and nobody but her, that set it going. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Mrs Boffin has carried the day, and we're going in neck and crop for Fashion. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I know better, Fred Beauclerc would answer, and yet I am fool enough to love a woman who is going mad for another man. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- She had some guilty reason for going to the town secretly. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I thought you were going to spend the whole autumn with us, and I've hardly laid eyes on you for the last month. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- And where are we going to go when this is done? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The goings on of Aspasia were of course a fruitful vineyard for the inventions of the street. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Those eyes had looked on the visits of a certain ghost--had long waited the comings and goings of that strangest spectre, Hypochondria. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Their goings-on had been going on for some time. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Here are pretty goings on--a pinch of your snuff, Perker, my boy--never were such times, eh? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- By a few goings and returnings the whole field is reaped. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The comings and goings of twelve years cannot be related here. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Stephen worked the next day, and the next, uncheered by a word from any one, and shunned in all his comings and goings as before. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- The difference which Randalls, Randalls alone makes in your goings-on, is very great. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Of comings and goings and a final conflict we need not tell. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Typed by Evangeline