What is "going"

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.

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.

   By going over all these particulars, you may receive some tolerable satisfaction about this great subject.
   --South.

8. To be with young; to be pregnant; to gestate.

   The fruit she goes with, I pray for heartily, that it may find Good time, and live.
   --Shak.

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.

   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.

10. To pass away; to depart forever; to be lost or ruined; to perish; to decline; to decease; to die.

    By Saint George, he's gone! That spear wound hath our master sped.
    --Sir W. Scott.

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.

    His amorous expressions go no further than virtue may allow.
    --Dryden.

12. To have recourse; to resort; as, to go to law. 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. 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.

    1. To set about; to enter upon a scheme of action; to undertake. ``They went about to slay him.''
       --Acts ix. 29.

       They never go about . . . to hide or palliate their vices.
       --Swift.

    2. (Naut.) To tack; to turn the head of a ship; to wear. To go abraod.

       1. To go to a foreign country.

       2. To go out of doors.

    3. To become public; to be published or disclosed; to be current. Then went this saying abroad among the brethren. --John xxi. 23. To go against.

       1. To march against; to attack.

       2. To be in opposition to; to be disagreeable to. To go ahead.

          1. To go in advance.

          2. To go on; to make progress; to proceed. To go and come. See To come and go, under Come. To go aside.

             1. To withdraw; to retire.

                He . . . went aside privately into a desert place.
                --Luke. ix. 10.

             2. To go from what is right; to err. --Num. v. 29. To go back on.

                1. To retrace (one's path or footsteps).

                2. 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.

                   1. To descend.

                   2. To go below the horizon; as, the sun has gone down.

       3. To sink; to founder; -- said of ships, etc.

    4. To be swallowed; -- used literally or figuratively. Nothing so ridiculous, . . . but it goes down whole with him for truth. --L' Estrange. To go far.

       1. To go to a distance.

       2. To have much weight or influence. To go for.

          1. To go in quest of.

          2. To represent; to pass for.

       3. To favor; to advocate.

       4. To attack; to assault. [Low]

    5. 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.

       1. To depart from a place.

       2. To be divulged or made generally known; to emanate. 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.]

          1. To go for; to favor or advocate (a candidate, a measure, etc.).

          2. To seek to acquire or attain to (wealth, honor, preferment, etc.)

       3. To complete for (a reward, election, etc.).

       4. To make the object of one's labors, studies, etc. He was as ready to go in for statistics as for anything else. --Dickens. To go in to or To go in unto.

          1. To enter the presence of.
             --Esther iv. 16.

          2. To have sexual intercourse with. [Script.] To go into.

             1. To speak of, investigate, or discuss (a question, subject, etc.).

             2. To participate in (a war, a business, etc.). To go large. (Naut) See under Large. To go off.

                1. To go away; to depart.

                   The leaders . . . will not go off until they hear you.
                   --Shak.

                2. To cease; to intermit; as, this sickness went off.

          3. To die.
             --Shak.

          4. To explode or be discharged; -- said of gunpowder, of a gun, a mine, etc.

       5. To find a purchaser; to be sold or disposed of.

    6. To pass off; to take place; to be accomplished. The wedding went off much as such affairs do. --Mrs. Caskell. To go on.

       1. To proceed; to advance further; to continue; as, to go on reading.

       2. 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. It is not easy to make a simile go on all fours. --Macaulay. To go out.

          1. To issue forth from a place.

          2. To go abroad; to make an excursion or expedition.

             There are other men fitter to go out than I.
             --Shak.

             What went ye out for to see ?
             --Matt. xi. 7, 8, 9.

       3. To become diffused, divulged, or spread abroad, as news, fame etc.

       4. To expire; to die; to cease; to come to an end; as, the light has gone out. Life itself goes out at thy displeasure. --Addison. To go over.

          1. To traverse; to cross, as a river, boundary, etc.; to change sides.

             I must not go over Jordan.
             --Deut. iv. 22.

             Let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan.
             --Deut. iii. 25.

             Ishmael . . . departed to go over to the Ammonites.
             --Jer. xli. 10.

          2. To read, or study; to examine; to review; as, to go over one's accounts.

             If we go over the laws of Christianity, we shall find that . . . they enjoin the same thing.
             --Tillotson.

          3. To transcend; to surpass.

          4. To be postponed; as, the bill went over for the session.

       5. (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.

          1. To accomplish; as, to go through a work.

          2. To suffer; to endure to the end; as, to go through a surgical operation or a tedious illness.

          3. To spend completely; to exhaust, as a fortune.

          4. To strip or despoil (one) of his property. [Slang]

          5. 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.

             1. To escape into a hole; -- said of a hunted fox.

             2. To fall in battle. To go to naught (Colloq.), to prove abortive, or unavailling. To go under.

                1. To set; -- said of the sun.

                2. To be known or recognized by (a name, title, etc.).

             3. To be overwhelmed, submerged, or defeated; to perish; to succumb. To go up, to come to nothing; to prove abortive; to fail. To go upon, to act upon, as a foundation or hypothesis. To go with.

                1. To accompany.

                2. To coincide or agree with.

                3. 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.

                   1. To take a wrong road or direction; to wander or stray.

                   2. To depart from virtue.

                   3. To happen unfortunately; to unexpectedly cause a mishap or failure.

             4. To miss success; to fail.

                To let go, to allow to depart; to quit one's hold; to release.

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)

   1. A barrel containing the mainspring, and having teeth on its periphery to drive the train.

   2. 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.)

   1. 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.

   2. 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.

Going \Go"ing\, p. pr. of Go. Specif.:

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. Of or pertaining to a going business or concern; as, the going value of a company.

verbal noun from go (v.), c.1300. Going to "be about to" is from late 15c. To go while the going is good is from 1916. Goings-on attested from 1775; going over is 1872 as "scolding," 1919 as "inspection."

Etymology 1 vb. (present participle of go English) Etymology 2

1. 1 Likely to continue; viable. 2 That attends habitually or regularly. 3 current, prevailing. 4 (context after a noun phrase with a superlative English) available. n. 1 A departure. 2 The suitability of ground for riding, walking etc. 3 progress 4 (context figurative English) Conditions for advancing in any way. 5 (context obsolete English) pregnancy; gestation; childbearing 6 (context in the plural English) Course of life; behaviour; doings; ways.

adj. in full operation; "a going concern" [syn: going(a)]

1. n. 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"; "the proposal faces tough sledding" [syn: sledding]

Going (UK), track condition (US) or track rating (AUS) are the terms used to describe the track surface of a horse racing track prior to a horse race or race meet. The going is determined by the amount of moisture in the ground and is assessed by an official steward on the day of the race.

The condition of a race track plays an important role in the performance of horses in a race. The factors that go into determining race track condition include the surface conditions, type of surface, and track configuration. The surface conditions are influenced by the type of surface factoring in soil type, and if the track is dirt, turf, artificial surface; plus surface density, porosity, compaction and moisture content.1

Going may refer to:

• Go (verb)
  • Going- to future, a construction in English grammar
• Going (horse racing), the condition of a horse racing track surface.
• Going (surname)
• " Going!", a song by KAT-TUN
• Way of going, a reference to the quality of movement in a horse gait
• Going am Wilden Kaiser, an Austrian municipality
• Going (motorcycle taxi), an alternative term for "Okada", a form of motorcycle taxi in Nigeria

Going is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Ben Going (born 1985), American video blog personality
• Charles Buxton Going (1863–19??), American engineer
• Joanna Going (born 1963), actress
• KL Going (born 1973), American author
• Shaun Going, Canadian construction engineer charged with terrorism
• Sid Going (born 1943), New Zealand rugby union footballer