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To go off
(gcide) | Go \Go\, v. i. [imp. Went (w[e^]nt); p. p. Gone (g[o^]n;
115); p. pr. & vb. n. Going. Went comes from the AS,
wendan. See Wend, v. i.] [OE. gan, gon, AS. g[=a]n, akin to
D. gaan, G. gehn, gehen, OHG. g[=e]n, g[=a]n, SW. g[*a], Dan.
gaae; cf. Gr. kicha`nai to reach, overtake, Skr. h[=a] to go,
AS. gangan, and E. gang. The past tense in AS., eode, is from
the root i to go, as is also Goth. iddja went. [root]47a. Cf.
Gang, v. i., Wend.]
1. To pass from one place to another; to be in motion; to be
in a state not motionless or at rest; to proceed; to
advance; to make progress; -- used, in various
applications, of the movement of both animate and
inanimate beings, by whatever means, and also of the
movements of the mind; also figuratively applied.
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2. To move upon the feet, or step by step; to walk; also, to
walk step by step, or leisurely.
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Note: In old writers go is much used as opposed to run, or
ride. "Whereso I go or ride." --Chaucer.
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You know that love
Will creep in service where it can not go.
--Shak.
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Thou must run to him; for thou hast staid so long
that going will scarce serve the turn. --Shak.
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He fell from running to going, and from going to
clambering upon his hands and his knees.
--Bunyan.
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Note: In Chaucer go is used frequently with the pronoun in
the objective used reflexively; as, he goeth him home.
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3. To be passed on fron one to another; to pass; to
circulate; hence, with for, to have currency; to be taken,
accepted, or regarded.
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The man went among men for an old man in the days of
Saul. --1 Sa. xvii.
12.
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[The money] should go according to its true value.
--Locke.
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4. To proceed or happen in a given manner; to fare; to move
on or be carried on; to have course; to come to an issue
or result; to succeed; to turn out.
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How goes the night, boy ? --Shak.
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I think, as the world goes, he was a good sort of
man enough. --Arbuthnot.
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Whether the cause goes for me or against me, you
must pay me the reward. --I Watts.
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5. To proceed or tend toward a result, consequence, or
product; to tend; to conduce; to be an ingredient; to
avail; to apply; to contribute; -- often with the
infinitive; as, this goes to show.
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Against right reason all your counsels go. --Dryden.
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To master the foul flend there goeth some complement
knowledge of theology. --Sir W.
Scott.
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6. To apply one's self; to set one's self; to undertake.
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Seeing himself confronted by so many, like a
resolute orator, he went not to denial, but to
justify his cruel falsehood. --Sir P.
Sidney.
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Note: Go, in this sense, is often used in the present
participle with the auxiliary verb to be, before an
infinitive, to express a future of intention, or to
denote design; as, I was going to say; I am going to
begin harvest.
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7. To proceed by a mental operation; to pass in mind or by an
act of the memory or imagination; -- generally with over
or through.
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By going over all these particulars, you may receive
some tolerable satisfaction about this great
subject. --South.
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8. To be with young; to be pregnant; to gestate.
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The fruit she goes with,
I pray for heartily, that it may find
Good time, and live. --Shak.
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9. To move from the person speaking, or from the point whence
the action is contemplated; to pass away; to leave; to
depart; -- in opposition to stay and come.
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I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to the Lord
your God; . . . only ye shall not go very far away.
--Ex. viii.
28.
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10. To pass away; to depart forever; to be lost or ruined; to
perish; to decline; to decease; to die.
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By Saint George, he's gone!
That spear wound hath our master sped. --Sir W.
Scott.
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11. To reach; to extend; to lead; as, a line goes across the
street; his land goes to the river; this road goes to New
York.
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His amorous expressions go no further than virtue
may allow. --Dryden.
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12. To have recourse; to resort; as, to go to law.
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Note: Go is used, in combination with many prepositions and
adverbs, to denote motion of the kind indicated by the
preposition or adverb, in which, and not in the verb,
lies the principal force of the expression; as, to go
against to go into, to go out, to go aside, to go
astray, etc.
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Go to, come; move; go away; -- a phrase of exclamation,
serious or ironical.
To go a-begging, not to be in demand; to be undesired.
To go about.
(a) To set about; to enter upon a scheme of action; to
undertake. "They went about to slay him." --Acts ix.
29.
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They never go about . . . to hide or palliate
their vices. --Swift.
(b) (Naut.) To tack; to turn the head of a ship; to wear.
To go abraod.
(a) To go to a foreign country.
(b) To go out of doors.
(c) To become public; to be published or disclosed; to be
current.
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Then went this saying abroad among the
brethren. --John xxi.
23.
To go against.
(a) To march against; to attack.
(b) To be in opposition to; to be disagreeable to.
To go ahead.
(a) To go in advance.
(b) To go on; to make progress; to proceed.
To go and come. See To come and go, under Come.
To go aside.
(a) To withdraw; to retire.
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He . . . went aside privately into a desert
place. --Luke. ix.
10.
(b) To go from what is right; to err. --Num. v. 29.
To go back on.
(a) To retrace (one's path or footsteps).
(b) To abandon; to turn against; to betray. [Slang, U.
S.]
To go below
(Naut), to go below deck.
To go between, to interpose or mediate between; to be a
secret agent between parties; in a bad sense, to pander.
To go beyond. See under Beyond.
To go by, to pass away unnoticed; to omit.
To go by the board (Naut.), to fall or be carried
overboard; as, the mast went by the board.
To go down.
(a) To descend.
(b) To go below the horizon; as, the sun has gone down.
(c) To sink; to founder; -- said of ships, etc.
(d) To be swallowed; -- used literally or figuratively.
[Colloq.]
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Nothing so ridiculous, . . . but it goes down
whole with him for truth. --L' Estrange.
To go far.
(a) To go to a distance.
(b) To have much weight or influence.
To go for.
(a) To go in quest of.
(b) To represent; to pass for.
(c) To favor; to advocate.
(d) To attack; to assault. [Low]
(e) To sell for; to be parted with for (a price).
To go for nothing, to be parted with for no compensation or
result; to have no value, efficacy, or influence; to count
for nothing.
To go forth.
(a) To depart from a place.
(b) To be divulged or made generally known; to emanate.
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The law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of
the Lord from Jerusalem. --Micah iv. 2.
To go hard with, to trouble, pain, or endanger.
To go in, to engage in; to take part. [Colloq.]
To go in and out, to do the business of life; to live; to
have free access. --John x. 9.
To go in for. [Colloq.]
(a) To go for; to favor or advocate (a candidate, a
measure, etc.).
(b) To seek to acquire or attain to (wealth, honor,
preferment, etc.)
(c) To complete for (a reward, election, etc.).
(d) To make the object of one's labors, studies, etc.
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He was as ready to go in for statistics as for
anything else. --Dickens.
To go in to or To go in unto.
(a) To enter the presence of. --Esther iv. 16.
(b) To have sexual intercourse with. [Script.]
To go into.
(a) To speak of, investigate, or discuss (a question,
subject, etc.).
(b) To participate in (a war, a business, etc.).
To go large.
(Naut) See under Large.
To go off.
(a) To go away; to depart.
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The leaders . . . will not go off until they
hear you. --Shak.
(b) To cease; to intermit; as, this sickness went off.
(c) To die. --Shak.
(d) To explode or be discharged; -- said of gunpowder, of
a gun, a mine, etc.
(e) To find a purchaser; to be sold or disposed of.
(f) To pass off; to take place; to be accomplished.
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The wedding went off much as such affairs do.
--Mrs.
Caskell.
To go on.
(a) To proceed; to advance further; to continue; as, to
go on reading.
(b) To be put or drawn on; to fit over; as, the coat will
not go on.
To go all fours, to correspond exactly, point for point.
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It is not easy to make a simile go on all fours.
--Macaulay.
To go out.
(a) To issue forth from a place.
(b) To go abroad; to make an excursion or expedition.
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There are other men fitter to go out than I.
--Shak.
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What went ye out for to see ? --Matt. xi. 7,
8, 9.
(c) To become diffused, divulged, or spread abroad, as
news, fame etc.
(d) To expire; to die; to cease; to come to an end; as,
the light has gone out.
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Life itself goes out at thy displeasure.
--Addison.
To go over.
(a) To traverse; to cross, as a river, boundary, etc.; to
change sides.
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I must not go over Jordan. --Deut. iv.
22.
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Let me go over, and see the good land that is
beyond Jordan. --Deut. iii.
25.
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Ishmael . . . departed to go over to the
Ammonites. --Jer. xli.
10.
(b) To read, or study; to examine; to review; as, to go
over one's accounts.
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If we go over the laws of Christianity, we
shall find that . . . they enjoin the same
thing. --Tillotson.
(c) To transcend; to surpass.
(d) To be postponed; as, the bill went over for the
session.
(e) (Chem.) To be converted (into a specified substance
or material); as, monoclinic sulphur goes over into
orthorhombic, by standing; sucrose goes over into
dextrose and levulose.
To go through.
(a) To accomplish; as, to go through a work.
(b) To suffer; to endure to the end; as, to go through a
surgical operation or a tedious illness.
(c) To spend completely; to exhaust, as a fortune.
(d) To strip or despoil (one) of his property. [Slang]
(e) To botch or bungle a business. [Scot.]
To go through with, to perform, as a calculation, to the
end; to complete.
To go to ground.
(a) To escape into a hole; -- said of a hunted fox.
(b) To fall in battle.
To go to naught (Colloq.), to prove abortive, or
unavailling.
To go under.
(a) To set; -- said of the sun.
(b) To be known or recognized by (a name, title, etc.).
(c) To be overwhelmed, submerged, or defeated; to perish;
to succumb.
To go up, to come to nothing; to prove abortive; to fail.
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To go upon, to act upon, as a foundation or hypothesis.
To go with.
(a) To accompany.
(b) To coincide or agree with.
(c) To suit; to harmonize with.
To go well with, To go ill with, To go hard with, to
affect (one) in such manner.
To go without, to be, or to remain, destitute of.
To go wrong.
(a) To take a wrong road or direction; to wander or
stray.
(b) To depart from virtue.
(c) To happen unfortunately; to unexpectedly cause a
mishap or failure.
(d) To miss success; to fail.
To let go, to allow to depart; to quit one's hold; to
release.
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To go off
(gcide) | Off \Off\ ([o^]f; 115), adv. [OE. of, orig. the same word as R.
of, prep., AS. of, adv. & prep. [root]194. See Of.]
In a general sense, denoting from or away from; as:
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1. Denoting distance or separation; as, the house is a mile
off.
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2. Denoting the action of removing or separating; separation;
as, to take off the hat or cloak; to cut off, to pare off,
to clip off, to peel off, to tear off, to march off, to
fly off, and the like.
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3. Denoting a leaving, abandonment, departure, abatement,
interruption, or remission; as, the fever goes off; the
pain goes off; the game is off; all bets are off.
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4. Denoting a different direction; not on or towards: away;
as, to look off.
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5. Denoting opposition or negation. [Obs.]
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The questions no way touch upon puritanism, either
off or on. --Bp.
Sanderson.
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From off, off from; off. "A live coal . . . taken with the
tongs from off the altar." --Is. vi. 6.
Off and on.
(a) Not constantly; not regularly; now and then;
occasionally.
(b) (Naut.) On different tacks, now toward, and now away
from, the land.
To be off.
(a) To depart; to escape; as, he was off without a
moment's warning.
(b) To be abandoned, as an agreement or purpose; as, the
bet was declared to be off. [Colloq.]
To come off, To cut off, To fall off, To go off, etc.
See under Come, Cut, Fall, Go, etc.
To get off.
(a) To utter; to discharge; as, to get off a joke.
(b) To go away; to escape; as, to get off easily from a
trial. [Colloq.]
To take off To do a take-off on, To take off, to mimic,
lampoon, or impersonate.
To tell off
(a) (Mil.), to divide and practice a regiment or company
in the several formations, preparatory to marching to
the general parade for field exercises. --Farrow.
(b) to rebuke (a person) for an improper action; to scold;
to reprimand.
To be well off, to be in good condition.
To be ill off, To be badly off, to be in poor condition.
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To go off half-cocked
(gcide) | Halfcock \Half"cock`\ (-k[o^]k`), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Halfcocked(-k[o^]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Halfcocking.]
To set the cock of (a firearm) at the first notch.
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To go off half-cocked, To go off halfcocked.
(a) To be discharged prematurely, or with the trigger at half
cock; -- said of a firearm.
(b) To do or say something without due thought or care.
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To go off halfcocked
(gcide) | Halfcock \Half"cock`\ (-k[o^]k`), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Halfcocked(-k[o^]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Halfcocking.]
To set the cock of (a firearm) at the first notch.
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To go off half-cocked, To go off halfcocked.
(a) To be discharged prematurely, or with the trigger at half
cock; -- said of a firearm.
(b) To do or say something without due thought or care.
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To go off the hooks
(gcide) | Hook \Hook\ (h[oo^]k; 277), n. [OE. hok, AS. h[=o]c; cf. D.
haak, G. hake, haken, OHG. h[=a]ko, h[=a]go, h[=a]ggo, Icel.
haki, Sw. hake, Dan. hage. Cf. Arquebuse, Hagbut, Hake,
Hatch a half door, Heckle.]
1. A piece of metal, or other hard material, formed or bent
into a curve or at an angle, for catching, holding, or
sustaining anything; as, a hook for catching fish; a hook
for fastening a gate; a boat hook, etc.
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2. That part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on
which a door or gate hangs and turns.
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3. An implement for cutting grass or grain; a sickle; an
instrument for cutting or lopping; a billhook.
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Like slashing Bentley with his desperate hook.
--Pope.
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4. (Steam Engin.) See Eccentric, and V-hook.
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5. A snare; a trap. [R.] --Shak.
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6. A field sown two years in succession. [Prov. Eng.]
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7. pl. The projecting points of the thigh bones of cattle; --
called also hook bones.
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8. (Geog.) A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned
landward at the outer end; as, Sandy Hook in New Jersey.
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9. (Sports) The curving motion of a ball, as in bowling or
baseball, curving away from the hand which threw the ball;
in golf, a curving motion in the direction of the golfer
who struck the ball.
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10. (Computers) A procedure within the encoding of a computer
program which allows the user to modify the program so as
to import data from or export data to other programs.
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By hook or by crook, one way or other; by any means, direct
or indirect. --Milton. "In hope her to attain by hook or
crook." --Spenser.
Off the hook, freed from some obligation or difficulty; as,
to get off the hook by getting someone else to do the job.
[Colloq.]
Off the hooks, unhinged; disturbed; disordered. [Colloq.]
"In the evening, by water, to the Duke of Albemarle, whom
I found mightly off the hooks that the ships are not gone
out of the river." --Pepys.
On one's own hook, on one's own account or responsibility;
by one's self. [Colloq. U.S.] --Bartlett.
To go off the hooks, to die. [Colloq.] --Thackeray.
Bid hook, a small boat hook.
Chain hook. See under Chain.
Deck hook, a horizontal knee or frame, in the bow of a
ship, on which the forward part of the deck rests.
Hook and eye, one of the small wire hooks and loops for
fastening together the opposite edges of a garment, etc.
Hook bill (Zool.), the strongly curved beak of a bird.
Hook ladder, a ladder with hooks at the end by which it can
be suspended, as from the top of a wall.
Hook motion (Steam Engin.), a valve gear which is reversed
by V hooks.
Hook squid, any squid which has the arms furnished with
hooks, instead of suckers, as in the genera
Enoploteuthis and Onychteuthis.
Hook wrench, a wrench or spanner, having a hook at the end,
instead of a jaw, for turning a bolthead, nut, or
coupling.
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