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| go around |
| 1. v. To move or spread from person to person. |
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| The rumor is going around that Mr. X and Ms. Y are having an affair. There's a cough going around. |
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| 2. v. To share with everyone. |
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| There's plenty of fish to go around. |
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| 3. v. (aviation) to perform a go-around maneuver |
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| Analysis |
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| go |
| 1. v. To move: |
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| 2. v. (intransitive) To move through space (especially to or through a place). (May be used of tangible things like people or cars, or intangible things like |
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| Why don’t you go with us? This train goes through Cincinnati on its way to Chicago. Chris, where are you going? &nbs |
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| 3. v. (intransitive) To move or travel through time (either literally—in a fictional or hypothetical situation in which time travel is possible—or in one's m |
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| Yesterday was the second-wettest day on record; you have to go all the way back to 1896 to find a day when more rain fell. |
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| around |
| 1. prep. Defining a circle or closed curve containing a thing. |
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| I planted a row of lillies around the statue. The jackals began to gather around someone or something. |
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| 2. prep. Following the perimeter of a specified area and returning to the starting point. |
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| We walked around the football field. She went around the track fifty times. |
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| 3. prep. Following a path which curves near an object, with the object on the inside of the curve. |
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