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go

/ɡəʉ/

Phonetics

/ɡəʉ/

/ɡɐʉ/

/ɡəʊ/

/ɡoʊ/

noun

The act of going.
A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
Example: It’s your go.
An attempt, a try.
Example: I’ll give it a go.
An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
Example: We will begin as soon as the boss says it's a go.
An act; the working or operation.
A circumstance or occurrence; an incident, often unexpected.
The fashion or mode.
Example: quite the go
Noisy merriment.
Example: a high go
A glass of spirits; a quantity of spirits.
Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
Example: There is no go in him.
The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above thirty-one.
A period of activity.
Example: ate it all in one go
(British slang) A dandy; a fashionable person.

verb

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?

adjective

Working correctly and ready to commence operation; approved and able to be put into action.

go

Phonetics

noun

A strategic board game, originally from China, in which two players (black and white) attempt to control the largest area of the board with their counters.