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go > 35 senses
ADJECTIVE1goFunctioning correctly and ready for action
NOUN1go, spell, tour, turnA time for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else)
2go, Adam, ecstasy, XTC, disco biscuit, cristal, X, hug drugStreet names for methylenedioxymethamphetamine
3go, crack, fling, pass, whirl, offerA usually brief attempt
4go, go gameA board game for two players who place counters on a grid
VERB1go, travel, move, locomoteChange location
2go, proceed, moveFollow a procedure or take a course
3go, go away, departMove away from a place into another direction
4go, become, getEnter or assume a certain state or condition
5goBe awarded
6go, runHave a particular form
7go, run, pass, lead, extendStretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope
8go, proceedFollow a certain course
9goBe abolished or discarded
10goBe or continue to be in a certain condition
11go, soundMake a certain noise or sound
12go, function, work, operate, runPerform as expected when applied
13go, run low, run shortTo be spent or finished
14go, move, runProgress by being changed
15go, survive, last, live, live on, endure, hold up, hold outContinue to live
16goPass, fare, or elapse
17go, die, decease, perish, exit, pass away, expire, passPass from physical life and lose all all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
18go, belongBe in the right place or situation
19goBe ranked or compare
20go, start, get goingBegin or set in motion
21go, moveHave a turn
22goBe contained in
23goBe sounded, played, or expressed
24go, blend, blend inBlend or harmonize
25go, leadLead, extend, or afford access
26go, fitBe the right size or shape
27go, rifleGo through in search of something
28goBe spent
29go, plumpGive support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number
30go, fail, go bad, give way, die, give out, conk out, break, break downStop operating or functioning
go > pronunciation
Soundsgow'
Rhymesago, amigo, archipelago, and 44 more rhymes in gow at the HyperDic website...
go > adjective
MeaningFunctioning correctly and ready for action.
Examples"all systems are go"
Similara-ok, a-okay
Contraryno-go
go > noun 1, time
MeaningA time for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else).
Examples"it's my go"
Synonymsspell, tour, turn
Broadershift, work shift, duty period
Verbsgo
go > noun 2, artifact
MeaningStreet names for methylenedioxymethamphetamine.
SynonymsAdam, ecstasy, XTC, disco biscuit, cristal, X, hug drug
Broadermethylenedioxymethamphetamine, MDMA
go > noun 3, act
MeaningA usually brief attempt.
Synonymscrack, fling, pass, whirl, offer
Broaderattempt, effort, endeavor, endeavour, try
go > noun 4, act
MeaningA board game for two players who place counters on a grid. The object is to surround and so capture the opponent's counters.
Synonymsgo game
RegionJapan, Nippon, Nihon
Broaderboard game
go > verb 1, motion
MeaningChange location. Move, travel, or proceed.
PatternSomething ----s; Somebody ----s; Something is ----ing PP; Somebody ----s PP
ModelThe children go to the playground
Examples"How fast does your new car go?"
Synonymstravel, move, locomote
Caused bytravel, trip, jaunt
Entailed bysteer; reach, make, attain, hit, arrive at, gain; miss
Narrowergo around, spread, circulate; carry; ease; whish; float; swap; seek; whine; fly; ride; come; ghost; betake oneself; pass over, overfly; travel; wend; do; raft; get around, get about; repair, resort; cruise; travel, journey; come, come up; round; trundle; push; travel purposefully; swing; roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond; walk, take the air; weave, wind, thread, meander, wander; forge, spurt, spirt; crawl, creep; scramble; slither, slide; wheel, roll; glide; bounce, jounce; breeze; float, drift, be adrift, blow; play; float, swim; walk; turn, move around; circle; slice into, slice through; stray, err, drift; run; step; drive, motor; automobile; ski; fly, wing; steam; taxi; ferry; ride, sit; prance; swim; rise, lift, arise, move up, go up, come up, uprise; ascend, go up; descend, fall, go down, come down; fall; zigzag, crank; follow, travel along; advance, progress, pass on, move on, march on, go on; withdraw, retreat, pull away, draw back, recede, pull back, retire, move back; retrograde; proceed, go forward, continue; back; pan; follow; precede, lead; pursue, follow; return, go back, get back, come back; derail, jump; flock; accompany; billow; circulate; circle, circulate; angle; pass, go through, go across; travel by, pass by, surpass, go past, go by, pass; travel rapidly, speed, hurry, zip; speed; zoom; drive; rush, hotfoot, hasten, hie, speed, race, pelt along, rush along, cannonball along, bucket along, belt along; trail, shack; shuttle; hiss, whoosh; whisk; career; circuit; lance; outflank, go around; propagate; draw; transfer, change; swash; pace; step, tread; step; hurtle; retreat; whistle; island hop; plow, plough; lurch; sift; fall; drag; run; bang; precess; travel, move around; ride; snowshoe; beetle
Contrarystay in place
Similar tomove, displace
See alsogo by; go down, go under; go up; go on; go down; go around; go out; go by; go up; go down; go on; go off
go > verb 2, social
MeaningFollow a procedure or take a course.
PatternSomething is ----ing PP; Something ----s Adjective/Noun; Somebody ----s Adjective; Somebody ----s PP
Examples"We should go farther in this matter"; "go about the world in a certain manner"; "Messages must go through diplomatic channels"
Synonymsproceed, move
Narrowerwork; venture, embark; steamroller, steamroll
Broaderact, move
go > verb 3, motion
MeaningMove away from a place into another direction.
PatternSomething ----s; Somebody ----s; Something is ----ing PP; Somebody ----s PP
Examples"Go away before I start to cry"
Synonymsgo away, depart
Narrowershove off, shove along, blow
Broaderexit, go out, get out, leave
Contrarycome, come up
Nounsgoing; goer
go > verb 4, change
MeaningEnter or assume a certain state or condition.
PatternSomething is ----ing PP; Something ----s Adjective/Noun; Somebody ----s Adjective; Somebody ----s PP
ModelWater and oil go into the bowl
Examples"Get going!"
Synonymsbecome, get
Narrowersober up, sober; sober up, sober; work; take effect; run; take; break; settle; come
Broaderchange state, turn
go > verb 5, stative
MeaningBe awarded. Be allotted.
PatternSomething ----s somebody; Something ----s something
Examples"The first prize goes to Mary"
go > verb 6, stative
MeaningHave a particular form.
PatternSomething ----s
Examples"as the saying goes..."
Synonymsrun
Broaderbe
go > verb 7, stative
MeaningStretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope. Run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point.
PatternSomething is ----ing PP
Examples"His knowledge doesn't go very far"
Synonymsrun, pass, lead, extend
Narrowercome; radiate, ray; go far, go deep
Broaderbe
Similar torange, run
go > verb 8, change
MeaningFollow a certain course.
PatternSomething ----s; Something ----s Adjective/Noun
Examples"how did your interview go?"
Synonymsproceed
Narrowerdrag, drag on, drag out; do, fare, make out, come, get along
Broaderhappen, hap, go on, pass off, occur, pass, fall out, come about, take place
go > verb 9, change
MeaningBe abolished or discarded.
PatternSomething ----s
Examples"These ugly billboards have to go!"; "These luxuries all had to go under the Khmer Rouge"
Broaderdisappear, vanish, go away
go > verb 10, stative
MeaningBe or continue to be in a certain condition.
PatternSomething ----s Adjective/Noun; Somebody ----s Adjective
Broaderbe
go > verb 11, perception
MeaningMake a certain noise or sound.
PatternSomething ----s; Somebody ----s; Something ----s Adjective/Noun; Somebody ----s Adjective
Synonymssound
Caused bysound; ring, knell
Narrowersnarl; whistle, sing; blow; ting; make noise, resound, noise; splat; twang; clang, clangor; clank; clangor, clangour; boom, boom out; drum, beat, thrum; rattle; tick, ticktock, ticktack, beat; resonate, vibrate; tweet, twirp; skirl; gurgle; glug; blow; whish; guggle; ping; pink, ping, knock; trump; squelch; chug; ring, peal; buzz, bombinate, bombilate; chime; rustle; snap, crack; crack; honk, blare, beep, claxon, toot; whistle; resound, echo, ring, reverberate; thud, thump; clop, clump, clunk, plunk; patter, pitter-patter; tap, rap, knock, pink; click, tick; chatter, click; pop; tinkle, tink, clink, chink; splash, splosh, slosh, slush; hum, thrum; bleep; rumble, grumble; boom, din; bang; ripple, babble, guggle, burble, bubble, gurgle; lap, swish, swosh, swoosh; drone; whizz, whiz, whirr, whir, birr, purr; roll
Broadercause to be perceived
go > verb 12, contact
MeaningPerform as expected when applied.
PatternSomething ----s
ModelThese cars won't go
Examples"The washing machine won't go unless it's plugged in"
Synonymsfunction, work, operate, run
Narrowerdouble; roll; run; cut; service, serve
Contrarymalfunction, misfunction
Similar torun; work
go > verb 13, consumption
MeaningTo be spent or finished.
PatternSomething ----s
Examples"The money had gone after a few days"
Synonymsrun low, run short
Broaderend, stop, finish, terminate, cease
Similar togo
go > verb 14, change
MeaningProgress by being changed.
PatternSomething is ----ing PP; Somebody ----s PP
Examples"The speech has to go through several more drafts"
Synonymsmove, run
Broaderchange
go > verb 15, stative
MeaningContinue to live. Endure or last.
PatternSomething ----s; Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something
Synonymssurvive, last, live, live on, endure, hold up, hold out
Entailsbe, live
Narrowerstand up, hold up, hold water; perennate; live out
Similar tobe, live; exist, survive, live, subsist
go > verb 16, stative
MeaningPass, fare, or elapse. Of a certain state of affairs or action.
PatternSomething ----s
Examples"How is it going?"; "The day went well until I got your call"
See alsogo with
Nounsgoing
go > verb 17, change
MeaningPass from physical life and lose all all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life.
PatternSomebody ----s
Synonymsdie, decease, perish, exit, pass away, expire, pass
Caused bykill
Entailed byleave, leave behind
Narrowersuffocate, stifle, asphyxiate; buy it, pip out; drown; kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it; predecease; starve, famish; fall; succumb, yield
Broaderchange state, turn
Contrarybe born
Similar tofail, go bad, give way, die, give out, conk out, go, break, break down; die
Nounsgoing
go > verb 18, stative
MeaningBe in the right place or situation.
PatternSomething is ----ing PP; Somebody ----s PP
ModelThe chairs go in the corner
Examples"Let's put health care where it belongs--under the control of the government"; "Where do these books go?"
Synonymsbelong
Broaderbe
go > verb 19, stative
MeaningBe ranked or compare.
PatternSomething ----s
Examples"This violinist is as good as Juilliard-trained violinists go"
Broadercompare
go > verb 20, motion
MeaningBegin or set in motion.
PatternSomething ----s; Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something
Examples"Ready, set, go!"
Synonymsstart, get going
Caused bystart, start up
Narrowergo on, come up, come on; get off the ground, take off
Contrarystop, halt
go > verb 21, competition
MeaningHave a turn. Make one's move in a game.
PatternSomebody ----s
ModelSam and Sue go
Examples"Can I go now?"
Synonymsmove
Entailsplay
Entailed bycheck
Narrowerbluff, bluff out; stalemate; castle; serve; open; draw, cast; trump, ruff; manoeuver, maneuver, manoeuvre, operate; check
Similar tomove, make a motion
Nounsgo
go > verb 22, stative
MeaningBe contained in.
PatternSomething ----s something
Examples"How many times does 18 go into 54?"
go > verb 23, stative
MeaningBe sounded, played, or expressed.
PatternSomething ----s
Examples"How does this song go again?"
go > verb 24, stative
MeaningBlend or harmonize.
PatternSomething ----s; Something is ----ing PP
Examples"This sofa won't go with the chairs"
Synonymsblend, blend in
Broaderharmonize, harmonise, consort, accord, concord, fit in, agree
Similar tofit, go
go > verb 25, stative
MeaningLead, extend, or afford access.
PatternSomething is ----ing PP
Examples"This door goes to the basement"
Synonymslead
Broaderbe
go > verb 26, stative
MeaningBe the right size or shape. Fit correctly or as desired.
PatternSomething ----s
Synonymsfit
Caused byfit; dovetail
Narrowertesselate; joint
Broaderfit
Similar toblend, go, blend in
go > verb 27, contact
MeaningGo through in search of something. Search through someone's belongings in an unauthorized way.
PatternSomebody ----s PP
Synonymsrifle
Broadersearch
go > verb 28, consumption
MeaningBe spent.
PatternSomething is ----ing PP
Similar torun low, run short, go
go > verb 29, cognition
MeaningGive support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number.
PatternSomebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody
Synonymsplump
Broaderchoose, take, select, pick out
go > verb 30, change
MeaningStop operating or functioning.
PatternSomething ----s
ModelThese cars won't go
Synonymsfail, go bad, give way, die, give out, conk out, break, break down
Narrowercrash, go down; blow out, burn out, blow; misfire; malfunction, misfunction
Broaderchange
Similar tobreak; die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass

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