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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. 2. To move upon the feet, or step by step; to walk; also to walk step by step, or leisurely. Note: In old writers go is much used as opposed to run, or ride. ``Whereso I go or ride.'' --Chaucer. You know that love Will creep in service where it can not go --Shak. Thou must run to him for thou hast staid so long that going will scarce serve the turn. --Shak. He fell from running to going, and from going to clambering upon his hands and his knees. --Bunyan. Note: In Chaucer go is used frequently with the pronoun in the objective used reflexively; as he goeth him home. 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. The man went among men for an old man in the days of Saul. --1 Sa xvii. 12. [The money] should go according to its true value. --Locke. 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 How goes the night, boy ? --Shak. I think, as the world goes, he was a good sort of man enough. --Arbuthnot. Whether the cause goes for me or against me you must pay me the reward. --I Watts. 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 Against right reason all your counsels go --Dryden. To master the foul flend there goeth some complement knowledge of theology. --Sir W. Scott. 6. To apply one's self to set one's self to undertake. Seeing himself confronted by so many like a resolute orator, he went not to denial, but to justify his cruel falsehood. --Sir P. Sidney. 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Gone \Gone\, p. p. of {Go}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: gone adj 1: not present; having left "he's away right now"; "you must not allow a stranger into the house when your mother is away"; "everyone is gone now"; "the departed guests" [syn: {away(p)}, {gone(p)}, {departed(a)}] 2: (informal) destroyed or killed; "we are gone geese" [syn: {done for(p)}, {kaput(p)}, {gone(a)}] 3: (euphemistic) "he is deceased"; "our dear departed friend" [syn: {asleep(p)}, {at peace(p)}, {at rest(p)}, {deceased}, {departed}] 4: having all been spent; "the money is all gone" [syn: {expended}, {spent}] 5: well in the past; former; "bygone days"; "dreams of foregone times"; "sweet memories of gone summers"; "relics of a departed era" [syn: {bygone}, {bypast}, {departed}, {foregone}] 6: no longer retained; "gone with the wind" [syn: {gone(p)}]
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