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GO¹
proper noun
noun
- Initialism of graphene oxide.graphene oxide
go²
- /ɡəʊ/ UK
- /ɡə/
- /ɡu/ [ɡʊw] West Midlands
- /ɡæn/ Northumbria
- /ɡo/ Scotland
- /ɡoː/ Wales
- /ɡoʊ/ US
- [ɡoː] Canada
- [ɡəʉ] Australia
- [ɡɐʉ] New Zealand
Sounds like geaux (toe–tow merger) · Rhymes with -əʊ
Where it comes from
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Germanic *gāną
Proto-West Germanic *gān
Old English gān
Middle English gon
English go
From Middle English gon, goon, from Old English gān (“to go”), from Proto-West Germanic *gān, from Proto-Germanic *gāną (“to go”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₁- (“to leave”).
The inherited past tense form yode (compare Old English ēode) was replaced through suppletion in the 15th century by went, from Old English wendan (“to go, depart, wend”).
cognates and related terms
Cognate with Scots gae, gan, gang, ging, gyang (“to go”), Yola go, goe, goeth, gow (“to go”), West Frisian gean (“to go”), Alemannic German gaa, go (“to go, walk, step”), Bavarian geh (“to go”), Cimbrian ghéenan, gian (“to go”), Dutch gaan (“to go”), Dutch Low Saxon gan, gaon (“to go”), German gehen (“to go”), German Low German gahn (“to go”), Limburgish gaon, goëne (“to go”), Luxembourgish goen (“to go”), Vilamovian gejn, gyjn (“to go”), Yiddish גיין (geyn, “to go, walk”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish gå (“to go, walk”), Crimean Gothic geen (“to go”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌲𐌲𐌰𐌽 (gaggan, “to go”). Compare also Albanian ngah (“to run, drive, go”), Ancient Greek κιχάνω (kikhánō, “to meet with, arrive at”), Avestan 𐬰𐬀𐬰𐬁𐬨𐬌 (zazāmi), Sanskrit जहाति (jáhāti, “to shun, avoid, lay aside”).
verb goes · going · went · yode · goed · gone
- To move through space (especially to or through a place). (May be used of tangible things such as people or cars, or intangible things such as moods or information.) Why don’t you go with us?
- To move or travel through time (either literally—in a fictional or hypothetical situation in which time travel is possible—or in one's mind or knowledge of the historical record). (See also go back.) Yesterday was the second-wettest day on record; you have to go all the way back to 1896 to find a day when more rain fell.
- To navigate (to a file or folder on a computer, a site on the internet, a memory, etc.). For the best definitions, go to wiktionary.org
- To move (a particular distance, or in a particular fashion). We've only gone twenty miles today.
- To move or travel in order to do something, or to do something while moving. We went swimming.
- To leave; to move away. Please don't go!
- To follow or proceed according to (a course or path). Let's go this way for a while.
- To travel or pass along. We went the full length of the promenade before we found a place to sit down.
- To walk; to travel on one's feet. ‘As for that,’ seyde Sir Trystram, ‘I may chose othir to ryde othir to go.’
- To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required). The engine just won't go anymore.
- To start; to begin (an action or process). You've got thirty seconds to solve the anagram, starting now. Go!
- To take a turn, especially in a game. It’s your turn; go.
- To attend. I go to school at the schoolhouse.
- To proceed (often in a specified manner, indicating the perceived quality of an event or state). That went well.
- To proceed (especially to do something foolish). Why'd you have to go and do that?
- To extend along. The fence goes the length of the boundary.
- To extend (from one point in time or space to another). This property goes all the way to the state line.
- To lead (to a place); to give access (to). Does this road go to Fort Smith?
- To become (often used with colors and negative states). Near-synonyms: become, get, turn, come, fall, grow, wax
- To move to (a position or state). If we can win on Saturday, we'll go top of the league.
- To come (to a certain condition or state). They went into debt.
- To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as. There is scarcely a business man who is not occasionally asked to go bail for somebody.
- To continuously or habitually be in a state. I don't want my children to go hungry.
- To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result). The decision went the way we expected.
- To tend (toward a result). Well, that goes to show you.
- To contribute to a (specified) end product or result. qualities that go to make a lady / lip-reader / sharpshooter
- To elapse, to pass; to slip away. (Compare go by.) The time went slowly.
- To end or disappear. (Compare go away.) After three days, my headache finally went.
- To be spent or used up. His money went on drink.
- To die. I want to go in my sleep.
- To be lost. The third wicket went just before lunch.
- To be out. Smith bowls ... Jones hits it straight up in the air ... and ... caught! Jones has gone!
- To collapse or give way, to break apart. Careful! It looks as if that ceiling could go at any moment!
- To break down or decay. My mind is going.
- To be sold. The car went for five thousand dollars.
- To be discarded or disposed of. This chair has got to go.
- To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted. The property shall go to my wife.
- To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time. How long can you go without water?
- To have a certain record. They've gone one for three in this series.
- Of an opinion or instruction, to have (final) authority; to be authoritative. Whatever the boss says goes, do you understand?
- To be accepted. Anything goes around here.
- To be valid or applicable. The baked beans can go on this shelf, and the same goes for all these other tins.
- To say (something, aloud or to oneself). I go, "As if!" And she was all like, "Whatever!"
- To make the (specified) sound. Cats go "meow". Motorcycles go "vroom".
- To sound; to make a noise. I woke up just before the clock went.
- To be expressed or composed (a certain way). The tune goes like this.
- To resort (to). The nylon gears kept breaking, so we went to stainless steel.
- To apply oneself; to undertake; to have as one's goal or intention. (Compare be going to.) I'm going to join a sports team.
- To make an effort, to subject oneself (to something). You didn't have to go to such trouble.
- To work (through or over), especially mentally. I've gone over this a hundred times.
- To fit. Do you think the sofa will go through the door?
- To be compatible, especially of colors or food and drink. This shade of red doesn't go with the drapes.
- To belong (somewhere). My shirts go on this side of the wardrobe.
- Of a ball, to be capable of being potted, not having its path to the pocket obstructed by other balls. He'd like to pot the pink, but I don't think it will go. The green's in the way.
- To date. How long have they been going together?
- To (begin to) date or have sex with (a particular race). You can date black, you can do white, on a slow night maybe even go for an Asian boy, but most likely you'll go Latino unless the aforementioned guys speak a little Spanish […]
- To fight or attack. I went at him with a knife.
- To fight. You've shown me his weak points, and I'll go him whether you stick by me or not.
- To attack. As big as me. Strong, too. I was itching to go him, And he had clouted Ernie.
- Used to express how some category of things generally is, as a reference for, contrast to, or comparison with, a particular example. My cat Fluffy is very timid, as cats go.
noun goes · gan
- The act of going. The Apostles were to be the first of a line. They would multiply successors, and the successors would die and their successors after them, but the line would never fail; and the come and go of men would not matter, since it is the one Christ operating through all of them.
- A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game). You’ve been on that pinball machine long enough—now let your brother have a go.
- An attempt, a try. I’ll give it a go.
- A period of activity. ate it all in one go
- A time; an experience. Even if she was bigger and more mature, she would have a tough go of it. We have read a lot on this diagnosis and have known from the beginning what she has been up against.” “It's true about this being a tough go,” I said. “Listen, I'm very sorry, but I'm on call here tomorrow and I will[…]"
- A circumstance or occurrence; an incident, often unexpected. 1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, in 1868, The Works of Charles Dickens, Volume 2: Nicholas Nickleby, Martin Chuzzlewit, American Notes, page 306, “Well, this is a pretty go, is this here! An uncommon pretty go!
- An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved. We will begin as soon as the boss says it's a go.
- An act; the working or operation. 1598, John Marston, Pigmalion, The Metamorphosis of Pigmalions Image and Certaine Satyres, 1856, J. O. Halliwell (editor), The Works of John Marston: Reprinted from the Original Editions, Volume 3, page 211, Let this suffice, that that same happy night, So gracious were the goes of marriage […]
- The fashion or mode. quite the go
- Noisy merriment. a high go
- A glass of spirits; a quantity of spirits. Jack Randall then impatient rose, / And said, ‘Tom's speech were just as fine / If he would call that first of goes [i.e. gin] / By that genteeler name—white wine.'
- A portion Albert's uncle had had a jolly good breakfast—fish and eggs and bacon and three goes of marmalade.
- Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance. There is no go in him.
- The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above thirty-one.
- A dandy; a fashionable person. That TOM, who was the GO among the GOES, in the very centre of fashion in London, should have to encounter the vulgar stare of this village; or, that the dairy-maid should leave off skimming her cream to take a peep at our hero, as he mounted his courser, is not at all surprising: and TOM only smile
adjective gan
- Working correctly and ready to commence operation; approved and able to be put into action. John Glenn reports all systems are go.
go³
- /ɡəʊ/ UK
- /ɡə/
- /ɡu/ [ɡʊw] West Midlands
- /ɡæn/ Northumbria
- /ɡo/ Scotland
- /ɡoː/ Wales
- /ɡoʊ/ US
- [ɡoː] Canada
- [ɡəʉ] Australia
- [ɡɐʉ] New Zealand
Sounds like geaux (toe–tow merger) · Rhymes with -əʊ
Where it comes from
Etymology tree
Japanese 囲碁
Japanese 碁bor.
English go
From Japanese 碁(ご) (go), shorter variant of Japanese 囲碁(いご) (igo), from Chinese 圍棋 /围棋 (wéiqí, literally “encirclement board game”).
noun Go
- A strategic board game, originally from China and today also popular in Japan and Korea, in which two players (black and white) attempt to control the largest area of the board with their counters.
Go⁴
noun
- Alternative letter-case form of go (“strategic board game”).go It is shown that Stratego is a complex game when compared to other games, such as chess and Hex. The game-tree complexity of 10⁵³⁵ exceeds the game-tree complexity of Go.
Go⁵
Where it comes from
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Germanic *gāną
Proto-West Germanic *gān
Old English gān
Middle English gon
English go
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English Googleinflu.
English Go
From go, likely with reference to the first two letters of Google.
proper noun
- A compiled, garbage-collected, concurrent programming language developed by Google. Despite the lower priority placed on features, Go isn't a static, unchanging language. New features are adopted slowly, after much discussion and experimentation. Since the initial release of Go 1.0, there have been significant changes to the patterns that define idiomatic Go.
