go

1. (uncommon) The act of going.Examples: "The Apostles were to be the first of a line. They would multiply successors, and the successors would die and their successors after them, but the line would never fail; and the come and go of men would not matter, since it is the one Christ operating through all of them."; "They talk easily together and they hear the come and go of the breeze in the soon to be turning burnt leaves of the high trees."countableuncommonuncountable

2. (slang, dated) A circumstance or occurrence; an incident, often unexpected.Examples: "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!"; "“Ain't this a rum go? This is a queer sort of dodge for lighting the streets.”"; "The images of Mrs. Squeers, my daughter, and my son Wackford, all short of vittles, is perpetually before me; every other consideration melts away and vanishes, in front of these; the only number in all arithmetic that I know of, as a husband and a father, is number one, under this here most fatal go!"countabledatedslanguncountable

3. (dated) The fashion or mode.Examples: "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."Synonyms: mode, style, trendcountabledateduncountable

4. (dated) Noisy merriment.Examples: "a high go"; "Gemmen (says he), you all well know The joy there is whene'er we meet; It's what I call the primest go, And rightly named, 'tis—'quite a treat,' […]"countabledateduncountable

5. (slang, archaic) A glass of spirits; a quantity of spirits.Examples: "Jack Randall then impatient rose, / And said, ‘Tom's speech were just as fine / If he would call that first of goes [i.e. gin] / By that genteeler name—white wine.'"; "When the cloth was removed, Mr. Thomas Potter ordered the waiter to bring in two goes of his best Scotch whiskey, with warm water and sugar, and a couple of his "very mildest" Havannas,"; "“Then, if you value it so highly,” I said, “you can hardly object to stand half a go of brandy for its recovery.”"Synonyms: gage, measurearchaiccountableslanguncountable

6. (dated) A portionExamples: "Albert's uncle had had a jolly good breakfast—fish and eggs and bacon and three goes of marmalade."countabledateduncountable

1. (postpositive, chiefly military and space flight) Working correctly and ready to commence operation; approved and able to be put into action.Examples: "John Glenn reports all systems are go."; ""Life support system is go," said the earphone."; "“Green One has four starts and is go.”"not-comparablepostpositional

1. (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.Synonyms: weiqi, badukuncountable

1. (computer languages) A compiled, garbage-collected, concurrent programming language developed by Google.Examples: "Despite the lower priority placed on features, Go isn't a static, unchanging language. New features are adopted slowly, after much discussion and experimentation. Since the initial release of Go 1.0, there have been significant changes to the patterns that define idiomatic Go."