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Get Going

Definitions: Get Going

Get Going

Verb

1. Begin or set in motion; "I start at eight in the morning"; "Ready, set, go!".

2. Start to be active; "Get cracking, please!".

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

Synonyms: Get Going

Synonyms: bestir oneself (v), get cracking (v), get moving (v), get rolling (v), get started (v), get weaving (v), go (v), start (v). (additional references)
Antonym: stop (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Get Going

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

Beginning

Phrase: let's get going! let's get this show on the road! up and at 'em! aller Anfang ist schwer; dimidium facti qui coepit habet; omnium rerum principia parva sunt.

Journey

Embark, board, set out, hit the road, get going, get underway.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Get Going

English words defined with "get going": exploitedget itill-usedlaunchovertakingpassing, put-uponset in motion, start, start upusedvictimised, victimized. (references)
Specialty definitions using "get going": buffer overflowhacked offMontrognonploktaReal Programmers Don't Use Pascal, ROOSEVELTTranny, Troll-O-MeterU-NET Limited. (references)

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Modern Usage: Get Going

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Get going! And answer those phones, install a computer system, and rotate my office so the window faces the hills. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

All right, let's get going. (Shannon's Deal; writing credit: David Greenwalt)

Well what the hell let's get going I'm hungry. (Day of the Animals; writing credit: Edward L. Montoro; Eleanor E. Norton)

Revolutions get going cause there ain't enough bread. (Oz; writing credit: Pavel Srut)

It's 8:05, let's get going! (Senior Trip; writing credit: Roger Kumble; I. Marlene King)

Clever

When the going gets tough, the tough get going. When the going still gets tough, the tough pray. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

Get Going (1943)

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

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Commercial Usage: Get Going

DomainTitle

Books

  • Career Success With Pets: How to Get Started, Get Going, Get Ahead (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Photo Album: Get Going

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

O.K., young man, get going!.Credit: Library of Congress.

Doonesbury. Well, guess I better get going ... / G.B. Trudeau.Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Sounds Captioned with "Get Going".

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Fast; quick; ASAP; abrupt; accelerated; active; agile; alert; animated; breakneck; brief; brisk; cursory; curt; double time; energetic; expeditious; expeditive; express; fleet; flying; get going; harefooted; hasty; headlong; hurried; immediate; impatient.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Get Going

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  get going not us

20

  get going not there us

8

  get going not tattoo us

5

  fire get going it only spark take

5

  get going

5

  get going not re they us

4

  get going lyrics not us

4

  get going not their us

3

  get going lyrics not tattoo us

3

  get going spanking

2

  get going not tattoo there us

2

  get going gonna i i m m where

2

  easier get going things

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Get Going

Language Translations for "get going"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

energjik (abuzz, active, aggressive, busily, dapper, drastic, dynamic, eager, energetic, forceful, full of beans, high-spirited, live, lively, peppy, punchy, pushing, rattling, snappy, stirring, sturdy, vigorous, vital, zippy). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏سرع بالعمل, ‏إستمر (continue, drive up, endure, get back, get on, go ahead, go in, go on, hold, hold on, keep, keep going, keep on, last, persist, run on smth., sew on, subsist, take, wear out). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

тръгвам (depart, drive off, get along, get off, leave, pull away, pull off, put, put forth, sally, set forth, set off, set on, set out, shove off, start, wend, wend one's way), поразвъртявам се (get busy), почвам (begin, dawn, go, go ahead, launch, start). (various references)

   

Czech

  

rozproudit se, rozjařit se, rozehrát se. (various references)

   

French

  

continuer (get on), accélérer. (various references)

   

German

  

los (aweigh, come on, destiny, fate, fortune, go on, going on, happening, loose, lot, luck, misfortune, off, parcel, portion, raffle ticket, sale lot, ticket), in gang bringen (actuate, get off the ground, get under way, put in motion, set going, set in motion), aufdrehen (let it all hang out, loosen, open up, play up, switch on, turn on, turn up, unscrew, untwist, wind up), anstoß geben (induce, initiate). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ל"תחיל ב- (originate, set about, start). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

elindul (depart, grant, start off, start out, to depart, to drop the flag, to get off, to get under weigh, to go forth, to hit the road, to put off, to sally forth, to set forth, to start, to start off, to start on one's journey, to start on one's way, to start out, to take the road). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

etgay oinggay

   

Russian 

  

двигаться (move, run, stir, traverse), действовать (act, be in operation, do, follow with, functionate, kabobalating, operate, proceed, pursue, remain in force, run, take, work). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

kretati se (budge, get around, move, move about). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

ponerse en marcha (draw out, launch out, sally forth, sally out, start). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

komma i gång. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

başlatmak (begin, commence, give a start, induct, initiate, institute, launch, lead away, lead off, open, open the ball, set off, start, stir up, trigger), başlamak (begin, come on, commence, cut along, enter into, enter on, enter upon, fall into, fall to, get, get a move on, get to, go, go off, inaugurate, introduce, kick off, knuckle down to, launch, launch out, launch out into, lay down, open, set about, set in, set out, set to, start, start in, start off, strike in, strike up, turn to). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

починатися (commence, dawn, start, teethe). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Get Going

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-g-g-g-i-n-o-t"

-1 letter: togging.

-2 letters: egging, eggnog, toeing.

-3 letters: gigot, going, ingot, tigon, tinge.

-4 letters: gent, gien, gone, gong, into, nite, nogg, note, tine, ting, tone, tong.

-5 letters: egg, ego, eng, eon, gen, get, gie, gig, gin, git, got, ion, net, nit, nog, not, one, teg, ten, tie, tin, toe, tog, ton.

 Words containing the letters "e-g-g-g-i-n-o-t"
 

+2 letters: outbegging.

 

+3 letters: aggregation, bootlegging.

 

+4 letters: agglutinogen, aggregations, congregating, pettifogging, remortgaging, waterlogging.

 

+5 letters: agglomerating, agglutinogens, aggregational, pettifoggings, reaggregation.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Get Going


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

47 65 74      47 6F 69 6E 67

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000111 01100101 01110100 00100000 01000111 01101111 01101001 01101110 01100111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#101 &#116 &#32 &#71 &#111 &#105 &#110 &#103

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0065 0074      0047 006F 0069 006E 0067

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

41718624181758073

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Sounds
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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