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in
1. prep. Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or other limits.
2. prep. Contained by.
The dog is in the kennel.
3. prep. Within.
4. prep. Surrounded by.
We are in the enemy camp. Her plane is in the air.
5. prep. Part of; a member of.
One in a million. She's in band and orchestra.
6. prep. Pertaining to; with regard to.
What grade did he get in English?
Military letters should be formal in tone, but not stilted.
7. prep. At the end of a period of time.
They said they would call us in a week.
8. prep. Within a certain elapsed time
Are you able to finish this in three hours? The massacre resulted in over 1000 deaths in three hours.
9. prep. During (said of periods of time).
in the first week of December; Easter falls in the fourth lunar month; The country reached a high level of prosperity in his fi
10. prep. (grammar, phonetics, of sounds and letters) Coming at the end of a word.
English nouns in -ce form their plurals in -s.
11. prep. Into.
Less water gets in your boots this way.
12. prep. Used to indicate limit, qualification, condition, or circumstance.
In replacing the faucet washers, he felt he was making his contribution to the environment.
13. prep. Indicating an order or arrangement.
My fat rolls around in folds.
14. prep. Denoting a state of the subject.
He stalked away in anger. John is in a coma.
15. prep. Indicates, connotatively, a place-like form of someone's (or something's) personality, as his, her or its psychic and physical characteristics.
You've got a friend in me. He's met his match in her.
16. prep. Wearing (an item of clothing).
I glanced over at the pretty girl in the red dress.
17. prep. Used to indicate means, medium, format, genre, or instrumentality.
18. prep. (of something offered or given in an exchange) In the form of, in the denomination of.
Please pay me in cash — preferably in tens and twenties.
The deposit can be in any legal tender, even in gold.
Her generosity was rewarded in the success of its recipients.
19. prep. Used to indicate a language, script, tone, etc. of a text, speech, etc.
Beethoven's "Symphony No. 5" in C minor is among his most popular.
His speech was in French, but was simultaneously translated into eight languages.
When you write in cursive, it's illegible.
20. v. (obsolete, transitive) To enclose.
21. v. (obsolete, transitive) To take in; to harvest.
22. adv. (not comparable) Located indoors, especially at home or the office, or inside something.
Is Mr. Smith in?
23. adv. Moving to the interior of a defined space, such as a building or room.
Suddenly a strange man walked in.
24. adv. (sports) Still eligible to play, e.g. able to bat in cricket and baseball.
He went for the wild toss but wasn't able to stay in.
25. adv. (UK) Abbreviation of in aid of.
What's that in?
26. adv. After the beginning of something.
27. n. A position of power or a way to get it.
His parents got him an in with the company
28. n. (sport) The state of a batter/batsman who is currently batting – see innings
29. n. A re-entrant angle; a nook or corner.
30. adj. In fashion; popular.
Skirts are in this year.
31. adj. Incoming.
the in train
32. adj. (nautical, of the sails of a vessel) Furled or stowed.
33. adj. (legal) With privilege or possession; used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin.
in by descent; in by purchase; in of the seisin of her husband
34. adj. (cricket) Currently batting.
35. n. Inch.
their
1. det. Belonging to, from, of, or relating to, them (plural).
they will meet tomorrow at their convenience; this is probably their cat
2. det. Belonging to someone (one person, singular).
3. adv. misspelling of there
4. contraction. misspelling of they’re
own
1. v. To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to.
I own this car.
2. v. To have recognized political sovereignty over a place, territory, as distinct from the ordinary connotation of property ownership.
The United States owns Point Roberts by the terms of the Treaty of Oregon.
3. v. To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm.
I will own my enemies.
If he wins, he will own you.
4. v. To virtually or figuratively enslave.
5. v. (online gaming, slang) To defeat, dominate, or be above, also spelled pwn.
6. v. (transitive, computing, slang) To illicitly obtain superuser or root access to a computer system, thereby having access to all of the user files on that system; pwn.
7. adj. Belonging to; possessed; proper to. Often marks a possessive determiner as reflexive, referring back to the subject of the clause or sentence.
They went that way, but we need to find our own.
8. adj. (obsolete) Peculiar, domestic.
9. adj. (obsolete) Not foreign.
10. v. (transitive, obsolete) To grant; give.
11. v. (intransitive) To admit, concede, grant, allow, acknowledge, confess; not to deny.
12. v. To admit; concede; acknowledge.
13. v. To answer to.
14. v. To recognise; acknowledge.
to own one as a son
15. v. To claim as one's own.
16. v. (intransitive, UK dialectal) To confess.
minds
1. n. plural of mind
2. v. third-person singular present indicative of mind
mind
1. n. The ability for rational thought.
Despite advancing age, his mind was still as sharp as ever.
2. n. The ability to be aware of things.
There was no doubt in his mind that they would win.
3. n. The ability to remember things.
My mind just went blank.
4. n. The ability to focus the thoughts.
I can’t keep my mind on what I’m doing.
5. n. Somebody that embodies certain mental qualities.
He was one of history’s greatest minds.
6. n. Judgment, opinion, or view.
He changed his mind after hearing the speech.
7. n. Desire, inclination, or intention.
She had a mind to go to Paris.
I have half a mind to do it myself.
8. n. A healthy mental state.
I, ______ being of sound mind and body, do herebynb...
You are losing your mind.
9. n. (philosophy) The non-material substance or set of processes in which consciousness, perception, affectivity, judgement, thinking, and will are based.
The mind is a process of the brain.
10. n. Continual prayer on a dead person's behalf for a period after their death.
a month's or monthly mind; a year's mind
11. v. (now regional) To remember.
12. v. (now rare except in phrases) To attend to, concern oneself with, heed, be mindful of.
You should mind your own business.
13. v. (originally and chiefly in negative or interrogative constructions) To dislike, to object to; to be bothered by.
I wouldn't mind an ice cream right now.
14. v. To look after, to take care of, especially for a short period of time.
Would you mind my bag for me?
15. v. (chiefly in the imperative) To make sure, to take care (that).
Mind you don't knock that glass over.
16. v. To be careful about.
17. v. (United Kingdom, Ireland) Take note; (used to point out an exception or caveat.)
I'm not very healthy—I do eat fruit sometimes, mind.
18. v. (obsolete) To have in mind; to intend.
19. v. (obsolete) To put in mind; to remind.
they
1. pron. (the third-person plural) A group of people, animals, plants or objects previously mentioned.
Fred and Jane? They just arrived. Dogs may bark if they want to be fed. Plants wilt if they are not watered.
I have a car and a truck, but they are both broken.
2. pron. (the third-person singular, sometimes proscribed) A single person, previously mentioned, especially if of unknown or non-binary gender, but not if previously named and identified as male or female.
3. pron. (indefinite pronoun, vague meaning) People; some people; people in general; someone, excluding the speaker.
They say it’s a good place to live.
They didn’t have computers in the old days.
They should do something about this.
They have a lot of snow in winter.
4. det. (now Southern England dialect, or nonstandard) The, those.
5. det. (US dialects including AAVE) Their.
6. pron. (US dialectal) There (especially as an expletive subject of be).
have
Additional archaic forms are second-person singular present tense hast, third-person singular present tense hath, present participle haveing, and second-person singular past tense hadst.
1. v. To possess, own, hold.
I have a house and a car.
Look what I have here — a frog I found on the street!
2. v. To be related in some way to (with the object identifying the relationship).
I have two sisters.
I have a lot of work to do.
3. v. To partake of a particular substance (especially a food or drink) or action.
I have breakfast at six o'clock.
Can I have a look at that?
I'm going to have some pizza and a beer right now.
4. v. To be scheduled to attend or participate in.
What class do you have right now? I have English.
Fred won't be able to come to the party; he has a meeting that day.
5. v. (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) (Used in forming the perfect aspect and the past perfect aspect.)
I have already eaten today.
I had already eaten.
6. v. (auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) See have to.
I have to go.
7. v. To give birth to.
The couple always wanted to have children.
My wife is having the baby right now!
My mother had me when she was 25.
8. v. To engage in sexual intercourse with.
He's always bragging about how many women he's had.
9. v. To accept as a romantic partner.
Despite my protestations of love, she would not have me.
10. v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
They had me feed their dog while they were out of town.
11. v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be.
He had him arrested for trespassing.
The lecture's ending had the entire audience in tears.
12. v. (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.)
The hospital had several patients contract pneumonia last week.
I've had three people today tell me my hair looks nice.
13. v. (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being.
Their stories differed; he said he'd been at work when the incident occurred, but her statement had him at home that entire evening.
14. v. (Used as interrogative auxiliary verb with a following pronoun to form tag questions. (For further discussion, see "Usage notes" below.))
We haven't eaten dinner yet, have we?
Your wife hasn't been reading that nonsense, has she?
(UK usage) He has some money, hasn't he?
15. v. (UK, slang) To defeat in a fight; take.
I could have him!
I'm gonna have you!
16. v. (dated) To be able to speak a language.
I have no German.
17. v. To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
Dan certainly has arms today, probably from scraping paint off four columns the day before.
18. v. To be afflicted with, suffer from.
He had a cold last week.
19. v. To experience, go through, undergo.
We had a hard year last year, with the locust swarms and all that.
He had surgery on his hip yesterday.
I'm having the time of my life!
20. v. To trick, to deceive.
You had me alright! I never would have thought that was just a joke.
21. v. (transitive, often with present participle) To allow; to tolerate.
The child screamed incessantly for his mother to buy him a toy, but she wasn't having any of it.
I asked my dad if I could go to the concert this Thursday, but he wouldn't have it since it's a school night.
22. v. (transitive, often used in the negative) To believe, buy, be taken in by.
I made up an excuse as to why I was out so late, but my wife wasn't having any of it.
23. v. To host someone; to take in as a guest.
Thank you for having me!
24. v. To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation.
What do you have for problem two?
I have two contacts on my scope.
25. v. (transitive, of a jury) To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case.
We'll schedule closing arguments for Thursday, and the jury will have the case by that afternoon.
26. n. A wealthy or privileged person.
27. n. (uncommon) One who has some (contextually specified) thing.
28. n. (AU, NZ, informal) A fraud or deception; something misleading.
They advertise it as a great deal, but I think it's a bit of a have.
to
1. part. A particle used for marking the following verb as an infinitive.
I want to leave.
He asked me what to do.
I don’t know how to say it.
I have places to go and people to see.
2. part. As above, with the verb implied.
"Did you visit the museum?" "I wanted to, but it was closed.".
If he hasn't read it yet, he ought to.
3. part. A particle used to create phrasal verbs.
I have to do laundry today.
4. prep. Indicating destination: In the direction of, and arriving at.
We are walking to the shop.
5. prep. Used to indicate purpose.
He devoted himself to education.
They drank to his health.
6. prep. Used to indicate result of action.
His face was beaten to a pulp.
7. prep. Used after an adjective to indicate its application.
similar to ..., relevant to ..., pertinent to ..., I was nice to him, he was cruel to her, I am used to walking.
8. prep. (obsolete,) As a.
With God to friend (with God as a friend); with The Devil to fiend (with the Devil as a foe); lambs slaughtered to lake (lambs slaughtered as a sacrifice); t
9. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate a ratio or comparison.
one to one = 1:1
ten to one = 10:1.
I have ten dollars to your four.
10. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate that the preceding term is to be raised to the power of the following value; indicates exponentiation.
Three squared or three to the second power is nine.
Three to the power of two is nine.
Three to the second is nine.
11. prep. Used to indicate the indirect object.
I gave the book to him.
12. prep. (time) Preceding.
ten to ten = 9:50; We're going to leave at ten to (the hour).
13. prep. Used to describe what something consists of or contains.
Anyone could do this job; there's nothing to it.
There's a lot of sense to what he says.
14. prep. (Canada, UK, Newfoundland, West Midlands) At.
Stay where you're to and I'll come find you, b'y.
15. adv. Toward a closed, touching or engaging position.
Please push the door to.
16. adv. (nautical) Into the wind.
17. adv. misspelling of too
be
1. v. (intransitive, now literary) To exist; to have real existence.
2. v. (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist.
There is just one woman in town who can help us. (or, dialectally:) It is just one woman in town who can help us.
3. v. (intransitive) To occupy a place.
The cup is on the table.
4. v. (intransitive) To occur, to take place.
When will the meeting be?
5. v. (intransitive, in perfect tenses, without predicate) Elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from" or similar.
The postman has been today, but my tickets have still not yet come.
I have been to Spain many times.
Moscow, huh? I've never been, but it sounds fascinating.
6. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same.
Knowledge is bliss.
Hi, I’m Jim.
7. v. (transitive, copulative, mathematics) Used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are the same.
3 times 5 is fifteen.
8. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal.
François Mitterrand was president of France from 1981 to 1995.
9. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to connect a noun to an adjective that describes it.
The sky is blue.
10. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun phrase.
The sky is a deep blue today.
11. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the passive voice.
The dog was drowned by the boy.
12. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the continuous forms of various tenses.
The woman is walking.
I shall be writing to you soon.
We liked to chat while we were eating.
13. v. (archaic, auxiliary) Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs, most of which indicate motion. Often still used for "to go".
14. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form future tenses, especially the future periphrastic.
I am to leave tomorrow.
I would drive you, were I to obtain a car.
15. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to link a subject to a measurement.
This building is three hundred years old.
I am 75 kilograms.
He’s about 6 feet tall.
16. v. (transitive, copulative, with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years.
I’m 20. (= I am 20 years old.)
17. v. (with a dummy subject) it Used to indicate the time of day.
It is almost eight. (= It is almost eight o’clock.)
It’s 8:30 read eight-thirty in Tokyo.
What time is it there? It’s night.
18. v. (With since) Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event.
It has been three years since my grandmother died. (similar to My grandmother died three years ago, but emphasizes the intervening period)
It had been six days since his departure, when I received a letter from him.
19. v. (often, impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like.
It is hot in Arizona, but it is not usually humid.
Why is it so dark in here?
20. v. (dynamic/lexical "be", especially in progressive tenses, conjugated non-suppletively in the present tense, see usage notes) To exist or behave in a certain way.
"What do we do?" "We be ourselves.".
Why is he being nice to me?
very
1. adj. True, real, actual.
The fierce hatred of a very woman. The very blood and bone of our grammar. He tried his very best.
2. adj. The same; identical.
He proposed marriage in the same restaurant, at the very table where they first met. That's the very tool that I need.
3. adj. With limiting effect: mere.
4. adv. To a great extent or degree; extremely; exceedingly.
You’re drinking very slowly.
That dress is very you.
5. adv. True, truly.
6. adv. (with superlatives) (ngd, Used to firmly establish that nothing else surpasses in some respect.)
He was the very best runner there.
circumspect
1. adj. Carefully aware of all circumstances; considerate of all that is pertinent.
Being aware of the danger of upsetting her audience, she was somewhat circumspect in her comments.
until
1. prep. Up to the time of (something happening).
2. prep. Before (a time).
3. prep. (obsolete) To; physically towards.
4. conj. Up to the time that (a condition becomes true).
5. conj. Before (a condition becoming true).
they're
1. contraction. contraction of they are
2. adv. misspelling of there
3. det. misspelling of their
they
1. pron. (the third-person plural) A group of people, animals, plants or objects previously mentioned.
Fred and Jane? They just arrived. Dogs may bark if they want to be fed. Plants wilt if they are not watered.
I have a car and a truck, but they are both broken.
2. pron. (the third-person singular, sometimes proscribed) A single person, previously mentioned, especially if of unknown or non-binary gender, but not if previously named and identified as male or female.
3. pron. (indefinite pronoun, vague meaning) People; some people; people in general; someone, excluding the speaker.
They say it’s a good place to live.
They didn’t have computers in the old days.
They should do something about this.
They have a lot of snow in winter.
4. det. (now Southern England dialect, or nonstandard) The, those.
5. det. (US dialects including AAVE) Their.
6. pron. (US dialectal) There (especially as an expletive subject of be).
are
1. v. second-person singular present of be
Mary, where are you going?
2. v. first-person plural present of be
We are not coming.
3. v. second-person plural present of be
Mary and John, are you listening?
4. v. third-person plural present of be
They are here somewhere.
5. v. (East Yorkshire, Midlands) present of be
6. n. (dialectal, or obsolete) grace, mercy
To bid God's are.
God's are is what children of God seech and seek.
7. n. (obsolete) honour, dignity
8. n. (rare) an accepted (but deprecated and rarely used) SI unit of area equal to 100 square metres, or a former unit of approximately the same extent. Symbol: a
be
1. v. (intransitive, now literary) To exist; to have real existence.
2. v. (with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist.
There is just one woman in town who can help us. (or, dialectally:) It is just one woman in town who can help us.
3. v. (intransitive) To occupy a place.
The cup is on the table.
4. v. (intransitive) To occur, to take place.
When will the meeting be?
5. v. (intransitive, in perfect tenses, without predicate) Elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from" or similar.
The postman has been today, but my tickets have still not yet come.
I have been to Spain many times.
Moscow, huh? I've never been, but it sounds fascinating.
6. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same.
Knowledge is bliss.
Hi, I’m Jim.
7. v. (transitive, copulative, mathematics) Used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are the same.
3 times 5 is fifteen.
8. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal.
François Mitterrand was president of France from 1981 to 1995.
9. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to connect a noun to an adjective that describes it.
The sky is blue.
10. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun phrase.
The sky is a deep blue today.
11. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the passive voice.
The dog was drowned by the boy.
12. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the continuous forms of various tenses.
The woman is walking.
I shall be writing to you soon.
We liked to chat while we were eating.
13. v. (archaic, auxiliary) Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs, most of which indicate motion. Often still used for "to go".
14. v. (transitive, auxiliary) Used to form future tenses, especially the future periphrastic.
I am to leave tomorrow.
I would drive you, were I to obtain a car.
15. v. (transitive, copulative) Used to link a subject to a measurement.
This building is three hundred years old.
I am 75 kilograms.
He’s about 6 feet tall.
16. v. (transitive, copulative, with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years.
I’m 20. (= I am 20 years old.)
17. v. (with a dummy subject) it Used to indicate the time of day.
It is almost eight. (= It is almost eight o’clock.)
It’s 8:30 read eight-thirty in Tokyo.
What time is it there? It’s night.
18. v. (With since) Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event.
It has been three years since my grandmother died. (similar to My grandmother died three years ago, but emphasizes the intervening period)
It had been six days since his departure, when I received a letter from him.
19. v. (often, impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like.
It is hot in Arizona, but it is not usually humid.
Why is it so dark in here?
20. v. (dynamic/lexical "be", especially in progressive tenses, conjugated non-suppletively in the present tense, see usage notes) To exist or behave in a certain way.
"What do we do?" "We be ourselves.".
Why is he being nice to me?
sure
1. adj. Physically secure and certain, non-failing, reliable.
This investment is a sure thing. The bailiff had a sure grip on the prisoner's arm.
2. adj. Certain in one's knowledge or belief.
He was sure she was lying. I am sure of my eventual death. John was acting sure of himself but in truth had doubts.
3. adj. Certain to act or be a specified way.
Be sure to lock the door when you leave.
4. adj. (obsolete) Free from danger; safe; secure.
5. adj. (obsolete) Betrothed; engaged to marry.
6. adv. (modal adverb) Without doubt, certainly.
Sure he's coming! Why wouldn't he?
"Did you kill that bear yourself? ―"I sure did!".
7. interj. Yes. (Expresses noncommittal agreement or consent.)
"Do you want me to put this in the garage?" "Sure, go ahead.".
8. interj. Yes; of course.
"Could you tell me where the washrooms are?" "Sure, they're in the corner over there.".
the
1. art. Definite grammatical article that implies necessarily that an entity it articulates is presupposed; something already mentioned, or completely specified later in that same sentence, or assumed already
I’m reading the book. (Compare I’m reading a book.)
The street in front of your house. (Compare A street in Paris.)
The men and women watched the man give the birdseed to the bird.
2. art. Used before a noun modified by a restrictive relative clause, indicating that the noun refers to a single referent defined by the relative clause.
The street that runs through my hometown.
3. art. Used before an object considered to be unique, or of which there is only one at a time.
No one knows how many galaxies there are in the universe.
God save the Queen!
4. art. Used before a superlative or an ordinal number modifying a noun, to indicate that the noun refers to a single item.
That was the best apple pie ever.
5. art. Added to a superlative or an ordinal number to make it into a substantive.
That apple pie was the best.
6. art. Introducing a singular term to be taken generically: preceding a name of something standing for a whole class.
7. art. Used before an adjective, indicating all things (especially persons) described by that adjective.
Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
8. art. Used to indicate a certain example of (a noun) which is usually of most concern or most common or familiar.
No one in the whole country had seen it before.
I don't think I'll get to it until the morning.
9. art. Used before a body part (especially of someone previously mentioned), as an alternative to a possessive pronoun.
A stone hit him on the head. (= “A stone hit him on his head.”)
10. art. When stressed, indicates that it describes an object which is considered to be best or exclusively worthy of attention.
That is the hospital to go to for heart surgery.
11. adv. 1=With a comparative ormore and a verb phrase, establishes a parallel with one or more other such comparatives.
The hotter the better.
The more I think about it, the weaker it looks.
The more money donated, the more books purchased, and the more happy children.
It looks weaker and weaker, the more I think about it.
12. adv. 1=With a comparative, and often withfor it, indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated withnone.
It was a difficult time, but I’m the wiser for it.
It was a difficult time, and I’m none the wiser for it.
I'm much the wiser for having had a difficult time like that.
regime
1. n. Mode of rule or management.
a prison regime
2. n. A form of government, or the government in power.
a capitalist regime
3. n. A period of rule.
4. n. A regulated system; a regimen.
a fitness regime
Heaven will eliminate the tyrannical regimes.
5. n. (hydrology) A set of characteristics.
A typical annual water level regime would include a gradual summer drawdown beginning in early May.
gone
1. v. past participle of go
2. adj. Away, having left.
Are they gone already?
3. adj. (figuratively) No longer part of the present situation.
Don't both trying to understand what Grandma says, she's gone.
He won't be going out with us tonight. Now that he's engaged, he's gone.
Have you seen their revenue numbers? They're gone.
4. adj. No longer existing, having passed.
The days of my youth are gone.
5. adj. Used up.
I'm afraid all the coffee's gone at the moment.
6. adj. Dead.
7. adj. (colloquial) Intoxicated to the point of being unaware of one's surroundings
Dude, look at Jack. He's completely gone.
8. adj. (colloquial) Excellent; wonderful.
9. adj. (archaic) Ago (used post-positionally).
10. prep. (UK, informal) Past, after, later than (a time).
You'd better hurry up, it's gone four o'clock.
go
1. v. To move:
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
Why don’t you go with us? This train goes through Cincinnati on its way to Chicago. Chris, where are you going? &nbs
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
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.
Fans want to see the Twelfth Doctor go to the 51st century to visit River in the library.
4. v. (intransitive) To navigate (to a file or folder on a computer, a site on the internet, a memory, etc).
5. v. To move (a particular distance, or in a particular fashion).
We've only gone twenty miles today. This car can go circles around that one.
6. v. (intransitive) To move or travel in order to do something, or to do something while moving.
We went swimming. Let's go shopping.
7. v. (intransitive) To leave; to move away.
Please don't go! I really must be going. Workmen were coming and going at all hours of the night.
8. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To walk; to travel on one's feet.
9. v. (intransitive, chiefly of a, machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
The engine just won't go anymore.
10. v. (intransitive) To start; to begin (an action or process).
Get ready, get set, go! On your marks, get set, go! On your marks, set, go!
Here goes nothing. Let's go and hunt.
11. v. (intransitive) To take a turn, especially in a game.
It’s your turn; go.
12. v. (intransitive) To attend.
I go to school at the schoolhouse. She went to Yale. They only go to church on Christmas.
13. v. To proceed:
14. v. (intransitive) To proceed (often in a specified manner, indicating the perceived quality of an event or state).
That went well. "How are things going?" "Not bad, thanks.".
15. v. (intransitive, colloquial, with another verb, sometimes linked by and) To proceed (especially to do something foolish).
Why'd you have to go and do that?
Why'd you have to go do that?
He just went and punched the guy.
16. v. To follow or travel along (a path):
17. v. To follow or proceed according to (a course or path).
Let's go this way for a while.
She was going that way anyway, so she offered to show him where it was.
18. v. To travel or pass along.
19. v. (intransitive) To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
This property goes all the way to the state line.
20. v. (intransitive) To lead (to a place); to give access to.
Does this road go to Fort Smith?
21. v. (copula) To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.)
You'll go blind. I went crazy / went mad. After failing as a criminal, he decided to go straight.
22. v. To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
23. v. (intransitive) To continuously or habitually be in a state.
I don't want my children to go hungry. We went barefoot in the summer.
24. v. To come to (a certain condition or state).
they went into debt, she goes to sleep around 10 o'clock, the local shop wants to go digital, and eventually go global
25. v. (intransitive) To change (from one value to another) in the meaning of wend.
The traffic light went straight from green to red.
26. v. To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
How did your meeting with Smith go?
27. v. (intransitive) To tend (toward a result).
Well, that goes to show you. These experiences go to make us stronger.
28. v. To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
qualities that go to make a lady / lip-reader / sharpshooter
29. v. To pass, to be used up:
30. v. (intransitive, of time) To elapse, to pass; to slip away. (Compare go by.)
The time went slowly.
31. v. (intransitive) To end or disappear. (Compare go away.)
After three days, my headache finally went.
32. v. (intransitive) To be spent or used up.
His money went on drink.
33. v. (intransitive) To die.
34. v. (intransitive) To be discarded.
This chair has got to go.
35. v. (intransitive, cricket) To be lost or out:
36. v. (intransitive, cricket, of a wicket) To be lost.
37. v. (intransitive, cricket, of a batsman) To be out.
38. v. To break down or apart:
39. v. (intransitive) To collapse or give way, to break apart.
40. v. (intransitive) To break down or decay.
This meat is starting to go off. My mind is going. She's 83; her eyesight is starting to go.
41. v. (intransitive) To be sold.
Everything must go. The car went for five thousand dollars.
42. v. (intransitive) To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
The property shall go to my wife. The award went to Steven Spielberg.
43. v. (transitive, intransitive) To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
How long can you go without water? We've gone without your help for a while now. I've gone ten days now without a cigarette. Can you two go twenty minutes wi
44. v. (transitive, sports) To have a certain record.
They've gone one for three in this series. The team is going five in a row.
45. v. To be authoritative, accepted, or valid:
46. v. (intransitive) To have (final) authority; to be authoritative.
Whatever the boss says goes, do you understand?
47. v. (intransitive) To be accepted.
Anything goes around here.
48. v. (intransitive) To be valid.
49. v. To say (something), to make a sound:
50. v. (transitive, slang) To say (something, aloud or to oneself). (Often used in present tense.)
I go, "As if!" And she was all like, "Whatever!".
As soon as I did it, I went "that was stupid.".
51. v. To make the (specified) sound.
Cats go "meow". Motorcycles go "vroom".
52. v. (intransitive) To sound; to make a noise.
I woke up just before the clock went.
53. v. To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
The tune goes like this. As the story goes, he got the idea for the song while sitting in traffic.
54. v. (intransitive) To resort (to).
I'll go to court if I have to.
55. v. To apply or subject oneself to:
56. v. To apply oneself; to undertake; to have as one's goal or intention. (Compare be going to.)
I'm going to join a sports team. I wish you'd go and get a job. He went to pick it up, but it rolled out of reach.

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