going

Meaning of going

verb
  1. To move:
  2. (chiefly of a machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
    The engine just won't go anymore.
  3. To start; to begin (an action or process).
    Get ready, get set, go!
  4. To take a turn, especially in a game.
    It’s your turn; go.
  5. To attend.
    I go to school at the schoolhouse.
  6. To proceed:
  7. To follow or travel along (a path):
  8. To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
    This property goes all the way to the state line.
  9. To lead (to a place); to give access to.
    Does this road go to Fort Smith?
  10. To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.)
    After failing as a criminal, he decided to go straight.
  11. To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
  12. To continuously or habitually be in a state.
    I don't want my children to go hungry.
  13. To come to (a certain condition or state).
    They went into debt, she goes to sleep around 10 o'clock.
  14. To change (from one value to another) in the meaning of wend.
    The traffic light went straight from green to red.
  15. To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
    How did your meeting with Smith go?
  16. To tend (toward a result).
    These experiences go to make us stronger.
  17. To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
    qualities that go to make a lady / lip-reader / sharpshooter
  18. To pass, to be used up:
  19. To die.
  20. To be discarded.
    This chair has got to go.
  21. To be lost or out:
  22. To break down or apart:
  23. To be sold.
    Everything must go.
  24. To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
    The award went to Steven Spielberg.
  25. To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
    Can you two go twenty minutes without arguing?!
  26. To have a certain record.
    The team is going five in a row.
  27. To be authoritative, accepted, or valid:
  28. To say (something), to make a sound:
  29. To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
    As the story goes, he got the idea for the song while sitting in traffic.
  30. To resort (to).
    I'll go to court if I have to.
  31. To apply or subject oneself to:
  32. To fit (in a place, or together with something):
  33. To date.
    He's been going with her for two weeks.
  34. To attack:
  35. To be in general; to be usually.
    As sentences go, this one is pretty boring.
  36. To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
    Let's go halves on this.
  37. To yield or weigh.
    Those babies go five tons apiece.
  38. To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
    I'll go a ten-spot.
  39. To enjoy. (Compare go for.)
    I could go a beer right about now.
  40. To urinate or defecate.
    Have you managed to go today, Mrs. Miggins?
noun
  1. A departure.
    Thy going is not lonely, with thee goes thy Husband
  2. The suitability of ground for riding, walking etc.
    The going was very difficult over the ice.
  3. Progress.
    We made good going for a while, but then we came to the price.
  4. Conditions for advancing in any way.
    Not only were the streets not paved with gold, but the going was difficult for an immigrant.
  5. Pregnancy; gestation; childbearing
  6. (in the plural) Course of life; behaviour; doings; ways.
  7. (in the phrase "the going of") The whereabouts (of something).
    I can't find my sunglasses; you haven't seen the going of them, have you?
adjective
  1. Likely to continue; viable.
    He didn't want to make an unsecured loan to the business because it didn't look like a going concern.
  2. Current, prevailing.
    The going rate for manual snow-shoveling is $25 an hour.
  3. (especially after a noun phrase with a superlative) Available.
    He has the easiest job going.

Information about going

  • The plural form of going is: goings.
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Hyphenation of going

go-ing

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 5 chars.
  • going is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

going synonyms

Meaning departure:

departure, leaving

Meaning passing:

passing, loss, departure, exit, expiration, release

Meaning sledding:

sledding

Meaning :

cross, draw, drift, fare, move, tread, wend, function, operate, work, become, turn, date, see

going antonyms

Meaning :

freeze, halt, remain, stay, stop

Anagrams of going

oggin

Words that rhyme with going

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