go

name

1. (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of Gorontalo: a province of Indonesia.
2. (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of Goiás: a state of Brazil.
3. A compiled, garbage-collected, concurrent programming language developed by Google.

   “Despite the lower priority placed on features, Go isn't a static, unchanging language. New features are adopted slowly, after much discussion and experimentation. Since the initial release of Go 1.0, there have been significant changes to the patterns that define idiomatic Go.”

noun

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of graphene oxide.
2. (countable, uncommon, uncountable)The act of going.

   “The Apostles were to be the first of a line. They would multiply successors, and the successors would die and their successors after them, but the line would never fail; and the come and go of men would not matter, since it is the one Christ operating through all of them.”

   “They talk easily together and they hear the come and go of the breeze in the soon to be turning burnt leaves of the high trees.”

3. (countable, uncountable)A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).

   “You’ve been on that pinball machine long enough—now let your brother have a go.”

   “It’s your go.”

4. (countable, uncountable)An attempt, a try.

   “I’ll give it a go.”

   “You have to stay and we will have a go at winning the championship next season."”

5. (countable, uncountable)A period of activity.

   “ate it all in one go”

   “This could mean that the artist traced the illustration in two goes, as it were, or that the Utrecht Psalter slipped while he was tracing, but I do not think that the relative proportions are consistent enough to demonstrate this.”

6. (countable, uncountable)A time; an experience.

   “Even if she was bigger and more mature, she would have a tough go of it. We have read a lot on this diagnosis and have known from the beginning what she has been up against.” “It's true about this being a tough go,” I said. “Listen, I'm very sorry, but I'm on call here tomorrow and I will[…]"”

   “"She's had a rough go of things and no one wants to see her hurt.” Jason stared at Kate's slender frame, backlit by a spear of sunlight breaking through the cloud cover. "Then that makes the entire town plus one."”

   “With public opinion turned more empathetic toward AF with the bombing of their building, Sarah and the Justice Department would have a tough go of it. But if this really was true [that they were behind the bombing themselves], and the media got ahold of it. . .”

7. (countable, dated, slang, uncountable)A circumstance or occurrence; an incident, often unexpected.

   “1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, in 1868, The Works of Charles Dickens, Volume 2: Nicholas Nickleby, Martin Chuzzlewit, American Notes, page 306, “Well, this is a pretty go, is this here! An uncommon pretty go!”

   ““Ain't this a rum go? This is a queer sort of dodge for lighting the streets.””

   “The images of Mrs. Squeers, my daughter, and my son Wackford, all short of vittles, is perpetually before me; every other consideration melts away and vanishes, in front of these; the only number in all arithmetic that I know of, as a husband and a father, is number one, under this here most fatal go!”

   “"Supposing now that some of them were to slip into the boat at night and cut the cable, make off with her? That would be a pretty go, that would."”

   ““It’s a rum go and no mistake.””

8. (countable, uncountable)An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.

   “We will begin as soon as the boss says it's a go.”

   “"Well, Tom, is it a go? You can trust me, for you'll have the thousand in your pocket before you start.[…]"”

   “And as soon as we gave them the go to continue, we lost communication.”

9. (countable, uncountable)An act; the working or operation.

   “1598, John Marston, Pigmalion, The Metamorphosis of Pigmalions Image and Certaine Satyres, 1856, J. O. Halliwell (editor), The Works of John Marston: Reprinted from the Original Editions, Volume 3, page 211, Let this suffice, that that same happy night, So gracious were the goes of marriage […]”

10. (countable, dated, uncountable)The fashion or mode.

    “quite the go”

    “We are blowing each other out of the market with cheapness; but it is all the go, so we must not be behind the age.”

11. (countable, dated, uncountable)Noisy merriment.

    “a high go”

    “Gemmen (says he), you all well know The joy there is whene'er we meet; It's what I call the primest go, And rightly named, 'tis—'quite a treat,' […]”

12. (archaic, countable, slang, uncountable)A glass of spirits; a quantity of spirits.

    “Jack Randall then impatient rose, / And said, ‘Tom's speech were just as fine / If he would call that first of goes [i.e. gin] / By that genteeler name—white wine.'”

    “When the cloth was removed, Mr. Thomas Potter ordered the waiter to bring in two goes of his best Scotch whiskey, with warm water and sugar, and a couple of his "very mildest" Havannas,”

    ““Then, if you value it so highly,” I said, “you can hardly object to stand half a go of brandy for its recovery.””

13. (countable, dated, uncountable)A portion

    “Albert's uncle had had a jolly good breakfast—fish and eggs and bacon and three goes of marmalade.”

14. (uncountable)Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.

    “There is no go in him.”

15. (countable, uncountable)The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above thirty-one.
16. (British, countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable)A dandy; a fashionable person.

    “That TOM, who was the GO among the GOES, in the very centre of fashion in London, should have to encounter the vulgar stare of this village; or, that the dairy-maid should leave off skimming her cream to take a peep at our hero, as he mounted his courser, is not at all surprising: and TOM only smiled at this provincial sort of rudeness.”

    “He's a go among the goes, is Mr. Kestrel. He's only got to sport a new kind of topper, or tie his crumpler a new way, and every gentry-cove in town does just the same.”

    “See Thesaurus:dandy”

17. (uncountable)A strategic board game, originally from China and today also popular in Japan and Korea, in which two players (black and white) attempt to control the largest area of the board with their counters.
18. (alt-of, uncountable)Alternative letter-case form of go (“strategic board game”).

    “It is shown that Stratego is a complex game when compared to other games, such as chess and Hex. The game-tree complexity of 10⁵³⁵ exceeds the game-tree complexity of Go.”

verb

1. (intransitive)To move, either physically or in an abstract sense:

   “Why don’t you go with us?”

   “This train goes through Cincinnati on its way to Chicago.”

   “Chris, where are you going?”

   “There's no public transit where I'm going.”

   “Wow, look at him go!”

2. (intransitive)To move, either physically or in an abstract sense:

   “Yesterday was the second-wettest day on record; you have to go all the way back to 1896 to find a day when more rain fell.”

   “Fans want to see the Twelfth Doctor go to the 51st century to visit River in the library.”

   “You have to go all the way back to Herbert Hoover to see a performance in the Standard & Poors 500 equal to what we are experiencing right now.”

   “"I don't know how to tell you this, Aubrey, but you can't go back to 1938 […] the program won't accept any date that I input before 1941." […] "Well, I'll go to 1941, then."”

3. (intransitive)To move, either physically or in an abstract sense:

   “For the best definitions, go to wiktionary.org”

   “To access Office-related TechNet resources, go to www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/office.”

   “Go to your earliest memory and to your favorite one, then to one that's difficult to consider.”

   “Go to drive C: through My Computer (or Computer in Windows 7 and Vista) and double-click the c:\data folder.”

4. To move, either physically or in an abstract sense:

   “We've only gone twenty miles today.”

   “This car can go circles around that one.”

   “The fight went the distance and was decided on points.”

   “The car went a short distance, then halted. There was something wrong with the carburetor.”

5. (intransitive)To move, either physically or in an abstract sense:

   “We went swimming.”

   “Let's go shopping.”

   “Please go and get me some envelopes.”

   “’[R]e you another agoin’ on this crazy voyage?”

6. (intransitive)To move, either physically or in an abstract sense:

   “Please don't go!”

   “I really must be going.”

   “Workmen were coming and going at all hours of the night.”

   “And following Dee, which Britons long ygone / Did call diuine, that doth by Cheſter tend; […]”

   “Like her I go; I cannot stay; ⁠I leave this mortal ark behind, A weight of nerves without a mind, And leave the cliffs, and haste away […]”

7. To move, either physically or in an abstract sense:

   “Let's go this way for a while.”

   “She was going that way anyway, so she offered to show him where it was.”

   “I'm repeating it: I wish that you would go this path up to its end, that you shall find salvation!”

8. To move, either physically or in an abstract sense:

   “We went the full length of the promenade before we found a place to sit down.”

   “His life story goes the gamut, from poverty-stricken upbringing to colossal wealth.”

9. (intransitive, obsolete)To move, either physically or in an abstract sense:

   “‘As for that,’ seyde Sir Trystram, ‘I may chose othir to ryde othir to go.’”

   “Master Piercie our new President, was so sicke hee could neither goe nor stand.”

   “Other brunts I also look for; but this I have resolved on, to wit, to run when I can, to go when I cannot run, and to creep when I cannot go.”

10. (intransitive)To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).

    “The engine just won't go anymore.”

    “Don't put your hand inside while the motor's going!”

    “'Although the lemon is now black and shrivelled the motor is still going strong. If I can make my small motor run for month after month on a single lemon, just imagine how much "juice" there must be in a whole sackful', Mr Ashill said.”

    “[…] though his publisher swears black and blue that Kelder is still going strong and still remains an intensely private person.”

11. (intransitive)To start; to begin (an action or process).

    “You've got thirty seconds to solve the anagram, starting now. Go!”

    “At leaſt, I'm ſure I can fiſh it out of her. She's the very Sluce to her Lady's Secrets;—'Tis but ſetting her Mill agoing, and I can drein her of 'em all.”

    “Be listening for my voice. Go when you hear my voice say go.”

12. (intransitive)To take a turn, especially in a game.

    “It’s your turn; go.”

    “I've got all vowels. I don't think I can go.”

13. (intransitive)To attend.

    “I go to school at the schoolhouse.”

    “She went to Yale.”

    “They only go to church on Christmas.”

14. (intransitive)To proceed:

    “That went well.”

    “"How are things going?" "Not bad, thanks."”

    “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.”

15. (colloquial, intransitive)To proceed:

    “Why'd you have to go and do that?”

    “Why'd you have to go do that?”

    “He just went and punched the guy.”

    “And even if she had believed the story about a John Smith, she might go telling everyone in town about what she'd seen.”

16. (intransitive)To extend along.

    “The fence goes the length of the boundary.”

    “A shady promenade went the length of the street and the entrance to the hotel was a few steps back in the darkness, away from the glaring sunshine.”

17. (intransitive)To extend (from one point in time or space to another).

    “This property goes all the way to the state line.”

    “The working week goes from Monday to Friday.”

    “I think those figures start from 1932 and go to 1941, inclusive, […]”

    “Even though they can give a basic fact such as 4×4, I don't know that this knowledge goes very deep for them.”

18. (intransitive)To lead (to a place); to give access (to).

    “Does this road go to Fort Smith?”

    ““Where does this door go?” Bev asked as she pointed to a door painted a darker green than the powder green color of the carpet. Janet answered. “That door goes to the back yard.””

19. (copulative)To become, move to or come to (a state, position, situation)

    “Near-synonyms: become, get, turn, come, fall, grow, wax”

    “You'll go blind.”

    “The milk went bad.”

    “I went crazy.”

    “After failing as a criminal, he decided to go straight.”

20. To become, move to or come to (a state, position, situation)

    “If we can win on Saturday, we'll go top of the league.”

    “They went level with their rivals.”

21. To become, move to or come to (a state, position, situation)

    “They went into debt.”

    “She goes to sleep around 10 o'clock.”

22. To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.

    “There is scarcely a business man who is not occasionally asked to go bail for somebody.”

    “Most welfare workers are not allowed to go surety for clients.”

23. (copulative, intransitive)To continuously or habitually be in a state.

    “I don't want my children to go hungry.”

    “We went barefoot in the summer.”

24. To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).

    “The decision went the way we expected.”

    “When Wharton had to relinquish his seat in Buckinghamshire on his elevation to the peerage in 1696, he was unable to replace himself with a suitable man, and the by-election went in favour of a local Tory, Lord Cheyne.”

25. (intransitive)To tend (toward a result)

    “Well, that goes to show you.”

    “These experiences go to make us stronger.”

26. To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.

    “qualities that go to make a lady / lip-reader / sharpshooter”

    “What can we know of any substance or existence, but as made up of all the qualities that go to its composition: extension, solidity, form, colour; take these away, and you know nothing.”

    “The avoirdupois pound is one of 7,000 grains, and go to the pound.”

27. (intransitive)To pass, to be used up:

    “The time went slowly.”

    “But the days went and went, and she never came; and then I thought I would come here where you were.”

    “The rest of the morning went quickly and before Su knew it Jean was knocking on the door […]”

28. (intransitive)To pass, to be used up:

    “After three days, my headache finally went.”

29. (intransitive)To pass, to be used up:

    “His money went on drink.”

    “All I have is a sleeping bag right now. All my money goes to keep up the cars.”

30. (intransitive)To die.

    “I want to go in my sleep.”

    “By Saint George, he's gone! / That spear wound hath our master sped.”

    “After two years of swaddled invalidism, Mrs. Morton emitted a final gassy sigh and died, whereas twenty years later Elihu was to go “just like that,” as the neighbors said, from a stroke.”

    “"Your father's gone." "Okay, okay, the Gaffer's kicked off. What happened?"”

31. (intransitive)To be lost or out:

    “The third wicket went just before lunch.”

32. (intransitive)To be lost or out:

    “Smith bowls ... Jones hits it straight up in the air ... and ... caught! Jones has gone!”

33. (intransitive)To break down or apart:

    “Careful! It looks as if that ceiling could go at any moment!”

    “'Back!' cried Carrados. 'The cliff is going!' The cliff, as Mr Lidmarsh had remarked, had been going for centuries—going by inches, by feet, or by yards. […] Now the cliff face—all the ground beyond the fissure—began to fall rigidly away […]”

    “I wonder if I hopped up and down, would the bridge go?”

    “Sober-eyed commentators safe in their television studios interviewed engineers about the chances that the rest of the dam could go.”

    “Jackson shook his head. "The contractor said those panes could go at any moment." / "Right. Just like the wiring could go at any moment, and the roof could go at any moment."”

34. (intransitive)To break down or apart:

    “My mind is going.”

    “She's 83; her eyesight is starting to go.”

35. (intransitive)To be sold.

    “The car went for five thousand dollars.”

    “The store is closing down so everything must go.”

36. (intransitive)To be discarded or disposed of.

    “This chair has got to go.”

    “All this old rubbish can go.”

    “Preservation of two railway routes between Belfast and Derry could no longer be justified and one of them must go.”

37. (intransitive)To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.

    “The property shall go to my wife.”

    “The award went to Steven Spielberg.”

    “If my money goes to education, I want a report card.”

38. (intransitive, transitive)To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.

    “How long can you go without water?”

    “We've gone without your help for a while now.”

    “I've gone ten days now without a cigarette.”

    “Can you two go twenty minutes without arguing?!”

39. (transitive)To have a certain record.

    “They've gone one for three in this series.”

    “The team is going five in a row.”

    “Against the Big Green, Princeton went the entire first and third quarters without gaining a first down, […]”

    “England have now gone four games without a win at Wembley, their longest sequence without a victory in 30 years, and still have much work to do to reach Euro 2012 as they prepare for a testing trip to face Bulgaria in Sofia in September.”

    “'Surely one cannot go for long in this world to-day without at least a thought for St Simon Stylites?'”

40. (intransitive)To be authoritative, accepted, or valid:

    “Whatever the boss says goes, do you understand?”

41. (intransitive)To be authoritative, accepted, or valid:

    “Anything goes around here.”

    “The money which remains should go according to its true value.”

    “Now I found you down on the wrong side of town/Laughing and singing with the boys/Now darling you know that that sort of stuff don't go/So baby you gotta quit that noise”

42. (intransitive)To be authoritative, accepted, or valid:

    “The baked beans can go on this shelf, and the same goes for all these other tins.”

    “[To job interviews, wear] muted colors. No pink or paisley (that goes for you too, guys!) […]”

43. (colloquial, transitive)To say (something), to make a sound:

    “I go, "As if!" And she was all like, "Whatever!"”

    “As soon as I did it, I went "that was stupid."”

44. (transitive)To say (something), to make a sound:

    “Cats go "meow". Motorcycles go "vroom".”

45. (intransitive)To say (something), to make a sound:

    “I woke up just before the clock went.”

    “At 4pm, the phone went. It was The Sun: 'We hear your daughter's been expelled for cheating at her school exams[…]' / / She'd made a remark to a friend at the end of the German exam and had been pulled up for talking. / / As they left the exam room, she muttered that the teacher was a 'twat'. He heard and flipped—a pretty stupid thing to do, knowing the kids were tired and tense after exams. Instead of dropping it, the teacher complained to the Head and Deb was carpeted.”

46. To be expressed or composed (a certain way).

    “The tune goes like this.”

    “As the story goes, he got the idea for the song while sitting in traffic.”

47. (intransitive)To resort (to).

    “The nylon gears kept breaking, so we went to stainless steel.”

48. To apply or subject oneself to:

    “I'm going to join a sports team.”

    “I wish you'd go and get a job.”

    “He went to pick it up, but it rolled out of reach.”

    “He's going to leave town tomorrow.”

    “Seeing himself confronted by so many, like a resolute orator, he went not to denial, but to justify his cruel falsehood.”

49. (intransitive)To apply or subject oneself to:

    “You didn't have to go to such trouble.”

    “I never thought he'd go so far as to call you.”

    “She went to great expense to help them win.”

50. (intransitive)To apply or subject oneself to:

    “I've gone over this a hundred times.”

    “Let's not go into that right now.”

51. (intransitive, often)To fit (in a place, or together with something):

    “Do you think the sofa will go through the door?”

    “The belt just barely went around his waist.”

52. (intransitive)To fit (in a place, or together with something):

    “This shade of red doesn't go with the drapes.”

    “White wine goes better with fish than red wine.”

53. (intransitive)To fit (in a place, or together with something):

    “My shirts go on this side of the wardrobe.”

    “This piece of the jigsaw goes on the other side.”

54. (intransitive)To fit (in a place, or together with something):

    “He'd like to pot the pink, but I don't think it will go. The green's in the way.”

55. (intransitive)To date.

    “How long have they been going together?”

    “He's been going with her for two weeks.”

56. (transitive)To (begin to) date or have sex with (a particular race).

    “You can date black, you can do white, on a slow night maybe even go for an Asian boy, but most likely you'll go Latino unless the aforementioned guys speak a little Spanish […]”

    “I felt that was an insult to John Lennon, but I married her anyway. Thinking back, I should have gone Asian.”

    ““I could give a flying fuck less if Ronnie dated a Martian, but the fact of the matter is that it would not be cool for him to go Asian. He knows it and I know it.” Ronnie did not respond at all. Shit, he wanted to date Tai in the worst way, […]”

    “In fact, Hispanics and Asians are riding the wave—26 percent of Latino and 31 percent of Asian newlywed couples were mixed race or ethnicity. And, when marrying out, we went white—four in ten Latinos married a white spouse, […]”

    “She's gone black now. That's a big change for you, Cassie. So tell me, is it true what they say about black men?”

57. (intransitive)To attack:

    “I went at him with a knife.”

    “You wanna go, little man?”

58. (US, obsolete, slang, transitive)To attack:

    “You've shown me his weak points, and I'll go him whether you stick by me or not.”

59. (Australian, slang, transitive)To attack:

    “As big as me. Strong, too. I was itching to go him, And he had clouted Ernie.”

    “Then I′m sure I heard him mutter ‘Why don′t you get fucked,’ under his breath. It was at that moment that I became a true professional. Instead of going him, I announced the next song.”

    “Tom stepped back, considered the hill, and taking off down it. She was going to go him for blowing that flamin′ whistle in her ear all day.”

60. Used to express how some category of things generally is, as a reference for, contrast to, or comparison with, a particular example.

    “My cat Fluffy is very timid, as cats go.”

    “As far as burgers go, this is one of the best.”

    “Booster is not a loud trumpeter as elephants go.”

    “They are fairly rough and ready as models go, not often driven to the rigor of an authentic scientific law, and never worried about coming out with some revolutionary mathematical language — but models nonetheless, […]”

    “She was, as girls go, scrawny and muscular, yet her boyish frame had in the last year betrayed her.”

61. (transitive)To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.

    “Let's go halves on this.”

    “They were to go equal shares in the booty.”

62. (transitive)To yield or weigh.

    “Those babies go five tons apiece.”

    “This'll go three tons to the acre, or I'll eat my shirt.”

63. (intransitive, transitive)To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay; to sell for.

    “That's as high as I can go.”

    “We could go two fifty.”

    “I'll go a ten-spot.”

    “I'll go you a shilling.”

    “I'll go him one better.”

64. (colloquial, transitive)To enjoy. (Compare go for.)

    “I could go a beer right about now.”

    “'But I bet you could go a cup of tea? I know I could. Always ready for char.' He looked over my shoulder towards Albert Hicks, who was standing in the doorway. 'Albert, could you rustle up a pot of our best Darjeeling?[…]'”

65. (colloquial, intransitive)To go to the toilet; to urinate or defecate.

    “I really need to go.”

    “Have you managed to go today, Mrs. Miggins?”

    “Clarence was just as surprised to see Richard, and he went—right there in the doorway. I had slept through all this mayhem on the other side of the apartment. By the time I got up, these were all semi-comical memories and the urine had been cleaned up.”

66. (imperative)Expressing encouragement or approval.

    “Go, girl! You can do it!”

67. (Australia, Multicultural-London-English, Singapore, UK, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial, especially, intransitive)Clipping of go to the.

    “Going pub now :)”

    “Ffs I really want to go pub now”

    “I went shop and the boss man said, "Don't pay me it's fine".”

    “I’m gonna go shops on Monday arvo.”

    “Guys I went McDonalds”

68. (colloquial, euphemistic, intransitive)To fight, usually with the fists.

    “You said WHAT about my mom? Do you want to go, bro?”

69. (intransitive, usually)To pass (a specified time) in gestation; to be pregnant.

    “For quotations using this term, see Citations:go.”

adj

1. (not-comparable, postpositional)Working correctly and ready to commence operation; approved and able to be put into action.

   “John Glenn reports all systems are go.”

   “"Life support system is go," said the earphone.”

   ““Green One has four starts and is go.””

   ““Weapons ready?” Sam and I pull our loaded BB guns out of the bag and slot them into place in the longholsters on our backs.“ Weapons are go,” Sam replied.”