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Phonetic: "/ɡəʉ/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: The act of going.

Definition: A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).

Example: It’s your go.

Definition: An attempt, a try.

Example: I’ll give it a go.

Definition: An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.

Example: We will begin as soon as the boss says it's a go.

Definition: An act; the working or operation.

Definition: A circumstance or occurrence; an incident, often unexpected.

Definition: The fashion or mode.

Example: quite the go

Definition: Noisy merriment.

Example: a high go

Definition: A glass of spirits; a quantity of spirits.

Definition: Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.

Example: There is no go in him.

Definition: The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above thirty-one.

Definition: A period of activity.

Example: ate it all in one go

Definition: (British slang) A dandy; a fashionable person.

Phonetic: "/ɡəʉ/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To move:

Definition: (chiefly of a machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).

Example: The engine just won't go anymore.

Definition: To start; to begin (an action or process).

Example: Get ready, get set, go!

Definition: To take a turn, especially in a game.

Example: It’s your turn; go.

Definition: To attend.

Example: I go to school at the schoolhouse.

Definition: To proceed:

Definition: To follow or travel along (a path):

Definition: To extend (from one point in time or space to another).

Example: This property goes all the way to the state line.

Definition: To lead (to a place); to give access to.

Example: Does this road go to Fort Smith?

Definition: To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.)

Example: After failing as a criminal, he decided to go straight.

Definition: To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.

Definition: To continuously or habitually be in a state.

Example: I don't want my children to go hungry.

Definition: To come to (a certain condition or state).

Example: They went into debt, she goes to sleep around 10 o'clock.

Definition: To change (from one value to another) in the meaning of wend.

Example: The traffic light went straight from green to red.

Definition: To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).

Example: How did your meeting with Smith go?

Definition: To tend (toward a result).

Example: These experiences go to make us stronger.

Definition: To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.

Example: qualities that go to make a lady / lip-reader / sharpshooter

Definition: To pass, to be used up:

Definition: To die.

Definition: To be discarded.

Example: This chair has got to go.

Definition: To be lost or out:

Definition: To break down or apart:

Definition: To be sold.

Example: Everything must go.

Definition: To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.

Example: The award went to Steven Spielberg.

Definition: To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.

Example: Can you two go twenty minutes without arguing?!

Definition: To have a certain record.

Example: The team is going five in a row.

Definition: To be authoritative, accepted, or valid:

Definition: To say (something), to make a sound:

Definition: To be expressed or composed (a certain way).

Example: As the story goes, he got the idea for the song while sitting in traffic.

Definition: To resort (to).

Example: I'll go to court if I have to.

Definition: To apply or subject oneself to:

Definition: To fit (in a place, or together with something):

Definition: To date.

Example: He's been going with her for two weeks.

Definition: To attack:

Definition: To be in general; to be usually.

Example: As sentences go, this one is pretty boring.

Definition: To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.

Example: Let's go halves on this.

Definition: To yield or weigh.

Example: Those babies go five tons apiece.

Definition: To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.

Example: I'll go a ten-spot.

Definition: To enjoy. (Compare go for.)

Example: I could go a beer right about now.

Definition: To urinate or defecate.

Example: Have you managed to go today, Mrs. Miggins?

Phonetic: "/ɡəʉ/"

Part Of Speech: adjective

Definition: Working correctly and ready to commence operation; approved and able to be put into action.

Phonetic: "/ɔːf/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: (usually in phrases such as 'from the off', 'at the off', etc.) Beginning; starting point.

Example: He has been very obviously an untrustworthy narrator right from the off.

Phonetic: "/ɔːf/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To kill.

Example: He got in the way so I had him offed.

Definition: To switch off.

Example: Can you off the light?

Phonetic: "/ɔːf/"

Part Of Speech: adjective

Definition: Inoperative, disabled.

Example: All the lights are off.

Definition: Cancelled; not happening.

Example: The party's off because the hostess is sick.

Definition: Not fitted; not being worn.

Example: The drink spilled out of the bottle because the top was off.

Definition: Rancid, rotten, gone bad.

Example: This milk is off!

Definition: Less than normal, in temperament or in result.

Example: sales are off this quarter

Definition: Inappropriate; untoward.

Example: I felt that his comments were a bit off.

Definition: (in phrases such as 'well off', 'better off', 'poorly off') Circumstanced.

Definition: Started on the way.

Example: And they're off! Whatsmyname takes an early lead, with Remember The Mane behind by a nose.

Definition: Far; off to the side.

Example: He took me down the corridor and into an off room.

Definition: Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to business or affairs, or is absent from a post, and, hence, a time when affairs are not urgent.

Example: He took an off day for fishing.  an off year in politics; the off season

Definition: (in phrases such as 'off day') Designating a time when one is not performing to the best of one's abilities.

Definition: (of a dish on a menu) Presently unavailable.

Example: — I'll have the chicken please.

Definition: (in relation to a vehicle) On the side furthest from the kerb (the right-hand side if one drives on the left).

Example: The off front wheel came loose.

Definition: In, or towards the half of the field away from the batsman's legs; the right side for a right-handed batsman.

Phonetic: "/ɔːf/"

Part Of Speech: adverb

Definition: In a direction away from the speaker or object.

Example: He drove off in a cloud of smoke.

Definition: Into a state of non-operation or non-existence.

Example: Please switch off the light when you leave.

Definition: So as to remove or separate, or be removed or separated.

Example: He bit off the end of the carrot.

Definition: Used in various other ways specific to individual idiomatic phrases, e.g. bring off, show off, put off, tell off, etc. See the entry for the individual phrase.

Phonetic: "/ɔːf/"

Part Of Speech: preposition

Definition: Not positioned upon; away from a position upon.

Example: He's off the roof now.

Definition: Detached, separated, excluded or disconnected from; away from a position of attachment or connection to.

Example: He was thrown off the team for cheating.

Definition: Used to indicate the location or direction of one thing relative to another, implying adjacency or accessibility via.

Example: His office is off this corridor on the right.

Definition: Used to express location at sea relative to land or mainland.

Example: The island is 23 miles off the cape.

Definition: Removed or subtracted from.

Example: There's 20% off the list price.

Definition: No longer wanting or taking.

Example: He's been off his feed since Tuesday.

Definition: (more properly 'from') Out of the possession of.

Example: He didn't buy it off him. He stole it off him.

Definition: Placed after a number (of products or parts, as if a unit), in commerce or engineering.

Example: I'd like to re-order those printer cartridges, let's say 5-off.

Phonetic: "/ði/"

Part Of Speech: adverb

Definition: With a comparative or with more and a verb phrase, establishes a correlation with one or more other such comparatives.

Example: It looks weaker and weaker, the more I think about it.

Definition: With a comparative, and often with for it, indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated with none. See none the.

Example: I'm much the wiser for having had a difficult time like that.

Phonetic: "/ˈsʌb.dʒɪkt/"

Part Of Speech: adjective

Definition: Likely to be affected by or to experience something.

Example: He's subject to sneezing fits.

Definition: Conditional upon.

Example: The local board sets local policy, subject to approval from the State Board.

Definition: Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.

Definition: Placed under the power of another; owing allegiance to a particular sovereign or state.