Word: gone
Phonetic:
/ɡɔːn/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?
Away, having left. Example: Are they gone already?
No longer part of the present situation. Example: Don't bother trying to understand what Grandma says; she's gone.
No longer existing, having passed. Example: All the little shops that used to be here are now gone.
Used up. Example: I'm afraid all the coffee's gone at the moment.
Dead.
Intoxicated to the point of being unaware of one's surroundings. Example: Dude, look at Jack. He's completely gone.
Entirely given up to; infatuated with; used with on. Example: He's totally gone on her.
Excellent; wonderful.
Ago (used post-positionally).
Weak; faint; feeling a sense of goneness.
Of an arrow: wide of the mark.
Past, after, later than (a time). Example: You'd better hurry up, it's gone four o'clock.
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