GO
Meanings
- Abbreviation of Gorontalo: a province of Indonesia.
- Abbreviation of Goiás: a state of Brazil.
- Initialism of graphene oxide.
- To move, either physically or in an abstract sense:
- To move through space (especially to or through a place). (May be used of tangible things such as people or cars, or intangible things such as moods or information.)
- To move or travel through time (either literally—in a fictional or hypothetical situation in which time travel is possible—or in one's mind or knowledge of the historical record). (See also go back.)
- To navigate (to a file or folder on a computer, a site on the internet, a memory, etc).
- To move (a particular distance, or in a particular fashion).
- To move or travel in order to do something, or to do something while moving.
- To leave; to move away.
- To follow or proceed according to (a course or path).
- To travel or pass along.
- To walk; to travel on one's feet.
- To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
- To start; to begin (an action or process).
- The act of going.
- A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
- An attempt, a try.
- A period of activity.
- A time; an experience.
- A circumstance or occurrence; an incident, often unexpected.
- An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
- An act; the working or operation.
- The fashion or mode.
- Noisy merriment.
- A glass of spirits; a quantity of spirits.
- A portion
- Working correctly and ready to commence operation; approved and able to be put into action.
- 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.
- Alternative letter-case form of go (“strategic board game”).
- A compiled, garbage-collected, concurrent programming language developed by Google.
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Etymology
From Middle English gon, goon, from Old English gān (“to go”), from Proto-West Germanic *gān, from Proto-Germanic *gāną (“to go”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₁- (“to leave”). The inherited past tense form yode (compare Old English ēode) was replaced through suppletion in the 15th century by went, from Old English wendan (“to go, depart, wend”). cognates and related terms Cognate with Scots gae, gan, gang, ging, gyang (“to go”), Yola go, goe, goeth, gow (“to go”), West Frisian gean (“to go”), Alemannic German gaa, go (“to go, walk, step”), Bavarian geh (“to go”), Cimbrian ghéenan, gian (“to go”), Dutch gaan (“to go”), Dutch Low Saxon gan, gaon (“to go”), German gehen (“to go”), German Low German gahn (“to go”), Limburgish gaon, goëne (“to go”), Luxembourgish goen (“to go”), Vilamovian gejn, gyjn (“to go”), Yiddish גיין (geyn, “to go, walk”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish gå (“to go, walk”), Crimean Gothic geen (“to go”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌲𐌲𐌰𐌽 (gaggan, “to go”). Compare also Albanian ngah (“to run, drive, go”), Ancient Greek κιχάνω (kikhánō, “to meet with, arrive at”), Avestan 𐬰𐬀𐬰𐬁𐬨𐬌 (zazāmi), Sanskrit जहाति (jáhāti, “to shun, avoid, lay aside”).