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.
Went \Went\, n. Course; way; path; journey; direction. [Obs.] ``At a turning of a wente.'' --Chaucer.
But here my weary team, nigh overspent, Shall breathe itself awhile after so long a went. --Spenser.
He knew the diverse went of mortal ways. --Spenser.
Wend \Wend\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Wended}, Obs. {Went}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Wending}.] [AS. wendan to turn, to go, caus. of windan to wind; akin to OS. wendian, OFries. wenda, D. wenden to turn, G. wenden, Icel. venda, Sw. v["a]nda, Dan. vende, Goth. wandjan. See {Wind} to turn, and cf. {Went}.] 1. To go; to pass; to betake one's self. ``To Canterbury they wend.'' --Chaucer.
To Athens shall the lovers wend. --Shak.
2. To turn round. [Obs.] --Sir W. Raleigh.
Went \Went\, imp. & p. p. of {Wend}; -- now obsolete except as the imperfect of go, with which it has no etymological connection. See {Go}.
To the church both be they went. --Chaucer.
About half invested in real estate or mortgages, while the rest of the money they raised went into everything from leasing jetliners to drilling for oil and operating cable-television systems.
Woolworth went up 3/4 to 62 1/4.
But Loc, who grew up in a two-story house on the affluent west side of Los Angeles and went to University High School and Santa Monica College, had to travel by bus to the city's tough south side to get his reputation.
Its stock, which went public at $21 a share in late April, closed yesterday at $24.125, off 25 cents, in New York Stock Exchange composite trading.
The sign along Interstate 91, which went up in November, has caused at least 17 people to write letters of complaint to the resort.
Pittston workers in Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky went on strike April 5 after working 18 months without a contract.
Some participants went to other ticket offices in the area to demonstrate opposition to flying Eastern, Continental and Scandinavian Airlines, which has financial ties to Texas Air.
'When they went on strike in 1989, Gorbachev fell.
Named as an unindicted co-conspirator was Joe F. Justice, the imprisoned former president of the Florida Center Bank of Orlando, which went out of business in 1986.
Having reconciled himself to the operation in Cuba that he formerly had opposed, Mr. Schlesinger tried to insulate the president if perchance something went awry.
The traffic problems were compounded by a car that went into a ditch, she said.
It went down Wednesday at Lake Managua, about six miles east of Managua.
When the narrow-bodied 168-passenger Airbus A320 went into service last month, it was touted for its computerized flight-control system and fuel efficiency.
He, his father, and two other black residents who still want to remain anonymous went to A.P. Tureaud, an attorney for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Some sellers are companies that went private in the leveraged buy-out craze of the early '80s and are under pressure to sell the company again so that investors can get their cash out.
Before she went to the Transportation Department, she work for President Reagan as a White House liaison with women and minorities.
His tan slacks and blue worker's jacket, saved from before he went to prison, were loose on his slight frame.
Hours after accepting the job, he went to a Washington dinner party also attended by seven journalists.
For weeks after Murphy used it, we went around at `This Morning' saying, `Lighten up.
Bing, born in Vienna, Austria, went to Britain in the 1930s, where he headed the Glyndebourne Opera and founded the famed Edinburgh Festival.
I parked the ageing company Range Rover and with an innocent: 'See you in a few minutes,' went to find Hassan, the clearing agent. Or rather, he found me.
"She went to the back door, looked out and wanted to know if that was all of our yard and if that was our garage, which the Secret Service men were all in," Mrs. Watson said.
Heflin said NASA considered the problem serious because it went undetected before Discovery was launched.
The FBI went to great lengths in 1987 to lure convicted hijacker Fawaz Younis to a yacht in international waters off Cyprus to arrest him for leading a 1985 hijacking of a Jordanian airliner carrying several U.S. citizens.
No one was reported injured, but two Foreign Ministry officials went to Okinawa last month to talk with U.S. generals and inspect firing ranges.
But they were roundly rejected by West Germany and the U.S., and Mr. Hashimoto went home empty-handed.
He went along with the requests, he added, to marshal his resources for the fight to abolish syndication rules, which he lost anyway.
The U.S. frigate Jack Williams, a sister ship to the Roberts, went to the tanker's aid from about nine miles away.
More money went into a bank in Durant.
When he didn't collect enough signatures, he went to court.