go
noun
- The act of going.
- A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
"It’s your go."
- An attempt, a try.
"I’ll give it a go."
- An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
"We will begin as soon as the boss says it's a go."
- An act; the working or operation.
- A circumstance or occurrence; an incident, often unexpected.
- The fashion or mode.
"quite the go"
- Noisy merriment.
"a high go"
- A glass of spirits; a quantity of spirits.
- Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
"There is no go in him."
- The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above thirty-one.
- A period of activity.
"ate it all in one go"
- (British slang) A dandy; a fashionable person.
verb
- To move:
- (chiefly of a machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
"The engine just won't go anymore."
- To start; to begin (an action or process).
"Get ready, get set, go!"
- To take a turn, especially in a game.
"It’s your turn; go."
- To attend.
"I go to school at the schoolhouse."
- To proceed:
- To follow or travel along (a path):
- To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
"This property goes all the way to the state line."
- To lead (to a place); to give access to.
"Does this road go to Fort Smith?"
- To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.)
"After failing as a criminal, he decided to go straight."
- To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
- To continuously or habitually be in a state.
"I don't want my children to go hungry."
- To come to (a certain condition or state).
"They went into debt, she goes to sleep around 10 o'clock."
- To change (from one value to another) in the meaning of wend.
"The traffic light went straight from green to red."
- To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
"How did your meeting with Smith go?"
- To tend (toward a result).
"These experiences go to make us stronger."
- To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
"qualities that go to make a lady / lip-reader / sharpshooter"
- To pass, to be used up:
- To die.
- To be discarded.
"This chair has got to go."
- To be lost or out:
- To break down or apart:
- To be sold.
"Everything must go."
- To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
"The award went to Steven Spielberg."
- To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
"Can you two go twenty minutes without arguing?!"
- To have a certain record.
"The team is going five in a row."
- To be authoritative, accepted, or valid:
- To say (something), to make a sound:
- To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
"As the story goes, he got the idea for the song while sitting in traffic."
- To resort (to).
"I'll go to court if I have to."
- To apply or subject oneself to:
- To fit (in a place, or together with something):
- To date.
"He's been going with her for two weeks."
- To attack:
- To be in general; to be usually.
"As sentences go, this one is pretty boring."
- To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
"Let's go halves on this."
- To yield or weigh.
"Those babies go five tons apiece."
- To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
"I'll go a ten-spot."
- To enjoy. (Compare go for.)
"I could go a beer right about now."
- To urinate or defecate.
"Have you managed to go today, Mrs. Miggins?"
adjective
- Working correctly and ready to commence operation; approved and able to be put into action.
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