Word: going
Phonetic:
/ˈɡəʊɪŋ/Listen:
To move:
(chiefly of a machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required). Example: The engine just won't go anymore.
To start; to begin (an action or process). Example: Get ready, get set, go!
To take a turn, especially in a game. Example: It’s your turn; go.
To attend. Example: 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). Example: This property goes all the way to the state line.
To lead (to a place); to give access to. Example: Does this road go to Fort Smith?
To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.) Example: 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. Example: I don't want my children to go hungry.
To come to (a certain condition or state). Example: They went into debt, she goes to sleep around 10 o'clock.
To change (from one value to another) in the meaning of wend. Example: The traffic light went straight from green to red.
To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result). Example: How did your meeting with Smith go?
To tend (toward a result). Example: These experiences go to make us stronger.
To contribute to a (specified) end product or result. Example: qualities that go to make a lady / lip-reader / sharpshooter
To pass, to be used up:
To die.
To be discarded. Example: This chair has got to go.
To be lost or out:
To break down or apart:
To be sold. Example: Everything must go.
To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted. Example: The award went to Steven Spielberg.
To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time. Example: Can you two go twenty minutes without arguing?!
To have a certain record. Example: 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). Example: As the story goes, he got the idea for the song while sitting in traffic.
To resort (to). Example: 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. Example: He's been going with her for two weeks.
To attack:
To be in general; to be usually. Example: As sentences go, this one is pretty boring.
To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of. Example: Let's go halves on this.
To yield or weigh. Example: Those babies go five tons apiece.
To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay. Example: I'll go a ten-spot.
To enjoy. (Compare go for.) Example: I could go a beer right about now.
To urinate or defecate. Example: Have you managed to go today, Mrs. Miggins?
A departure. Example: Thy going is not lonely, with thee goes thy Husband
The suitability of ground for riding, walking etc. Example: The going was very difficult over the ice.
Progress. Example: We made good going for a while, but then we came to the price.
Conditions for advancing in any way. Example: Not only were the streets not paved with gold, but the going was difficult for an immigrant.
Pregnancy; gestation; childbearing
(in the plural) Course of life; behaviour; doings; ways.
(in the phrase "the going of") The whereabouts (of something). Example: I can't find my sunglasses; you haven't seen the going of them, have you?
Likely to continue; viable. Example: He didn't want to make an unsecured loan to the business because it didn't look like a going concern.
Current, prevailing. Example: The going rate for manual snow-shoveling is $25 an hour.
(especially after a noun phrase with a superlative) Available. Example: He has the easiest job going.
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