go
adjective
1. functioning correctly and ready for action
- all systems are go
noun
1. a time period for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else)
- it's my go
Similar word(s): spell, tour, turn
Definition categories: time, shift
2. street names for methylenedioxymethamphetamine
Similar word(s): adam, ecstasy
Definition categories: man–made, methylenedioxymethamphetamine
3. a usually brief attempt
Similar word(s): crack, fling, offer, pass, whirl
Definition categories: act, attempt, effort, endeavor, endeavour, try
4. a board game for two players who place counters on a grid; the object is to surround and so capture the opponent's counters
Definition categories: act
Sentences with go as a noun:
- You’ve been on that pinball machine long enough—now let your brother have a go.
- It’s your go.
- I’ll give it a go.
- We will begin as soon as the boss says it's a go.
- quite the go
- a high go
- There is no go in him.
- ate it all in one go
verb
1. change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
- How fast does your new car go?
Similar word(s): locomote, move, travel
Definition categories: motion
2. follow a procedure or take a course
- We should go farther in this matter
- go about the world in a certain manner
- Messages must go through diplomatic channels
Similar word(s): move, proceed
Definition categories: social, act, move
3. move away from a place into another direction
- Go away before I start to cry
Similar word(s): depart
Definition categories: motion, exit, leave
4. enter or assume a certain state or condition
- Get going!
Definition categories: change, turn
5. be awarded; be allotted
- The first prize goes to Mary
Definition categories: stative
6. have a particular form
- as the saying goes...
Similar word(s): run
Definition categories: stative, be
7. stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
- His knowledge doesn't go very far
Similar word(s): extend, lead, pass, run
Definition categories: stative, be
8. follow a certain course
- how did your interview go?
Similar word(s): proceed
Definition categories: change, hap, happen, occur, pass
9. be abolished or discarded
- These ugly billboards have to go!
- These luxuries all had to go under the Khmer Rouge
Definition categories: change, disappear, vanish
10. be or continue to be in a certain condition
Definition categories: stative, be
11. make a certain noise or sound
Similar word(s): sound
Definition categories: perception
12. perform as expected when applied
- The washing machine won't go unless it's plugged in
Similar word(s): function, operate, run, work
Definition categories: contact
13. to be spent or finished
- The money had gone after a few days
Definition categories: consumption, cease, end, finish, stop, terminate
14. progress by being changed
- The speech has to go through several more drafts
Definition categories: change
15. continue to live and avoid dying
Similar word(s): endure, last, live, survive
Definition categories: stative
16. pass, fare, or elapse; of a certain state of affairs or action
- How is it going?
- The day went well until I got your call
Definition categories: stative
17. pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
Similar word(s): choke, conk, croak, decease, die, exit, expire, pass, perish
Definition categories: change, turn
18. be in the right place or situation
- Let's put health care where it belongs--under the control of the government
- Where do these books go?
Similar word(s): belong
Definition categories: stative, be
19. be ranked or compare
- This violinist is as good as Juilliard-trained violinists go
Definition categories: stative, compare
20. begin or set in motion
- Ready, set, go!
Similar word(s): start
Definition categories: motion
21. have a turn; make one's move in a game
- Can I go now?
Similar word(s): move
Definition categories: competition
22. be contained in
- How many times does 18 go into 54?
Definition categories: stative
23. be sounded, played, or expressed
- How does this song go again?
Definition categories: stative
24. blend or harmonize
- This sofa won't go with the chairs
Similar word(s): blend
Definition categories: stative, accord, agree, concord, consort, harmonise, harmonize
25. lead, extend, or afford access
- This door goes to the basement
Similar word(s): lead
Definition categories: stative, be
26. be the right size or shape; fit correctly or as desired
Similar word(s): fit
Definition categories: stative, fit
27. go through in search of something; search through someone's belongings in an unauthorized way
Similar word(s): rifle
Definition categories: contact, search
28. be spent
Definition categories: consumption
29. give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number
Similar word(s): plump
Definition categories: cognition, choose, select, take
30. stop operating or functioning
Similar word(s): break, die, fail
Definition categories: change
Sentences with go as a verb:
- Why don’t you go with us?
- 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.
- We've only gone twenty miles today.
- Please don't go!
- The engine just won't go anymore.
- Get ready, get set, go!
- Here goes nothing.
- It’s your turn; go.
- I go to school at the schoolhouse.
- Why'd you have to go and do that?
- Let's go this way for a while.
- She was going that way anyway, so she offered to show him where it was.
- This property goes all the way to the state line.
- Does this road go to Fort Smith?
- You'll go blind.
- I don't want my children to go hungry.
- they went into debt, she goes to sleep around 10 o'clock, the local shop wants to go digital, and eventually go global
- How did your meeting with Smith go?
- Well, that goes to show you.
- qualities that go to make a lady / lip-reader / sharpshooter
- This chair has got to go.
- This meat is starting to go off.
- Everything must go.
- The property shall go to my wife.
- How long can you go without water?
- They've gone one for three in this series.
- Whatever the boss says goes, do you understand?
- Anything goes around here.
- I go, "As if!" And she was all like, "Whatever!"
- Cats go "meow". Motorcycles go "vroom".
- The tune goes like this.
- I'll go to court if I have to.
- I'm going to join a sports team.
- He's going to leave town tomorrow.
- You didn't have to go to such trouble.
- I've gone over this a hundred times.
- Do you think the sofa will go through the door?
- This shade of red doesn't go with the drapes.
- My shirts go on this side of the wardrobe.
- How long having they been going together?
- As sentences go, this one is pretty boring.
- Let's go halves on this.
- Those babies go five tons apiece.
- That's as high as I can go.
- I'll go a ten-spot.
- I could go a beer right about now.
- I really need to go.