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Sounds | gow' |
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Rhymes | ago, amigo, archipelago, and 44 more rhymes in gow at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | Functioning correctly and ready for action. |
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Examples | "all systems are go" |
Similar | a-ok, a-okay |
Contrary | no-go |
Meaning | A time for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else). |
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Examples | "it's my go" |
Synonyms | spell, tour, turn |
Broader | shift, work shift, duty period |
Verbs | go |
Meaning | Street names for methylenedioxymethamphetamine. |
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Synonyms | Adam, ecstasy, XTC, disco biscuit, cristal, X, hug drug |
Broader | methylenedioxymethamphetamine, MDMA |
Meaning | A usually brief attempt. |
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Synonyms | crack, fling, pass, whirl, offer |
Broader | attempt, effort, endeavor, endeavour, try |
Meaning | A board game for two players who place counters on a grid. The object is to surround and so capture the opponent's counters. |
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Synonyms | go game |
Region | Japan, Nippon, Nihon |
Broader | board game |
Meaning | Change location. Move, travel, or proceed. |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s; Something is ----ing PP; Somebody ----s PP |
Model | The children go to the playground |
Examples | "How fast does your new car go?" |
Synonyms | travel, move, locomote |
Caused by | travel, trip, jaunt |
Entailed by | steer; reach, make, attain, hit, arrive at, gain; miss |
Narrower | go around, spread, circulate; carry; ease; whish; float; swap; seek; whine; fly; ride; come; ghost; betake oneself; pass over, overfly; travel; wend; do; raft; get around, get about; repair, resort; cruise; travel, journey; come, come up; round; trundle; push; travel purposefully; swing; roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond; walk, take the air; weave, wind, thread, meander, wander; forge, spurt, spirt; crawl, creep; scramble; slither, slide; wheel, roll; glide; bounce, jounce; breeze; float, drift, be adrift, blow; play; float, swim; walk; turn, move around; circle; slice into, slice through; stray, err, drift; run; step; drive, motor; automobile; ski; fly, wing; steam; taxi; ferry; ride, sit; prance; swim; rise, lift, arise, move up, go up, come up, uprise; ascend, go up; descend, fall, go down, come down; fall; zigzag, crank; follow, travel along; advance, progress, pass on, move on, march on, go on; withdraw, retreat, pull away, draw back, recede, pull back, retire, move back; retrograde; proceed, go forward, continue; back; pan; follow; precede, lead; pursue, follow; return, go back, get back, come back; derail, jump; flock; accompany; billow; circulate; circle, circulate; angle; pass, go through, go across; travel by, pass by, surpass, go past, go by, pass; travel rapidly, speed, hurry, zip; speed; zoom; drive; rush, hotfoot, hasten, hie, speed, race, pelt along, rush along, cannonball along, bucket along, belt along; trail, shack; shuttle; hiss, whoosh; whisk; career; circuit; lance; outflank, go around; propagate; draw; transfer, change; swash; pace; step, tread; step; hurtle; retreat; whistle; island hop; plow, plough; lurch; sift; fall; drag; run; bang; precess; travel, move around; ride; snowshoe; beetle |
Contrary | stay in place |
Similar to | move, displace |
See also | go by; go down, go under; go up; go on; go down; go around; go out; go by; go up; go down; go on; go off |
Meaning | Follow a procedure or take a course. |
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Pattern | Something is ----ing PP; Something ----s Adjective/Noun; Somebody ----s Adjective; Somebody ----s PP |
Examples | "We should go farther in this matter"; "go about the world in a certain manner"; "Messages must go through diplomatic channels" |
Synonyms | proceed, move |
Narrower | work; venture, embark; steamroller, steamroll |
Broader | act, move |
Meaning | Move away from a place into another direction. |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s; Something is ----ing PP; Somebody ----s PP |
Examples | "Go away before I start to cry" |
Synonyms | go away, depart |
Narrower | shove off, shove along, blow |
Broader | exit, go out, get out, leave |
Contrary | come, come up |
Nouns | going; goer |
Meaning | Enter or assume a certain state or condition. |
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Pattern | Something is ----ing PP; Something ----s Adjective/Noun; Somebody ----s Adjective; Somebody ----s PP |
Model | Water and oil go into the bowl |
Examples | "Get going!" |
Synonyms | become, get |
Narrower | sober up, sober; sober up, sober; work; take effect; run; take; break; settle; come |
Broader | change state, turn |
Meaning | Be awarded. Be allotted. |
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Pattern | Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something |
Examples | "The first prize goes to Mary" |
Meaning | Have a particular form. |
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Pattern | Something ----s |
Examples | "as the saying goes..." |
Synonyms | run |
Broader | be |
Meaning | Stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope. Run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point. |
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Pattern | Something is ----ing PP |
Examples | "His knowledge doesn't go very far" |
Synonyms | run, pass, lead, extend |
Narrower | come; radiate, ray; go far, go deep |
Broader | be |
Similar to | range, run |
Meaning | Follow a certain course. |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Something ----s Adjective/Noun |
Examples | "how did your interview go?" |
Synonyms | proceed |
Narrower | drag, drag on, drag out; do, fare, make out, come, get along |
Broader | happen, hap, go on, pass off, occur, pass, fall out, come about, take place |
Meaning | Be abolished or discarded. |
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Pattern | Something ----s |
Examples | "These ugly billboards have to go!"; "These luxuries all had to go under the Khmer Rouge" |
Broader | disappear, vanish, go away |
Meaning | Be or continue to be in a certain condition. |
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Pattern | Something ----s Adjective/Noun; Somebody ----s Adjective |
Broader | be |
Meaning | Make a certain noise or sound. |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s; Something ----s Adjective/Noun; Somebody ----s Adjective |
Synonyms | sound |
Caused by | sound; ring, knell |
Narrower | snarl; whistle, sing; blow; ting; make noise, resound, noise; splat; twang; clang, clangor; clank; clangor, clangour; boom, boom out; drum, beat, thrum; rattle; tick, ticktock, ticktack, beat; resonate, vibrate; tweet, twirp; skirl; gurgle; glug; blow; whish; guggle; ping; pink, ping, knock; trump; squelch; chug; ring, peal; buzz, bombinate, bombilate; chime; rustle; snap, crack; crack; honk, blare, beep, claxon, toot; whistle; resound, echo, ring, reverberate; thud, thump; clop, clump, clunk, plunk; patter, pitter-patter; tap, rap, knock, pink; click, tick; chatter, click; pop; tinkle, tink, clink, chink; splash, splosh, slosh, slush; hum, thrum; bleep; rumble, grumble; boom, din; bang; ripple, babble, guggle, burble, bubble, gurgle; lap, swish, swosh, swoosh; drone; whizz, whiz, whirr, whir, birr, purr; roll |
Broader | cause to be perceived |
Meaning | Perform as expected when applied. |
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Pattern | Something ----s |
Model | These cars won't go |
Examples | "The washing machine won't go unless it's plugged in" |
Synonyms | function, work, operate, run |
Narrower | double; roll; run; cut; service, serve |
Contrary | malfunction, misfunction |
Similar to | run; work |
Meaning | To be spent or finished. |
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Pattern | Something ----s |
Examples | "The money had gone after a few days" |
Synonyms | run low, run short |
Broader | end, stop, finish, terminate, cease |
Similar to | go |
Meaning | Progress by being changed. |
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Pattern | Something is ----ing PP; Somebody ----s PP |
Examples | "The speech has to go through several more drafts" |
Synonyms | move, run |
Broader | change |
Meaning | Continue to live. Endure or last. |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something |
Synonyms | survive, last, live, live on, endure, hold up, hold out |
Entails | be, live |
Narrower | stand up, hold up, hold water; perennate; live out |
Similar to | be, live; exist, survive, live, subsist |
Meaning | Pass, fare, or elapse. Of a certain state of affairs or action. |
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Pattern | Something ----s |
Examples | "How is it going?"; "The day went well until I got your call" |
See also | go with |
Nouns | going |
Meaning | Pass from physical life and lose all all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s |
Synonyms | die, decease, perish, exit, pass away, expire, pass |
Caused by | kill |
Entailed by | leave, leave behind |
Narrower | suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate; buy it, pip out; drown; kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it; predecease; starve, famish; fall; succumb, yield |
Broader | change state, turn |
Contrary | be born |
Similar to | fail, go bad, give way, die, give out, conk out, go, break, break down; die |
Nouns | going |
Meaning | Be in the right place or situation. |
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Pattern | Something is ----ing PP; Somebody ----s PP |
Model | The chairs go in the corner |
Examples | "Let's put health care where it belongs--under the control of the government"; "Where do these books go?" |
Synonyms | belong |
Broader | be |
Meaning | Be ranked or compare. |
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Pattern | Something ----s |
Examples | "This violinist is as good as Juilliard-trained violinists go" |
Broader | compare |
Meaning | Begin or set in motion. |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "Ready, set, go!" |
Synonyms | start, get going |
Caused by | start, start up |
Narrower | go on, come up, come on; get off the ground, take off |
Contrary | stop, halt |
Meaning | Have a turn. Make one's move in a game. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s |
Model | Sam and Sue go |
Examples | "Can I go now?" |
Synonyms | move |
Entails | play |
Entailed by | check |
Narrower | bluff, bluff out; stalemate; castle; serve; open; draw, cast; trump, ruff; manoeuver, maneuver, manoeuvre, operate; check |
Similar to | move, make a motion |
Nouns | go |
Meaning | Be contained in. |
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Pattern | Something ----s something |
Examples | "How many times does 18 go into 54?" |
Meaning | Be sounded, played, or expressed. |
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Pattern | Something ----s |
Examples | "How does this song go again?" |
Meaning | Blend or harmonize. |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Something is ----ing PP |
Examples | "This sofa won't go with the chairs" |
Synonyms | blend, blend in |
Broader | harmonize, harmonise, consort, accord, concord, fit in, agree |
Similar to | fit, go |
Meaning | Lead, extend, or afford access. |
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Pattern | Something is ----ing PP |
Examples | "This door goes to the basement" |
Synonyms | lead |
Broader | be |
Meaning | Be the right size or shape. Fit correctly or as desired. |
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Pattern | Something ----s |
Synonyms | fit |
Caused by | fit; dovetail |
Narrower | tesselate; joint |
Broader | fit |
Similar to | blend, go, blend in |
Meaning | Go through in search of something. Search through someone's belongings in an unauthorized way. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s PP |
Synonyms | rifle |
Broader | search |
Meaning | Be spent. |
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Pattern | Something is ----ing PP |
Similar to | run low, run short, go |
Meaning | Give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody |
Synonyms | plump |
Broader | choose, take, select, pick out |
Meaning | Stop operating or functioning. |
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Pattern | Something ----s |
Model | These cars won't go |
Synonyms | fail, go bad, give way, die, give out, conk out, break, break down |
Narrower | crash, go down; blow out, burn out, blow; misfire; malfunction, misfunction |
Broader | change |
Similar to | break; die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass |