go

Definitions of go in various dictionaries:

noun - a time for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else)

noun - street names for methylenedioxymethamphetamine

noun - a usually brief attempt

noun - a board game for two players who place counters on a grid

verb - change location

verb - follow a procedure or take a course

verb - move away from a place into another direction

verb - enter or assume a certain state or condition

verb - be awarded

verb - have a particular form

verb - stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope

verb - follow a certain course

verb - be abolished or discarded

verb - be or continue to be in a certain condition

verb - make a certain noise or sound

verb - perform as expected when applied

verb - to be spent or finished

verb - progress by being changed

verb - continue to live through hardship or adversity

verb - pass, fare, or elapse

verb - pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life

verb - be in the right place or situation

verb - be ranked or compare

verb - begin or set in motion

verb - have a turn

verb - be contained in

verb - be sounded, played, or expressed

verb - blend or harmonize

verb - lead, extend, or afford access

verb - be the right size or shape

verb - go through in search of something

verb - be spent

verb - give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number

verb - stop operating or functioning

adj - functioning correctly and ready for action

To move or travel; proceed: We will go by bus.

To move away from a place; depart: Go before I cry.

To pursue a certain course: messages that go through diplomatic channels to the ambassador.

To extend between two points or in a certain direction; run: curtains that go from the ceiling to the floor.

To give entry; lead: a stairway that goes to the basement.

To function properly: The car won’t go.

To have currency.

To pass from one person to another; circulate: Wild rumors were going around the office.

To pass as the result of a sale: The gold watch went to the highest bidder.

Used as an intensifier when joined by and to a coordinate verb : She went and complained to Personnel.

Used in the progressive tense with an infinitive to indicate future intent or expectation: I am going to learn how to dance.

To be in a certain condition.

To come to be in a certain condition: go mad; hair that had gone gray.

To continue to be in a certain condition or continue an activity: go barefoot all summer.

To carry out an action to a certain point or extent: Your parents went to great expense to put you through college.

To be customarily located; belong: The fork goes to the left of the plate.

To be capable of entering or fitting: Will the suitcase go into the trunk of your car? 12.

To pass into someone’s possession: All the jewelry went to her heirs.

To be a contributing factor: It all goes to show us that the project can be completed on time.

To have a particular form: as the saying goes.

To be such, by and large: well behaved, as big dogs go.

To pass by; elapse: The day went pleasantly enough until I received your call.

To be used up.

To be discarded or abolished: All luxuries will have to go.

To become weak; fail: His hearing has started to go.

To come apart; break up.

To cease living; die.

To have a successful outcome: creativity that made the advertising campaign really go.

To be suitable or appropriate as an accessory or accompaniment: a color that goes beautifully with your complexion.

To have authority: Whatever I say goes.

To be valid, acceptable, or adequate.

To excrete waste from the bladder or bowels.

Informal.

To walk.

To proceed or move according to: I was free to go my own way.

To traverse: Only two of the runners went the entire distance.

Informal.

To bet: go $20 on the black horse.

To bid: I’ll go $500 on the vase.

Informal.

To take on the responsibility or obligation for: go bail for a client.

To amount to; weigh: a shark that went 400 pounds.

To enjoy: I could go a cold beer right now.

To say.

The act or an instance of going.

An attempt; an effort: had a go at acting.

The time or period of an activity.

Informal.

Informal.

The go-ahead.

Often Go.

A situation in which planned operations can be effectuated: The space mission is a go.

To satisfy a demand or requirement: just enough food to go around.

To go here and there; move from place to place.

To have currency: rumors going around.

To attack, especially with energy.

To approach; undertake: He went at the job with a lot of energy.

To elapse; pass: as time goes by.

To pay a short visit: My parents were away when we went by last week.

To drop below the horizon; set: The sun went down.

To fall to the ground: The helicopter went down in a ball of fire.

To sink: The torpedoed battleship went down.

To experience defeat or ruin.

To admit of easy swallowing: a cough syrup that goes down readily.

To leave a university.

To occur; happen: “a collection of memorable pieces about the general craziness that was going down in those days” (James Atlas).

To come to be remembered in posterity: a debate that will go down as a turning point in the campaign.

To have a special liking for: I really go for progressive jazz.

To attack: an opponent who is known to go for the jugular in arguments.

To pass for or serve as: a couch that also goes for a bed.

To take part in a cooperative venture: went in with the others to buy a present.

To make an approach, as before an attack: Troops went in at dawn.

To undergo detonation; explode.

To make a noise; sound: The siren went off at noon.

To leave: Don’t go off mad.

To adhere to the expected course of events or the expected plan: The project went off smoothly.

To take place; happen: didn’t know what was going on.

To continue: Life must go on.

To keep on doing (something): Don’t go on talking.

To proceed: She went on to become a senator.

To talk volubly: My, you do go on.

To become extinguished.

To go outdoors; leave one’s residence: He went out at seven.

To take part in social life outside the home: goes out a lot.

To become unfashionable: High boots went out last year.

To undergo structural collapse: The bridge went out.

To gain acceptance or approval: a new style that didn’t go over.

To examine: go over the test scores.

To examine carefully: went through the students’ papers.

To experience: We went through hell while working on this project.

To perform: I went through the sonata in 30 minutes.

To suffer defeat or destruction; fail.

To undergo total financial failure: “A record number of... banks went belly up” (New Republic).

To have interest in: goes in for classical music.

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).

To lose one’s self-control.

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.

To work or perform efficiently and rapidly.

In recent years, however, younger speakers have extended this use of go to the report of speech, as in Then he goes, “You think you’re real smart, don’t you.

A Japanese game for two, played with counters on a board that is ruled with 19 vertical and 19 horizontal lines.

verb - to move along

noun - a Japanese board game