English > go: 35 senses > verb 1, motion| Meaning | change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s; Something is ----ing PP; Somebody ----s PP |
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| Model | The children go to the playground |
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| Example | "How fast does your new car go?" |
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| Synonyms | travel, move, locomote |
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| Caused by | travel, trip, jaunt | make a trip for pleasure |
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| Entailed by | miss | fail to reach or get to |
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| reach, make, attain, hit, arrive at, gain | Reach a destination / destination, either real or abstract |
| steer | direct (oneself) somewhere |
| Narrower | accompany | go or travel along with |
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| advance, progress, pass on, move on, march on, go on | Move forward, also in the metaphorical sense |
| angle | Move or proceed at an angle |
| ascend, go up | Travel up, "We ascended the mountain" |
| automobile | Travel in an automobile |
| back | Travel backward |
| bang | Move noisily |
| beetle | fly or go in a manner resembling a beetle |
| betake oneself | Displace oneself |
| billow | Move with great difficulty |
| bounce, jounce | Move up and down repeatedly |
| breeze | To proceed quickly and easily |
| caravan | Travel in a caravan / caravan |
| career | Move headlong at high speed |
| carry | Cover a certain distance or advance beyond |
| circle | Move in circles |
| circle | Travel around something |
| circuit | make a circuit / circuit |
| circulate | Move around freely |
| come, come up | Move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody |
| come | Cover a certain distance |
| crawl, creep | Move slowly |
| cruise | Travel at a moderate speed |
| derail, jump | Run off or leave the rails |
| descend, fall, go down, come down | Move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way |
| do | Travel or traverse (a distance) |
| drag | Move slowly and as if with great effort |
| draw | Move or go steadily or gradually |
| drive, motor | travel or be transported in a vehicle |
| drive | Move by being propelled by a force |
| ease | Move gently or carefully |
| fall | Move in a specified direction |
| fall | descend in free fall under the influence of gravity |
| ferry | travel by ferry |
| float, drift, be adrift, blow | Be in motion due to some air or water current |
| float, swim | Be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom |
| float | Move lightly, as if suspended |
| flock | Move as a crowd or in a group |
| fly, wing | Travel through the air |
| fly | Be dispersed or disseminated |
| follow | To travel behind, go after, come after |
| follow, travel along | travel along a certain course |
| forge, spurt, spirt | Move or act with a sudden increase / increase in speed or energy |
| get around, get about | Move around |
| ghost | Move like a ghost |
| glide | Move smoothly and effortlessly |
| go around, spread, circulate | Become widely known and passed on |
| hiss, whoosh | Move with a whooshing sound |
| hurtle | Move with or as if with a rushing / rushing sound |
| island hop | Travel from one island to the next |
| lance | Move quickly, as if by cutting one's way |
| lurch | Move slowly and unsteadily |
| outflank, go around | go around the flank of (an opposing army) |
| pace | Go at a pace |
| pan | make a sweeping movement |
| pass | go across or through |
| pass over, overfly | fly over |
| play | Move or seem to move quickly, lightly, or irregularly |
| plow, plough | Move in a way resembling that of a plow cutting into or going through the soil |
| prance | spring forward on the hind legs |
| precede, lead | Move ahead / ahead (of others) in time or space |
| precess | Move in a gyrating fashion |
| proceed, go forward, continue | Move ahead |
| propagate | Travel through the air |
| pursue, follow | Follow in or as if in pursuit |
| push | Move strenuously and with effort |
| raft | travel by raft in water |
| repair, resort | Move, travel, or proceed toward some place |
| retreat | Move away, as for privacy |
| retrograde | Move in a direction contrary to the usual / usual one |
| return | Go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before |
| ride, sit | Sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions |
| ride | Move like a floating object |
| ride | Sit on and control a vehicle |
| rise, lift, arise, move up, go up, come up, uprise | Move upward |
| roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond | Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment |
| round | wind around |
| run | Move about freely and without restraint, or act as if running around in an uncontrolled way |
| run | travel rapidly, by any (unspecified) means |
| rush, hotfoot, hasten, hie, speed, race, pelt along, rush along, cannonball along, bucket along, belt along, step on it | Move fast |
| scramble | To move hurriedly |
| seek | go to or towards |
| shuttle | travel back and forth between two points |
| sift | Move as if through a sieve |
| ski | Move along on skis |
| slice into, slice through | Move through a body or an object with a slicing motion |
| slither, slide | To pass or move unobtrusively or smoothly |
| snowshoe | Travel on snowshoes |
| speed | Travel at an excessive or illegal velocity |
| steamer, steam | travel by means of steam power |
| step | shift or move by taking a step |
| step, tread | put down or press the foot, place the foot |
| step | Move with one's feet in a specific manner |
| stray, err, drift | wander from a direct course or at random |
| swap | Move (a piece of a program) into memory, in computer science |
| swash | make violent, noisy movements |
| swim | Travel through water |
| swim | Move as if gliding through water |
| swing | change direction with a swinging motion |
| taxi | Travel slowly |
| trail, shack | Move, proceed, or walk draggingly or slowly |
| tram | travel by tram |
| transfer, change | change from one vehicle or transportation line to another |
| travel, journey | Travel upon or across |
| travel | Undergo transportation as in a vehicle |
| travel, move around | travel from place to place, as for the purpose of finding work, preaching, or acting as a judge |
| travel by, pass by, surpass, go past, go by, pass | Move past |
| travel purposefully | Travel volitionally and in a certain direction with a certain goal |
| travel rapidly, speed, hurry, zip | Move very fast |
| trundle | Move heavily |
| turn, move around | Pass to the other side of |
| walk | Use one's feet to advance |
| walk, take the air | Take a walk |
| weave, wind, thread, meander, wander | To move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course |
| wend | direct one's course or way |
| wheel, roll | Move along on or as if on wheels or a wheeled vehicle |
| whine | Move with a whining sound |
| whish | Move with a whishing sound |
| whisk | Move quickly and nimbly |
| whistle | Move with, or as with, a whistling sound |
| withdraw, retreat, pull away, draw back, recede, pull back, retire, move back | pull back or move away or backward |
| zigzag, crank | travel along a zigzag path |
| zoom | Move with a low humming noise |
| See also | go around | become widely known and passed on |
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| go by | pass by |
| go by | move past |
| go down, go under | go under, "The raft sank and its occupants drowned" |
| go down | disappear beyond the horizon |
| go down | move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way |
| go off | run away |
| go on | continue talking / talking / talking |
| go on | move forward, also in the metaphorical sense |
| go out | go out of fashion |
| go up | move upward |
| go up | go upward with gradual or continuous progress |
| Opposite | stay in place | Be stationary |
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| Similar to | move, displace | Cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense |
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| Spanish | acudir, desplazarse, ir, moverse, mover, viajar |
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| Catalan | acudir, anar, desplaçar-se, moure's, moure, viatjar |
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English > go: 35 senses > verb 11, perception| Meaning | make a certain noise or sound. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s; Something ----s Adjective/Noun; Somebody ----s Adjective |
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| Synonym | sound |
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| Caused by | ring, knell | make (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical edification |
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| sound | Cause to sound |
| Narrower | bang | To produce a sharp often metallic explosive or percussive sound |
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| bleep | emit a single short high-pitched signal |
| blow | make a sound as if blown |
| blow | sound by having air expelled through a tube |
| boom, din | make a resonant sound, like artillery |
| boom, boom out | make a deep hollow sound |
| buzz, bombinate, bombilate | make a buzzing sound |
| chatter, click | click repeatedly or uncontrollably |
| chime | emit a sound |
| chug | make a dull, explosive sound |
| clang, clangor | make a loud noise |
| clangor, clangour | make a loud resonant noise |
| clank | make a clank |
| click, tick | make a clicking or ticking sound |
| clop, clump, clunk, plunk | make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground |
| crack | make a very sharp explosive sound |
| crash | Make a sudden loud sound |
| drone | make a monotonous low dull sound |
| drum, beat, thrum | make a rhythmic sound |
| glug | make a gurgling sound as of liquid issuing from a bottle |
| guggle | make a sound like a liquid / liquid that is being poured from a bottle |
| gurgle | make sounds similar to gurgling water |
| honk, blare, beep, claxon, toot | make a loud noise |
| hum, thrum | sound with a monotonous hum |
| lap, swish, swosh, swoosh | Move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound |
| make noise, resound, noise | emit a noise |
| patter, pitter-patter | make light, rapid and repeated sounds |
| ping | make a short high-pitched sound |
| pink, ping, knock | sound like a car engine that is firing too early |
| pop | make a sharp explosive noise |
| rattle | make short successive sounds |
| resonate, vibrate | sound with resonance |
| resound, echo, ring, reverberate | ring or echo with sound |
| ring, peal | sound loudly and sonorously |
| ripple, babble, guggle, burble, bubble, gurgle | Flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise |
| roll | emit, produce, or utter with a deep prolonged reverberating sound |
| rumble, grumble | make a low noise |
| rustle | make a dry crackling sound |
| skirl | make a shrill, wailing sound |
| snap, crack | make a sharp sound |
| snarl | make a snarling noise or move with a snarling noise |
| splash, splosh, slosh, slush | make a splashing sound |
| splat | give ... / give off the sound of a bullet flattening on impact |
| squelch | make a sucking sound |
| tap, rap, knock, pink | make light, repeated taps on a surface |
| thud, thump | make a dull sound |
| tick, ticktock, ticktack, beat | make a sound like a clock or a timer / timer |
| ting | make a light, metallic sound |
| tinkle, tink, clink, chink | make or emit a high sound |
| trump | produce a sound as if from a trumpet |
| twang | sound with a twang |
| tweet, twirp | make a weak, chirping sound |
| whish | make a sibilant sound |
| whistle, sing | make a whining, ringing, or whistling sound |
| whistle | make whistling sounds |
| whizz, whiz, whirr, whir, birr, purr | make a soft swishing sound |
| Broader | cause to be perceived | Have perceptible qualities |
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| Spanish | hacer ruido, sonar |
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| Catalan | fer sorolls, sonar |
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English > go: 35 senses > verb 17, change| Meaning | Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain / sustain life. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s |
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| Synonyms | die, decease, perish, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it |
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| Caused by | kill | Cause to die |
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| Entailed by | leave, leave behind | Be survived by after one's death |
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| Narrower | abort | Cease development, die, and be aborted |
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| buy it, pip out | Be killed / killed or die |
| drown | die from being submerged / submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating / asphyxiating |
| fall | die, as in battle / battle or in a hunt / hunt |
| predecease | die before |
| starve, famish | die of food deprivation |
| succumb, yield | Be fatally overwhelmed |
| suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate | Be asphyxiated |
| Broader | change state, turn | Undergo a transformation or a change of position or action |
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| Opposite | be born | Come into existence through birth |
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| Similar to | die | Suffer or face the pain of death |
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| fail, go bad, give way, die, give out, conk out, go, break, break down | stop operating or functioning |
| Spanish | acudir, asfixiarse, asfixiar, caducar, caer muerto, colgar los guayos, croar, dejar de existir, diñar, entregar el alma, espichar, estirar la pata, estrangular, exhalar el último suspiro, expirar, fallecer, fenecer, finar, irse al otro barrio, ir, morir, palmar, pasar a mejor vida, pasar, perder la vida, perecer, salir de este mundo, salir, sucumbir, vencer |
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| Catalan | acudir, asfixiar, caducar, dinyar-la, estrangular, expirar, finar, morir-se, morir, perir |
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| Nouns | going | euphemistic expressions for death |
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