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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Going \Go"ing\, p. pr of {Go}. Specif.: a That goes; in existence; available for present use or enjoyment; current; obtainable; also moving working; in operation; departing; as he is of the brightest men going; going prices or rate. b Carrying on its ordinary business; conducting business, or carried on with an indefinite prospect of continuance; -- chiefly used in the phrases {a going business}, {concern}, etc c Of or pert. to a going business or concern; as the going value of a company. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. 2. To move upon the feet, or step by step; to walk; also to walk step by step, or leisurely. Note: In old writers go is much used as opposed to run, or ride. ``Whereso I go or ride.'' --Chaucer. You know that love Will creep in service where it can not go --Shak. Thou must run to him for thou hast staid so long that going will scarce serve the turn. --Shak. He fell from running to going, and from going to clambering upon his hands and his knees. --Bunyan. Note: In Chaucer go is used frequently with the pronoun in the objective used reflexively; as he goeth him home. 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. The man went among men for an old man in the days of Saul. --1 Sa xvii. 12. [The money] should go according to its true value. --Locke. 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 How goes the night, boy ? --Shak. I think, as the world goes, he was a good sort of man enough. --Arbuthnot. Whether the cause goes for me or against me you must pay me the reward. --I Watts. 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 Against right reason all your counsels go --Dryden. To master the foul flend there goeth some complement knowledge of theology. --Sir W. Scott. 6. To apply one's self to set one's self to undertake. Seeing himself confronted by so many like a resolute orator, he went not to denial, but to justify his cruel falsehood. --Sir P. Sidney. 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Going \Go"ing\, n. 1. The act of moving in any manner; traveling; as the going is bad 2. Departure. --Milton. 3. Pregnancy; gestation; childbearing. --Crew. 4. pl Course of life; behavior; doings; ways. His eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings. --Job xxxiv 21. {Going barrel}. (Horology) a A barrel containing the mainspring, and having teeth on its periphery to drive the train. b A device for maintaining a force to drive the train while the timepiece is being wound up {Going forth}. (Script.) a Outlet; way of exit ``Every going forth of the sanctuary.'' --Ezek. xliv. 5. b A limit; a border. ``The going forth thereof shall be from the south to Kadesh-barnea.'' --Num. xxxiv 4. {Going out}, or {Goings out}. (Script.) a The utmost extremity or limit. ``The border shall go down to Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at the salt sea.'' --Num. xxxiv 12. b Departure or journeying. ``And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys.'' --Num. xxxiii 2. {Goings on}, behavior; actions; conduct; -- usually in a bad sense From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: going adj : in full operation; "a going concern" [syn: {going(a)}] n 1: act of departing [syn: {departure}, {going away}, {leaving}] 2: euphemistic expressions for death; "thousands mourned his passing" [syn: {passing}, {loss}, {departure}, {exit}, {expiration}, {release}] 3: advancing toward a goal; "persuading him was easy going" or "the proposal faces tough sledding" [syn: {sledding}]
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