Word Finder - goes

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The act of going.

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A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).

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It’s your go.

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• move
• stint
• turn

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An attempt, a try.

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I’ll give it a go.

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• attempt
• bash
• shot
• stab
• try

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An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.

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We will begin as soon as the boss says it's a go.

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• green light

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An act; the working or operation.

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A circumstance or occurrence; an incident, often unexpected.

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The fashion or mode.

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quite the go

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• mode
• style
• trend

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Noisy merriment.

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a high go

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A glass of spirits; a quantity of spirits.

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• gage
• measure

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Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.

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There is no go in him.

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• energy
• flair
• liveliness
• perseverance
• pizzazz
• spirit
• verve
• vigour
• vim
• vitality
• zest

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The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above thirty-one.

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A period of activity.

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ate it all in one go

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(British slang) A dandy; a fashionable person.

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To move:

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• cross
• draw
• drift
• fare
• move
• tread
• wend

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

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The engine just won't go anymore.

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• function
• operate
• work

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

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Get ready, get set, go!

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To take a turn, especially in a game.

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It’s your turn; go.

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• make one's move
• move
• take one’s turn

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To attend.

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I go to school at the schoolhouse.

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To proceed:

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To follow or travel along (a path):

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

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This property goes all the way to the state line.

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

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Does this road go to Fort Smith?

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

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

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• become
• change into
• turn

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

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To continuously or habitually be in a state.

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I don't want my children to go hungry.

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To come to (a certain condition or state).

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

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

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The traffic light went straight from green to red.

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

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How did your meeting with Smith go?

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To tend (toward a result).

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These experiences go to make us stronger.

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

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

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To pass, to be used up:

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To die.

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To be discarded.

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This chair has got to go.

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To be lost or out:

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To break down or apart:

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To be sold.

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Everything must go.

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To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.

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The award went to Steven Spielberg.

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

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Can you two go twenty minutes without arguing?!

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To have a certain record.

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The team is going five in a row.

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To be authoritative, accepted, or valid:

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To say (something), to make a sound:

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To be expressed or composed (a certain way).

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

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To resort (to).

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I'll go to court if I have to.

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To apply or subject oneself to:

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

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To date.

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He's been going with her for two weeks.

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• date
• go out (with)
• see

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To attack:

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To be in general; to be usually.

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As sentences go, this one is pretty boring.

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

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Let's go halves on this.

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To yield or weigh.

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Those babies go five tons apiece.

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

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I'll go a ten-spot.

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To enjoy. (Compare go for.)

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I could go a beer right about now.

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To urinate or defecate.

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Have you managed to go today, Mrs. Miggins?

I hope your meeting goes well.

She goes with me.

Let me know if anything goes wrong.

That goes up in the hills.

Naw. She goes down to the bar on Tuesdays.

I know that out of a million cases only one goes wrong, but it is her fancy and mine.

Sometimes, when mother does not know it, she goes out into the vineyard, and gets her apron full of delicious grapes.

This list goes on, but I will spare you.

After Alex goes to work and Jonathan goes to school, Destiny and I do the chores.

If you're in the business, it goes with the territory.

One of them goes in the Toggenburg's stall and the other one goes in the Lamancha's.

It goes with the badge.

Then he added, "She'll probably take a nap till the sun goes down."

Well, he has a home office and he goes there pretty often, but I can't figure out what he's doing.

She talks a great deal about what she will do when she goes to Boston.

All my mail goes to a post office box.

We'll see where he goes.

If it goes off for any reason, I'll be at your throat with a knife, truce be damned, Damian said in a low, firm voice.

The enormous menu goes on and on with options so big, you'll leave with a take-out box.

Daddy goes a-hunting!

Before it's passed to the eldest son, it goes to the wife an immortal chooses.

If there is no issue she takes the whole of the personal estate, while the real estate, subject to her dower, goes first to her husband's father and then to his mother, brothers and sisters.

Such explanation of physical phenomena is the main problem of Descartes, and it goes on encroaching upon territories once supposed proper to the mind.

Three points are given to the bowl that trails the jack over both lines into the semicircle and goes over them itself.

The term sailor is used in a very wide sense and includes all persons earning their living by navigation on the sea, or in the harbours or roadsteads, or on salt lakes or canals within the maritime domain of the state, or on rivers and canals as far as the tide goes up or sea-going ships can pass.

Far better both as draughtsman and as authority was George Edwards, who in 1 743 began, under the same title as Albin, a series of plates with letterpress, which was continued by the name of Gleanings in Natural History, and finished in 1760, when it had reached seven parts, forming four quarto volumes, the figures of which are nearly always quoted with approval.4 The year which saw the works of Edwards completed was still further distinguished by the appearance in France, where little had been done since Belon's days,' in six quarto volumes, of the Ornithologie of MathurinJacques Brisson - a work of very great merit so far as it goes, for as a descriptive ornithologist the author stands even now unsurpassed; but it must be said that his knowledge, according to internal evidence, was confined to books and to the external parts of birds' skins.

This classification is ingenious and convenient as far as it goes, but it seems probable that the trouser, which also has the waist as its point of attachment, may itself be a further development of the girdle.

The second, the Irminger stream, passes up the west side of Iceland; and the third goes up the Greenland side of Davis Strait to Baffin Bay.

Plautus must therefore be regarded as primarily a translator or adapter, so far as our present knowledge goes.

Urban's bull was once more promulgated, at the council of Vienne in 1311, by 1 The pope's decision, so the story goes, was hastened by a miracle.

His numerous services during the journey are described in the Argonautica that goes under his name.

In other cases the reduction goes much further, till the endodermis eventually comes to surround nothing but an intercellular channel formed in place of the stelar tissue.

But even when inside it does not follow that the Fungus can kill the cell, and many cases are known where the Fungus can break throtigh the cells first lines of defence (cell-wall and protoplasmic lining); but the struggle goes on at close quarters, and various degrees of hypertrophy, accumulation of plastic bodies or secretions, discolorations, &c.,, indicate the suffering of the still living cell.

Their missionaries were received at the court of Akbar, and Benedict Goes, a native of the Azores, was despatched on a journey overland from Agra to China.

The earliest settlement there goes back to neolithic times, but it was already a fortified city when Elam was conquered by Sargon of Akkad (3800 B.C.) and Susa became the seat of a Babylonian viceroy.

Nearly half the ex- penditure goes to meet debt charges, while government, internal development and defence absorb most of the remainder.

Besides the general arguments for supposing that the physical phenomena of spiritualism may be due to conjuring, there are two special reasons which gain in force as time goes on.

As results of Roberval's labours outside the department of pure mathematics may be noted a work on the system of the universe, in which he supports the Copernican system and attributes a mutual attraction to all particles of matter; and also the invention of a special kind of balance which goes by his name.

We therefore hold that the law of the seventh-day Sabbath goes back to the Mosaic age.

All the evidence in Barclay's own work goes to prove that he was sincere in his reproof of contemporary follies and vice, and the gross accusations which John Bale 1 brings against his moral character may be put down to his hatred of Barclay's cloth.

This stream empties into the Humboldt lake, the overflow from which goes into the so-called Carson Sink.

A poll tax is required of all males between the ages of 21 and 60 years, one half of which goes to the county in which it is collected and the rest to the state.

There still remains close to the first-named street and fronting the Corso Garibaldi a high wall built of square Roman bricks, with pillars and arched recesses in the upper portion, which goes by the name of Palazzo di Teodorico.

Thus, in any estimate of the influence of Babylonia upon the Old Testament, it is obviously necessary to ask whether certain features (a) are of true Babylonian origin, or (b) merely find parallels or analogies in its stores of literature; whether the indebtedness goes back to very early times or to the age of the Assyrian domination or to the exiles who now returned.

A caravan road to the south goes through the oasis of Kurkur.

The constitution goes into minute detail in prohibiting local, private and special legislation.

The union which sound religious teaching represents as realized in the submission of the will and the ethical harmony of the whole life is then reduced to a, passive experience, to something which comes and goes in time, and which may be of only momentary duration.

All this is comparatively new geography, and it goes far to explain why the great trade routes from Peking to the west were pushed so far to the north.

This connexion, if true, must be very ancient, since it apparently goes back to a time when the distribution of land and water was other than at present.

In the prose Lancelot his education is complete, he knows his name and parentage, though for some unexplained reason he keeps both secret, and he goes with a fitting escort and equipment to Arthur's court to demand knighthood.