Go
Go (gō) , past participle
Gone. [obsolete] — Chaucer
Go (went) , intransitive verb
[Old English gan, gon, Anglo-Saxon gān, akin to Dutch gaan, German gehn, gehen, Old High German gēn, gān, SW. gå, Danish gaae; compare Greek kicha`nai to reach, overtake, Sanskrit hā to go, Anglo-Saxon gangan, and English gang. The past tense in Anglo-Saxon, eode, is from the root i to go, as is also Gothic iddja went. r47a. Compare 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.
You know that love
Will creep in service where it can not go.
Thou must run to him; for thou hast staid so long that going will scarce serve the turn.
He fell from running to going, and from going to clambering upon his hands and his knees.
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.
[The money] should go according to its true value.
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?
I think, as the world goes, he was a good sort of man enough.
Whether the cause goes for me or against me, you must pay me the reward.
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.
To master the foul flend there goeth some complement knowledge of theology.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
12.
To have recourse; to resort; as, to go to law.
They never go about... to hide or palliate their vices.
Then went this saying abroad among the brethren.
He... went aside privately into a desert place.
Nothing so ridiculous,... but it goes down whole with him for truth.
The law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
He was as ready to go in for statistics as for anything else.
The leaders... will not go off until they hear you.
The wedding went off much as such affairs do.
It is not easy to make a simile go on all fours.
There are other men fitter to go out than I.
What went ye out for to see?
Life itself goes out at thy displeasure.
I must not go over Jordan.
Let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan.
Ishmael... departed to go over to the Ammonites.
If we go over the laws of Christianity, we shall find that... they enjoin the same thing.
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 , transitive verb
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.
2.
To bet or wager; as, I'll go you a shilling. [Colloquial]
Collocations (5)
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. [Colloquial]
To go it alone (Card Playing) , to play a hand without the assistance of one's partner.<-- to do anything without the assistance of one's former associates -->
To go it blind (Card Playing) , (a) To act in a rash, reckless, or headlong manner. [Slang] To bet without having examined the cards.<-- = to bet in the blind -->
To go one's way , to set forth; to depart.
Go , noun
1.
Act; working; operation. [Obsolete]
So gracious were the goes of marriage.
2.
A circumstance or occurrence; an incident. [Slang]
This is a pretty go.
3.
The fashion or mode; as, quite the go. [Colloquial]
4.
Noisy merriment; as, a high go. [Colloquial]
5.
A glass of spirits. [Slang]
6.
Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance; push; as, there is no go in him. [Colloquial]
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?”
Collocations (3)
Great go or Little go , the final and the preliminary examinations for a degree. [Slang, English Univ.]
No go , a failure; a fiasco. [Slang] — Thackeray
On the go , moving about; unsettled. [Colloquial]