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Definitions: Get Going |
Get GoingVerb1. 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 GoingSynonyms: 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) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: Get Going |
| English words defined with "get going": exploited ♦ get it ♦ ill-used ♦ launch ♦ overtaking ♦ passing, put-upon ♦ set in motion, start, start up ♦ used ♦ victimised, victimized. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "get going": buffer overflow ♦ hacked off ♦ Montrognon ♦ plokta ♦ Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal, ROOSEVELT ♦ Tranny, Troll-O-Meter ♦ U-NET Limited. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
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) | |
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![]() | O.K., young man, get going!.Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Doonesbury. Well, guess I better get going ... / G.B. Trudeau.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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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. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency 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. | |
| 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 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) kretati se (budge, get around, move, move about). (various references) ponerse en marcha (draw out, launch out, sally forth, sally out, start). (various references) komma i gång. (various references) 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) починатися (commence, dawn, start, teethe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 65 74      47 6F 69 6E 67 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01100101 01110100 00100000 01000111 01101111 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G e t   G o i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0065 0074      0047 006F 0069 006E 0067 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)41718624181758073 |
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