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language: English
part of speech: Verb
1 meaning
- English: (obsolete, intransitive) To walk; to travel on one's feet. [11th-19th c.] (F.e: Other brunts I also look for; but this I have resolved on, to wit, to run when I can, to go when I cannot run, and to creep when I cannot go.)
2 meaning
- English: (intransitive) To move through space (especially to or through a place). (May be used of tangible things like people or cars, or intangible things like moods or information.) (F.e: Why don’t you go with us? This train goes through Cincinnati on its way to Chicago. Chris, where are you going? There's no public transit where I'm going. Wow, look at him go!)
3 meaning
- English: (intransitive) 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). (F.e.: 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.)
4 meaning
- English: (intransitive) To navigate (to a file or folder on a computer, a site on the internet, a memory, etc). (F.e.: Go to your earliest memory and to your favorite one, then to one that's difficult to consider.)
5 meaning
- English: (transitive) To move (a particular distance, or in a particular fashion). (F.e.: We've only gone twenty miles today. This car can go circles around that one.)
6 meaning
- English: (intransitive) To move or travel in order to do something, or to do something while moving. (F.e.: We went swimming. Let's go shopping.)
7 meaning
- English: (intransitive) To leave; to move away. (F.e.: Please don't go! I really must be going. Workmen were coming and going at all hours of the night.)