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Definitions of go

Noun

  1. 1.A departure or act of proceeding away from somewhere.
  2. 2.A person's opportunity to act during an activity or game.
  3. 3.An attempt directed toward achieving a particular result.
  4. 4.Permission to begin or execute a proposed action.
  5. 5.An act, process, or span involving active operation.
  6. 6.In older slang, an event, circumstance, or noteworthy incident.
  7. 7.In older usage, the currently dominant mode, style, or fashion.
  8. 8.Loud, lively enjoyment marked by boisterous celebration and noise.
  9. 9.Archaic slang for a serving or glass of liquor.
  10. 10.Energy, drive, vitality, or determination to keep acting.
  11. 11.In cribbage, the state where no playable card keeps the count at thirty-one or less.
  12. 12.A limited spell of action or sustained activity.
  13. 13.An old British informal name for a fashionable gentleman.
  14. 14.A two-player strategy game where stones claim territory on a gridded board.

Verb

  1. 1.To change position or travel from one place toward another.
  2. 2.For machinery, to function correctly or perform the required operation.
  3. 3.To commence a new action, event, process, or operation.
  4. 4.To take one's turn, especially during a game.
  5. 5.To show up for a gathering or scheduled event.
  6. 6.To continue advancing through an undertaking or process.
  7. 7.To travel along or follow a particular route.
  8. 8.To stretch between two endpoints spatially or temporally.
  9. 9.To connect with a place by furnishing passage or entry.
  10. 10.To enter the condition described by a following adjective, often negatively.
  11. 11.To accept and perform a specified duty, role, or function.
  12. 12.To persist habitually within some specified ongoing state.
  13. 13.To enter and assume some clearly stated condition.
  14. 14.To shift between values, levels, states, or other conditions.
  15. 15.To develop or conclude with a particular result.
  16. 16.To show a tendency toward a specified outcome.
  17. 17.To form part of or contribute toward a final result.
  18. 18.To be expended, consumed, or used until none remains.
  19. 19.To stop being alive, with no possibility of recovery.
  20. 20.To be thrown away or removed from use.
  21. 21.In cricket, to lose one's wicket or become out.
  22. 22.To fail structurally, separate into pieces, or stop functioning.
  23. 23.To sell successfully, often for some stated price.
  24. 24.To pass through assignment or allocation into a recipient's hands.
  25. 25.To survive, manage, or remain serviceable throughout a declared duration.
  26. 26.In sports, to possess a stated competitive record.
  27. 27.To possess authority or receive recognition as valid and binding.
  28. 28.To speak words or emit some particular sound.
  29. 29.To follow a particular wording, melody, structure, or arrangement.
  30. 30.To seek assistance from a chosen method, place, or resource.
  31. 31.To devote oneself or submit personally to some task or experience.
  32. 32.To fit within a space or match something else.
  33. 33.Informally, to maintain a romantic relationship with another person.
  34. 34.To launch an attack against a person or target.
  35. 35.To hold true under usual or ordinary circumstances.
  36. 36.To claim some designated share or participate to a defined degree.
  37. 37.To amount to or register a particular weight or yield.
  38. 38.To offer, wager, bid, or pay a stated amount.
  39. 39.Informally, to enjoy or feel attracted to something.
  40. 40.Informally, to empty either the bladder or the bowels.

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