<p><strong>Verb:</strong></p><ul><li>(Used without object) To move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.</li><li>To leave a place; depart: People were coming and going all the time.</li><li>To keep or be in motion; function or perform as required: Can't you go any faster in your work?</li><li>To become as specified: To go crazy.</li><li>To continue in a certain state or condition; be habitually: To go barefoot.</li><li>To act as specified: Go warily if he wants to discuss terms.</li><li>To act so as to come into a certain state or condition: To go into debt; to go to sleep.</li><li>To be known: To go by a false name.</li><li>To reach, extend, or give access to: Where does this door go?</li><li>To pass or elapse: The time went fast.</li><li>To be applied, allotted, awarded, transferred, etc., to a particular recipient or purpose: My money goes for food and rent.</li><li>To be sold: I have a bid of two hundred dollars. Going! Going! Gone!</li><li>To be considered generally or usually: He's short, as basketball players go.</li><li>To serve as a means: This only goes to prove the point.</li><li>To result or end; turn out: How did the game go?</li><li>To belong; have a place: This book goes on the top shelf.</li><li>To harmonize; be compatible; be suited: Your tweed jacket would go better with these pants.</li><li>To fit around or into; be able to be extended, contained, inserted, etc.: This belt won't go around my waist.</li><li>To be or become consumed, spent, finished, etc.: The cake went fast.</li><li>To be or become discarded, dismissed, put aside, forgotten, etc.: Those practical jokes of yours have got to go!</li><li>To develop, progress, or proceed, especially with reference to success or satisfaction: How is your new job going?</li><li>To move or proceed with remarkable speed or energy: Look at that airplane go!</li><li>To make a certain sound: The gun goes bang.</li><li>To be phrased, written, or composed: How does that song go?</li><li>To seek or have recourse for a decision, verdict, corroboration, defense, etc.; resort: To go to court.</li><li>To become worn-out, weakened, ineffective, etc.: His eyesight is beginning to go.</li><li>To die: The old man went peacefully at 3 a.m.</li><li>To fail, break, or give way: The dike might go any minute.</li><li>To come into action; begin: Go when you hear the bell.</li><li>To make up a quantity or content; be requisite: Sixteen ounces go to the pound.</li><li>To be able to be divided; be contained as a mathematical element: Three goes into fifteen five times.</li><li>To contribute to an end result: The items that go to make up the total.</li><li>To have as one's goal; intend (usually used in the present tense, followed by an infinitive): Their daughter is going to be a doctor.</li><li>To be permitted, approved, or the like: Around here, anything goes.</li><li>To be authoritative; be the final word: This is my house, and what I say goes!</li><li>To subject oneself: Don't go to any trouble.</li><li>(Used in the infinitive as an intensifier to indicate the idea of proceeding, especially with the expectation of serious consequences): He finally had to go ask for a loan.</li><li>Informal: To urinate or defecate.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>(Plural goes) The act of going: The come and go of the seasons.</li><li>Energy, spirit, or animation: A man with a lot of go.</li><li>A try at something; attempt: To have a go at winning the prize.</li><li>A successful accomplishment; success: To make a go of a new business.</li><li>Informal: Approval or permission, as to undertake or begin something: The boss gave us the go on the new project.</li><li>Informal: A business agreement; deal; bargain: Thirty dollars? It's a go.</li><li>Boxing: A bout: The main go.</li></ul><p><strong>Interjection:</strong></p><ul><li>(In calling the start of a race) Start the race; leave the starting line: On your mark! Get set! Go!</li></ul><p><strong>Adjective:</strong></p><ul><li>Functioning properly and ready: Two minutes before the satellite is to be launched and all systems are go.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb Phrase:</strong></p><ul><li>To discuss or investigate: Let's not go into the question of whose fault it was.</li><li>To undertake as one's study or work: To go into medicine.</li><li>To repeat; review.</li><li>To be effective or successful: The proposal went over very well with the trustees.</li><li>To examine: The mechanic went over the car but found nothing wrong.</li><li>To read; scan.</li><li>To attempt to obtain; strive for: You'll never get what you want if you don't go after it energetically.</li><li>To bear; experience.</li><li>To examine or search carefully: He went through all of his things but couldn't find the letter.</li><li>To be successful; be accepted or approved: The proposed appropriation will never go through.</li><li>To use up; spend completely: He went through his allowance in one day.</li><li>To proceed without hesitation or delay: If you want to use my car, go ahead.</li><li>To make an attempt at; try for: He is going for the championship.</li><li>To assault.</li><li>To favor; like: It simply isn't the kind of life you would go for.</li><li>To be used for the purpose of or be a substitute for: Material that goes for silk.</li><li>To assault; attack: He’s lucky I went at him with just my fists when I could have gone at him with a weapon.</li><li>To begin or proceed vigorously: To go at one's work with a will.</li><li>Back 2 (def 7).</li><li>To persevere with to the end; bring to completion: It was perhaps the biggest challenge of her life, and she resolved to go through with it.</li><li>To be in the process of construction, as a building.</li><li>To increase in cost, value, etc.</li><li>To forget one's lines during a theatrical performance.</li><li>British: To go to a university at the beginning of a term.</li><li>To fall short of making one's contract.</li><li>Slang: To perform fellatio or cunnilingus.</li><li>To be overwhelmed or ruined; fail. (Of a ship) To founder.</li><li>To join in a partnership or union; combine with: He asked me to go in with him on the purchase of a boat.</li><li>To be disregarded or not taken advantage of: Don't let this chance go by.</li><li>To be guided by or to rely upon: Don't go by what she says.</li><li>To come to an end, especially to fade in popularity: Silent movies went out as soon as the talkies were perfected.</li><li>To cease or fail to function: The lights went out.</li><li>To participate in a social activity: We usually go out drinking on Friday nights.</li><li>Informal: To have a continuing romantic relationship: They went out for about a year before getting married.</li><li>To take part in a strike: The printers went out yesterday in a contract dispute.</li><li>Rummy: To dispose of the last card in one's hand by melding it on the table.</li><li>Cards: To achieve a point score equal to or above the score necessary to win the game.</li><li>To explode, fire, or perform or begin to function abruptly: A gun went off in the distance.</li><li>(Of what has been expected or planned) To happen: The interview went off very badly.</li><li>To leave, especially suddenly: She went off without saying goodbye.</li><li>To die.</li><li>To deteriorate.</li><li>Slang: To experience orgasm.</li><li>To happen or take place: What's going on here?</li><li>To continue: Go on working.</li><li>To behave; act: Don't go on like that!</li><li>To talk effusively; chatter.</li><li>(Used to express disbelief): Go on, you're kidding me.</li><li>To appear onstage in a theatrical performance: I go on in the middle of the second act.</li><li>To adopt as one's particular interest; approve of; like.</li><li>To occupy oneself with; engage in: Europeans in increasing numbers are going in for camping.</li><li>To be often in company (often followed by with): To go around with a bad crowd.</li><li>To be sufficient for all: Is there enough food to go around?</li><li>To pass or circulate, as in transmission or communication: The rumor is going around that he was forced to resign.</li><li>To occupy oneself with; perform: The shoemaker goes about his work with a smile.</li><li>Nautical: To change course by tacking or wearing.</li><li>To move or proceed.</li><li>To accompany in travel.</li><li>To agree; concur: I can't go along with you on that idea.</li><li>Informal: To have a continuing romantic relationship with; date: He went with her for two years.</li><li>To be in conflict with or opposed to: It goes against the company's policy.</li></ul>