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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
go
    adj 1: functioning correctly and ready for action; "all systems
           are go" [ant: no-go]
    n 1: a time for working (after which you will be relieved by
         someone else); "it's my go"; "a spell of work" [syn: go,
         spell, tour, turn]
    2: street names for methylenedioxymethamphetamine [syn: Adam,
       ecstasy, XTC, go, disco biscuit, cristal, X, hug
       drug]
    3: a usually brief attempt; "he took a crack at it"; "I gave it
       a whirl" [syn: crack, fling, go, pass, whirl,
       offer]
    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 [syn: go, go game]
    v 1: change location; move, travel, or proceed, also
         metaphorically; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We
         travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went
         from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers
         moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before
         night fell"; "news travelled fast" [syn: travel, go,
         move, locomote] [ant: stay in place]
    2: follow a procedure or take a course; "We should go farther in
       this matter"; "She went through a lot of trouble"; "go about
       the world in a certain manner"; "Messages must go through
       diplomatic channels" [syn: go, proceed, move]
    3: move away from a place into another direction; "Go away
       before I start to cry"; "The train departs at noon" [syn:
       go, go away, depart] [ant: come, come up]
    4: enter or assume a certain state or condition; "He became
       annoyed when he heard the bad news"; "It must be getting more
       serious"; "her face went red with anger"; "She went into
       ecstasy"; "Get going!" [syn: become, go, get]
    5: be awarded; be allotted; "The first prize goes to Mary"; "Her
       money went on clothes"
    6: have a particular form; "the story or argument runs as
       follows"; "as the saying goes..." [syn: run, go]
    7: stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or
       extend between two points or beyond a certain point; "Service
       runs all the way to Cranbury"; "His knowledge doesn't go very
       far"; "My memory extends back to my fourth year of life";
       "The facts extend beyond a consideration of her personal
       assets" [syn: run, go, pass, lead, extend]
    8: follow a certain course; "The inauguration went well"; "how
       did your interview go?" [syn: proceed, go]
    9: be abolished or discarded; "These ugly billboards have to
       go!"; "These luxuries all had to go under the Khmer Rouge"
    10: be or continue to be in a certain condition; "The children
        went hungry that day"
    11: make a certain noise or sound; "She went `Mmmmm'"; "The gun
        went `bang'" [syn: sound, go]
    12: perform as expected when applied; "The washing machine won't
        go unless it's plugged in"; "Does this old car still run
        well?"; "This old radio doesn't work anymore" [syn:
        function, work, operate, go, run] [ant:
        malfunction, misfunction]
    13: to be spent or finished; "The money had gone after a few
        days"; "Gas is running low at the gas stations in the
        Midwest" [syn: run low, run short, go]
    14: progress by being changed; "The speech has to go through
        several more drafts"; "run through your presentation before
        the meeting" [syn: move, go, run]
    15: continue to live through hardship or adversity; "We went
        without water and food for 3 days"; "These superstitions
        survive in the backwaters of America"; "The race car driver
        lived through several very serious accidents"; "how long can
        a person last without food and water?" [syn: survive,
        last, live, live on, go, endure, hold up, hold
        out]
    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"
    17: pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and
        functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer";
        "The children perished in the fire"; "The patient went
        peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of
        102" [syn: die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass
        away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's
        chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop
        dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it] [ant: be
        born]
    18: be in the right place or situation; "Where do these books
        belong?"; "Let's put health care where it belongs--under the
        control of the government"; "Where do these books go?" [syn:
        belong, go]
    19: be ranked or compare; "This violinist is as good as
        Juilliard-trained violinists go"
    20: begin or set in motion; "I start at eight in the morning";
        "Ready, set, go!" [syn: start, go, get going] [ant:
        halt, stop]
    21: have a turn; make one's move in a game; "Can I go now?"
        [syn: move, go]
    22: be contained in; "How many times does 18 go into 54?"
    23: be sounded, played, or expressed; "How does this song go
        again?"
    24: blend or harmonize; "This flavor will blend with those in
        your dish"; "This sofa won't go with the chairs" [syn:
        blend, go, blend in]
    25: lead, extend, or afford access; "This door goes to the
        basement"; "The road runs South" [syn: go, lead]
    26: be the right size or shape; fit correctly or as desired;
        "This piece won't fit into the puzzle" [syn: fit, go]
    27: go through in search of something; search through someone's
        belongings in an unauthorized way; "Who rifled through my
        desk drawers?" [syn: rifle, go]
    28: be spent; "All my money went for food and rent"
    29: give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group
        or number; "I plumped for the losing candidates" [syn:
        plump, go]
    30: stop operating or functioning; "The engine finally went";
        "The car died on the road"; "The bus we travelled in broke
        down on the way to town"; "The coffee maker broke"; "The
        engine failed on the way to town"; "her eyesight went after
        the accident" [syn: fail, go bad, give way, die,
        give out, conk out, go, break, break down]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Go \Go\ (g[=o]), obs. p. p. of Go.
   Gone. --Chaucer.
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3. 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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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Go \Go\, v. t.
   1. To take, as a share in an enterprise; to undertake or
      become responsible for; to bear a part in.
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            They to go equal shares in the booty. --L'Estrange.
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   2. To bet or wager; as, I'll go you a shilling. [Colloq.]
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   To go halves, to share with another equally.

   To go it, to behave in a wild manner; to be uproarious; to
      carry on; also, to proceed; to make progress. [Colloq.]

   To go it alone (Card Playing), to play a hand without the
      assistance of one's partner.

   To go one's way, to set forth; to depart.
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5. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Go \Go\, n.
   1. Act; working; operation. [Obs.]
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            So gracious were the goes of marriage. --Marston.
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   2. A circumstance or occurrence; an incident. [Slang]
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            This is a pretty go.                  --Dickens.
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   3. The fashion or mode; as, quite the go. [Colloq.]
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   4. Noisy merriment; as, a high go. [Colloq.]
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   5. A glass of spirits. [Slang]
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   6. Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance;
      push; as, there is no go in him. [Colloq.]
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   7. (Cribbage) That condition in the course of the game when a
      player can not lay down a card which will not carry the
      aggregate count above thirty-one.
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   8. Something that goes or is successful; a success; as, he
      made a go of it; also, an agreement.

            "Well," said Fleming, "is it a go?"   --Bret Harte.
      [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

   Great go, Little go, the final and the preliminary
      examinations for a degree. [Slang, Eng. Univ.]

   No go, a failure; a fiasco. [Slang] --Thackeray.

   On the go, moving about; unsettled. [Colloq.]
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6. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
All fours \All` fours"\ [formerly, All` four".]
   All four legs of a quadruped; or the two legs and two arms of
   a person.
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   To be, go, or run, on all fours (Fig.), to be on the
      same footing; to correspond (with) exactly; to be alike in
      all the circumstances to be considered. "This example is
      on all fours with the other." "No simile can go on all
      fours." --Macaulay.
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7. The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018)
Go

    A thinking game with an oriental origin
   estimated to be around 4000 years old.  Nowadays, the game is
   played by millions of people in (most notably) China, Japan,
   Korea and Taiwan.  In the Western world the game is practised
   by a yearly increasing number of players.  On the Internet
   Go players meet, play and talk 24 hours/day on the Internet
   Go Server (IGS).

   <http://cwi.nl/~jansteen/go/go.html>.

   Usenet newsgroup: <news:rec.games.go>.

   (1995-03-17)


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