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Definition: Go

Go

Adjective

1. Functioning correctly and ready for action; "all systems are go".

Noun

1. A time for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else); "it's my go"; "a spell of work".

2. A usually brief attempt; "he took a crack at it"; "I gave it a whirl".

3. (Japanese) a board game for two players who place counters on a grid; the object is to surround and so capture the opponent's counters.

Verb

1. Change location; move, travel, or proceed; "How fast does your new car go?" "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect";"The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell".

2. Follow a procedure or take a course; "We should go farther in this matter"; "She went through a lot of trouble"; "go about the world in a certain manner"; "Messages must go through diplomatic channels".

3. Move away from a place into another direction; "Go away before I start to cry"; "The train departs at noon".

4. Enter or assume a certain state or condition; "He became annoyed when he heard the bad news"; "It must be getting more serious"; "her face went red with anger"; "She went into ecstasy"; "Get going!".

5. Be awarded; be allotted; "The first prize goes to Mary"; "Her money went on clothes".

6. Have a particular form; "the story or argument runs....", "as the saying goes...".

7. Stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point; "Service runs all the way to Cranbury"; "His knowledge doesn't go very far"; "My memory extends back to my fourth year of life"; "The facts extend beyond a consideration of her personal assets".

8. Follow a certain course; "The inauguration went well"; "how did your interview go?".

9. Be abolished or discarded; "These ugly billboards have to go!" "These luxuries all had to go under the Khmer Rouge".

10. : be or continue to be in a certain condition; "The children went hungry that day".

11. : make a certain noise or sound; "She went `Mmmmm'"; "The gun went `bang'".

12. : perform as expected when applied; "The washing machine won't go unless it's plugged in"; "Does this old car still run well?"; "This old radio doesn't work anymore".

13. : to be spent or finished; "The money had gone after a few days"; "Gas is running low at the gas stations in the Midwest".

14. : progress by being changed: "The speech has to go through several more drafts"; "run through your presentation before the meeting".

15. : continue to live; endure or last; "We went without water and food for 3 days"; "The legend of Elvis lives on"; "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"; "The racecar driver lived through several very serious accidents".

16. : pass, fare, or elapse; of a certain state of affairs or action; "How is it going?" "The day went well until I got your call".

17. : pass from physical life and lose all all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "They children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully".

18. : be in the right place or situation; "Where do these books belong?" "Let's put health care where it belongs--under the control of the government"; "Where do these books go?".

19. : be ranked or compare; "This violinist is as good as Juilliard-trained violinists go".

20. : begin or set in motion; "I start at eight in the morning"; "Ready, set, go!".

21. : have a turn; make one's move in a game; "Can I go now?".

22. : be contained in; "How many times does 18 go into 54?".

23. : be sounded, played, or expressed; "How does this song go again?".

24. : blend or harmonize; "This flavor will blend with those in your dish"; "This sofa won't go with the chairs".

25. : lead. extend, or afford access; "This door goes to the basement"; "The road runs South".

26. : be the right size or shape; fit correctly or as desired; "This skirt won't go around your waist".

27. : go through in search of something; search through someone's belongings in an unauthorized way; "Who rifled through my desk drawers?".

28. : be spent; "All my money went for food and rent".

29. : give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number; "I plumped for the losing candidates".

30. : stop operating or functioning; "The engine finally went"; "The car died on the road"; "The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town"; "The coffee maker broke"; "The engine failed on the way to town"; "her eyesight went after the accident".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "go" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Go \Go\, noun. 1. Act; working; operation. [Obsolete]. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Go

DomainDefinition

Computing

Go A thinking game with an oriental origin estimated to be around 4000 years old. Nowadays, the game is played by millions of people in (most notably) China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. In the Western world the game is practised by a yearly increasing number of players. On the Internet Go players meet, play and talk 24 hours/day on the Internet Go Server (IGS). (http://www.cwi.nl/~jansteen/go/go.html) Usenet newsgroup: news:rec.games.go. (1995-03-17). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Literature

Go (Anglo-Saxon, gan, ic ga, I go.)
Here's a go or Here's a pretty go. Here's a mess or awkward state of affairs.
It is no go. It is not workable. "Ça ira, " in the French Revolution (it will go), is a similar phrase.
(See Great Go, and Little Go.)
Go (The). All the go. Quite the fashion; very popular; la vogue. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Multilingual Slang

Hungarian (dzsallni). (references)

Slang in 1811

GO, THE. The dash. The mode. He is quite the go, he is quite varment, he is prime, he is bang up, are synonimous expressions. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Go

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Go may refer to: See also:

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Go."

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Go (album)

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Go was the fifth album by Vertical Horizon, released in 2003 by RCA Records. It was originally scheduled to be released in 2002, but management changes at RCA led to a year delay. The first single off the album was "I'm Still Here", which had been added to the album during the delay period. All songs are sung and written by Matthew Scannell, in contrast to previous Vertical Horizon albums, where at least some songs were written and sung by Keith Kane.

Tracklist

  1. When You Cry
  2. I'm Still Here
  3. Forever
  4. Sunshine
  5. Goodbye Again
  6. Echo
  7. It's Over
  8. One of You
  9. Won't Go Away
  10. Inside
  11. Underwater

Note: The Japanese version of the album also contained a bonus track, "One Time Around".

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Go (album)."

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Go (board game)

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Go is an ancient strategic board game originating from China at least two thousand years ago. It is highly popular in East Asia, and Internet gaming has served to greatly increase its popularity throughout the rest of the world in recent years.

In China it is called 圍棋 wéiqí (way-chee), in Korea its name is 바둑 baduk, and in Japan 囲碁 igo (ee-go), which gave rise to the English name Go from the Japanese character 碁.

The essential go rules

This is the essence of the go game. For a more detailed treatment, see Go rules.

In a game between players of unequal strength, a handicap is used: the weaker player starts out with a number of stones on the board. See Go handicap for the details.

Nature of the game


3 Japanese professional Go players observe some younger amateurs as they dissect a life and death problem in the corner of the board. From the US Go Congress in Houston, 2003. (Larger Version)

Although the rules of Go are very simple, the game itself can be extremely complex. Go is a complete-knowledge, deterministic, strategy game like chess, checkers, and reversi, although its depth exceeds even those games. Its large board and lack of restrictions allows great scope in strategy, as decisions in one part of the board are influenced by a seemingly unrelated situation in distant parts of the board, and moves made early in the game can shape the nature of conflict hundreds of moves later.

The game emphasises the importance and tensions of balance on multiple levels. To secure an area of the board, it is good to play moves close together; but to cover the largest area one needs to spread out. To ensure one does not fall behind, aggressive play is required; but playing too aggressively leaves weaknesses undefended that can be exploited. Playing too low (close to the edge) secures insufficient territory; yet playing too high (far from the edge) allows the opponent to invade. Many people find the game attractive for its reflection of the polarities found in life.

See Go strategy and tactics for an introductory explanation of how to play well, and the Go demonstration game.

It is commonly said that no game has ever been played twice. This may be true: On a 19×19 board, there are about 3361×0.012 = 2.1×10170 possible positions, most of which are the end result of about (120!)2 = 4.5×10397 different (no-capture) games, for a total of about 9.3×10567 games. Allowing captures gives as many as 107.49×1048 possible games, most of which last for over 1.6×1049 moves! (By contrast, the number of legal positions in chess is estimated to be between 1043 and 1050, and physicists estimate that there are not more than 1090 protons in the entire universe.)

Computers and Go

Although attempts have been made to program computers to play Go, success in that area has been moderate at best. Even the strongest programs are no better than an average club player, and would easily be beaten by a strong player even getting a nine stone handicap. This is attributed to many qualities of the game, including the "optimising" nature of the victory condition, the virtually unlimited placement of each stone, the large board size, and the high degree of pattern-recognition involved. For this reason, many in the field of artificial intelligence consider Go to be a better measure of a computer's capacity for thought than chess. See computer Go article for detail.

Use of computer networks to allow humans to meet, discuss games, and play one another, although generally considered inferior to face-to-face play, is becoming much more common. There are servers and software to facilitate this; see Additional Resources below for more information.

Other board games commonly compared with Go

Go appears to stand apart among games in its rules and gameplay; it is difficult to find another board game which could be considered of the same "family" as Go. However, on learning about the game, people will attempt to compare it with other games they may already have experienced. This is a non-exhaustive list of some games that are often compared with Go.

Traditional Go game equipment

Although one could play Go with a piece of card for a board and a bag of plastic tokens, Go players pride themselves on their game sets. The traditional Go board (called a goban in Japanese) is solid wood, about 15-20cm thick, preferably from the rare golden-coloured Kaya tree, and stands on its own attached legs. Players sit on reed mats (tatami) on the floor to play. The stones (go-ishi) come in matching solid wood pots (go-ke) and are made out of clamshell (white) and slate (black) and are extremely smooth. The natural resources of Japan have been unable to keep up with the enormous demand for the native clams and slow-growing Kaya trees; both must be of sufficient age to grow to the desired size, and they are now extremely rare at the age and quality required, raising the price of such equipment tremendously.

In clubs and at tournaments, where large numbers of sets must be maintained (and usually purchased) by one organisation, the expensive traditional sets are not usually used. For these situations, table boards (of the same design as floor boards, but only about 2-5cm thick and without legs) are used, and the stones are made of glass rather than slate and shell. Bowls will often be plastic if cheap wooden bowls cannot be had. Plastic stones can be had, but are considered inferior to glass as they are generally much lighter, and most players find them too unpleasant to justify the difference in price.

The dimensions of the board (traditionally the grid is 45.45cm long and 42.42cm wide, with space beyond to allow stones to be played on the edges and corners of the grid) often surprise newcomers: it is not a perfect square, but is longer than it is wide, roughly in the proportion 12:11. Two reasons are frequently given for this. One is that when the players sit at the board, the angle at which they view the board gives a foreshortening of the grid; the board is slightly longer between the players to compensate for this. Another reason is that the Japanese aesthetic finds any structure which is perfectly symmetrical to be in bad taste, and the board is not made a perfect square for this reason.

Traditional stones are made so that black stones are slightly larger in diameter than white; this is probably to compensate for the optical illusion created by contrasting colours that makes the white stones appear larger on the board than black stones. The difference is slight, and since its effect is to make the stones appear the same size on the board, it can be surprising to discover they are not.

The bowls for the stones are of a simple shape, like a flattened sphere with a level underside. The lid is loose-fitting and is upturned before play to place opponent's stones captured during the game. The bowls are usually made of turned wood, although small lidded baskets of woven bamboo or reeds make an attractive cheaper alternative.

There is even an art to placing a Go stone, held between the tips of the outstretched index and middle fingers and striking the board firmly to create a sharp click. Many consider the acoustic properties of the wood of the board to be quite important. The traditional goban will usually have its underside carved with a pyramid called a Heso recessed into the board. Tradition holds that this is to give a better resonance to the stone's click, but the more conventional explanation is to allow the board to expand and contract without splitting the wood. A board is seen as more attractive when it is marked with slight dents from decades -- or centuries -- of stones striking the surface.

The Go world

Ranks

In countries where Go is popular, ranks are employed to indicate playing strength. The Japanese formalised the teaching and ranking of Go, and modelled the system after their existing martial arts schools.

Players who are competent are ranked starting at 1 dan, through to 9 dan which is the highest rank (in the Japanese Edo period, only one player held this rank at a time, and was called Meijin). Approaching 1 dan, a player first progresses through kyu ranks, with 1 kyu being the rank below 1 dan, and a greater kyu ranking indicating a greater distance in strength from 1 dan. Since beginners will commonly progress through elementary concepts quickly, it is difficult to set a lower bound to the kyu ranks, but nominal starting points of 20, 25 or 30 are commonly used.

The distinction between each rank is, by definition, one handicap stone. In other words, the difference in rank between two players is theoretically equal to the number of handicap stones required for each player to have an even chance of winning. Beating this handicap consistently is the indicator that a player's strength has improved, and his rank should be adjusted upward by one stone, thus changing the number of handicap stones required.

In China, Japan and Korea, there are two distinct ranking sets, one for professional players (who receive a fee for each game they play, bonuses for winning, and fees for other related activities) and one for amateur players. In Japan, amateur ranks are only recognised up to 8 dan (before the year 2001, only amateur ranks up to 7 dan were recognised).

Player pools that do not regularly mix (such as different countries, or online versus real-life player groups) often result in divergent playing strengths for the same rank level. Players asked to give their rank will therefore often qualify it with "in my country" or "on this Internet server".

Top players

Although for many centuries the strongest players in the world came from Japan, players from China in the 1980s and South Korea in the 1990s have reached the same or even a higher level. Nowadays, top players from these three countries are of comparable strength, although Korean players dominate the major international titles. All three countries have professional competitions where there is sometimes a high amount of prize money.

Players from other countries have traditionally been much weaker, except for some players who have taken up professional courses in one of the Asian countries. This is attributable to the fact that details of the game have been unknown outside of Asia for most of the game's history. A German scientist, Otto Korschelt, is credited with the first systematic description of the game in a Western language in 1880 AD; it was not until the 1950s that Western players would take up the game as more than a passing interest.

See also: Go players

History

The origins of the game are unknown, but the oldest surviving references come from China in the 6th century BC. Except for changes in the board size and starting position, has essentially kept the same rules since that time, which quite likely makes it the oldest board game still played today. It had reached Japan by the 7th century, and gained popularity at the imperial court in the 8th. By the beginning of the 13th century, the game was played in the general public in Japan.

Early in the 17th century, the then best player in Japan, Honinbo Sansa, was made head of a newly founded Go academy (the Honinbo school, the first of several competing schools founded about the same time), which developed the level of playing greatly, and introduced the martial-arts style system of ranking players. The government discontinued its support for the Go academies in 1868 as a result of the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate.

In honour of the Honinbo school, whose players consistently dominated the other schools during their history, one of the most prestigious Japanese Go championships is called the "Honinbo" tournament.

Historically, Go has been unequal in terms of gender. However, the opening of new, open tournaments and the rise of strong female players, most notably Rui Naiwei, has in recent years legitimised the strength and competitiveness of emerging female players.

Around 2000, in Japan, the manga (Japanese comic) and anime series Hikaru no Go has popularized Go among the youth and started a Go boom in Japan.

Mathematical theory of Go endgames

Elwyn Berlekamp and David Wolfe have developed a mathematical theory of the late endgame in Go based on the combinatorial game theory of John Horton Conway. Whilst not of general utility in most play, it greatly aids the analysis of certain classes of positions.

See also

External links and references

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Go Fly Limited

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Go Fly is the registered name of a British airline, usually trading as "go". It was established by British Airways in 1998 to compete in the low-cost European market and subject to a management buyout three years later and bought by Easyjet in 2002. Its main base is at Stansted Airport in Essex, England.

External link

http://www.go-fly.com

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Go Fly Limited."

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Goiás

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Statistics
Capital:Goiânia
Area:341,289.5 km²
Inhabitants:4,848,725 (1999)
Pop. density:14.2 inh./km²
Timezone:GMT-3
ISO 3166-2:BR-GO
Map

Goiás is a state of Brazil, located in the central part of the country. Neighboring states are (from north clockwise) Tocatins, Bahia, Minas Gerais, the Federal District, Mato Grosso do Sul and Mato Grosso.

Other cities include:

Flag


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 The green bars in the flag symbolize the spring and the yellow bars gold. The blue rectangle in the topleft corner symbolizes the sky, with the five stars forming the constellation of the Southern Cross. The flag was adopted on July 30, 1919.

External links

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List of people by name: Go

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List of people by name: A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z Ga - Gb - Gc - Gd - Ge - Gf - Gg - Gh - Gi - Gj - Gk - Gl - Gm - Gn - Go - Gp - Gq - Gr - Gs - Gt - Gu - Gv - Gw - Gx - Gy - Gz

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Go

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

GO

DutchJoint ventureLaw

GO

EnglishGideons InternationalN/A

GO

FrenchGiga-octetComputing
LET'S GO EASTEnglishLet European Technicians and Scientists go EastEuropean Union
GOTOPortugueseGO TOComputing, Electrical Engineering

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Go

Synonyms: crack (n), fling (n), go game (n), offer (n), pass (n), spell (n), tour (n), turn (n), whirl (n), become (v), belong (v), blend (v), blend in (v), break (v), break down (v), conk out (v), decease (v), depart (v), die (v), endure (v), exit (v), expire (v), extend (v), fail (v), fit (v), function (v), get (v), get going (v), give out (v), give way (v), go away (v), go bad (v), hold out (v), hold up (v), last (v), lead (v), live (v), live on (v), locomote (v), move (v), operate (v), pass away (v), perish (v), plump (v), proceed (v), rifle (v), run (v), run low (v), run short (v), sound (v), start (v), survive (v), travel (v), work (v). (additional references)
Antonyms: no-go (adj), be born (v), come (v), malfunction (v), stay in place (v), stop (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Go

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Fashion

Custom; mode, vogue, go; rage; (desire); prevailing taste; fad, trend, bandwagon, furore, thing, in thing, craze, chic, last word.

Inexistence

Verb: not exist; have no existence; be null and void; cease to exist; pass away, perish; be extinct, become extinct; Adjective: die out; disappear; melt away, dissolve, leave not a rack behind; go, be no more; die.

Motion

Verb: be in motion; Adjective: move, go, hie, gang, budge, stir, pass, flit; hover about, hover round, hover about; shift, slide, glide; roll, roll on; flow, stream, run, drift, sweep along; wander; (deviate); walk; change one's place, shift one's place, change one's quarters, shift one's quarters; dodge; keep going, keep moving;

Physical Energy

Noun: energy, physical energy, force, power; keenness; Adjective: intensity, vigor, strength, elasticity; go; high pressure; fire; rush.

Recession

Verb: recede, go, move back, move from, retire; withdraw, shrink, back off; come away, move away, back away, go away, get away, drift away; depart; retreat; move off, stand off, sheer off; fall back, stand aside; run away; (avoid).

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Go

English words defined with "go": go across, go after, go around, go away, go board, go by, go deep, go down, go far, go for, go forth, go in, go into, go off, go out, go over, go past, go through, Go to, go to bed, go to sleep, go under, go up, go with ♦ let go, let go of ♦ To go, To go about, To go abraod, To go across the country, To go ahead, To go all fours, To go and come, To go aside, To go astern, To go below, To go bet, To go cross lots, To go down, To go far, To go for, To go forth, To go in for, To go on, To go one's way, To go out, To go over, To go through, To go to meat, To go to pot, To go to the dogs, To go to work. (references)
Specialty definitions using "go": All the go ♦ DOT AND GO ONE ♦ Go along with You, Go Back N, GO BETWEEN, GO BY THE GROUND, go gold, Go ho, Go it Blind, Go it, Warwick!, Go of Gin, Go on all Fours, go root, Go through Fire and Water to serve you, Go to the Wall, Go to!, go voice, Great Go ♦ Internet Go Server ♦ Money makes the Mare to go ♦ THOROUGH GO NIMBLE ♦ we go. (references)
Etymologies containing "go": Yode. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Go" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Irish (at, that, to, toward), Pidgin English (to, to go, to send, went, will), Serbo-Croatian (bare, naked, nude, outright, starknaked, stitch, unclothed, undressed), Sranan (go), Tswana (it, that is, to, you), Welsh (rather, somewhat).

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Modern Usage: Go

DomainUsage

Screenplays

So you'd better go. (A Time to Kill; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman)

I've gotta go to the bathroom (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball)

No, go on Miss Daisy (Driving Miss Daisy; writing credit: Alfred Uhry)

If you ever want something badly, let it go. If it comes back to you, then it's yours forever (Indecent Proposal; writing credit: Amy Holden Jones)

It means, buckle your seatbelt, Dorothy, because Kansas is about to go bye-bye (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski.)

Lyrics

If I can choose a place to go it gotta be far away (If I Could Go; performing artist: Angie Martinez)

Darling I don't know why I go to extremes (I Go To Extremes; performing artist: Billy Joel)

B4 i let u go away (Before I Let You Go; performing artist: Blackstreet)

And I know that my heart will go on ("My Heart Will Go On"; performing artist: Celine Dion)

Days go by and still I think of you (Days Go By; performing artist: DIRTY VEGAS)

Clever

Sex without love is an empty gesture. But as empty gestures go, it is one of the best. (references; author: Woody Allen)

Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Guests should not forget to go home. (references; author: Swedish Proverb)

Can fat people go skinny-dipping? (references; author: unknown)

Man with one chopstick go hungry. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

Go (2001)

Touch and Go (2003)

Go Fly a Kite (1974)

Graceless Go I (1974)

Go (1973)

Song Titles

Come Go With Me (performing artist: The Beach Boys)

Gonna Go To Borneo (performing artist: Tom Chapin)

JUST A SONG BEFORE I GO (performing artist: STILLS & NASH CROSBY)

Come Go With Me (performing artist: The Del Vikings)

If You Go Away (performing artist: Neil Diamond)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Go

DomainTitle

References

  • Go Iron Works Co., Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Go Sport: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

  • Go Gators!: An Oral History of Florida's Pursuit of Gridiron Glory (reference)

  • Don't Go to the Cosmetics Counter Without Me: A Unique Guide to over 30,000 Products, Plus the Latest Skin-Care Research (Don't Go to the Cosmetics c (reference)

  • Let Them Go Free: Family Prayer Service to Assist in the Withdrawal of Life Support Systems (reference)

  • Thomas the Tank Engine's Hidden Surprises (Let's Go Lift-And-Peek Books) (reference)

  • Go and Do Likewise: Jesus and Ethics (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

  

High Tech

  

Consumer Goods

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Go

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Photo Album: Go

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Pictured is a scanning electron micrograph of cultured HeLa cells originally derived many years ago from a woman's cancerous cervical tissue. A light micrograph (x130) of the same cells (inset) reveals rounded double cells in the center in the process of dividing. This HeLa cell (named after patient Henrietta Lacks) has been infected with adenovirus. After 4-1/2 hours the HeLa cell's surface becomes rough. The multiple surface blebs on this cell characteristic for a certain stage of cell division that both normal and cancer cells go through. Research with the SEM has established the extraordinarily responsive nature of cell surface form. This instrument records, in pictures, specific cell reactions to various changes in the cells environment and maps the distribution of surface binding sites for biologically important molecules such as hormone, antigens, and pharmacologic agents. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

The Schizont stage of the life cycle precedes the formation of merozoites, which will be released to go on to infect more red blood cells. This erythrocyte contains a young immature schizont with underdeveloped merozoites. Credit: CDC.

On the way to Gallatin Peak - high peak to left Where do we go from here? Triangulation party of William M. Scaife. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

The crow's nest at Station Moclips - 215 feet above the ground Note spikes driven into tree - builders would drive spikes and go hand over hand Triangulation party of H. A. Seran According to Seran: "It took men of uncommon nerve to do this work.". Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Letting the sting ray go. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Cigar's Marina offers fishermen a place to stay as well as go fishing. Credit: Fisheries.

"They that go down to the sea in ships 1623 -1923". The Fishermen's Memorial at Gloucester commemorating the thousands of fishermen who have lost their lives from this port. Credit: Fisheries.

Waiting for the tide to go out, a fyke net collection. The nets are deployed at high tide and allowed to fish during the tidal cycle, they are retrieved at low tide. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Marking off the planting site, the large square is a quadrant to establish where the plantings should go. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

When you add it all up, peanuts aren't just peanuts-they're quite an important crop. The United States produces between 3 and 4 billion pounds of peanuts annually, and about 40 percent of these go into processed foods, from salted peanuts, candy, crackers, and cookies to peanut butter. They're a major source of vegetable oil too. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Go
 

"Merry Go Round" by Gabino Travassos
Commentary: "My daughter at the zoo. if you give a photo credit: Gabino Travassos ."		"Go Fly a Kite" by William Alatalo
Commentary: "Kite flying in the blue sky."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Familiar Quotations: Go

AuthorQuotation

(Frederick II) Frederick The Great

Talents go by nature not by birth.

Confucius

To go beyond is as bad as to fall short.
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

Dante Alighieri

Go right on and listen as thou goest.

Emily Dickinson

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Joseph Edward Murphy

We go where our vision is.

Marie de Rabutin-chantal

Racine will go out of style like coffee.

MoliFre

Books and marriage go ill together.

Ovid

You will go most safely in the middle.

Swedish Proverb

Guests should not forget to go home.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Go

AuthorDateQuotation

Magna Carta

1215

No freemen shall be taken or imprisoned or disseised or exiled or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him nor send upon him, except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land. (reference)

John Locke

1690

This every one thinks necessary, and believes he deserves to be thought a declared enemy to society and mankind, who should go about to take it away. (Second Treatise of Government)

Treaty of Versailles

1919

They shall be entitled as often as they think desirable to proceed to any point whatever in German territory, or to send subcommissions, or to authorise one or more of their members to go, to any such point. (reference)

Winston S. Churchill

1946

In such a matter we can only go step by step, but we must begin now. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

John F. Kennedy

1961

With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own. (reference)

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

1963

With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1962)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Go

TitleAuthorQuote

Emma

Austen, Jane

If it be not inconvenient to you, pray let us go in, that I may prove myself to belong to the place, to be a true citizen of Highbury

Alice in Wonderland

Carroll, Lewis

However, at last she stretched her arms round it as far as they would go, and broke off a bit of the edge with each hand

A Christmas Carol

Dickens, Charles

Go and buy it, and tell em to bring it here, that I may give them the direction where to take it.

Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

However, leaving that mystery to solve itself, or go unsolved for ever, he drove his task onward, with earnest haste and ecstasy

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

The poor cannot go to the end of their chamber or to the end of their destiny, but by bending continually more and more

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

And how many of those tiny little grains go to make up the small handful which a child grasps in its play

King Richard III

Shakespeare, William

Lords, will you go with me

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Maybe you can go on relief

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

I desired his leave to go with them, that I might see the country, and make what discoveries I could

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Go

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Go lightly when using butter and margarine. (references)

All of the symptoms do not go away completely. (references)

They go around the blood stream and find germs. (references)

Business

Of the above listed SCAA investments, the lion share will go to Arlanda. (references)

Commercial advertisements will be used by the three networks to go digital. (references)

Many think they have seen what is to seen in Europe and want to go further. (references)

Children

Cote d'Ivoire

Students who pass entrance exams may elect to go to free public secondary schools. (references)

Algeria

Hospitals treat numerous child-abuse cases every year, but many cases go unreported. (references)

Pakistan

Even those children who go to school are not assured of being able to read and write. (references)

Civil Liberties

Bangladesh

After returning to Dhaka, Khaleda Zia attempted to go by another route. (references)

Russia

However, implementation of the law (which was scheduled to go into effect early in 1997) remained incomplete. (references)

Ethiopia

Muslim leaders stated that in some schools, Muslim girls go without head coverings in order to avoid similar problems. (references)

Economic History

China

Go to www.fas.usda.gov for more information. (references)

Uzbekistan

Most large contracts go to corporate clients. (references)

Poland

The bulk of advertising revenues go to television. (references)

Human Rights

Guatemala

Of these cases, 87 percent never go to trial. (references)

Peru

They allowed him to go home after the beating. (references)

Ukraine

Complicated cases may take years to go to trial. (references)

Minorities

Pakistan

Young Ahmadis complain of difficulty in gaining admittance to good colleges and consequently having to go abroad for higher education. (references)

Slovak Republic

Also in March in Bratislava, a window in a Hungarian-speaking high school was broken and the slogans "Hungarians Go Home" and "Disband the SMK" were spraypainted on a statue of Hungarian poet Sandor Petofi. (references)

India

NGO's report that crimes committed by higher caste Hindus against Dalits often go unpunished, either because the authorities do not prosecute vigorously such cases or because the crimes are unreported by the victims, who fear retaliation. (references)

Political Economy

BELGIUM

For 2002, unemployment is expected to go up again. (references)

Sierra Leone

While more than 2,600 abducted children were released by the RUF, most of those let go were male. (references)

CANADA

In the wake of the September 11 attacks, a number of companies are expected to go bankrupt and assets will be sold off. (references)

Political Rights

Bangladesh

Under the new provisions, election fraud cases are to go directly to the High Court. (references)

Trade

Slovak Rep

To learn more about TDA, go to www.tda.gov. (references)

Poland

All payments go through qualified foreign exchange banks. (references)

Travel

Senegal

Dakar is linked to 23 African cities by air, and weekly flights go to Europe. (references)