Go \Go\ (g[=o]), obs. p. p. of {Go}. Gone. --Chaucer.
Go \Go\, v. i. [imp. {Went} (w[e^]nt); p. p. {Gone} (g[o^]n; 115); p. pr. & vb. n. {Going}. Went comes from the AS, wendan. See {Wend}, v. i.] [OE. gan, gon, AS. g[=a]n, akin to D. gaan, G. gehn, gehen, OHG. g[=e]n, g[=a]n, SW. g[*a], Dan. gaae; cf. Gr. kicha`nai to reach, overtake, Skr. h[=a] to go, AS. gangan, and E. gang. The past tense in AS., eode, is from the root i to go, as is also Goth. iddja went. [root]47a. Cf. {Gang}, v. i., {Wend}.] 1. To pass from one place to another; to be in motion; to be in a state not motionless or at rest; to proceed; to advance; to make progress; -- used, in various applications, of the movement of both animate and inanimate beings, by whatever means, and also of the movements of the mind; also figuratively applied.
2. To move upon the feet, or step by step; to walk; also, to walk step by step, or leisurely.
Note: In old writers go is much used as opposed to run, or ride. ``Whereso I go or ride.'' --Chaucer.
You know that love Will creep in service where it can not go. --Shak.
Thou must run to him; for thou hast staid so long that going will scarce serve the turn. --Shak.
He fell from running to going, and from going to clambering upon his hands and his knees. --Bunyan.
Note: In Chaucer go is used frequently with the pronoun in the objective used reflexively; as, he goeth him home.
3. To be passed on fron one to another; to pass; to circulate; hence, with for, to have currency; to be taken, accepted, or regarded.
The man went among men for an old man in the days of Saul. --1 Sa. xvii. 12.
[The money] should go according to its true value. --Locke.
4. To proceed or happen in a given manner; to fare; to move on or be carried on; to have course; to come to an issue or result; to succeed; to turn out.
How goes the night, boy ? --Shak.
I think, as the world goes, he was a good sort of man enough. --Arbuthnot.
Whether the cause goes for me or against me, you must pay me the reward. --I Watts.
5. To proceed or tend toward a result, consequence, or product; to tend; to conduce; to be an ingredient; to avail; to apply; to contribute; -- often with the infinitive; as, this goes to show.
Against right reason all your counsels go. --Dryden.
To master the foul flend there goeth some complement knowledge of theology. --Sir W. Scott.
6. To apply one's self; to set one's self; to undertake.
Seeing himself confronted by so many, like a resolute orator, he went not to denial, but to justify his cruel falsehood. --Sir P. Sidney.
Note: Go, in this sense, is often used in the present participle with the auxiliary verb to be, before an infinitive, to express a future of intention, or to denote design; as, I was going to say; I am going to begin harvest.
7. To proceed by a mental operation; to pass in mind or by an act of the memory or imagination; -- generally with over or through.
By going over all these particulars, you may receive some tolerable satisfaction about this great subject. --South.
8. To be with young; to be pregnant; to gestate.
The fruit she goes with, I pray for heartily, that it may find Good time, and live. --Shak.
9. To move from the person speaking, or from the point whence the action is contemplated; to pass away; to leave; to depart; -- in opposition to stay and come.
I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to the Lord your God; . . . only ye shall not go very far away. --Ex. viii. 28.
10. To pass away; to depart forever; to be lost or ruined; to perish; to decline; to decease; to die.
By Saint George, he's gone! That spear wound hath our master sped. --Sir W. Scott.
11. To reach; to extend; to lead; as, a line goes across the street; his land goes to the river; this road goes to New York.
His amorous expressions go no further than virtue may allow. --Dryden.
12. To have recourse; to resort; as, to go to law.
Note: Go is used, in combination with many prepositions and adverbs, to denote motion of the kind indicated by the preposition or adverb, in which, and not in the verb, lies the principal force of the expression; as, to go against to go into, to go out, to go aside, to go astray, etc.
{Go to}, come; move; go away; -- a phrase of exclamation, serious or ironical.
{To go a-begging}, not to be in demand; to be undesired.
{To go about}. (a) To set about; to enter upon a scheme of action; to undertake. ``They went about to slay him.'' --Acts ix. 29.
They never go about . . . to hide or palliate their vices. --Swift. (b) (Naut.) To tack; to turn the head of a ship; to wear.
{To go abraod}. (a) To go to a foreign country. (b) To go out of doors. (c) To become public; to be published or disclosed; to be current.
Then went this saying abroad among the brethren. --John xxi. 23.
{To go against}. (a) To march against; to attack. (b) To be in opposition to; to be disagreeable to.
{To go ahead}. (a) To go in advance. (b) To go on; to make progress; to proceed.
{To go and come}. See {To come and go}, under {Come}.
{To go aside}. (a) To withdraw; to retire.
He . . . went aside privately into a desert place. --Luke. ix. 10. (b) To go from what is right; to err. --Num. v. 29.
{To go back on}. (a) To retrace (one's path or footsteps). (b) To abandon; to turn against; to betray. [Slang, U. S.]
{To go below} (Naut), to go below deck.
{To go between}, to interpose or mediate between; to be a secret agent between parties; in a bad sense, to pander.
{To go beyond}. See under {Beyond}.
{To go by}, to pass away unnoticed; to omit.
{To go by the board} (Naut.), to fall or be carried overboard; as, the mast went by the board.
{To go down}. (a) To descend. (b) To go below the horizon; as, the sun has gone down. (c) To sink; to founder; -- said of ships, etc. (d) To be swallowed; -- used literally or figuratively. [Colloq.]
Nothing so ridiculous, . . . but it goes down whole with him for truth. --L' Estrange.
{To go far}. (a) To go to a distance. (b) To have much weight or influence.
{To go for}. (a) To go in quest of. (b) To represent; to pass for. (c) To favor; to advocate. (d) To attack; to assault. [Low] (e) To sell for; to be parted with for (a price).
{To go for nothing}, to be parted with for no compensation or result; to have no value, efficacy, or influence; to count for nothing.
{To go forth}. (a) To depart from a place. (b) To be divulged or made generally known; to emanate.
The law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. --Micah iv. 2.
{To go hard with}, to trouble, pain, or endanger.
{To go in}, to engage in; to take part. [Colloq.]
{To go in and out}, to do the business of life; to live; to have free access. --John x. 9.
{To go in for}. [Colloq.] (a) To go for; to favor or advocate (a candidate, a measure, etc.). (b) To seek to acquire or attain to (wealth, honor, preferment, etc.) (c) To complete for (a reward, election, etc.). (d) To make the object of one's labors, studies, etc.
He was as ready to go in for statistics as for anything else. --Dickens.
{To go in to} or {To go in unto}. (a) To enter the presence of. --Esther iv. 16. (b) To have sexual intercourse with. [Script.]
{To go into}. (a) To speak of, investigate, or discuss (a question, subject, etc.). (b) To participate in (a war, a business, etc.).
{To go large}. (Naut) See under {Large}.
{To go off}. (a) To go away; to depart.
The leaders . . . will not go off until they hear you. --Shak. (b) To cease; to intermit; as, this sickness went off. (c) To die. --Shak. (d) To explode or be discharged; -- said of gunpowder, of a gun, a mine, etc. (e) To find a purchaser; to be sold or disposed of. (f) To pass off; to take place; to be accomplished.
The wedding went off much as such affairs do. --Mrs. Caskell.
{To go on}. (a) To proceed; to advance further; to continue; as, to go on reading. (b) To be put or drawn on; to fit over; as, the coat will not go on.
{To go all fours}, to correspond exactly, point for point.
It is not easy to make a simile go on all fours. --Macaulay.
{To go out}. (a) To issue forth from a place. (b) To go abroad; to make an excursion or expedition.
There are other men fitter to go out than I. --Shak.
What went ye out for to see ? --Matt. xi. 7, 8, 9. (c) To become diffused, divulged, or spread abroad, as news, fame etc. (d) To expire; to die; to cease; to come to an end; as, the light has gone out.
Life itself goes out at thy displeasure. --Addison.
{To go over}. (a) To traverse; to cross, as a river, boundary, etc.; to change sides.
I must not go over Jordan. --Deut. iv. 22.
Let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan. --Deut. iii. 25.
Ishmael . . . departed to go over to the Ammonites. --Jer. xli. 10. (b) To read, or study; to examine; to review; as, to go over one's accounts.
If we go over the laws of Christianity, we shall find that . . . they enjoin the same thing. --Tillotson. (c) To transcend; to surpass. (d) To be postponed; as, the bill went over for the session. (e) (Chem.) To be converted (into a specified substance or material); as, monoclinic sulphur goes over into orthorhombic, by standing; sucrose goes over into dextrose and levulose.
{To go through}. (a) To accomplish; as, to go through a work. (b) To suffer; to endure to the end; as, to go through a surgical operation or a tedious illness. (c) To spend completely; to exhaust, as a fortune. (d) To strip or despoil (one) of his property. [Slang] (e) To botch or bungle a business. [Scot.]
{To go through with}, to perform, as a calculation, to the end; to complete.
{To go to ground}. (a) To escape into a hole; -- said of a hunted fox. (b) To fall in battle.
{To go to naught} (Colloq.), to prove abortive, or unavailling.
{To go under}. (a) To set; -- said of the sun. (b) To be known or recognized by (a name, title, etc.). (c) To be overwhelmed, submerged, or defeated; to perish; to succumb.
{To go up}, to come to nothing; to prove abortive; to fail. [Slang]
{To go upon}, to act upon, as a foundation or hypothesis.
{To go with}. (a) To accompany. (b) To coincide or agree with. (c) To suit; to harmonize with.
{To go well with}, {To go ill with}, {To go hard with}, to affect (one) in such manner.
{To go without}, to be, or to remain, destitute of.
{To go wrong}. (a) To take a wrong road or direction; to wander or stray. (b) To depart from virtue. (c) To happen unfortunately; to unexpectedly cause a mishap or failure. (d) To miss success; to fail.
{To let go}, to allow to depart; to quit one's hold; to release.
Go \Go\, v. t. 1. To take, as a share in an enterprise; to undertake or become responsible for; to bear a part in.
They to go equal shares in the booty. --L'Estrange.
2. To bet or wager; as, I'll go you a shilling. [Colloq.]
{To go halves}, to share with another equally.
{To go it}, to behave in a wild manner; to be uproarious; to carry on; also, to proceed; to make progress. [Colloq.]
{To go it alone} (Card Playing), to play a hand without the assistance of one's partner.
{To go one's way}, to set forth; to depart.
Go \Go\, n. 1. Act; working; operation. [Obs.]
So gracious were the goes of marriage. --Marston.
2. A circumstance or occurrence; an incident. [Slang]
This is a pretty go. --Dickens.
3. The fashion or mode; as, quite the go. [Colloq.]
4. Noisy merriment; as, a high go. [Colloq.]
5. A glass of spirits. [Slang]
6. Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance; push; as, there is no go in him. [Colloq.]
7. (Cribbage) That condition in the course of the game when a player can not lay down a card which will not carry the aggregate count above thirty-one.
8. Something that goes or is successful; a success; as, he made a go of it; also, an agreement.
``Well,'' said Fleming, ``is it a go?'' --Bret Harte. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
{Great go}, {Little go}, the final and the preliminary examinations for a degree. [Slang, Eng. Univ.]
{No go}, a failure; a fiasco. [Slang] --Thackeray.
{On the go}, moving about; unsettled. [Colloq.]
I looked at my watch at the end, astonished that 100 minutes had gone by. But then I am looking at my watch again now, astonished that a vintage Venice festival has gone by, with only 36 hours, three films and a bunch of prizes to go.
The plane will remain at Norwood until Pan Am and the FAA have a chance to go over it, he said.
There is a feeling, Mr. Acquilino said, that "if I give this piece, what is the next piece to go."
The group has a strong position in Brazil, but so far no presence in China, where it is likely to go for joint ventures. Mr Herbert said: 'We've had the time and access for extensive research and due diligence.
He does not know why he put on so much weight but said it forced him to quit his job and go on disability eight years ago.
She said she agreed to go along with the killings, sometimes acting as a lookout, because she hoped it would bind their love.
Now Texans will have a choice between one of their own for the top job or for No. 2, and they're likely to go for the big prize, he said.
Its videotapes, featuring 60 clients, will go to dating agencies in the U.S., Canada and Australia if Mrs. Lukyanova's grand plans go through.
Its videotapes, featuring 60 clients, will go to dating agencies in the U.S., Canada and Australia if Mrs. Lukyanova's grand plans go through.
If the utility commission follows its normal schedule for public hearings, the rate change, if granted, would go into effect next January.
Little more than a quarter of US exports go to Mexico and Canada - a proportion that is likely to change only slowly once the agreement comes into force in 1994.
Bertie's a frightfully decent chap and fancies himself a master schemer and solver of life's small problems, but his machinations always go awry, requiring the intervention of Jeeves ("Indeed, sir?") to get him out of trouble.
If you don't believe it, why don't you go and see her for yourself?' And so I did, but not without some difficulty.
"You have to understand reinsurance before you go into it," Mr. Caspersen concludes.
"If you look at the composition of the work force, you have to conclude the unemployment rate can go lower now than would have been safe 10 years ago," says George Perry, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.
You have to go to the heart of the problem and close the deficit.' Treasury officials reject the criticism that they are going too slowly.
Robert McCormick, deputy assistant secretary of defense for production support, confirmed that the new buy-American rules will go into effect today, but he declined to give details.
They feel whatever deals we have can go forward." The director general of a manufacturer in Sartov, from which Great Western has ordered tooling and other machinery, indicated "he will be able to deliver and deliver on time," Mr. Walker added.
"The way I read it, it's an attempt to show the lengths that the art community will go to thumb their noses at government grants," said Jack Morrissey, an associate editor at Universal Press Syndicate.
It said the money will go toward a variety of projects, including transmission and distribution facilities.
But he says the United States and the allies should go slow in making deals with Moscow.
But it would leave enough goodies to go around that hardly anyone need be entirely dissatisfied.
Tass, in its announcement Monday, gave no details of the Communist Party chief's schedule, and said only that the visit would take place in "mid-March." Leonid Brezhnev was the last Kremlin leader to go to the non-aligned Communist nation.
But I have never let go of Joan's Book.
Rubin said he wanted access to the Navy investigation and wanted to go aboard the USS Iowa.
It would allow students to attend public schools outside their area and provide tax credits for those wishing to go to private schools.
Ignorance about how to go about it is shared by employer and employee alike, Ms. Nadler says.
Last week, in a similar trial, seven people who allegedly stole weapons from troops during the June 3-4 military attack on pro-democracy demonstrators were given jail terms of up to 13 years. Another seven who turned themselves in were let go.
Russian suspicion of the West has historic roots that go deeper than Communism.
"When you have to walk so far, you can't go into a place like that," Wilson said of the courthouse.