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1  [goh] verb, went, gone, go⋅ing, noun, plural goes, interjection, adjective
Use go in a Sentence
–verb (used without object)
1. to move or proceed, esp. to or from something: They're going by bus.
2. to leave a place; depart: People were coming and going all the time.
3. to keep or be in motion; function or perform as required: Can't you go any faster in your work?
4. to become as specified: to go mad.
5. to continue in a certain state or condition; be habitually: to go barefoot.
6. to act as specified: Go warily if he wants to discuss terms.
7. to act so as to come into a certain state or condition: to go into debt; to go to sleep.
8. to be known: to go by a false name.
9. to reach, extend, or give access to: Where does this door go?
10. to pass or elapse: The time went fast.
11. to be applied, allotted, awarded, transferred, etc., to a particular recipient or purpose: My money goes for food and rent.
12. to be sold: I have a bid of two dollars. Going! Going! Gone!
13. to be considered generally or usually: He's short, as basketball players go.
14. to conduce or tend: This only goes to prove the point.
15. to result or end; turn out: How did the game go?
16. to belong; have a place: This book goes on the top shelf.
17. (of colors, styles, etc.) to harmonize; be compatible; be suited: Your tweed jacket would go well with these pants.
18. to fit around or into; be able to be extended, contained, inserted, etc.: This belt won't go around my waist.
19. to be or become consumed, spent, finished, etc.: The cake went fast.
20. to be or become discarded, dismissed, put aside, forgotten, etc.: Those practical jokes of yours have got to go!
21. to develop, progress, or proceed, esp. with reference to success or satisfaction: How is your new job going?
22. to move or proceed with remarkable speed or energy: Look at that airplane go!
23. to make a certain sound: The gun goes bang.
24. to be phrased, written, or composed: How does that song go?
25. to seek or have recourse for a decision, verdict, corroboration, defense, etc.; resort: to go to court.
26. to become worn-out, weakened, ineffective, etc.: His eyesight is beginning to go.
27. to die: The old man went peacefully at 3 a.m.
28. to fail, break, or give way: The dike might go any minute.
29. to come into action; begin: Go when you hear the bell.
30. to make up a quantity or content; be requisite: Sixteen ounces go to the pound.
31. to be able to be divided; be contained as a mathematical element: Three goes into fifteen five times.
32. to contribute to an end result: the items that go to make up the total.
33. to have as one's goal; intend (usually used in the present tense, fol. by an infinitive): Their daughter is going to be a doctor.
34. to be permitted, approved, or the like: Around here, anything goes.
35. to be authoritative; be the final word: This is my house, and what I say goes!
36. to subject oneself: Don't go to any trouble.
37. (used in the infinitive as an intensifier to indicate the idea of proceeding, esp. with the expectation of serious consequences): He finally had to go ask for a loan.
38. Informal. to urinate or defecate.
–verb (used with object)
39. Informal. to endure or tolerate: I can't go his preaching.
40. Informal. to risk, pay, afford, bet, or bid: I'll go fifty dollars for a ticket, but no more.
41. to move or proceed with or according to; follow: Going my way?
42. to share or participate in to the extent of (often fol. by a complementary substantive): to go halves.
43. to yield, produce, weigh as a usable amount, or grow to: This field will go two bales of cotton.
44. to assume the obligation, responsibility, or function of: His father went bail for him.
45. Informal. to enjoy, appreciate, desire, or want: I could go a big steak dinner right now.
46. Informal. to say; declare (usually used in speech): I asked the clerk for my receipt, and he goes, “You don't need it.”
–noun
47. the act of going: the come and go of the seasons.
48. energy, spirit, or animation: a man with a lot of go.
49. a try at something; attempt: to have a go at winning the prize.
50. a successful accomplishment; success: to make a go of a new business.
51. Informal. a business agreement; deal; bargain: Thirty dollars? It's a go.
52. Informal. approval or permission, as to undertake or begin something: The boss gave us the go on the new project.
53. Boxing. a bout: the main go.
–interjection
54. (in calling the start of a race) start the race; leave the starting line: On your mark! Get set! Go!
–adjective
55. ready.
56. functioning properly: two minutes before the satellite is to be launched and all systems are go.
—Verb phrases
57. go about,
a. to occupy oneself with; perform: The shoemaker goes about his work with a smile.
b. Nautical. to change course by tacking or wearing.
58. go after, to attempt to obtain; strive for: You'll never get what you want if you don't go after it energetically.
59. go against, to be in conflict with or opposed to: It goes against the company's policy.
60. go ahead, to proceed without hesitation or delay: If you want to use my car, go ahead.
61. go along,
a. to move or proceed.
b. to accompany in travel.
c. to agree; concur: I can't go along with you on that idea.
62. go around,
a. to be often in company (often fol. by with): to go around with a bad crowd.
b. to be sufficient for all: Is there enough food to go around?
c. to pass or circulate, as in transmission or communication: The rumor is going around that he was forced to resign.
63. go at,
a. to assault; attack.
b. to begin or proceed vigorously: to go at one's work with a will.
64. go back on. back 2 (def. 7).
65. go by,
a. to be disregarded or not taken advantage of: Don't let this chance go by.
b. to be guided by or to rely upon: Don't go by what she says.
66. go down,
a. to decrease or subside, as in amount or size: Prices went down. The swelling is going down.
b. to descend or sink: When does the sun go down?
c. to suffer defeat: to go down fighting.
d. to be accepted or believed: This nonsense goes down as truth with many persons.
e. to admit of being consumed: This food goes down easily.
f. to be remembered in history or by posterity.
g. Slang. to happen; occur: What's been going down since I've been away?
h. British. to leave a university, permanently or at the end of a term.
i. Bridge. to fall short of making one's contract.
j. Slang: Vulgar. to perform fellatio or cunnilingus.
67. go for,
a. to make an attempt at; try for: He is going for the championship.
b. to assault.
c. to favor; like: It simply isn't the kind of life you would go for.
d. to be used for the purpose of or be a substitute for: material that goes for silk.
68. go in for,
a. to adopt as one's particular interest; approve of; like.
b. to occupy oneself with; engage in: Europeans in increasing numbers are going in for camping.
69. go into,
a. to discuss or investigate: Let's not go into the question of whose fault it was.
b. to undertake as one's study or work: to go into medicine.
70. go in with, to join in a partnership or union; combine with: He asked me to go in with him on the purchase of a boat.
71. go off,
a. to explode, fire, or perform or begin to function abruptly: A gun went off in the distance.
b. (of what has been expected or planned) to happen: The interview went off very badly.
c. to leave, esp. suddenly: She went off without saying goodbye.
d. to die.
e. to deteriorate.
f. Slang. to experience orgasm.
72. go on,
a. to happen or take place: What's going on here?
b. to continue: Go on working.
c. to behave; act: Don't go on like that!
d. to talk effusively; chatter.
e. (used to express disbelief): Go on, you're kidding me.
f. to appear onstage in a theatrical performance: I go on in the middle of the second act.
73. go out,
a. to come to an end, esp. to fade in popularity: Silent movies went out as soon as the talkies were perfected.
b. to cease or fail to function: The lights went out.
c. to participate in social activities, on dates, etc.
d. to take part in a strike: The printers went out yesterday in a contract dispute.
e. Rummy. to dispose of the last card in one's hand by melding it on the table.
f. Cards. to achieve a point score equal to or above the score necessary to win the game.
74. go over,
a. to repeat; review.
b. to be effective or successful: The proposal went over very well with the trustees.
c. to examine: The mechanic went over the car but found nothing wrong.
d. to read; scan.
75. go through,
a. to bear; experience.
b. to examine or search carefully: He went through all of his things but couldn't find the letter.
c. to be successful; be accepted or approved: The proposed appropriation will never go through.
d. to use up; spend completely: He went through his allowance in one day.
76. go through with, to persevere with to the end; bring to completion: It was perhaps the biggest challenge of her life, and she resolved to go through with it.
77. go under,
a. to be overwhelmed or ruined; fail.
b. (of a ship) to founder.
78. go up,
a. to be in the process of construction, as a building.
b. to increase in cost, value, etc.
c. to forget one's lines during a theatrical performance.
d. British. to go to a university at the beginning of a term.
—Idioms
79. from the word “go,” from the very start; since the beginning.
80. go and, to be so thoughtless, unfortunate, or silly as to: It was going to be a surprise but he went and told her.
81. go ape over or for. ape (def. 6).
82. go bananas. bananas (def. 2).
83. go down on, Slang: Vulgar. to perform fellatio or cunnilingus on.
84. go for broke. broke (def. 9).
85. go for it, Informal. to pursue a goal with determination.
86. go it alone, to act or proceed independently, without assistance, companionship, or the like: If you don't want to form a partnership, I'll go it alone.
87. go native. native (def. 18).
88. go the whole hog, to do something thoroughly or consistently: If you're getting a new amplifier, why don't you go the whole hog and get new speakers and a turntable, too?
89. go to!, Archaic.
a. you don't say! I don't believe you!
b. let's do it! come on!
90. go together,
a. to be appropriate or harmonious: The rug and curtains don't go together.
b. Informal. to keep company; date; court: They have gone together for two years.
91. go to it, Informal. to begin vigorously and at once.
92. go with, Informal. to keep company with; court; date: He went with her for two semesters. Also, go out with.
93. let go,
a. to release one's grasp or hold: Please let go of my arm.
b. to free; release.
c. to cease to employ; dismiss: Business was slack and many employees were let go.
d. to become unrestrained; abandon inhibitions: She'd be good fun if she would just let go and enjoy herself.
e. to dismiss; forget; discard: Once he has an idea, he never lets go of it.
94. let go with, to express or utter with abandon: He let go with a sudden yell.
95. let oneself go, to free oneself of inhibitions or restraint: Let yourself go and get mad once in a while.
96. no go, Informal.
a. futile; useless: We tried to get there by noon, but it was no go.
b. not authorized or approved to proceed; canceled or aborted: Tomorrow's satellite launching is no go.
97. on the go,
a. very busy; active: She's always on the go.
b. while going from place to place; while traveling.
98. to go, Informal. (of food) for consumption off the premises where sold: coffee to go.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME gon, OE gān; c. OHG gēn, G gehen

Synonyms:
1. walk, run, travel, advance.

Antonyms:
1. stay.
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go

2  [goh]
–noun
a Japanese game for two persons, played on a board having 361 intersections on which black and white stones or counters are alternately placed, the object being to block off and capture the opponent's stones and control the larger part of the board.
Also called I-go.

Origin:
1885–90; < Japn < MChin, equiv. to Chin gí name for various board games

G.O.

 
1. general office.
2. general order.
Also, g.o.
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go 1   (gō)   
v.   went (wěnt), gone (gôn, gŏn), go·ing, goes (gōz)

v.   intr.
  1. To move or travel; proceed: We will go by bus. Solicitors went from door to door seeking donations. How fast can the boat go?
  2. To move away from a place; depart: Go before I cry.
    1. To pursue a certain course: messages that go through diplomatic channels to the ambassador.
    2. To resort to another, as for aid: went directly to the voters of her district. See Synonyms at resort.
    3. To extend between two points or in a certain direction; run: curtains that go from the ceiling to the floor.
    4. To give entry; lead: a stairway that goes to the basement.
    5. To have currency.
    6. To pass from one person to another; circulate: Wild rumors were going around the office.
    7. To continue to be in a certain condition or continue an activity: go barefoot.
    8. To come to be in a certain condition: go mad; hair that had gone gray.
    9. To continue to be in effect or operation: a lease with one year to go.
    10. To carry out an action to a certain point or extent: Your parents went to great expense to put you through college.
    11. To be customarily located; belong: The fork goes to the left of the plate. Where do the plates go?
    12. To be capable of entering or fitting: Will the suitcase go into the trunk of your car?
    13. To pass into someone's possession: All the jewelry went to her heirs.
    14. To be allotted: How much of your salary goes for rent?
    15. To have a particular form: as the saying goes.
    16. To be such, by and large: well behaved, as big dogs go.
    17. To extend in time: The story goes back to the Middle Ages.
    18. To pass by; elapse: The day went pleasantly enough until I received your call.
    19. To be used up or finished: My interest in such things has gone.
    20. To be discarded or abolished: All luxuries will have to go.
    21. To become weak; fail: His hearing has started to go.
    22. To give way; break up: The dam is about to go.
    23. To happen or develop; fare: How are things going?
    24. To have a successful outcome: creativity that made the advertising campaign really go.
    25. To have authority: Whatever I say goes.
    26. To be valid, acceptable, or adequate.
    1. To extend between two points or in a certain direction; run: curtains that go from the ceiling to the floor.
    2. To give entry; lead: a stairway that goes to the basement.
    3. To have currency.
    4. To pass from one person to another; circulate: Wild rumors were going around the office.
    5. To continue to be in a certain condition or continue an activity: go barefoot.
    6. To come to be in a certain condition: go mad; hair that had gone gray.
    7. To continue to be in effect or operation: a lease with one year to go.
    8. To carry out an action to a certain point or extent: Your parents went to great expense to put you through college.
    9. To be customarily located; belong: The fork goes to the left of the plate. Where do the plates go?
    10. To be capable of entering or fitting: Will the suitcase go into the trunk of your car?
    11. To pass into someone's possession: All the jewelry went to her heirs.
    12. To be allotted: How much of your salary goes for rent?
    13. To have a particular form: as the saying goes.
    14. To be such, by and large: well behaved, as big dogs go.
    15. To extend in time: The story goes back to the Middle Ages.
    16. To pass by; elapse: The day went pleasantly enough until I received your call.
    17. To be used up or finished: My interest in such things has gone.
    18. To be discarded or abolished: All luxuries will have to go.
    19. To become weak; fail: His hearing has started to go.
    20. To give way; break up: The dam is about to go.
    21. To happen or develop; fare: How are things going?
    22. To have a successful outcome: creativity that made the advertising campaign really go.
    23. To have authority: Whatever I say goes.
    24. To be valid, acceptable, or adequate.
  5. To function properly: The car won't go.
    1. To have currency.
    2. To pass from one person to another; circulate: Wild rumors were going around the office.
    3. To continue to be in a certain condition or continue an activity: go barefoot.
    4. To come to be in a certain condition: go mad; hair that had gone gray.
    5. To continue to be in effect or operation: a lease with one year to go.
    6. To carry out an action to a certain point or extent: Your parents went to great expense to put you through college.
    7. To be customarily located; belong: The fork goes to the left of the plate. Where do the plates go?
    8. To be capable of entering or fitting: Will the suitcase go into the trunk of your car?
    9. To pass into someone's possession: All the jewelry went to her heirs.
    10. To be allotted: How much of your salary goes for rent?
    11. To have a particular form: as the saying goes.
    12. To be such, by and large: well behaved, as big dogs go.
    13. To extend in time: The story goes back to the Middle Ages.
    14. To pass by; elapse: The day went pleasantly enough until I received your call.
    15. To be used up or finished: My interest in such things has gone.
    16. To be discarded or abolished: All luxuries will have to go.
    17. To become weak; fail: His hearing has started to go.
    18. To give way; break up: The dam is about to go.
    19. To happen or develop; fare: How are things going?
    20. To have a successful outcome: creativity that made the advertising campaign really go.
    21. To have authority: Whatever I say goes.
    22. To be valid, acceptable, or adequate.
  7. To pass as the result of a sale: The gold watch went to the highest bidder.
  8. Informal Used as an intensifier when joined by and to a coordinate verb: She went and complained to Personnel.
  9. Used in the progressive tense with an infinitive to indicate future intent or expectation: I am going to learn how to dance.
    1. To continue to be in a certain condition or continue an activity: go barefoot.
    2. To come to be in a certain condition: go mad; hair that had gone gray.
    3. To continue to be in effect or operation: a lease with one year to go.
    4. To carry out an action to a certain point or extent: Your parents went to great expense to put you through college.
    5. To be customarily located; belong: The fork goes to the left of the plate. Where do the plates go?
    6. To be capable of entering or fitting: Will the suitcase go into the trunk of your car?
    7. To pass into someone's possession: All the jewelry went to her heirs.
    8. To be allotted: How much of your salary goes for rent?
    9. To have a particular form: as the saying goes.
    10. To be such, by and large: well behaved, as big dogs go.
    11. To extend in time: The story goes back to the Middle Ages.
    12. To pass by; elapse: The day went pleasantly enough until I received your call.
    13. To be used up or finished: My interest in such things has gone.
    14. To be discarded or abolished: All luxuries will have to go.
    15. To become weak; fail: His hearing has started to go.
    16. To give way; break up: The dam is about to go.
    17. To happen or develop; fare: How are things going?
    18. To have a successful outcome: creativity that made the advertising campaign really go.
    19. To have authority: Whatever I say goes.
    20. To be valid, acceptable, or adequate.
  11. To be called; be known: Our friend William often goes by Billy.
    1. To be customarily located; belong: The fork goes to the left of the plate. Where do the plates go?
    2. To be capable of entering or fitting: Will the suitcase go into the trunk of your car?
    3. To pass into someone's possession: All the jewelry went to her heirs.
    4. To be allotted: How much of your salary goes for rent?
    5. To have a particular form: as the saying goes.
    6. To be such, by and large: well behaved, as big dogs go.
    7. To extend in time: The story goes back to the Middle Ages.
    8. To pass by; elapse: The day went pleasantly enough until I received your call.
    9. To be used up or finished: My interest in such things has gone.
    10. To be discarded or abolished: All luxuries will have to go.
    11. To become weak; fail: His hearing has started to go.
    12. To give way; break up: The dam is about to go.
    13. To happen or develop; fare: How are things going?
    14. To have a successful outcome: creativity that made the advertising campaign really go.
    15. To have authority: Whatever I say goes.
    16. To be valid, acceptable, or adequate.
    1. To pass into someone's possession: All the jewelry went to her heirs.
    2. To be allotted: How much of your salary goes for rent?
    3. To have a particular form: as the saying goes.
    4. To be such, by and large: well behaved, as big dogs go.
    5. To extend in time: The story goes back to the Middle Ages.
    6. To pass by; elapse: The day went pleasantly enough until I received your call.
    7. To be used up or finished: My interest in such things has gone.
    8. To be discarded or abolished: All luxuries will have to go.
    9. To become weak; fail: His hearing has started to go.
    10. To give way; break up: The dam is about to go.
    11. To happen or develop; fare: How are things going?
    12. To have a successful outcome: creativity that made the advertising campaign really go.
    13. To have authority: Whatever I say goes.
    14. To be valid, acceptable, or adequate.
  14. To be a contributing factor: It all goes to show us that the project can be completed on time.
    1. To have a particular form: as the saying goes.
    2. To be such, by and large: well behaved, as big dogs go.
    3. To extend in time: The story goes back to the Middle Ages.
    4. To pass by; elapse: The day went pleasantly enough until I received your call.
    5. To be used up or finished: My interest in such things has gone.
    6. To be discarded or abolished: All luxuries will have to go.
    7. To become weak; fail: His hearing has started to go.
    8. To give way; break up: The dam is about to go.
    9. To happen or develop; fare: How are things going?
    10. To have a successful outcome: creativity that made the advertising campaign really go.
    11. To have authority: Whatever I say goes.
    12. To be valid, acceptable, or adequate.
    1. To extend in time: The story goes back to the Middle Ages.
    2. To pass by; elapse: The day went pleasantly enough until I received your call.
    3. To be used up or finished: My interest in such things has gone.
    4. To be discarded or abolished: All luxuries will have to go.
    5. To become weak; fail: His hearing has started to go.
    6. To give way; break up: The dam is about to go.
    7. To happen or develop; fare: How are things going?
    8. To have a successful outcome: creativity that made the advertising campaign really go.
    9. To have authority: Whatever I say goes.
    10. To be valid, acceptable, or adequate.
    1. To be used up or finished: My interest in such things has gone.
    2. To be discarded or abolished: All luxuries will have to go.
    3. To become weak; fail: His hearing has started to go.
    4. To give way; break up: The dam is about to go.
    5. To happen or develop; fare: How are things going?
    6. To have a successful outcome: creativity that made the advertising campaign really go.
    7. To have authority: Whatever I say goes.
    8. To be valid, acceptable, or adequate.
    1. To become weak; fail: His hearing has started to go.
    2. To give way; break up: The dam is about to go.
    3. To happen or develop; fare: How are things going?
    4. To have a successful outcome: creativity that made the advertising campaign really go.
    5. To have authority: Whatever I say goes.
    6. To be valid, acceptable, or adequate.
  19. To cease living; die.
    1. To happen or develop; fare: How are things going?
    2. To have a successful outcome: creativity that made the advertising campaign really go.
    3. To have authority: Whatever I say goes.
    4. To be valid, acceptable, or adequate.
  21. To be suitable or appropriate as an accessory or accompaniment: a color that goes beautifully with your complexion.
    1. To have authority: Whatever I say goes.
    2. To be valid, acceptable, or adequate.
  23. Informal To excrete waste from the bladder or bowels.
  24. Informal To begin an act: Here goes!
  25. Obsolete To walk.
v.   tr.
  1. To proceed or move according to: I was free to go my own way.
  2. To traverse: Only two of the runners went the entire distance.
  3. To engage in: went skiing.
  4. Informal
    1. To bet: go $20 on the black horse.
    2. To bid: I'll go $500 on the vase.
    3. To take on the responsibility or obligation for: go bail for a client.
    4. To participate to (a given extent): Will you go halves with me if we win the lottery?
  5. Informal
    1. To take on the responsibility or obligation for: go bail for a client.
    2. To participate to (a given extent): Will you go halves with me if we win the lottery?
  6. To amount to; weigh: a shark that went 400 pounds.
  7. Sports To have as a record: went 3 for 4 against their best pitcher.
  8. Informal To enjoy: I could go a cold beer right now.
  9. To say or utter. Used chiefly in verbal narration: First I go, "Thank you," then he goes, "What for?"
n.   pl. goes
  1. The act or an instance of going.
  2. An attempt; an effort: had a go at acting.
  3. The time or period of an activity.
  4. Informal Energy; vitality: had lots of go.
  5. Informal
    1. The go-ahead.
    2. often Go The starting point: "And from Go there was something deliciously illicit about the whole affair" (Erica Abeel).
    3. Informal A situation in which planned operations can be effectuated: The space mission is a go.
adj.  
Informal Functioning correctly and ready for action: All systems are go.
Phrasal Verbs:
go about
To set about to do; undertake: Go about your chores in a responsible way.
go along
To cooperate: They get along by going along.
go around
  1. To satisfy a demand or requirement: just enough food to go around.
  2. To go here and there; move from place to place.
  3. To have currency: rumors going around.
  4. To attack, especially with energy.
  5. To approach; undertake: He went at the job with a lot of energy.
  6. To elapse; pass: as time goes by.
  7. To pay a short visit: My parents were away when we went by last week.
    1. To drop below the horizon; set: The sun went down.
    2. To fall to the ground: The helicopter went down in a ball of fire.
    3. To sink: The torpedoed battleship went down.
    4. To experience defeat or ruin.
    5. To be accepted or tolerated: How will your ideas go down as far as corporate marketing is concerned?
    6. To come to be remembered in posterity: a debate that will go down as a turning point in the campaign.
    7. To continue: Life must go on.
    8. To keep on doing (something): Don't go on talking.
    9. To proceed: She went on to become a senator.
    10. To go outdoors; leave one's residence: He went out at seven.
    11. To take part in social life outside the home: goes out a lot.
  9. To admit of easy swallowing: a cough syrup that goes down readily.
  10. To decrease in cost or value.
  11. Chiefly British To leave a university.
  12. Slang To occur; happen: "a collection of memorable pieces about the general craziness that was going down in those days" (James Atlas).
    1. To be accepted or tolerated: How will your ideas go down as far as corporate marketing is concerned?
    2. To come to be remembered in posterity: a debate that will go down as a turning point in the campaign.
    3. To continue: Life must go on.
    4. To keep on doing (something): Don't go on talking.
    5. To proceed: She went on to become a senator.
    6. To go outdoors; leave one's residence: He went out at seven.
    7. To take part in social life outside the home: goes out a lot.
  14. Vulgar Slang To perform fellatio or cunnilingus.
  15. Informal To have a special liking for: I really go for progressive jazz.
  16. To attack: an opponent who is known to go for the jugular in arguments.
  17. To pass for or serve as: a couch that also goes for a bed.
  18. To take part in a cooperative venture: went in with the others to buy a present.
  19. To make an approach, as before an attack: Troops went in at dawn.
  20. To discuss or investigate: The book goes into classical mythology.
  21. To undertake as a profession or course of study: She's going into medicine.
  22. To undergo detonation; explode.
  23. To make a noise; sound: The siren went off at noon.
  24. To leave: Don't go off mad.
  25. Informal To adhere to the expected course of events or the expected plan: The project went off smoothly.
  26. To take place; happen: didn't know what was going on.
    1. To continue: Life must go on.
    2. To keep on doing (something): Don't go on talking.
    3. To proceed: She went on to become a senator.
    4. To go outdoors; leave one's residence: He went out at seven.
    5. To take part in social life outside the home: goes out a lot.
  28. Informal To talk volubly: My, you do go on.
  29. To become extinguished.
    1. To go outdoors; leave one's residence: He went out at seven.
    2. To take part in social life outside the home: goes out a lot.
  31. To become unfashionable: High boots went out last year.
  32. To undergo structural collapse: The bridge went out.
  33. To gain acceptance or approval: a new style that didn't go over.
  34. To examine or review: go over the test scores.
  35. To examine carefully: went through the students' papers.
  36. To experience: We went through hell while working on this project.
  37. To perform: I went through the sonata in 30 minutes.
  38. To suffer defeat or destruction; fail.
  39. To lose consciousness.
  40. To increase in price or value.
  41. To be in the process of construction: Office buildings went up all over town.
  42. Chiefly British To go to a university.
  43. To date (someone) regularly.
  44. To select or choose: decided to go with the pink wallpaper.
Phrasal Verb(s):
go aboutTo set about to do; undertake: Go about your chores in a responsible way.
go alongTo cooperate: They get along by going along.
go around
  1. To satisfy a demand or requirement: just enough food to go around.
  2. To go here and there; move from place to place.
  3. To have currency: rumors going around.
go at
  1. To attack, especially with energy.
  2. To approach; undertake: He went at the job with a lot of energy.
go by
  1. To elapse; pass: as time goes by.
  2. To pay a short visit: My parents were away when we went by last week.
go down
    1. To drop below the horizon; set: The sun went down.
    2. To fall to the ground: The helicopter went down in a ball of fire.
    3. To sink: The torpedoed battleship went down.
    4. To experience defeat or ruin.
    5. To be accepted or tolerated: How will your ideas go down as far as corporate marketing is concerned?
    6. To come to be remembered in posterity: a debate that will go down as a turning point in the campaign.
  2. To admit of easy swallowing: a cough syrup that goes down readily.
  3. To decrease in cost or value.
  4. Chiefly British To leave a university.
  5. Slang To occur; happen: "a collection of memorable pieces about the general craziness that was going down in those days" (James Atlas).
    1. To be accepted or tolerated: How will your ideas go down as far as corporate marketing is concerned?
    2. To come to be remembered in posterity: a debate that will go down as a turning point in the campaign.
  7. Vulgar Slang To perform fellatio or cunnilingus.
go for
  1. Informal To have a special liking for: I really go for progressive jazz.
  2. To attack: an opponent who is known to go for the jugular in arguments.
  3. To pass for or serve as: a couch that also goes for a bed.
go in
  1. To take part in a cooperative venture: went in with the others to buy a present.
  2. To make an approach, as before an attack: Troops went in at dawn.
go into
  1. To discuss or investigate: The book goes into classical mythology.
  2. To undertake as a profession or course of study: She's going into medicine.
go off
  1. To undergo detonation; explode.
  2. To make a noise; sound: The siren went off at noon.
  3. To leave: Don't go off mad.
  4. Informal To adhere to the expected course of events or the expected plan: The project went off smoothly.
go on
  1. To take place; happen: didn't know what was going on.
    1. To continue: Life must go on.
    2. To keep on doing (something): Don't go on talking.
    3. To proceed: She went on to become a senator.
  3. Informal To talk volubly: My, you do go on.
go out
  1. To become extinguished.
    1. To go outdoors; leave one's residence: He went out at seven.
    2. To take part in social life outside the home: goes out a lot.
  3. To become unfashionable: High boots went out last year.
  4. To undergo structural collapse: The bridge went out.
go over
  1. To gain acceptance or approval: a new style that didn't go over.
  2. To examine or review: go over the test scores.
go through
  1. To examine carefully: went through the students' papers.
  2. To experience: We went through hell while working on this project.
  3. To perform: I went through the sonata in 30 minutes.
go under
  1. To suffer defeat or destruction; fail.
  2. To lose consciousness.
go up
  1. To increase in price or value.
  2. To be in the process of construction: Office buildings went up all over town.
  3. Chiefly British To go to a university.
go with
  1. To date (someone) regularly.
  2. To select or choose: decided to go with the pink wallpaper.

Idiom(s):
from the word goFrom the very beginning.

Idiom(s):
go all the waySlang To have sexual intercourse.

Idiom(s):
go back onTo fail to honor or keep: go back on a promise.

Idiom(s):
go beggingTo be in little or no demand: "Prestige or no prestige, directors' jobs at some companies have actually gone begging" (Bill Powell).

Idiom(s):
go belly up Informal To undergo total financial failure: "A record number of . . . banks went belly up" (New Republic).

Idiom(s):
go bust Informal To undergo financial collapse: "Railroads were in the news mainly when they were going bust" (Christian Science Monitor).

Idiom(s):
go by the boardTo be discarded or ignored: old dress codes that have now gone by the board.

Idiom(s):
go down the lineTo provide strong support.

Idiom(s):
go fly a kite Informal To cease being an annoyance. Often used in the imperative.

Idiom(s):
go for broke Informal To commit or expend all of one's available resources toward achievement of a goal: "Why not go for broke and take on somebody who is quite young and see what he does?" (Roger L. Stevens).

Idiom(s):
go for it Informal To expend all one's strength and resources toward achievement of an end or purpose.

Idiom(s):
go in for
  1. To have interest in: goes in for classical music.
  2. To take part in: goes in for water skiing.

Idiom(s):
go in withTo join in or combine with: He'll go in with them on the plan.

Idiom(s):
go it aloneTo undertake a project, trip, or responsibility without the presence or help of others.

Idiom(s):
go off the deep endTo behave hysterically or very recklessly.

Idiom(s):
go one betterTo surpass or outdo by one degree: He's gone me one better.

Idiom(s):
go out forTo seek to become a participant in: go out for varsity soccer.

Idiom(s):
go out of (one's) wayTo inconvenience oneself in doing something beyond what is required.

Idiom(s):
go out the window Informal To become insignificant or inoperative: "As soon as a third body is introduced to the Newtonian system, all lawful ordering of processes goes out the window" (Fusion).

Idiom(s):
go places Informal To be on the way to success: a young executive who is clearly going places.

Idiom(s):
go steadyTo date someone exclusively.

Idiom(s):
go the distanceTo carry a course of action through to completion.

Idiom(s):
go the voleTo risk all of one's resources in the prospect of achieving great gains.

Idiom(s):
go to itTo begin something right away.

Idiom(s):
go to (one's) head
  1. To make one dizzy or inebriated.
  2. To make one proud or conceited.

Idiom(s):
go to pieces
  1. To lose one's self-control.
  2. To suffer the loss of one's health.

Idiom(s):
go to the mat Informal To fight or dispute until one side or another is victorious: The governor will go to the mat with the legislature over the controversial spending bill.

Idiom(s):
go to the wall Informal
  1. To lose a conflict or be defeated; yield: Despite their efforts, the team went to the wall.
  2. To be forced into bankruptcy; fail.
  3. To make an all-out effort, especially in defending another.

Idiom(s):
go to town Informal
  1. To work or perform efficiently and rapidly.
  2. To be highly successful.

Idiom(s):
go up in flames/smokeTo be utterly destroyed.

Idiom(s):
go without sayingTo be self-evident: It goes without saying that success is the product of hard work.

Idiom(s):
on the goConstantly busy or active.

Idiom(s):
to goTo be taken out, as restaurant food or drink: coffee and doughnuts to go.

[Middle English gon, from Old English gān; see ghē- in Indo-European roots.]
Our Living Language  : Go has long been used to describe the production of nonlinguistic noises, notably in conversation with children, as in The train went "toot." The cow goes "moo." In recent years, however, many speakers have begun to use go in informal conversation to report speech, as in Then he goes, "You think you're real smart, don't you?" This usage parallels the quotation introducers be all and be like. But unlike these other expressions, which can indicate thoughts or attitudes, the quotational use of go is largely restricted to dialogue related in the narrative present, especially when the narrator wishes to mimic the accent or intonation of the original speaker. See Notes at all, like2.
go 2   (gō)   
n.  A Japanese game for two, played with counters on a board that is ruled with 19 vertical and 19 horizontal lines.

[Japanese, from Middle Chinese g.]
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Go

Go\ (g[=o]), obs. p. p. of Go. Gone. --Chaucer.

Go

Go\, v. i. [imp. Went (w[e^]nt); p. p. Gone (g[o^]n; 115); p. pr. & vb. n. Going. Went comes from the AS, wendan. See Wend, v. i.] [OE. gan, gon, AS. g[=a]n, akin to D. gaan, G. gehn, gehen, OHG. g[=e]n, g[=a]n, SW. g[*a], Dan. gaae; cf. Gr. kicha`nai to reach, overtake, Skr. h[=a] to go, AS. gangan, and E. gang. The past tense in AS., eode, is from the root i to go, as is also Goth. iddja went. [root]47a. Cf. Gang, v. i., Wend.]

1. 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.

2. To move upon the feet, or step by step; to walk; also, to walk step by step, or leisurely.

Note: In old writers go is much used as opposed to run, or ride. "Whereso I go or ride." --Chaucer.

You know that love Will creep in service where it can not go. --Shak.

Thou must run to him; for thou hast staid so long that going will scarce serve the turn. --Shak.

He fell from running to going, and from going to clambering upon his hands and his knees. --Bunyan.

Note: In Chaucer go is used frequently with the pronoun in the objective used reflexively; as, he goeth him home.

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

The man went among men for an old man in the days of Saul. --1 Sa. xvii. 12.

[The money] should go according to its true value. --Locke.

4. 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.

How goes the night, boy ? --Shak.

I think, as the world goes, he was a good sort of man enough. --Arbuthnot.

Whether the cause goes for me or against me, you must pay me the reward. --I Watts.

5. 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.

Against right reason all your counsels go. --Dryden.

To master the foul flend there goeth some complement knowledge of theology. --Sir W. Scott.

6. To apply one's self; to set one's self; to undertake.

Seeing himself confronted by so many, like a resolute orator, he went not to denial, but to justify his cruel falsehood. --Sir P. Sidney.

Note: Go, in this sense, is often used in the present participle with the auxiliary verb to be, before an infinitive, to express a future of intention, or to denote design; as, I was going to say; I am going to begin harvest.

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

By going over all these particulars, you may receive some tolerable satisfaction about this great subject. --South.

8. To be with young; to be pregnant; to gestate.

The fruit she goes with, I pray for heartily, that it may find Good time, and live. --Shak.

9. 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.

I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to the Lord your God; . . . only ye shall not go very far away. --Ex. viii. 28.

10. To pass away; to depart forever; to be lost or ruined; to perish; to decline; to decease; to die.

By Saint George, he's gone! That spear wound hath our master sped. --Sir W. Scott.

11. 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.

His amorous expressions go no further than virtue may allow. --Dryden.

12. To have recourse; to resort; as, to go to law.

Note: Go is used, in combination with many prepositions and adverbs, to denote motion of the kind indicated by the preposition or adverb, in which, and not in the verb, lies the principal force of the expression; as, to go against to go into, to go out, to go aside, to go astray, etc.

Go to, come; move; go away; -- a phrase of exclamation, serious or ironical.

To go a-begging, not to be in demand; to be undesired.

To go about. (a) To set about; to enter upon a scheme of action; to undertake. "They went about to slay him." --Acts ix. 29.

They never go about . . . to hide or palliate their vices. --Swift. (b) (Naut.) To tack; to turn the head of a ship; to wear.

To go abraod. (a) To go to a foreign country. (b) To go out of doors. (c) To become public; to be published or disclosed; to be current.

Then went this saying abroad among the brethren. --John xxi. 23.

To go against. (a) To march against; to attack. (b) To be in opposition to; to be disagreeable to.

To go ahead. (a) To go in advance. (b) To go on; to make progress; to proceed.

To go and come. See To come and go, under Come.

To go aside. (a) To withdraw; to retire.

He . . . went aside privately into a desert place. --Luke. ix. 10. (b) To go from what is right; to err. --Num. v. 29.

To go back on. (a) To retrace (one's path or footsteps). (b) To abandon; to turn against; to betray. [Slang, U. S.]

To go below (Naut), to go below deck.

To go between, to interpose or mediate between; to be a secret agent between parties; in a bad sense, to pander.

To go beyond. See under Beyond.

To go by, to pass away unnoticed; to omit.

To go by the board (Naut.), to fall or be carried overboard; as, the mast went by the board.

To go down. (a) To descend. (b) To go below the horizon; as, the sun has gone down. (c) To sink; to founder; -- said of ships, etc. (d) To be swallowed; -- used literally or figuratively. [Colloq.]

Nothing so ridiculous, . . . but it goes down whole with him for truth. --L' Estrange.

To go far. (a) To go to a distance. (b) To have much weight or influence.

To go for. (a) To go in quest of. (b) To represent; to pass for. (c) To favor; to advocate. (d) To attack; to assault. [Low] (e) To sell for; to be parted with for (a price).

To go for nothing, to be parted with for no compensation or result; to have no value, efficacy, or influence; to count for nothing.

To go forth. (a) To depart from a place. (b) To be divulged or made generally known; to emanate.

The law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. --Micah iv. 2.

To go hard with, to trouble, pain, or endanger.

To go in, to engage in; to take part. [Colloq.]

To go in and out, to do the business of life; to live; to have free access. --John x. 9.

To go in for. [Colloq.] (a) To go for; to favor or advocate (a candidate, a measure, etc.). (b) To seek to acquire or attain to (wealth, honor, preferment, etc.) (c) To complete for (a reward, election, etc.). (d) To make the object of one's labors, studies, etc.

He was as ready to go in for statistics as for anything else. --Dickens.

To go in to or unto. (a) To enter the presence of. --Esther iv. 16. (b) To have sexual intercourse with. [Script.]

To go into. (a) To speak of, investigate, or discuss (a question, subject, etc.). (b) To participate in (a war, a business, etc.).

To go large. (Naut) See under Large.

To go off. (a) To go away; to depart.

The leaders . . . will not go off until they hear you. --Shak. (b) To cease; to intermit; as, this sickness went off. (c) To die. --Shak. (d) To explode or be discharged; -- said of gunpowder, of a gun, a mine, etc. (e) To find a purchaser; to be sold or disposed of. (f) To pass off; to take place; to be accomplished.

The wedding went off much as such affairs do. --Mrs. Caskell.

To go on. (a) To proceed; to advance further; to continue; as, to go on reading. (b) To be put or drawn on; to fit over; as, the coat will not go on.

To go all fours, to correspond exactly, point for point.

It is not easy to make a simile go on all fours. --Macaulay.

To go out. (a) To issue forth from a place. (b) To go abroad; to make an excursion or expedition.

There are other men fitter to go out than I. --Shak.

What went ye out for to see ? --Matt. xi. 7, 8, 9. (c) To become diffused, divulged, or spread abroad, as news, fame etc. (d) To expire; to die; to cease; to come to an end; as, the light has gone out.

Life itself goes out at thy displeasure. --Addison.

To go over. (a) To traverse; to cross, as a river, boundary, etc.; to change sides.

I must not go over Jordan. --Deut. iv. 22.

Let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan. --Deut. iii. 25.

Ishmael . . . departed to go over to the Ammonites. --Jer. xli. 10. (b) To read, or study; to examine; to review; as, to go over one's accounts.

If we go over the laws of Christianity, we shall find that . . . they enjoin the same thing. --Tillotson. (c) To transcend; to surpass. (d) To be postponed; as, the bill went over for the session. (e) (Chem.) To be converted (into a specified substance or material); as, monoclinic sulphur goes over into orthorhombic, by standing; sucrose goes over into dextrose and levulose.

To go through. (a) To accomplish; as, to go through a work. (b) To suffer; to endure to the end; as, to go through a surgical operation or a tedious illness. (c) To spend completely; to exhaust, as a fortune. (d) To strip or despoil (one) of his property. [Slang] (e) To botch or bungle a business. [Scot.]

To go through with, to perform, as a calculation, to the end; to complete.

To go to ground. (a) To escape into a hole; -- said of a hunted fox. (b) To fall in battle.

To go to naught (Colloq.), to prove abortive, or unavailling.

To go under. (a) To set; -- said of the sun. (b) To be known or recognized by (a name, title, etc.). (c) To be overwhelmed, submerged, or defeated; to perish; to succumb.

To go up, to come to nothing; to prove abortive; to fail. [Slang]

To go upon, to act upon, as a foundation or hypothesis.

To go with. (a) To accompany. (b) To coincide or agree with. (c) To suit; to harmonize with.

To go (

well,

ill, or

hard)

with, to affect (one) in such manner.

To go without, to be, or to remain, destitute of.

To go wrong. (a) To take a wrong road or direction; to wander or stray. (b) To depart from virtue. (c) To happen unfortunately. (d) To miss success.

To let go, to allow to depart; to quit one's hold; to release.

Go

Go\, v. t. 1. To take, as a share in an enterprise; to undertake or become responsible for; to bear a part in.

They to go equal shares in the booty. --L'Estrange.

2. To bet or wager; as, I'll go you a shilling. [Colloq.]

To go halves, to share with another equally.

To go it, to behave in a wild manner; to be uproarious; to carry on; also, to proceed; to make progress. [Colloq.]

To go it alone (Card Playing), to play a hand without the assistance of one's partner.

To go it blind. (a) To act in a rash, reckless, or headlong manner. [Slang] (b) (Card Playing) To bet without having examined the cards.

To go one's way, to set forth; to depart.

Go

Go\, n. 1. Act; working; operation. [Obs.]

So gracious were the goes of marriage. --Marston.

2. A circumstance or occurrence; an incident. [Slang]

This is a pretty go. --Dickens.

3. The fashion or mode; as, quite the go. [Colloq.]

4. Noisy merriment; as, a high go. [Colloq.]

5. A glass of spirits. [Slang]

6. Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance; push; as, there is no go in him. [Colloq.]

7. (Cribbage) 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.

Great go, Little go, the final and the preliminary examinations for a degree. [Slang, Eng. Univ.]

No go, a failure; a fiasco. [Slang] --Thackeray.

On the go, moving about; unsettled. [Colloq.]

Go

Go\, n. Something that goes or is successful; a success; as, he made a go of it; also, an agreement.

"Well," said Fleming, "is it a go?" --Bret Harte.
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Spanish: ir,
German: gehen,
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go 
O.E. gan "to go," from W.Gmc. *gai-/*gæ- (cf. O.Fris. gan, M.Du. gaen, Ger. gehen), from PIE *ghei-, perhaps connected to Skt. jihite "goes away," Gk. kikhano "I reach, meet with," but there is not general agreement on cognates. The O.E. past tense was eode, of uncertain origin but evidently once a different word (perhaps connected to Goth. iddja); it was replaced 1400s by went, formerly past tense of wenden "to direct one's way" (see wend). In northern England and Scotland, however, eode tended to be replaced by gaed, a construction based on go. In modern Eng., only be and go take their past tenses from entirely different verbs. The word in its various forms and combinations takes up 45 columns of close print in the O.E.D. The noun sense of "a try or turn at something" is from 1825; meaning "something that goes, a success" is from 1876. Verbal meaning "say" emerged 1960s in teen slang. Going to "be about to" is from 1482. Go for broke is from 1951, Amer.Eng. colloquial; go down on "perform oral sex on" is from 1916. That goes without saying (1878) translates Fr. cela va sans dire. Phrase on the go "in constant motion" is from 1843; go-between is 1598; go-getter is 1910, Amer.Eng., but goer, with essentially the same meaning, is c.1378. Goner "something dead or about to die" is first recorded 1850.
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GO

See general obligation bond.

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Go games, application
A thinking game with an oriental origin estimated to be around 4000 years old. Nowadays, the game is played by millions of people in (most notably) China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. In the Western world the game is practised by a yearly increasing number of players. On the Internet Go players meet, play and talk 24 hours/day on the Internet Go Server (IGS).
(http://cwi.nl/~jansteen/go/go.html).
Usenet newsgroup: rec.games.go.
(1995-03-17)

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GO
  1. general order
  2. ground out
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