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1. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Go \Go\, v. i. [imp. Went (w[e^]nt); p. p. Gone (g[o^]n;
   115); p. pr. & vb. n. Going. Went comes from the AS,
   wendan. See Wend, v. i.] [OE. gan, gon, AS. g[=a]n, akin to
   D. gaan, G. gehn, gehen, OHG. g[=e]n, g[=a]n, SW. g[*a], Dan.
   gaae; cf. Gr. kicha`nai to reach, overtake, Skr. h[=a] to go,
   AS. gangan, and E. gang. The past tense in AS., eode, is from
   the root i to go, as is also Goth. iddja went. [root]47a. Cf.
   Gang, v. i., Wend.]
   1. To pass from one place to another; to be in motion; to be
      in a state not motionless or at rest; to proceed; to
      advance; to make progress; -- used, in various
      applications, of the movement of both animate and
      inanimate beings, by whatever means, and also of the
      movements of the mind; also figuratively applied.
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   2. To move upon the feet, or step by step; to walk; also, to
      walk step by step, or leisurely.
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   Note: In old writers go is much used as opposed to run, or
         ride. "Whereso I go or ride." --Chaucer.
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               You know that love
               Will creep in service where it can not go.
                                                  --Shak.
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               Thou must run to him; for thou hast staid so long
               that going will scarce serve the turn. --Shak.
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               He fell from running to going, and from going to
               clambering upon his hands and his knees.
                                                  --Bunyan.
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   Note: In Chaucer go is used frequently with the pronoun in
         the objective used reflexively; as, he goeth him home.
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   3. To be passed on fron one to another; to pass; to
      circulate; hence, with for, to have currency; to be taken,
      accepted, or regarded.
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            The man went among men for an old man in the days of
            Saul.                                 --1 Sa. xvii.
                                                  12.
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            [The money] should go according to its true value.
                                                  --Locke.
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   4. To proceed or happen in a given manner; to fare; to move
      on or be carried on; to have course; to come to an issue
      or result; to succeed; to turn out.
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            How goes the night, boy ?             --Shak.
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            I think, as the world goes, he was a good sort of
            man enough.                           --Arbuthnot.
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            Whether the cause goes for me or against me, you
            must pay me the reward.               --I Watts.
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   5. To proceed or tend toward a result, consequence, or
      product; to tend; to conduce; to be an ingredient; to
      avail; to apply; to contribute; -- often with the
      infinitive; as, this goes to show.
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            Against right reason all your counsels go. --Dryden.
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            To master the foul flend there goeth some complement
            knowledge of theology.                --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.
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   6. To apply one's self; to set one's self; to undertake.
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            Seeing himself confronted by so many, like a
            resolute orator, he went not to denial, but to
            justify his cruel falsehood.          --Sir P.
                                                  Sidney.
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   Note: Go, in this sense, is often used in the present
         participle with the auxiliary verb to be, before an
         infinitive, to express a future of intention, or to
         denote design; as, I was going to say; I am going to
         begin harvest.
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   7. To proceed by a mental operation; to pass in mind or by an
      act of the memory or imagination; -- generally with over
      or through.
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            By going over all these particulars, you may receive
            some tolerable satisfaction about this great
            subject.                              --South.
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   8. To be with young; to be pregnant; to gestate.
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            The fruit she goes with,
            I pray for heartily, that it may find
            Good time, and live.                  --Shak.
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   9. To move from the person speaking, or from the point whence
      the action is contemplated; to pass away; to leave; to
      depart; -- in opposition to stay and come.
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            I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to the Lord
            your God; . . . only ye shall not go very far away.
                                                  --Ex. viii.
                                                  28.
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   10. To pass away; to depart forever; to be lost or ruined; to
       perish; to decline; to decease; to die.
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             By Saint George, he's gone!
             That spear wound hath our master sped. --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.
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   11. To reach; to extend; to lead; as, a line goes across the
       street; his land goes to the river; this road goes to New
       York.
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             His amorous expressions go no further than virtue
             may allow.                           --Dryden.
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   12. To have recourse; to resort; as, to go to law.
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   Note: Go is used, in combination with many prepositions and
         adverbs, to denote motion of the kind indicated by the
         preposition or adverb, in which, and not in the verb,
         lies the principal force of the expression; as, to go
         against to go into, to go out, to go aside, to go
         astray, etc.
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   Go to, come; move; go away; -- a phrase of exclamation,
      serious or ironical.

   To go a-begging, not to be in demand; to be undesired.

   To go about.
       (a) To set about; to enter upon a scheme of action; to
           undertake. "They went about to slay him." --Acts ix.
           29.
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                 They never go about . . . to hide or palliate
                 their vices.                     --Swift.
       (b) (Naut.) To tack; to turn the head of a ship; to wear.
           

   To go abraod.
       (a) To go to a foreign country.
       (b) To go out of doors.
       (c) To become public; to be published or disclosed; to be
           current.
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                 Then went this saying abroad among the
                 brethren.                        --John xxi.
                                                  23.

   To go against.
       (a) To march against; to attack.
       (b) To be in opposition to; to be disagreeable to.

   To go ahead.
       (a) To go in advance.
       (b) To go on; to make progress; to proceed.

   To go and come. See To come and go, under Come.

   To go aside.
       (a) To withdraw; to retire.
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                 He . . . went aside privately into a desert
                 place.                           --Luke. ix.
                                                  10.
       (b) To go from what is right; to err. --Num. v. 29.

   To go back on.
       (a) To retrace (one's path or footsteps).
       (b) To abandon; to turn against; to betray. [Slang, U.
           S.]

   To go below
       (Naut), to go below deck.

   To go between, to interpose or mediate between; to be a
      secret agent between parties; in a bad sense, to pander.
      

   To go beyond. See under Beyond.

   To go by, to pass away unnoticed; to omit.

   To go by the board (Naut.), to fall or be carried
      overboard; as, the mast went by the board.

   To go down.
       (a) To descend.
       (b) To go below the horizon; as, the sun has gone down.
       (c) To sink; to founder; -- said of ships, etc.
       (d) To be swallowed; -- used literally or figuratively.
           [Colloq.]
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                 Nothing so ridiculous, . . . but it goes down
                 whole with him for truth.        --L' Estrange.

   To go far.
       (a) To go to a distance.
       (b) To have much weight or influence.

   To go for.
       (a) To go in quest of.
       (b) To represent; to pass for.
       (c) To favor; to advocate.
       (d) To attack; to assault. [Low]
       (e) To sell for; to be parted with for (a price).

   To go for nothing, to be parted with for no compensation or
      result; to have no value, efficacy, or influence; to count
      for nothing.

   To go forth.
       (a) To depart from a place.
       (b) To be divulged or made generally known; to emanate.
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                 The law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of
                 the Lord from Jerusalem.         --Micah iv. 2.

   To go hard with, to trouble, pain, or endanger.

   To go in, to engage in; to take part. [Colloq.]

   To go in and out, to do the business of life; to live; to
      have free access. --John x. 9.

   To go in for. [Colloq.]
       (a) To go for; to favor or advocate (a candidate, a
           measure, etc.).
       (b) To seek to acquire or attain to (wealth, honor,
           preferment, etc.)
       (c) To complete for (a reward, election, etc.).
       (d) To make the object of one's labors, studies, etc.
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                 He was as ready to go in for statistics as for
                 anything else.                   --Dickens.
           

   To go in to or To go in unto.
       (a) To enter the presence of. --Esther iv. 16.
       (b) To have sexual intercourse with. [Script.]

   To go into.
       (a) To speak of, investigate, or discuss (a question,
           subject, etc.).
       (b) To participate in (a war, a business, etc.).

   To go large.
       (Naut) See under Large.

   To go off.
       (a) To go away; to depart.
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                 The leaders . . . will not go off until they
                 hear you.                        --Shak.
       (b) To cease; to intermit; as, this sickness went off.
       (c) To die. --Shak.
       (d) To explode or be discharged; -- said of gunpowder, of
           a gun, a mine, etc.
       (e) To find a purchaser; to be sold or disposed of.
       (f) To pass off; to take place; to be accomplished.
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                 The wedding went off much as such affairs do.
                                                  --Mrs.
                                                  Caskell.

   To go on.
       (a) To proceed; to advance further; to continue; as, to
           go on reading.
       (b) To be put or drawn on; to fit over; as, the coat will
           not go on.

   To go all fours, to correspond exactly, point for point.
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            It is not easy to make a simile go on all fours.
                                                  --Macaulay.

   To go out.
       (a) To issue forth from a place.
       (b) To go abroad; to make an excursion or expedition.
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                 There are other men fitter to go out than I.
                                                  --Shak.
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                 What went ye out for to see ?    --Matt. xi. 7,
                                                  8, 9.
       (c) To become diffused, divulged, or spread abroad, as
           news, fame etc.
       (d) To expire; to die; to cease; to come to an end; as,
           the light has gone out.
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                 Life itself goes out at thy displeasure.
                                                  --Addison.

   To go over.
       (a) To traverse; to cross, as a river, boundary, etc.; to
           change sides.
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                 I must not go over Jordan.       --Deut. iv.
                                                  22.
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                 Let me go over, and see the good land that is
                 beyond Jordan.                   --Deut. iii.
                                                  25.
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                 Ishmael . . . departed to go over to the
                 Ammonites.                       --Jer. xli.
                                                  10.
       (b) To read, or study; to examine; to review; as, to go
           over one's accounts.
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                 If we go over the laws of Christianity, we
                 shall find that . . . they enjoin the same
                 thing.                           --Tillotson.
       (c) To transcend; to surpass.
       (d) To be postponed; as, the bill went over for the
           session.
       (e) (Chem.) To be converted (into a specified substance
           or material); as, monoclinic sulphur goes over into
           orthorhombic, by standing; sucrose goes over into
           dextrose and levulose.

   To go through.
       (a) To accomplish; as, to go through a work.
       (b) To suffer; to endure to the end; as, to go through a
           surgical operation or a tedious illness.
       (c) To spend completely; to exhaust, as a fortune.
       (d) To strip or despoil (one) of his property. [Slang]
       (e) To botch or bungle a business. [Scot.]

   To go through with, to perform, as a calculation, to the
      end; to complete.

   To go to ground.
       (a) To escape into a hole; -- said of a hunted fox.
       (b) To fall in battle.

   To go to naught (Colloq.), to prove abortive, or
      unavailling.

   To go under.
       (a) To set; -- said of the sun.
       (b) To be known or recognized by (a name, title, etc.).
       (c) To be overwhelmed, submerged, or defeated; to perish;
           to succumb.

   To go up, to come to nothing; to prove abortive; to fail.
      [Slang]

   To go upon, to act upon, as a foundation or hypothesis.

   To go with.
       (a) To accompany.
       (b) To coincide or agree with.
       (c) To suit; to harmonize with.

   To go well with, To go ill with, To go hard with, to
      affect (one) in such manner.

   To go without, to be, or to remain, destitute of.

   To go wrong.
       (a) To take a wrong road or direction; to wander or
           stray.
       (b) To depart from virtue.
       (c) To happen unfortunately; to unexpectedly cause a
           mishap or failure.
       (d) To miss success; to fail.

   To let go, to allow to depart; to quit one's hold; to
      release.
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Off \Off\ ([o^]f; 115), adv. [OE. of, orig. the same word as R.
   of, prep., AS. of, adv. & prep. [root]194. See Of.]
   In a general sense, denoting from or away from; as:
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   1. Denoting distance or separation; as, the house is a mile
      off.
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   2. Denoting the action of removing or separating; separation;
      as, to take off the hat or cloak; to cut off, to pare off,
      to clip off, to peel off, to tear off, to march off, to
      fly off, and the like.
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   3. Denoting a leaving, abandonment, departure, abatement,
      interruption, or remission; as, the fever goes off; the
      pain goes off; the game is off; all bets are off.
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   4. Denoting a different direction; not on or towards: away;
      as, to look off.
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   5. Denoting opposition or negation. [Obs.]
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            The questions no way touch upon puritanism, either
            off or on.                            --Bp.
                                                  Sanderson.
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   From off, off from; off. "A live coal . . . taken with the
      tongs from off the altar." --Is. vi. 6.

   Off and on.
      (a) Not constantly; not regularly; now and then;
          occasionally.
      (b) (Naut.) On different tacks, now toward, and now away
          from, the land.

   To be off.
      (a) To depart; to escape; as, he was off without a
          moment's warning.
      (b) To be abandoned, as an agreement or purpose; as, the
          bet was declared to be off. [Colloq.]

   To come off, To cut off, To fall off, To go off, etc.
      See under Come, Cut, Fall, Go, etc.

   To get off.
      (a) To utter; to discharge; as, to get off a joke.
      (b) To go away; to escape; as, to get off easily from a
          trial. [Colloq.]

   To take off To do a take-off on, To take off, to mimic,
      lampoon, or impersonate.

   To tell off
      (a) (Mil.), to divide and practice a regiment or company
          in the several formations, preparatory to marching to
          the general parade for field exercises. --Farrow.
      (b) to rebuke (a person) for an improper action; to scold;
          to reprimand.

   To be well off, to be in good condition.

   To be ill off, To be badly off, to be in poor condition.
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