(gō) v. went, gone, go·ing v.i.
1. To proceed or pass along; move, as at a given speed.
2. To move from a place; leave; depart.
3. To move from one place to another for or as for a purpose: She went to dress for dinner.
4. To pass away; disappear; end: The opportunity has gone.
5. To be free or freed: They let him go.
6. To be in motion or operation; work properly: The watch is going now.
7. To extend or reach: The pipe goes into the next room.
8. To be, continue, or appear in a specified state or condition: Should these crimes go unpunished?
9. To pass into a state or condition; become: to go insane.
10. To proceed or end in a specified manner: The election went badly for him.
11. To be suitable; have its usual place; fit; belong: The music goes with these words.
12. To be considered or ranked: a good lunch, as lunches go.
13. To be phrased or expressed; have proper form or order: The song goes like this.
14. To emit or produce a specified sound or signal: The chain goes clank.
15. To attend; engage oneself in an occupation: to go to sea; to go fishing.
16. To pass: said of time.
17. To be guided or regulated; conform: to go with the times.
18. To be awarded, given, or applied: This goes toward canceling the debt.
19. To have recourse; make appeal; resort: to go to court.
20. To be known: What name does she go by?
21. To be sold or bid for: These shoes will go at a high price.
22. To help; tend: This goes to prove my argument.
23. To serve as a part; contribute: the graces that go to make a lady.
24. To be abolished or surrendered: The poll tax must go.
25. To collapse; fail: The walls went last in the fire.
26. To subject or put oneself: He went to great pains to do it.
27. To die.
28. To be about to do or act: used only in the progressive form and followed by the present infinitive: They were going to protest.
—v.t.
29. To furnish; put up: to go bail.
30. To contribute; share: to go halves.
31. Colloq. To risk or bet; wager.
32. Colloq. To put up with; tolerate: I cannot go that music.
—to go about
1. To be occupied or busy with.
2. To set about to do (something).
3. Naut. To change to the other tack.
—to go around
1. To move about or circulate.
2. To be enough to furnish even shares.
—to go at
1. To attack.
2. To work at.
—to go back on
1. To forsake; be untrue to.
2. To fail to fulfil or abide by.
—to go by
1. To pass.
2. To conform to or be guided by: to go by the rules.
—to go for
1. To reach for; try to get: He went for his gun.
2. To attack.
3. Colloq. To be strongly attracted by.
—to go in for Colloq.
1. To strive for or advocate: to go in for social reform.
2. To prefer; have a liking for: to go in for classical music.
—to go into
1. To investigate.
2. To take up, as an occupation: He went into business for himself.
3. To be contained in: Four goes into twelve three times.
—to go in with
1. To join.
2. To share expenses or risks with.
—to go off
1. To explode or be discharged, as a gun.
2. Colloq. To succeed; result: How did the party go off ?
—to go on
1. To act; behave.
2. To happen: What's going on here?
3. Colloq. To talk aimlessly; chatter.
4. In the theater, to appear on stage.
—to go one better (than) To surpass by a single degree or quality.
—to go out
1. To cease or be extinguished, as a light.
2. To advance or be drawn forth in sympathy: My heart goes out to him.
3. To strike: The union went out for higher wages.
4. To become obsolete.
5. To go to social affairs, the theater, etc.
—to go over
1. To turn on its side: The car went over.
2. To rehearse; repeat.
3. To examine closely or carefully.
4. Colloq. To succeed.
—to go through
1. To search thoroughly.
2. To experience; undergo.
3. To practice, as a role or part.
4. To be passed, as legislation.
5. To spend completely; use up: to go through a fortune.
—to go through with To complete; undertake to finish.
—to go together
1. To be suitable; harmonize.
2. Colloq. To keep company, as sweethearts.
—to go under
1. To be overwhelmed or conquered.
2. To fail, as a business.
—to go up To increase, as prices or values.
—to go with
1. To be suitable to; harmonize with.
2. Colloq. To keep company with.
—to go without To do or be without.
—to let go of
1. To release one's hold of.
2. To abandon one's interest or share in.
—noun
1. The act of going: the come and go of the seasons.
2. Colloq. The capacity for energetic action; vigor: He has plenty of go.
3. Colloq. A try; attempt: to have a go at something.
4. Colloq. A success: He made a go of it.
5. Colloq. A bargain.
6. Colloq. The fashion; mode: with the.
7. Colloq. A proceeding; turn of affairs.
—no go Colloq. Useless; hopeless.
—on the go Colloq. Busy; in constant motion.
—adjective Aerospace Operating or proceeding as planned. [OE gān]
—go′er noun

(gō) noun
A Japanese game played with counters or stones on the intersections of lines on a board. [<Japanese]