(intransitive) Tomove throughspace (especially to or through a place).(May be used of tangible things such as people or cars, or intangible things such as moods or information.)
Why don’t yougo with us?
This traingoes through Cincinnati on its way to Chicago.
She was so mad she wouldn't speak to me for quite a spell, but at last I coaxed her intogoing up to Miss Emmeline's room and fetching down a tintype of the missing Deacon man.
(intransitive) Tomove ortravel throughtime (either literally—in a fictional or hypothetical situation in whichtime travel is possible—or in one's mind or knowledge of the historical record).(See alsogo back.)
Yesterday was the second-wettest day on record; you have togo all the way back to 1896 to find a day when more rain fell.
Fans want to see the Twelfth Doctorgo to the 51st century to visit River in the library.
2002 September 18,Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the 107th Congress, second session; Senate, page17033:
You have togo all the way back to Herbert Hoover to see a performance in the Standard & Poors 500 equal to what we are experiencing right now.
2010, Charlotte Sadler,Time for One More Dance,→ISBN, page162:
"I don't know how to tell you this, Aubrey, but you can't go back to 1938[…] the program won't accept any date that I input before 1941."[…] "Well, I'llgo to 1941, then."
(intransitive) Tonavigate (to a file or folder on a computer, a site on the internet, a memory, etc).
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2009, David J. Clark,The Unofficial Guide to Microsoft Office Word 2007,→ISBN, page536:
To access Office-related TechNet resources,go to www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/office.
2009, Lisa W. Coyne, Amy R. Murrell,The Joy of Parenting,→ISBN:
Go to your earliest memory and to your favorite one, then to one that's difficult to consider.
2012, Glen E. Clarke, Edward Tetz,CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One For Dummies,→ISBN, page280:
Go to drive C: through My Computer (or Computer in Windows 7 and Vista) and double-click the c:\data folder.
Tomove (a particular distance, or in a particular fashion).
We've onlygone twenty miles today.
This car cango circles around that one.
The fightwent the distance and was decided on points.
2003, Harrison E. Salisbury,The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad,→ISBN, page307:
The carwent a short distance, then halted. There was something wrong with the carburetor.
(intransitive) Tomove ortravel in order to do something, or to do something while moving.
Don't put your hand inside while the motor'sgoing!
1997,New Scientist, volume154, page105:
'Although the lemon is now black and shrivelled the motor is stillgoing strong. If I can make my small motor run for month after month on a single lemon, just imagine how much "juice" there must be in a whole sackful', Mr Ashill said.
2008, Michael Buckley,Shangri-La: A Practical Guide to the Himalayan Dream,→ISBN, page146:
[…] though his publisher swears black and blue that Kelder is stillgoing strong and still remains an intensely private person.
At leaſt, I'm ſure I can fiſh it out of her. She's the very Sluce to her Lady's Secrets;—'Tis but ſetting her Millagoing, and I can drein her of 'em all.
2001 June 18, a prophecy, quoted inMary and the Unity of the Church→ISBN, page 49:
Be listening for my voice.Go when you hear my voice say go.
1727,John Arbuthnot,Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures. Explain'd and exemplify'd in several dissertations:
I think, as the worldgoes, he was a good sort of man enough.
1725, Isaac Watts,Logick: Or, The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry after Truth,[…], 2nd edition, London:[…] John Clark and Richard Hett,[…], Emanuel Matthews,[…], and Richard Ford,[…], published1726,→OCLC:
Whether the causegoes for me or against me, you must pay me the reward.
1986,The Opera Quarterly, volume 4, numbers3-4, page24:
I certainly won't mention it to Ben, and willgo carefully if he mentions it to me.
1946,Hearings Before the Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack, Congress of the United States, Seventy-ninth Congress, First Session, page2459:
I think those figures start from 1932 andgo to 1941, inclusive,[…]
2007,Math for All: Differentiating instruction, grades K-2,→ISBN, page38:
Even though they can give a basic fact such as 4×4, I don't know that this knowledgegoes very deep for them.
“Where does this doorgo?” Bev asked as she pointed to a door painted a darker green than the powder green color of the carpet. Janet answered. “That doorgoes to the back yard.”
Tobecome,move to orcome to (a state, position, situation)
(copulative) Tobecome.(The adjective that follows often, but not always, describes a negative state.)
After failing as a criminal, he decided togo straight.
The video clipwent viral.
Don't tell my Mum: she'llgo ballistic.
The local shop wants togo digital, and eventuallygo global.
1984 February 4, Vincent F. Luti, “Mouths Open, Only Singing”, inGay Community News, volume11, number28, page 5:
Male collegesgoing coed
2001, Saverio Giovacchini,Hollywood Modernism: Film and Politics,→ISBN, page18:
Referring to the American radicals whowent Hollywood in the 1930s, Abraham Polonsky argues that "you can't possibly explain the Hollywood communists away[…]"
To move to (a position or state).
If we can win on Saturday, we'llgo top of the league.
2014, Tim Harris,Politics Under the Later Stuarts,→ISBN, page195:
When Wharton had to relinquish his seat in Buckinghamshire on his elevation to the peerage in 1696, he was unable to replace himself with a suitable man, and the by-electionwent in favour of a local Tory, Lord Cheyne.
To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
qualities thatgo to make a lady / lip-reader / sharpshooter
1839,A Challenge to Phrenologists; Or, Phrenology Tested, page155:
What can we know of any substance or existence, but as made up of all the qualities thatgo to its composition: extension, solidity, form, colour; take these away, and you know nothing.
1907, Patrick Doyle,Indian Engineering, volume41, page181:
The avoirdupois pound is one of 7,000 grains, andgo to the pound.
After two years of swaddled invalidism, Mrs. Morton emitted a final gassy sigh and died, whereas twenty years later Elihu was togo “just like that,” as the neighbors said, from a stroke.
1997, John Wheatcroft,The Education of Malcolm Palmer[2],→ISBN, page85:
"Your father'sgone." "Okay, okay, the Gaffer's kicked off. What happened?"
Jackson shook his head. "The contractor said those panes couldgo at any moment." / "Right. Just like the wiring couldgo at any moment, and the roof couldgo at any moment."
Against the Big Green, Princetonwent the entire first and third quarters without gaining a first down,[…]
2011 June 4, Phil McNulty, “England 2-2 Switzerland”, inBBC[4]:
England have nowgone four games without a win at Wembley, their longest sequence without a victory in 30 years, and still have much work to do to reach Euro 2012 as they prepare for a testing trip to face Bulgaria in Sofia in September.
1691, [John Locke],Some Considerations of the Consequences of the Lowering of Interest, and Raising the Value of Money.[…], London:[…]Awnsham and John Churchill,[…], published1692,→OCLC:
The money which remains shouldgo according to its true value.
At 4pm, the phonewent. It wasThe Sun: 'We hear your daughter's been expelled for cheating at her school exams[…]' / / She'd made a remark to a friend at the end of the German exam and had beenpulled up for talking. / / As they left the exam room, she muttered that the teacher was a 'twat'. He heard andflipped—a pretty stupid thing to do, knowing the kids were tired and tense after exams. Instead of dropping it, the teacher complained to theHead and Deb wascarpeted.
Seeing himself confronted by so many, like a resolute orator, hewent not to denial, but to justify his cruel falsehood.
1990, Celestine Sibley,Tokens of myself,→ISBN, page73:
Now I didn'tgo to make that mistake about the record-breaking drought of more than fifty years ago, but, boy, am I glad I made it. Otherwise, I wouldn't have heard from Joe Almand.
You can date black, you can do white, on a slow night maybe even go for an Asian boy, but most likely you'llgo Latino unless the aforementioned guys speak a little Spanish[…]
2010 November 9, Greg Fitzsimmons,Dear Mrs. Fitzsimmons: Tales of Redemption from an Irish Mailbox, Simon and Schuster,→ISBN,page166:
I felt that was an insult to John Lennon, but I married her anyway. Thinking back, I should havegone Asian.
2010, Marty Nazzaro,The City of Presidents, FriesenPress,→ISBN, page131:
“I could give a flying fuck less if Ronnie dated a Martian, but the fact of the matter is that it would not be cool for him togo Asian. He knows it and I know it.” Ronnie did not respond at all. Shit, he wanted to date Tai in the worst way,[…]
2011 May 3, Sandra Guzmán,The New Latina’s Bible: The Modern Latina’s Guide to Love, Spirituality, Family, and La Vida[5], Basic Books,→ISBN,→LCCN,→OCLC:
In fact, Hispanics and Asians are riding the wave—26 percent of Latino and 31 percent of Asian newlywed couples were mixed race or ethnicity. And, when marrying out, wewent white—four in ten Latinos married a white spouse,[…]
2012 March 1, Sylvia Lett,All Night Lover, Kensington Publishing Corp.,→ISBN,→OCLC,page182:
She'sgone black now. That's a big change for you, Cassie. So tell me, is it true what they say about black men?
2017 May 16, Judith A. Yates,"She Is Evil!": Madness and Murder in Memphis[6], WildBlue Press,→ISBN,→OCLC:
“Shewent black,” he remembers. “She only started dating black guys. Or foreigners.”
2018 November 27, M.J. Kane,A Heart Not Easily Broken (Butterfly Memoirs)[7], Written Musings,→ISBN:
“Your twin is dating a white man,” Lashana interjected.[…] “[…]Now, let me get this straight, Eb, you'vegone white?”
2022 January 4, Radhika Sanghani,30 Things I Love About Myself[8], Penguin,→ISBN,→LCCN,→OCLC:
She'shot. Hey, how are your parents about it all? I mean, you're breaking two taboos there—you're dating women, and you'vegone white.
Then I′m sure I heard him mutter ‘Why don′t you get fucked,’ under his breath. It was at that moment that I became a true professional. Instead ofgoing him, I announced the next song.
Tom stepped back, considered the hill, and taking off down it. She was going togo him for blowing that flamin′ whistle in her ear all day.
(in phrases with 'as')Used to express how some category of things generally is, as a reference for, contrast to, or comparison with, a particular example.
They are fairly rough and ready as modelsgo, not often driven to the rigor of an authentic scientific law, and never worried about coming out with some revolutionary mathematical language — but models nonetheless,[…]
1991, Katherine Paterson,Lyddie:
She was, as girlsgo, scrawny and muscular, yet her boyish frame had in the last year betrayed her.
(transitive) To take (a particularpart orshare); to participate in to the extent of.
1996, Jonathan Goodman,The Last Sentence, Chivers North America,→ISBN:
'But I bet you couldgo a cup of tea? I know I could. Always ready for char.' He looked over my shoulder towards Albert Hicks, who was standing in the doorway. 'Albert, could you rustle up a pot of our best Darjeeling?[…]'
2006, Kevin Blue,Practical Justice: Living Off-Center in a Self-Centered World,→ISBN, page54:
Clarence was just as surprised to see Richard, and hewent—right there in the doorway. I had slept through all this mayhem on the other side of the apartment. By the time I got up, these were all semi-comical memories and the urine had been cleaned up.
Along withdo,make, and to a lesser extent other English verbs,go is often used as a substitute for a verb that was used previously or that is implied, in the same way apronoun substitutes for anoun. For example:
Chris: Then hegoes like this: (Chris then waves his arms around, implying that the phrase meansthen he waves his arms).
Some speakers usewent for the past participle, especially in informal contexts, though this is considerednonstandard and isproscribed.
Like other English verbs, the verbgo once had an alternative present participle formed with the suffix-and, i.e.goand.Goand is nowobsolete, having been replaced bygoing, except in a few rural dialects in Scotland and Northern England, where it is consideredarchaic. Even in such dialects, it is never used to form the continuous tenses. These examples are from theHighlands:
Goandsnellathwart thehouf, hoo hent 'im be theswyr. ―Going swiftly across the churchyard, she grabbed him by the neck.
Goand oot of theholt, she saw a woundor baist. ―Going out of the woods, she saw a magical creature.
In certain contexts,been is idiomatically substituted forgone as the past participle. For example, one mightgo to London but later say that one hasbeen to London. One might also say that one willgo to the toilet but later say that one hasbeen to the toilet.
Swedish:gå(sv)(by walking),åka(sv)(by vehicle),resa(sv),fara(sv),ska(sv)(often the idiomatic translation of "be going" in the sense of intending to go somewhere – see the usage examples)
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The Apostles were to be the first of a line. They would multiply successors, and the successors would die and their successors after them, but the line would never fail; and the come andgo of men would not matter, since it is the one Christ operating through all of them.
1995, William Noel,The Harley Psalter,→ISBN, page65:
This could mean that the artist traced the illustration in twogoes, as it were, or that the Utrecht Psalter slipped while he was tracing, but I do not think that the relative proportions are consistent enough to demonstrate this.
A time; an experience.
2011 May 20, Sue L Hall M D,For the Love of Babies: One Doctor's Stories about Life in the Neonatal ICU, WorldMaker Media,→ISBN, page155:
Even if she was bigger and more mature, she would have a toughgo of it. We have read a lot on this diagnosis and have known from the beginning what she has been up against.” “It's true about this being a toughgo,” I said. “Listen, I'm very sorry, but I'm on call here tomorrow and I will[…]"
2013 July 2, Addison Fox,From This Moment On: An Alaskan Nights Novella (A Penguin Special from Signet Eclipse), Penguin,→ISBN:
"She's had a roughgo of things and no one wants to see her hurt.” Jason stared at Kate's slender frame, backlit by a spear of sunlight breaking through the cloud cover. "Then that makes the entire town plus one."
2015 May 26, Dr. Kevin Leman, Jeff Nesbit,A Perfect Ambition (The Worthington Destiny Book 1): A Novel, Revell,→ISBN:
With public opinion turned more empathetic toward AF with the bombing of their building, Sarah and the Justice Department would have a toughgo of it. But if this really was true [that they were behind the bombing themselves], and the media got ahold of it. . .
(slang,dated) A circumstance or occurrence; an incident, often unexpected.
“Well, this is a prettygo, is this here! An uncommon prettygo!
1869,Punch, volume57, page257:
“Ain't this a rumgo? This is a queer sort of dodge for lighting the streets.”
1839, Charles Dickens,Nicholas Nickleby:
The images of Mrs. Squeers, my daughter, and my son Wackford, all short of vittles, is perpetually before me; every other consideration melts away and vanishes, in front of these; the only number in all arithmetic that I know of, as a husband and a father, is number one, under this here most fatalgo!
"Supposing now that some of them were to slip into the boat at night and cut the cable, make off with her? That would be a prettygo, that would."
2018 February 11, Colin Dexter, Russell Lewis, 01:02:03 from the start, inEndeavour(Cartouche), season 5, episode 2 (TV series), spoken by DCI Fred Thursday (Roger Allam):
“It’s a rumgo and no mistake.”
Anapproval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
"Well, Tom, is it a go? You can trust me, for you'll have the thousand in your pocket before you start.[…]"
2009, Craig Nelson,Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon,→ISBN:
And as soon as we gave them thego to continue, we lost communication.
An act; the working or operation.
1598,John Marston,Pigmalion,The Metamorphosis of Pigmalions Image and Certaine Satyres, 1856, J. O. Halliwell (editor),The Works of John Marston: Reprinted from the Original Editions, Volume 3,page 211,
Let this suffice, that that same happy night, So gracious were thegoes of marriage[…]
1820, Thomas Moore, W. Simpkin, R. Marshall,Jack Randall's Diary of Proceedings at the House of Call for Genius:
Jack Randall then impatient rose, / And said, ‘Tom's speech were just as fine / If he would call that first ofgoes [i.e. gin] / By that genteeler name—white wine.'
1836, Charles Dickens,Sketches by Boz:
When the cloth was removed, Mr. Thomas Potter ordered the waiter to bring in twogoes of his best Scotch whiskey, with warm water and sugar, and a couple of his "very mildest" Havannas,
1868 March,In a City Bus, in theEclectic Magazine, new series volume VII, number 3:
“Then, if you value it so highly,” I said, “you can hardly object to stand half ago of brandy for its recovery.”
1881,Pierce Egan, chapter VII, inTom and Jerry[19], page136:
That TOM, who was theGO among theGOES, in the very centre of fashion in London, should have to encounter thevulgar stare of this village; or, that the dairy-maid should leave off skimming her cream to take a peep at our hero, as he mounted his courser, is not at all surprising: and TOM only smiled at thisprovincial sort of rudeness.
2012, Kate Ross,A Broken Vessel:
He's ago among thegoes, is Mr. Kestrel. He's only got to sport a new kind of topper, or tie his crumpler a new way, and every gentry-cove in town does just the same.
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(postpositive, chiefly military and space flight) Working correctly and ready to commence operation; approved and able to be put into action.
1962, United States. Congress,Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the[…] Congress, page2754:
John Glenn reports all systems arego.
1964,Instruments and Control Systems:
"Life support system isgo," said the earphone.
2011, Matthew Stover,Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor: Star Wars Legends, Del Rey,→ISBN:
“Green One has four starts and isgo.”
2016, Tim Brewster,Stuck: It's About to Get Very Weird[…], Lulu.com,→ISBN, page118:
“Weapons ready?” Sam and I pull our loaded BB guns out of the bag and slot them into place in the longholsters on our backs.“ Weapons arego,” Sam replied.
(board games) Astrategicboard game, originally fromChina and today also popular inJapan andKorea, in which two players (black and white) attempt to control the largest area of the board with their counters.
Westermann, Dietrich Verfasser (1905), “go”, inWörterbuch der Ewe-Sprache [Dictionary of the Ewe language][22] (in German), Berlin: Dietrich Reimer, section I, page195
1998, “Agrévolution”, inOl Kainry (lyrics),Ce n’est que l’début, performed by Agression Verbale:
Georgetown pète le champagne, y’a du son, y’a desgo et le sunshine Tu vois y’a pas de fringues, en caleçon et débardeurs Avec une bande de démarreurs, desgo qui me disent “t’es speed comme Schumacher”
In the meaning“to”, used with place names that do not start with the definite article. Place names that do start with the definite article usego dtí instead. In a few fixed phrases, the archaic formgos is used.
The inflected forms that originally belonged to this preposition (that is, the prepositional pronouns meaning“to me” etc.) have been reanalyzed as the inflected forms ofchuig.
Only used with predicate adjectives expressing a value judgment like "good/bad", "beautiful/ugly" etc. Other predicate adjectives do not take a particle:
"So if you dey tok about pipo wey dey mentor pipo dey guide dem, its not a bad tin to have a mentor but no be say you go get pesin wey go dey tell you saygo here,go here, do dis, do dis, how?"
"So if you talk about people who mentor people and guide them, its not a bad thing to have a mentor but you can't say you understand a person who tells you togo here,go here, do this, do this, how?"
Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008),Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages[23], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
Potanin, G.N. (1893), “go”, inТангутско-Тибетская окраина Китая и Центральная Монголия (in Russian)
Kakuk, S. (1962), “go”, in “Un Vocabulaire Salar”, inActa Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae[25], volume14, number 2, Akadémiai Kiadó,→ISBN, pages173-196
林莲云 [Lin Lianyun] (1985), “go”, in撒拉语简志 [A Brief History of Salar][26], Beijing:民族出版社: 琴書店,→OCLC, page113
Yakup, Abdurishid (2002), “go”, inAn Ili Salar Vocabulary: Introduction and a Provisional Salar-English Lexicon[27], Tokyo: University of Tokyo,→ISBN, page107
马伟 (Ma Wei);朝克 (Chao Ke) (2016), “go”, in濒危语言——撒拉语研究 [Endangered Languages - Salar Language Studies], 青海 (Qinghai): 国家社会科学基金项目 (National Social Science Foundation Project), page274
1 The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 2 Dated or archaic. 3 Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
1920, François Chaize[Cố Thịnh], “Phần II. Hạng vật có xương sống (Vertébrés)”, inĐịa cầu vạn vật luận - Động vật (Histoire naturelle - zoologie):
4°Lớp ếch nhái ( Batraciens ) Có máu lạnh;lái tim có 3 ngăn; vật ấy hoá hình, lúc bé cógo để thở dưới nước rồi thaygo lấy phổi để thở trong khígiời; có da trơn trụi lông; thường có 4 chân; hầu hết đẻ trứng.
4° Amphibians ( Batraciens ) are ectothermic; they have three-chambered hearts and undergo metamorphosis, as when they are juvenile, they havegills to breathe underwater but lose theirgills for lungs in order to breathe air; their skin is smooth and furless; they are often quadruped; most are oviparous.
1920, Nguyễn Can Mộng, “Bài 50”, inNam học Hán văn khoá bản:
R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “go”, inGeiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor,A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published1867
