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. [1913 Webster]

2.  To move upon the feet, or step by step; to walk; also, to walk step by step, or leisurely. [1913 Webster]
" In Chaucer go is used frequently with the pronoun in the objective used reflexively; as, he goeth him home." [1913 Webster]
"You know that love
Will creep in service where it can not go." [1913 Webster]
"Thou must run to him; for thou hast staid so long that going will scarce serve the turn." [1913 Webster]
"He fell from running to going, and from going to clambering upon his hands and his knees." [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]
"The man went among men for an old man in the days of Saul." [1913 Webster]
"[The money] should go according to its true value." [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]
"How goes the night, boy ?" [1913 Webster]
"I think, as the world goes, he was a good sort of man enough." [1913 Webster]
"Whether the cause goes for me or against me, you must pay me the reward." [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]
"Against right reason all your counsels go." [1913 Webster]
"To master the foul flend there goeth some complement knowledge of theology." [1913 Webster]

6.  To apply one's self; to set one's self; to undertake. [1913 Webster]
" 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." [1913 Webster]
"Seeing himself confronted by so many, like a resolute orator, he went not to denial, but to justify his cruel falsehood." [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]
"By going over all these particulars, you may receive some tolerable satisfaction about this great subject." [1913 Webster]

8.  To be with young; to be pregnant; to gestate. [1913 Webster]
"The fruit she goes with,
I pray for heartily, that it may find
Good time, and live." [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]
"I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to the Lord your God; . . . only ye shall not go very far away." [1913 Webster]

10.  To pass away; to depart forever; to be lost or ruined; to perish; to decline; to decease; to die. [1913 Webster]
"By Saint George, he's gone!
That spear wound hath our master sped." [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]
"His amorous expressions go no further than virtue may allow." [1913 Webster]

12.  To have recourse; to resort; as, to go to law. [1913 Webster]
" 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." [1913 Webster]
"They never go about . . . to hide or palliate their vices."
"Then went this saying abroad among the brethren."
"He . . . went aside privately into a desert place."
"Nothing so ridiculous, . . . but it goes down whole with him for truth."
"The law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem."
"He was as ready to go in for statistics as for anything else."
"The leaders . . . will not go off until they hear you."
"The wedding went off much as such affairs do."
"It is not easy to make a simile go on all fours."
"There are other men fitter to go out than I." [1913 Webster]
"What went ye out for to see ?"
"Life itself goes out at thy displeasure."
"I must not go over Jordan." [1913 Webster]
"Let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan." [1913 Webster]
"Ishmael . . . departed to go over to the Ammonites."
"If we go over the laws of Christianity, we shall find that . . . they enjoin the same thing."

1.  To take, as a share in an enterprise; to undertake or become responsible for; to bear a part in. [1913 Webster]
"They to go equal shares in the booty." [1913 Webster]

2.  To bet or wager; as, I'll go you a shilling. [1913 Webster]

1.  Act; working; operation. [1913 Webster]
"So gracious were the goes of marriage." [1913 Webster]

2.  A circumstance or occurrence; an incident. [1913 Webster]
"This is a pretty go." [1913 Webster]

3.  The fashion or mode; as, quite the go. [1913 Webster]

4.  Noisy merriment; as, a high go. [1913 Webster]

5.  A glass of spirits. [1913 Webster]

6.  Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance; push; as, there is no go in him. [1913 Webster]

7.  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. [1913 Webster]

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?”" [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

go, v., n., & adj.
--v. (3rd sing. present goes; past went; past part. gone)
1 intr. a start moving or be moving from one place or point in time to another; travel, proceed. b (foll. by to + infin., or and + verb) proceed in order to (went to find him; go and buy some bread). c (foll. by and + verb) colloq. expressing annoyance (you went and told him; they've gone and broken it; she went and won).
2 intr. (foll. by verbal noun) make a special trip for; participate in; proceed to do (went skiing; then went shopping; often goes running).
3 intr. lie or extend in a certain direction (the road goes to London).
4 intr. leave; depart (they had to go).
5 intr. move, act, work, etc. (the clock doesn't go; his brain is going all the time).
6 intr. a make a specified movement (go like this with your foot). b make a sound (often of a specified kind) (the gun went bang; the door bell went). c colloq. say (so he goes to me 'Why didn't you like it?'). d (of an animal) make (its characteristic cry) (the cow went 'moo').
7 intr. be in a specified state (go hungry; went in fear of his life).
8 intr. a pass into a specified condition (gone bad; went mad; went to sleep). b colloq. die. c proceed or escape in a specified condition (the poet went unrecognized; the crime went unnoticed).
9 intr. (of time or distance) pass, elapse; be traversed (ten days to go before Easter; the last mile went quickly).
10 intr. a (of a document, verse, song, etc.) have a specified content or wording; run (the tune goes like this). b be current or accepted (so the story goes). c be suitable; fit; match (the shoes don't go with the hat). d be regularly kept or put (the forks go here). e find room; fit (this won't go into the cupboard).
11 intr. a turn out, proceed; take a course or view (things went well; Liverpool went Labour). b be successful (make the party go; went like a bomb). c progress (we've still a long way to go).
12 intr. a be sold (went for {pound}1; went cheap). b (of money) be spent ({pound}200 went on a new jacket).
13 intr. a be relinquished, dismissed, or abolished (the car will have to go). b fail, decline; give way, collapse (his sight is going; the bulb has gone).
14 intr. be acceptable or permitted; be accepted without question (anything goes; what I say goes).
15 intr. (often foll. by by, with, on, upon) be guided by; judge or act on or in harmony with (have nothing to go on; a good rule to go by).
16 intr. attend or visit or travel to regularly (goes to church; goes to school; this train goes to Bristol).
17 intr. (foll. by pres. part.) colloq. proceed (often foolishly) to do (went running to the police; don't go making him angry).
18 intr. act or proceed to a certain point (will go so far and no further; went as high as {pound}100).
19 intr. (of a number) be capable of being contained in another (6 into 12 goes twice; 6 into 5 won't go).
20 tr. Cards bid; declare (go nap; has gone two spades).
21 intr. (usu. foll. by to) be allotted or awarded; pass (first prize went to the girl; the job went to his rival).
22 intr. (foll. by to, towards) amount to; contribute to (12 inches go to make a foot; this will go towards your holiday).
23 intr. (in imper.) begin motion (a starter's order in a race) (ready, steady, go!).
24 intr. (usu. foll. by to) refer or appeal (go to him for help).
25 intr. (often foll. by on) take up a specified profession (went on the stage; gone soldiering; went to sea).
26 intr. (usu. foll. by by, under) be known or called (goes by the name of Droopy).
27 tr. colloq. proceed to (go jump in the lake).
28 intr. (foll. by for) apply to; have relevance for (that goes for me too).
--n. (pl. goes)
1 the act or an instance of going.
2 mettle; spirit; dash; animation (she has a lot of go in her).
3 vigorous activity (it's all go).
4 colloq. a success (made a go of it).
5 colloq. a turn; an attempt (I'll have a go; it's my go; all in one go).
6 colloq. a state of affairs (a rum go).
7 colloq. an attack of illness (a bad go of flu).
8 colloq. a quantity of liquor, food, etc. served at one time.
--adj. colloq.
1 functioning properly (all systems are go).
2 fashionable; progressive.

Idiom:
all the go colloq. in fashion. as (or so) far as it goes an expression of caution against taking a statement too positively (the work is good as far as it goes). as (a person or thing) goes as the average is (a good actor as actors go). from the word go colloq. from the very beginning. give it a go colloq. make an effort to succeed. go about
1 busy oneself with; set to work at.
2 be socially active.
3 (foll. by pres. part.) make a habit of doing (goes about telling lies).
4 Naut. change to an opposite tack. go ahead proceed without hesitation. go-ahead n. permission to proceed.
--adj. enterprising. go along with agree to; take the same view as. go around
1 (foll. by with) be regularly in the company of.
2 = go about 3. go-as-you-please untrammelled; free. go at take in hand energetically; attack. go away depart, esp. from home for a holiday etc. go back on fail to keep (one's word, promise, etc.). go bail see BAIL(1). go begging see BEG. go-between an intermediary; a negotiator.
go by
1 pass.
2 be dependent on; be guided by. go-by colloq. a snub; a slight (gave it the go-by). go by default see DEFAULT.
go-cart
1 a handcart; a pushchair.
2 = go-kart.
3 archaic a baby-walker. go-devil US an instrument used to clean the inside of pipes etc. go down 1 a (of an amount) become less (the coffee has gone down a lot). b subside (the flood went down). c decrease in price; lose value.
2 a (of a ship) sink. b (of the sun) set.
3 (usu. foll. by to) be continued to a specified point.
4 deteriorate; fail; (of a computer network etc.) cease to function.
5 be recorded in writing.
6 be swallowed.
7 (often foll. by with) find acceptance.
8 Brit. colloq. leave university.
9 colloq. be sent to prison (went down for ten years).
10 (often foll. by before) fall (before a conqueror). go down with Brit. begin to suffer from (a disease). go Dutch see DUTCH. go far be very successful.
go for
1 go to fetch.
2 be accounted as or achieve (went for nothing).
3 prefer; choose (that's the one I go for).
4 colloq. strive to attain (go for it!).
5 colloq. attack (the dog went for him). go-getter colloq. an aggressively enterprising person, esp. a businessman.
go-go colloq.
1 (of a dancer, music, etc.) in modern style, lively, and rhythmic.
2 unrestrained; energetic.
3 (of investment) speculative. go great guns see GUN. go halves (or shares) (often foll. by with) share equally.
go in
1 enter a room, house, etc.
2 (usu. foll. by for) enter as a competitor.
3 Cricket take or begin an innings.
4 (of the sun etc.) become obscured by cloud. go in for take as one's object, style, pursuit, principle, etc. going!, gone! an auctioneer's announcement that bidding is closing or closed.
go into
1 enter (a profession, Parliament, etc.).
2 take part in; be a part of.
3 investigate.
4 allow oneself to pass into (hysterics etc.).
5 dress oneself in (mourning etc.).
6 frequent (society).
go it colloq.
1 act vigorously, furiously, etc.
2 indulge in dissipation. go it alone see ALONE. go it strong colloq. go to great lengths; exaggerate. go-kart a miniature racing car with a skeleton body.
go a long way
1 (often foll. by towards) have a great effect.
2 (of food, money, etc.) last a long time, buy much.
3 = go far.
go off
1 explode.
2 leave the stage.
3 gradually cease to be felt.
4 (esp. of foodstuffs) deteriorate; decompose.
5 go to sleep; become unconscious.
6 begin.
7 die.
8 be got rid of by sale etc.
9 Brit. colloq. begin to dislike (I've gone off him). go-off colloq. a start (at the first go-off). go off at Austral. & NZ sl. reprimand, scold. go off well (or badly etc.) (of an enterprise etc.) be received or accomplished well (or badly etc.).
go on
1 (often foll. by pres. part.) continue, persevere (decided to go on with it; went on trying; unable to go on).
2 colloq. a talk at great length. b (foll. by at) admonish (went on and on at him).
3 (foll. by to + infin.) proceed (went on to become a star).
4 happen.
5 conduct oneself (shameful, the way they went on).
6 Theatr. appear on stage.
7 Cricket begin bowling.
8 (of a garment) be large enough for its wearer.
9 take one's turn to do something.
10 (also go upon) colloq. use as evidence (police don't have anything to go on).
11 colloq. (esp. in neg.) a concern oneself about. b care for (don't go much on red hair).
12 become chargeable to (the parish etc.). go on! colloq. an expression of encouragement or disbelief.
go out
1 leave a room, house, etc.
2 be broadcast.
3 be extinguished.
4 (often foll. by with) be courting.
5 (of a government) leave office.
6 cease to be fashionable.
7 (usu. foll. by to) depart, esp. to a colony etc.
8 colloq. lose consciousness.
9 (of workers) strike.
10 (usu. foll. by to) (of the heart etc.) expand with sympathy etc. towards (my heart goes out to them).
11 Golf play the first nine holes in a round.
12 Cards be the first to dispose of one's hand.
13 (of a tide) turn to low tide.
go over
1 inspect the details of; rehearse; retouch.
2 (often foll. by to) change one's allegiance or religion.
3 (of a play etc.) be successful (went over well in Dundee). go round 1 spin, revolve.
2 be long enough to encompass.
3 (of food etc.) suffice for everybody.
4 (usu. foll. by to) visit informally.
5 = go around. go slow work slowly, as a form of industrial action. go-slow Brit. such industrial action.
go through
1 be dealt with or completed.
2 discuss in detail; scrutinize in sequence.
3 perform (a ceremony, a recitation, etc.).
4 undergo.
5 colloq. use up; spend (money etc.).
6 make holes in.
7 (of a book) be successively published (in so many editions).
8 Austral. sl. abscond. go through with not leave unfinished; complete. go to! archaic an exclamation of disbelief, impatience, admonition, etc. go to the bar become a barrister. go to blazes (or hell or Jericho etc.) sl. an exclamation of dismissal, contempt, etc. go to the country see COUNTRY.
go together
1 match; fit.
2 be courting. go to it! colloq. begin work! go-to-meeting (of a hat, clothes, etc.) suitable for going to church in. go to show (or prove) serve to demonstrate (or prove). go under sink; fail; succumb. go up 1 increase in price.
2 Brit. colloq. enter university.
3 be consumed (in flames etc.); explode. go well (or ill etc.) (often foll. by with) turn out well, (or ill etc.). go with 1 be harmonious with; match.
2 agree to; take the same view as.
3 a be a pair with. b be courting.
4 follow the drift of. go without manage without; forgo (also absol. : we shall just have to go without). go with the tide (or times) do as others do; follow the drift.
have a go at
1 attack, criticize.
2 attempt, try.
on the go colloq.
1 in constant motion.
2 constantly working. to go US (of refreshments etc.) to be eaten or drunk off the premises. who goes there? a sentry's challenge.

go, n. a Japanese board game of territorial possession and capture.

Etymology:
Jap.

VB  not exist, have no existence, be null and void, cease to exist, pass away, perish, be extinct, become extinct, die out, disappear, melt away, dissolve, leave not a rack behind, go, be no more, die, annihilate, render null, nullify, abrogate, destroy, take away, remove, obliterate, extirpate.

N  energy, physical energy, force, power, keenness, intensity, vigor, strength, elasticity, go, high pressure, fire, rush, acrimony, acritude, causiticity, virulence, poignancy, harshness, severity, edge, point, pungency, cantharides, seasoning, activity, agitation, effervescence, ferment, fermentation, ebullition, splutter, perturbation, stir, bustle, voluntary energy, quicksilver, resolution, exertion, excitation, strong, energetic, forcible, active, intense, deep-dyed, severe, keen, vivid, sharp, acute, incisive, trenchant, brisk, rousing, irritation, poignant, virulent, caustic, corrosive, mordant, harsh, stringent, double-edged, double-shotted, double- distilled, drastic, escharotic, racy, potent, radioactive, strongly, fortiter in re, with telling effect, the steam is up, vires acquirit eundo, the race by vigor not by vaunts is won.

N  fashion, style, ton, bon ton, society, good society, polite society, monde, drawing-room, civilized life, civilization, town, beau monde, high life, court, world, fashionable world, gay world, Vanity Fair, show, manners, breeding, air, demeanor, savoir faire, gentlemanliness, gentility, decorum, propriety, biens_eance, conventions of society, Mrs, Grundy, punctilio, form, formality, etiquette, point of etiquette, dress, custom, mode, vogue, go, rage, prevailing taste, fad, trend, bandwagon, furore, thing, in thing, craze, chic, last word, man of fashion, woman of fashion, man of the world, woman of the world, height of fashion, pink of fashion, star of fashion, glass of fashion, leader of fashion, arbiter elegantiarum, the beautiful people, the fashion set, upper ten thousand, elite, smart set, the four hundred, in crowd, fashionable, in fashion, a la mode, comme il faut, admitted in society, admissible in society, presentable, conventional, genteel, well-bred, well mannered, well behaved, well spoken, gentlemanlike, gentlemanly, ladylike, civil, polite, polished, refined, thoroughbred, courtly, distingue, unembarrassed, degage, janty, jaunty, dashing, fast, modish, stylish, chic, trendy, recherche, newfangled, all the rage, all the go, with it, in, faddish, in court, in full dress, in evening dress, en grande tenue, fashionably, for fashion's sake, a la francaise, a la parisienne, a l' anglaise, a l' americaine, autre temps autre mauers, chaque pays a sa guise.

VB  be in motion, move, go, hie, gang, budge, stir, pass, flit, hover about, hover round, hover about, shift, slide, glide, roll, roll on, flow, stream, run, drift, sweep along, wander, walk, change one's place, shift one's place, change one's quarters, shift one's quarters, dodge, keep going, keep moving, put in motion, set in motion, move, impel, propel, render movable, mobilize.

VB  recede, go, move back, move from, retire, withdraw, shrink, back off, come away, move away, back away, go away, get away, drift away, depart, retreat, move off, stand off, sheer off, fall back, stand aside, run away, remove, shunt, distance.

VB  lose color, fade, fly, go, become colorless, turn pale, pale, deprive of color, decolorize, bleach, tarnish, achromatize, blanch, etiolate, wash out, tone down.

VB  disappear, vanish, dissolve, fade, melt away, pass, go, avaunt, evaporate, vaporize, be gone, leave no trace, leave 'not a rack behind', go off the stage, suffer an eclipse, undergo an eclipse, retire from sight, be lost to view, pass out of sight, lose sight of, efface.

come and go, go a long way, go about, go across, go after, go against, go ahead, go all out, go along, go along with, go around, go around in circles, go astray, go at, go away, go back, go back on, go back over, go bad, go ballistic, go before, go between, go beyond, go board, go by, go deep, go down, go down on, go dutch, go far, go fish, go for, go for broke, go forth, go forward, go game, go getter, go go, go home, go in, go in for, go in with, go into, go off, go off at half-cock, go off half cocked, go off half-cocked, go on, go on and on, go one better, go out, go over, go over big, go overboard, go past, go places, go slow, go steady, go straight, go the limit, go through, go through the motions, go to, go to bed, go to extremes, go to great lengths, go to it, go to pieces, go to pot, go to sleep, go to the dogs, go to town, go to war, go together, go too far, go under, go up, go up in smoke, go with, go without saying, go wrong, have a go, have a go at it, hide and go seek, let go, let go of, let it go, letting go, no go, on the go, sentry go, touch and go