go
Adjective
Noun
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A time period for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else) (synset 115317305)
"it's my go"; "a spell of work"
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Street names for methylenedioxymethamphetamine (synset 102681592)
is a type of: mdma, methylenedioxymethamphetamine - a stimulant drug that is chemically related to mescaline and amphetamine and is used illicitly for its euphoric and hallucinogenic effects; it was formerly used in psychotherapy but in 1985 it was declared illegal in the United States
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A usually brief attempt (synset 100788715)
"he took a crack at it"; "I gave it a whirl"
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A board game for two players who place counters on a grid;
The object is to surround and so capture the opponent's counters (synset 100505336)domain region: japan, nihon, nippon - a constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship buildingis a type of: board game - a game played on a specially designed boardsame as: go game
Verb
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Change location;
Move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically (synset 201839438)"How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"; "news travelled fast"subtypes:- circulate, go around, spread - become widely known and passed on
- carry - cover a certain distance or advance beyond
- ease - move gently or carefully
- whish - move with a whishing sound
- float - move lightly, as if suspended
- swap - move (a piece of a program) into memory, in computer science
- seek - go to or towards
- whine - move with a whining sound
- fly - be dispersed or disseminated
- ride - move like a floating object
- come - cover a certain distance
- ghost - move like a ghost
- betake oneself - displace oneself; go from one location to another
- overfly, pass over - fly over
- travel - undergo transportation as in a vehicle
- wend - direct one's course or way
- do - travel or traverse (a distance)
- raft - travel by raft in water
- get about, get around - move around; move from place to place
- repair, resort - move, travel, or proceed toward some place
- cruise - travel at a moderate speed
- journey, travel - travel upon or across
- come, come up - move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
- round - wind around; move along a circular course
- trundle - move heavily
- push - move strenuously and with effort
- travel purposefully - travel volitionally and in a certain direction with a certain goal
- swing - change direction with a swinging motion; turn
- cast, drift, ramble, range, roam, roll, rove, stray, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander - move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
- take the air, walk - take a walk; go for a walk; walk for pleasure
- meander, thread, wander, weave, wind - to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course
- forge, spirt, spurt - move or act with a sudden increase in speed or energy
- crawl, creep - move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground
- scramble - to move hurriedly
- slide, slither - to pass or move unobtrusively or smoothly
- roll, wheel - move along on or as if on wheels or a wheeled vehicle
- glide - move smoothly and effortlessly
- bounce, jounce - move up and down repeatedly
- breeze - to proceed quickly and easily
- be adrift, blow, drift, float - be in motion due to some air or water current
- play - move or seem to move quickly, lightly, or irregularly
- float, swim - be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom
- swim - move as if gliding through water
- walk - use one's feet to advance; advance by steps
- move around, turn - pass to the other side of
- circle - travel around something
- slice into, slice through - move through a body or an object with a slicing motion
- drift, err, stray - wander from a direct course or at random
- run - travel rapidly, by any (unspecified) means
- step - shift or move by taking a step
- drive, motor - travel or be transported in a vehicle
- automobile - travel in an automobile
- ski - move along on skis
- fly, wing - travel through the air; be airborne
- steam, steamer - travel by means of steam power
- tram - travel by tram
- taxi - travel slowly
- ferry - travel by ferry
- caravan - travel in a caravan
- ride, sit - sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions
- prance - spring forward on the hind legs
- swim - travel through water
- arise, come up, go up, lift, move up, rise, uprise - move upward
- ascend, go up - travel up
- come down, descend, fall, go down - move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
- fall - descend in free fall under the influence of gravity
- crank, zigzag - travel along a zigzag path
- follow, travel along - travel along a certain course
- advance, go on, march on, move on, pass on, progress - move forward, also in the metaphorical sense
- draw back, move back, pull away, pull back, recede, retire, retreat, withdraw - pull back or move away or backward
- retrograde - move in a direction contrary to the usual one
- continue, go forward, proceed - move ahead; travel onward in time or space
- back - travel backward
- pan - make a sweeping movement
- follow - to travel behind, go after, come after
- lead, precede - move ahead (of others) in time or space
- follow, pursue - follow in or as if in pursuit
- return - go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before
- derail, jump - run off or leave the rails
- flock - move as a crowd or in a group
- accompany - go or travel along with
- billow - move with great difficulty
- circulate - move around freely from person to person or from place to place
- circle - move in a circular path above (someone or something)
- angle - move or proceed at an angle
- pass - go across or through
- go by, go past, pass, pass by, surpass, travel by - move past
- hurry, speed, travel rapidly, zip - move very fast
- speed - travel at an excessive or illegal velocity
- zoom - move with a low humming noise
- drive - move by being propelled by a force
- belt along, bucket along, cannonball along, hasten, hie, hotfoot, pelt along, race, rush, rush along, speed, step on it - move hurridly
- shack, trail - move, proceed, or walk draggingly or slowly
- shuttle - travel back and forth between two points
- hiss, whoosh - move with a whooshing sound
- whisk - move quickly and nimbly
- career - move headlong at high speed
- circuit - make a circuit
- lance - move quickly, as if by cutting one's way
- go around, outflank - go around the flank of (an opposing army)
- propagate - travel through the air
- draw - move or go steadily or gradually
- change, transfer - change from one vehicle or transportation line to another
- swash - make violent, noisy movements
- pace - go at a pace
- step, tread - put down or press the foot, place the foot
- step - move with one's feet in a specific manner
- hurtle - move with or as if with a rushing sound
- retreat - move away, as for privacy
- whistle - move with, or as with, a whistling sound
- island hop - travel from one island to the next
- plough, plow - move in a way resembling that of a plow cutting into or going through the soil
- lurch - move slowly and unsteadily
- sift - move as if through a sieve
- fall - move in a specified direction
- drag - move slowly and as if with great effort
- run - move about freely and without restraint, or act as if running around in an uncontrolled way
- bang - move noisily
- precess - move in a gyrating fashion
- move around, travel - travel from place to place, as for the purpose of finding work, preaching, or acting as a judge
- ride - sit on and control a vehicle
- snowshoe - travel on snowshoes
- beetle - fly or go in a manner resembling a beetle
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Follow a procedure or take a course (synset 202377696)
"We should go farther in this matter"; "She went through a lot of trouble"; "go about the world in a certain manner"; "Messages must go through diplomatic channels"subtypes:
- work - proceed towards a goal or along a path or through an activity
- embark, venture - proceed somewhere despite the risk of possible dangers
- steamroll, steamroller - proceed with great force
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Move away from a place into another direction (synset 201852660)
"Go away before I start to cry"; "The train departs at noon"
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Enter or assume a certain state or condition (synset 200149403)
"He became annoyed when he heard the bad news"; "It must be getting more serious"; "her face went red with anger"; "She went into ecstasy"; "Get going!"is a type of: change state, turn - undergo a transformation or a change of position or actionsubtypes:
- sober, sober up - become sober after excessive alcohol consumption
- sober, sober up - become more realistic
- work - arrive at a certain condition through repeated motion
- take effect - go into effect or become effective or operative
- run - change from one state to another
- take - be seized or affected in a specified way
- break - come into being
- settle - become resolved, fixed, established, or quiet
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Be awarded;
Be allotted (synset 202659957)"The first prize goes to Mary"; "Her money went on clothes" -
Have a particular form (synset 202727159)
"the story or argument runs as follows"; "as the saying goes..."is a type of: be - have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)same as: run
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Stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope;
Run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point (synset 202691775)"Service runs all the way to Cranbury"; "His knowledge doesn't go very far"; "My memory extends back to my fourth year of life"; "The facts extend beyond a consideration of her personal assets"is a type of: be - occupy a certain position or area; be somewheresubtypes: -
Follow a certain course (synset 200342215)
"The inauguration went well"; "how did your interview go?"is a type of: come about, fall out, go on, hap, happen, occur, pass, pass off, take place - come to passsubtypes:same as: proceed
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Be abolished or discarded (synset 200360569)
"These ugly billboards have to go!"; "These luxuries all had to go under the Khmer Rouge"
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Be or continue to be in a certain condition (synset 202624054)
"The children went hungry that day"is a type of: be - have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)
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Make a certain noise or sound (synset 202180712)
"She went `Mmmmm'"; "The gun went `bang'"is a type of: cause to be perceived - have perceptible qualitiessubtypes:
- snarl - make a snarling noise or move with a snarling noise
- sing, whistle - make a whining, ringing, or whistling sound
- blow - make a sound as if blown
- ting - make a light, metallic sound; go `ting'
- make noise, noise, resound - emit a noise
- splat - give off the sound of a bullet flattening on impact
- twang - sound with a twang
- clang, clangor - make a loud noise
- clank - make a clank
- clangor, clangour - make a loud resonant noise
- boom, boom out - make a deep hollow sound
- beat, drum, thrum - make a rhythmic sound
- rattle - make short successive sounds
- beat, tick, ticktack, ticktock - make a sound like a clock or a timer
- resonate, vibrate - sound with resonance
- crash - make a sudden loud sound
- tweet, twirp - make a weak, chirping sound
- skirl - make a shrill, wailing sound
- gurgle - make sounds similar to gurgling water
- glug - make a gurgling sound as of liquid issuing from a bottle
- blow - sound by having air expelled through a tube
- whish - make a sibilant sound
- guggle - make a sound like a liquid that is being poured from a bottle
- ping - make a short high-pitched sound
- knock, ping, pink - sound like a car engine that is firing too early
- trump - produce a sound as if from a trumpet
- squelch - make a sucking sound
- chug - make a dull, explosive sound
- peal, ring - sound loudly and sonorously
- bombilate, bombinate, buzz - make a buzzing sound
- chime - emit a sound
- rustle - make a dry crackling sound
- crack, snap - make a sharp sound
- crack - make a very sharp explosive sound
- beep, blare, claxon, honk, toot - make a loud noise
- whistle - make whistling sounds
- echo, resound, reverberate, ring - ring or echo with sound
- thud, thump - make a dull sound
- clop, clump, clunk, plunk - make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground
- patter, pitter-patter - make light, rapid and repeated sounds
- knock, pink, rap, tap - make light, repeated taps on a surface
- click, tick - make a clicking or ticking sound
- chatter, click - click repeatedly or uncontrollably
- pop - make a sharp explosive noise
- chink, clink, tink, tinkle - make or emit a high sound
- slosh, slush, splash, splosh - make a splashing sound
- hum, thrum - sound with a monotonous hum
- bleep - emit a single short high-pitched signal
- grumble, rumble - make a low noise
- boom, din - make a resonant sound, like artillery
- bang - to produce a sharp often metallic explosive or percussive sound
- babble, bubble, burble, guggle, gurgle, ripple - flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise
- lap, swish, swoosh, swosh - move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound
- drone - make a monotonous low dull sound
- birr, purr, whir, whirr, whiz, whizz - make a soft swishing sound
- roll - emit, produce, or utter with a deep prolonged reverberating sound
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Perform as expected when applied (synset 201528454)
"The washing machine won't go unless it's plugged in"; "Does this old car still run well?"; "This old radio doesn't work anymore"subtypes:
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To be spent or finished (synset 201195306)
"The money had gone after a few days"; "Gas is running low at the gas stations in the Midwest"is a type of: cease, end, finish, stop, terminate - have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphoricalverb group: go - be spent
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Progress by being changed (synset 200540190)
"The speech has to go through several more drafts"; "run through your presentation before the meeting"is a type of: change - undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature
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Continue to live and avoid dying (synset 202624202)
"We went without water and food for 3 days"; "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"; "The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents"; "how long can a person last without food and water?"; "One crash victim died, the other lived"subtypes:
- hold up, hold water, stand up - resist or withstand wear, criticism, etc.
- perennate - survive from season to season, of plants
- live out - live out one's life; live to the end
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Pass, fare, or elapse;
Of a certain state of affairs or action (synset 202623851)"How is it going?"; "The day went well until I got your call" -
Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life (synset 200359085)
"She died from cancer"; "The children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102"is a type of: change state, turn - undergo a transformation or a change of position or actionsubtypes:
- abort - cease development, die, and be aborted
- asphyxiate, stifle, suffocate - be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen
- buy it, pip out - be killed or die
- drown - die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating
- predecease - die before; die earlier than
- famish, starve - die of food deprivation
- fall - die, as in battle or in a hunt
- succumb, yield - be fatally overwhelmed
same as: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it -
Be in the right place or situation (synset 202743751)
"Where do these books belong?"; "Let's put health care where it belongs--under the control of the government"; "Where do these books go?"is a type of: be - occupy a certain position or area; be somewheresame as: belong
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Be ranked or compare (synset 202735694)
"This violinist is as good as Juilliard-trained violinists go"is a type of: compare - be comparable
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Begin or set in motion (synset 201868216)
"I start at eight in the morning"; "Ready, set, go!"subtypes:
- come on, come up, go on - start running, functioning, or operating
- get off the ground, take off - get started or set in motion, used figuratively
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Have a turn;
Make one's move in a game (synset 201079008)"Can I go now?"entail: play - participate in games or sportsubtypes:- bluff, bluff out - deceive an opponent by a bold bet on an inferior hand with the result that the opponent withdraws a winning hand
- stalemate - subject to a stalemate
- castle - move the king two squares toward a rook and in the same move the rook to the square next past the king
- serve - put the ball into play
- open - make the opening move
- cast, draw - choose at random
- ruff, trump - play a trump
- maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, operate - perform a movement in military or naval tactics in order to secure an advantage in attack or defense
- check - decline to initiate betting
same as: moveverb group: make a motion, move - propose formally; in a debate or parliamentary meeting -
Be contained in (synset 202706632)
"How many times does 18 go into 54?"
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Be sounded, played, or expressed (synset 202706526)
"How does this song go again?"
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Blend or harmonize (synset 202706315)
"This flavor will blend with those in your dish"; "This sofa won't go with the chairs"
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Lead, extend, or afford access (synset 202692313)
"This door goes to the basement"; "The road runs South"is a type of: be - occupy a certain position or area; be somewheresame as: lead
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Be the right size or shape;
Fit correctly or as desired (synset 202665841)"This piece won't fit into the puzzle"is a type of: fit - conform to some shape or sizesubtypes:- tessellate - fit together exactly, of identical shapes
- joint - fit as if by joints
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Go through in search of something;
Search through someone's belongings in an unauthorized way (synset 201321509)"Who rifled through my desk drawers?"is a type of: search - subject to a searchsame as: rifle -
Be spent (synset 201195525)
"All my money went for food and rent"
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Give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number (synset 200678186)
"I plumped for the losing candidates"is a type of: choose, pick out, select, take - pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternativessame as: plump
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Stop operating or functioning (synset 200435327)
"The engine finally went"; "The car died on the road"; "The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town"; "The coffee maker broke"; "The engine failed on the way to town"; "her eyesight went after the accident"is a type of: change - undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original naturesubtypes:
- crash, go down - stop operating
- blow, blow out, burn out - melt, break, or become otherwise unusable
- misfire - fail to fire or detonate
- malfunction, misfunction - fail to function or function improperly
verb group:- break - render inoperable or ineffective
- buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it - pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
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- Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
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