going
/หษกoสษชล/IPA: /G OW1 IH0 NG/
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To start; to begin (an action or process).
โGet ready, get set, go!โ
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To take a turn, especially in a game.
โItโs your turn; go.โ
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To attend.
โI go to school at the schoolhouse.โ
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To proceed:
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To follow or travel along (a path):
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To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
โThis property goes all the way to the state line.โ
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To lead (to a place); to give access to.
โDoes this road go to Fort Smith?โ
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To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.)
โAfter failing as a criminal, he decided to go straight.โ
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To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
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To continuously or habitually be in a state.
โI don't want my children to go hungry.โ
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To come to (a certain condition or state).
โThey went into debt, she goes to sleep around 10 o'clock.โ
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To change (from one value to another) in the meaning of wend.
โThe traffic light went straight from green to red.โ
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To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
โHow did your meeting with Smith go?โ
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To tend (toward a result).
โThese experiences go to make us stronger.โ
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To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
โqualities that go to make a lady / lip-reader / sharpshooterโ
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To pass, to be used up:
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To die.
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To be discarded.
โThis chair has got to go.โ
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To be lost or out:
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To break down or apart:
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To be sold.
โEverything must go.โ
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To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
โThe award went to Steven Spielberg.โ
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To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
โCan you two go twenty minutes without arguing?!โ
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To have a certain record.
โThe team is going five in a row.โ
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To be authoritative, accepted, or valid:
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To say (something), to make a sound:
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To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
โAs the story goes, he got the idea for the song while sitting in traffic.โ
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To resort (to).
โI'll go to court if I have to.โ
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To apply or subject oneself to:
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To fit (in a place, or together with something):
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To attack:
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To be in general; to be usually.
โAs sentences go, this one is pretty boring.โ
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To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
โLet's go halves on this.โ
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To yield or weigh.
โThose babies go five tons apiece.โ
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To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
โI'll go a ten-spot.โ
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To enjoy. (Compare go for.)
โI could go a beer right about now.โ
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To urinate or defecate.
โHave you managed to go today, Mrs. Miggins?โ
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A departure.
โThy going is not lonely, with thee goes thy Husbandโ
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The suitability of ground for riding, walking etc.
โThe going was very difficult over the ice.โ
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Progress.
โWe made good going for a while, but then we came to the price.โ
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Conditions for advancing in any way.
โNot only were the streets not paved with gold, but the going was difficult for an immigrant.โ
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Pregnancy; gestation; childbearing
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(in the plural) Course of life; behaviour; doings; ways.
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(in the phrase "the going of") The whereabouts (of something).
โI can't find my sunglasses; you haven't seen the going of them, have you?โ
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Likely to continue; viable.
โHe didn't want to make an unsecured loan to the business because it didn't look like a going concern.โ
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Current, prevailing.
โThe going rate for manual snow-shoveling is $25 an hour.โ
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(especially after a noun phrase with a superlative) Available.
โHe has the easiest job going.โ
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