Definition of "go" in Anglais

verb

To move, either physically or in an abstract sense:
(intransitive, chiefly of a machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
- The engine just won't go anymore.
- Don't put your hand inside while the motor's going!
(intransitive) To start; to begin (an action or process).
- You've got thirty seconds to solve the anagram, starting now. Go!
- Be listening for my voice. Go when you hear my voice say go.
(intransitive) To take a turn, especially in a game.
- It’s your turn; go.
- I've got all vowels. I don't think I can go.
(intransitive) To attend.
- I go to school at the schoolhouse.
- She went to Yale.
- They only go to church on Christmas.
To proceed:
(intransitive) To extend along.
- The fence goes the length of the boundary.
(intransitive) To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
- This property goes all the way to the state line.
- The working week goes from Monday to Friday.
(intransitive) To lead (to a place); to give access (to).
- Does this road go to Fort Smith?
To become, move to or come to (a state, position, situation)
To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
(intransitive, copulative) To continuously or habitually be in a state.
- I don't want my children to go hungry.
- We went barefoot in the summer.
To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
- The decision went the way we expected.
(intransitive) To tend (toward a result)
- Well, that goes to show you.
- These experiences go to make us stronger.
To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
- qualities that go to make a lady / lip-reader / sharpshooter
To pass, to be used up:
(intransitive) To die.
- I want to go in my sleep.
(intransitive, cricket) To be lost or out:
To break down or apart:
(intransitive) To be sold.

The car went for five thousand dollars.
The store is closing down so everything must go.

(intransitive) To be discarded or disposed of.

This chair has got to go.
All this old rubbish can go.

(intransitive) To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.

The property shall go to my wife.
The award went to Steven Spielberg.

(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 without arguing?!

(transitive, sports) To have a certain record.

They've gone one for three in this series.
The team is going five in a row.
'Surely one cannot go for long in this world to-day without at least a thought for St Simon Stylites?'

To be authoritative, accepted, or valid:

To say (something), to make a sound:

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.

(intransitive) To resort (to).

The nylon gears kept breaking, so we went to stainless steel.

To apply or subject oneself to:

To fit (in a place, or together with something):

(intransitive) To date.

How long have they been going together?
He's been going with her for two weeks.

(transitive) To (begin to) date or have sex with (a particular race).

(in phrases with 'as') Used to express how some category of things generally is, as a reference for, contrast to, or comparison with, a particular example.

My cat Fluffy is very timid, as cats go.
As far as burgers go, this is one of the best.

(transitive) To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.

Let's go halves on this.

(transitive) To yield or weigh.

Those babies go five tons apiece.

(transitive, intransitive) To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay; to sell for.

That's as high as I can go.
We could go two fifty.
I'll go a ten-spot.
I'll go you a shilling.
I'll go him one better.

(transitive, colloquial) To enjoy. (Compare go for.)

I could go a beer right about now.

(intransitive, colloquial) To go to the toilet; to urinate or defecate.

I really need to go.
Have you managed to go today, Mrs. Miggins?

(imperative) Expressing encouragement or approval.

Go, girl! You can do it!

(UK, especially MLE, Australia, Singapore, intransitive, colloquial) Clipping of go to the.

(intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) To fight, usually with the fists.

You said WHAT about my mom? Do you want to go, bro?

(intransitive, usually followed by with) To pass (a specified time) in gestation; to be pregnant.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:go.

noun

(uncommon) The act of going.
A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
- You’ve been on that pinball machine long enough—now let your brother have a go.
- It’s your go.
An attempt, a try.
- I’ll give it a go.
A period of activity.
- ate it all in one go
A time; an experience.
(slang, dated) A circumstance or occurrence; an incident, often unexpected.
- 1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, in 1868, The Works of Charles Dickens, Volume 2: Nicholas Nickleby, Martin Chuzzlewit, American Notes, page 306, “Well, this is a pretty go, is this here! An uncommon pretty go!
An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
- We will begin as soon as the boss says it's a go.
An act; the working or operation.
- 1598, John Marston, Pigmalion, The Metamorphosis of Pigmalions Image and Certaine Satyres, 1856, J. O. Halliwell (editor), The Works of John Marston: Reprinted from the Original Editions, Volume 3, page 211, Let this suffice, that that same happy night, So gracious were the goes of marriage […]
(dated) The fashion or mode.
- quite the go
- We are blowing each other out of the market with cheapness; but it is all the go, so we must not be behind the age.
(dated) Noisy merriment.
- a high go
(slang, archaic) A glass of spirits; a quantity of spirits.
- “Then, if you value it so highly,” I said, “you can hardly object to stand half a go of brandy for its recovery.”
(dated) A portion
(uncountable) Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
- There is no go in him.
(cribbage) The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above thirty-one.
(obsolete, British slang) A dandy; a fashionable person.
- See Thesaurus:dandy

adjective

(postpositive, chiefly military and space flight) Working correctly and ready to commence operation; approved and able to be put into action.

noun

(board games) A strategic board game, originally from China and today also popular in Japan and Korea, in which two players (black and white) attempt to control the largest area of the board with their counters.