Go
GO, verb intransitive preterit tense went; participle passive gone.
1. In a general sense, to move; to pass; to proceed from one place, state or station to another; opposed to resting. A mill goes by water or by steam; a ship goes at the rate of five knots an hour; a clock goes fast or slow; a horse goes lame; a fowl or a ball goes with velocity through the air.
The mourners go about the streets. [[Ecclesiastes 12#5|Ecclesiastes 12:5]].
2. To walk; to move on the feet or step by step. The child begins to go alone at a year old.
Will creep in service where it cannot go
3. To walk leisurely; not to run.
Thou must run to him; for thou hast staid so long that going will scarce serve the turn.
4. To travel; to journey by land or water. I must go to Boston. He has gone to Philadelphia. The minister is going to France.
5. To depart; to move from a place; opposed to come. The mail goes and comes every day, or twice a week.
I will let you go that ye may sacrifice. [[Exodus 8#1|Exodus 8:1]].
6. To proceed; to pass.
7. To move; to pass in any manner or to any end; as, to go to bed; to go to dinner; to go to war.
8. To move or pass customarily from place to place, denoting custom or practice. The child goes to school. A ship goes regularly to London. We go to church.
9. To proceed from one state or opinion to another; to change. He goes from one opinion to another. His estate is going to ruin.
10. To proceed in mental operations; to advance; to penetrate. We can go but a very little way in developing the causes of things.
11. To proceed or advance in accomplishing an end. This sun will not go far towards full payment of the debt.
12. To apply; to be applicable. The argument goes to this point only; it goes to prove too much.
Seeing himself confronted by so many, like a resolute orator, he went not to denial, but to justify his cruel falsehood.
14. To have recourse to; as, to go to law.
15. To be about to do; as, I was going to say. I am going to begin harvest. [This use is chiefly confined to the participle.]
16. To pass; to be accounted in value. All this goes for nothing. This coin goes for a crown.
17. To circulate; to pass in report. The story goes.
18. To pass; to be received; to be accounted or understood to be.
And the man went among men for an old man in the days of Saul. [[1 Samuel 17#32|1 Samuel 17:32]].
19. To move, or be in motion; as a machine. [See [[No]].1.]
20. To move as fluid; to flow.
The god I am, whose yellow water flows
Around these fields, and fattens as it goes,