going

verb

To move:

verb

(chiefly of a machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).

"The engine just won't go anymore."

verb

To start; to begin (an action or process).

"Get ready, get set, go!"

verb

To take a turn, especially in a game.

"It’s your turn; go."

verb

To attend.

"I go to school at the schoolhouse."

verb

To proceed:

verb

To follow or travel along (a path):

verb

To extend (from one point in time or space to another).

"This property goes all the way to the state line."

verb

To lead (to a place); to give access to.

"Does this road go to Fort Smith?"

verb

To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.)

"After failing as a criminal, he decided to go straight."

verb

To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.

verb

To continuously or habitually be in a state.

"I don't want my children to go hungry."

verb

To come to (a certain condition or state).

"They went into debt, she goes to sleep around 10 o'clock."

verb

To change (from one value to another) in the meaning of wend.

"The traffic light went straight from green to red."

verb

To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).

"How did your meeting with Smith go?"

verb

To tend (toward a result).

"These experiences go to make us stronger."

verb

To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.

"qualities that go to make a lady / lip-reader / sharpshooter"

verb

To pass, to be used up:

verb

To die.

verb

To be discarded.

"This chair has got to go."

verb

To be lost or out:

verb

To break down or apart:

verb

To be sold.

"Everything must go."

verb

To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.

"The award went to Steven Spielberg."

verb

To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.

"Can you two go twenty minutes without arguing?!"

verb

To have a certain record.

"The team is going five in a row."

verb

To be authoritative, accepted, or valid:

verb

To say (something), to make a sound:

verb

To be expressed or composed (a certain way).

"As the story goes, he got the idea for the song while sitting in traffic."

verb

To resort (to).

"I'll go to court if I have to."

verb

To apply or subject oneself to:

verb

To fit (in a place, or together with something):

verb

To date.

"He's been going with her for two weeks."

verb

To attack:

verb

To be in general; to be usually.

"As sentences go, this one is pretty boring."

verb

To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.

"Let's go halves on this."

verb

To yield or weigh.

"Those babies go five tons apiece."

verb

To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.

"I'll go a ten-spot."

verb

To enjoy. (Compare go for.)

"I could go a beer right about now."

verb

To urinate or defecate.

"Have you managed to go today, Mrs. Miggins?"

noun

A departure.

"Thy going is not lonely, with thee goes thy Husband"

noun

The suitability of ground for riding, walking etc.

"The going was very difficult over the ice."

noun

Progress.

"We made good going for a while, but then we came to the price."

noun

Conditions for advancing in any way.

"Not only were the streets not paved with gold, but the going was difficult for an immigrant."

noun

Pregnancy; gestation; childbearing

noun

(in the plural) Course of life; behaviour; doings; ways.

noun

(in the phrase "the going of") The whereabouts (of something).

"I can't find my sunglasses; you haven't seen the going of them, have you?"

adjective

Likely to continue; viable.

"He didn't want to make an unsecured loan to the business because it didn't look like a going concern."

adjective

Current, prevailing.

"The going rate for manual snow-shoveling is $25 an hour."