GO

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Abbreviation of Gorontalo

   Abbreviation of Gorontalo: a province of Indonesia.

2. 2

   Abbreviation of Goiás

   Abbreviation of Goiás: a state of Brazil.

3. 3

   Initialism of graphene oxide.

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   1. 4

      To move, either physically or in an abstract sense

      To move, either physically or in an abstract sense:

      • Why don’t you go with us?
      • This train goes through Cincinnati on its way to Chicago.
      • Chris, where are you going?
   2. 5

      To work or function (properly)

      To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).

      • The engine just won't go anymore.
      • Don't put your hand inside while the motor's going!
      • 'Although the lemon is now black and shrivelled the motor is still going 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.
   3. 6

      To start

      To start; to begin (an action or process).

      • You've got thirty seconds to solve the anagram, starting now. Go!
      • 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 Mill agoing, and I can drein her of 'em all.
      • Be listening for my voice. Go when you hear my voice say go.
   4. 7

      To take a turn, especially in a game.

      • It’s your turn; go.
      • I've got all vowels. I don't think I can go.
   5. 8

      To attend.

      • I go to school at the schoolhouse.
      • She went to Yale.
      • They only go to church on Christmas.
   6. 9

      To proceed

      To proceed:

      • That went well.
      • "How are things going?" "Not bad, thanks."
      • How goes the night, boy?
   7. 10

      To extend along.

      • The fence goes the length of the boundary.
      • A shady promenade went the length of the street and the entrance to the hotel was a few steps back in the darkness, away from the glaring sunshine.
   8. 11

      To extend (from one point in time or space to another).

      • This property goes all the way to the state line.
      • The working week goes from Monday to Friday.
      • I think those figures start from 1932 and go to 1941, inclusive, […]
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      To lead (to a place)

      To lead (to a place); to give access (to).

      • Does this road go to Fort Smith?
      • “Where does this door go?” Bev asked as she pointed to a door painted a darker green than the powder green color of the carpet. Janet answered. “That door goes to the back yard.”
   10. 13

       To become, move to or come to (a state, position, situation)

       • Near-synonyms: become, get, turn, come, fall, grow, wax
       • You'll go blind.
       • The milk went bad.
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       To assume the obligation or function of

       To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.

       • There is scarcely a business man who is not occasionally asked to go bail for somebody.
       • Most welfare workers are not allowed to go surety for clients.
   12. 15

       To continuously or habitually be in a state.

       • I don't want my children to go hungry.
       • We went barefoot in the summer.
   13. 16

       To turn out, to result

       To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).

       • The decision went the way we expected.
       • 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-election went in favour of a local Tory, Lord Cheyne.
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       To tend (toward a result)

       • Well, that goes to show you.
       • These experiences go to make us stronger.
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       To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.

       • qualities that go to make a lady / lip-reader / sharpshooter
       • What can we know of any substance or existence, but as made up of all the qualities that go to its composition: extension, solidity, form, colour; take these away, and you know nothing.
       • The avoirdupois pound is one of 7,000 grains, and go to the pound.
   16. 19

       To pass, to be used up

       To pass, to be used up:

       • The time went slowly.
       • But the days went and went, and she never came; and then I thought I would come here where you were.
       • The rest of the morning went quickly and before Su knew it Jean was knocking on the door […]
   17. 20

       To die.

       • I want to go in my sleep.
       • By Saint George, he's gone! / That spear wound hath our master sped.
       • After two years of swaddled invalidism, Mrs. Morton emitted a final gassy sigh and died, whereas twenty years later Elihu was to go “just like that,” as the neighbors said, from a stroke.
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       To be lost or out

       To be lost or out:

       • The third wicket went just before lunch.
   19. 22

       To break down or apart

       To break down or apart:

       • Careful! It looks as if that ceiling could go at any moment!
       • I wonder if I hopped up and down, would the bridge go?
   20. 23

       To be sold.

       • The car went for five thousand dollars.
       • The store is closing down so everything must go.
   21. 24

       To be discarded or disposed of.

       • This chair has got to go.
       • All this old rubbish can go.
       • Preservation of two railway routes between Belfast and Derry could no longer be justified and one of them must go.
   22. 25

       To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.

       • The property shall go to my wife.
       • The award went to Steven Spielberg.
       • If my money goes to education, I want a report card.
   23. 26

       To survive or get by

       To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.

       • How long can you go without water?
       • We've gone without your help for a while now.
       • I've gone ten days now without a cigarette.
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       To have a certain record.

       • They've gone one for three in this series.
       • The team is going five in a row.
       • Against the Big Green, Princeton went the entire first and third quarters without gaining a first down, […]
   25. 28

       To be authoritative, accepted, or valid

       To be authoritative, accepted, or valid:

       • Whatever the boss says goes, do you understand?
   26. 29

       To say (something), to make a sound

       To say (something), to make a sound:

       • I go, "As if!" And she was all like, "Whatever!"
       • As soon as I did it, I went "that was stupid."
   27. 30

       To be expressed or composed (a certain way).

       • The tune goes like this.
       • As the story goes, he got the idea for the song while sitting in traffic.
   28. 31

       To resort (to).

       • The nylon gears kept breaking, so we went to stainless steel.
   29. 32

       To apply or subject oneself to

       To apply or subject oneself to:

       • I'm going to join a sports team.
       • I wish you'd go and get a job.
       • He went to pick it up, but it rolled out of reach.
   30. 33

       To fit (in a place, or together with something)

       To fit (in a place, or together with something):

       • Do you think the sofa will go through the door?
       • The belt just barely went around his waist.
   31. 34

       To date.

       • How long have they been going together?
       • He's been going with her for two weeks.
   32. 35

       To (begin to) date or have sex with (a particular race).

       • You can date black, you can do white, on a slow night maybe even go for an Asian boy, but most likely you'll go Latino unless the aforementioned guys speak a little Spanish […]
       • I felt that was an insult to John Lennon, but I married her anyway. Thinking back, I should have gone Asian.
   33. 36

       To attack

       To attack:

       • I went at him with a knife.
       • You wanna go, little man?
   34. 37

       Used to express how some category of things generally is, as a reference for, contrast…

       Used to express how some category of things generally is, as a reference for, contrast to, or comparison with, a particular example.

       • My cat Fluffy is very timid, as cats go.
       • As far as burgers go, this is one of the best.
       • Booster is not a loud trumpeter as elephants go.
   35. 38

       To take (a particular part or share)

       To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.

       • Let's go halves on this.
       • They were to go equal shares in the booty.
   36. 39

       To yield or weigh.

       • Those babies go five tons apiece.
       • This'll go three tons to the acre, or I'll eat my shirt.
   37. 40

       To offer, bid or bet an amount

       To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay; to sell for.

       • That's as high as I can go.
       • We could go two fifty.
       • I'll go a ten-spot.
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       To enjoy. (Compare go for.)

       • I could go a beer right about now.
       • 'But I bet you could go 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?[…]'
   39. 42

       To go to the toilet

       To go to the toilet; to urinate or defecate.

       • I really need to go.
       • Have you managed to go today, Mrs. Miggins?
   40. 43

       Expressing encouragement or approval.

       • Go, girl! You can do it!
   41. 44

       Clipping of go to the.

       • Going pub now :)
       • Ffs I really want to go pub now
       • I went shop and the boss man said, "Don't pay me it's fine".
   42. 45

       To fight, usually with the fists.

       • You said WHAT about my mom? Do you want to go, bro?
   43. 46

       To pass (a specified time) in gestation

       To pass (a specified time) in gestation; to be pregnant.

       • For quotations using this term, see Citations:go.
   44. 47

       The act of going.

       • They talk easily together and they hear the come and go of the breeze in the soon to be turning burnt leaves of the high trees.
   45. 48

       A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).

       • You’ve been on that pinball machine long enough—now let your brother have a go.
       • It’s your go.
   46. 49

       An attempt, a try.

       • I’ll give it a go.
       • You have to stay and we will have a go at winning the championship next season."
   47. 50

       A period of activity.

       • ate it all in one go
       • This could mean that the artist traced the illustration in two goes, 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.
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       A time

       A time; an experience.

       • "She's had a rough go 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."
   49. 52

       A circumstance or occurrence

       A circumstance or occurrence; an incident, often unexpected.

       • 1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, in 1868, The Works of Charles Dickens, Volume 2: Nicholas Nickleby, Martin Chuzzlewit, American Notes, page 306, “Well, this is a pretty go, is this here! An uncommon pretty go!
       • “Ain't this a rum go? This is a queer sort of dodge for lighting the streets.”
   50. 53

       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.
       • "Well, Tom, is it a go? You can trust me, for you'll have the thousand in your pocket before you start.[…]"
       • And as soon as we gave them the go to continue, we lost communication.
   51. 54

       An act

       An act; the working or operation.

   52. 55

       The fashion or mode.

       • quite the go
       • We are blowing each other out of the market with cheapness; but it is all the go, so we must not be behind the age.
   53. 56

       Noisy merriment.

       • a high go
       • Gemmen (says he), you all well know The joy there is whene'er we meet; It's what I call the primest go, And rightly named, 'tis—'quite a treat,' […]
   54. 57

       A glass of spirits

       A glass of spirits; a quantity of spirits.

       • Jack Randall then impatient rose, / And said, ‘Tom's speech were just as fine / If he would call that first of goes [i.e. gin] / By that genteeler name—white wine.'
       • When the cloth was removed, Mr. Thomas Potter ordered the waiter to bring in two goes of his best Scotch whiskey, with warm water and sugar, and a couple of his "very mildest" Havannas,
       • “Then, if you value it so highly,” I said, “you can hardly object to stand half a go of brandy for its recovery.”
   55. 58

       A portion

       • Albert's uncle had had a jolly good breakfast—fish and eggs and bacon and three goes of marmalade.
   56. 59

       Power of going or doing

       Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.

       • There is no go in him.
   57. 60

       The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count…

       The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above thirty-one.

   58. 61

       A dandy

       A dandy; a fashionable person.

       • He's a go among the goes, 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.
       • See Thesaurus:dandy
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       Working correctly and ready to commence operation

       Working correctly and ready to commence operation; approved and able to be put into action.

       • John Glenn reports all systems are go.
       • "Life support system is go," said the earphone.
       • “Green One has four starts and is go.”
   60. 63

       A strategic board game, originally from China and today also popular in Japan and Korea,…

       A strategic board game, originally from China and today also popular in Japan and Korea, in which two players (black and white) attempt to control the largest area of the board with their counters.

   61. 64

       Alternative letter-case form of go (“strategic board game”).

       • It is shown that Stratego is a complex game when compared to other games, such as chess and Hex. The game-tree complexity of 10⁵³⁵ exceeds the game-tree complexity of Go.
   62. 65

       A compiled, garbage-collected, concurrent programming language developed by Google.

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