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Definition: No-go |
No-goAdjective1. Not functioning properly or in suitable condition for proceeding; "the space launch was no-go". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Antonym: go (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: No-go |
| Specialty definitions using "no-go": method of attributes ♦ no-go item. (references) |
| "No-go" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 76.71% of the time. "No-go" is used about 73 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 76.71% | 56 | 45,296 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 23.29% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Total | 100.00% | 73 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "no-go": no-go-alone, no-go-go. | |
Ending with "no-go": go-no-go. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "no-go"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 没有去. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Czech | uzavřená oblast (no-go area). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | toleranceværktøj (no-go gage), minimale betingelser for flyveautorisation (go no-go item), kritisk element (no-go item), go no-go (go no-go), esentielt element (no-go item). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | goedkeurmaat/afkeurkaliber (no-go gage), goedkeurkaliber (no-go gage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | toleranssitulkki (no-go gage), pakollinen varuste (go no-go item, no-go item). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | go no-go (go no-go), conditions minimales d'autorisation de vol (go no-go item), calibre mâchoires (no-go gage), calibre entre/n'entre pas (no-go gage), élément entraînant l'interdiction de départ (no-go item). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | No-Go-Item (no-go item), zulässiger Mangel an Einsatzfähigkeit (go no-go item), sperrgebiet (danger zone, exclusion area, forbidden area, forbidden zone, no-go area, prohibited area, restricted area), Grenzlehre (go-no go gage, go-no-go gauge, no-go gage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | κριτήριο για την παροχή άδειας για πτήση (go no-go item), κρίσιμο εξάρτημα (no-go item), καλίμπρα εντός-εκτός (no-go gage), μετρητής εντός-εκτός (no-go gage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | componente vitale (no-go item), componente critico (no-go item), calibro passa/non passa (no-go gage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Korean | 가십시" (Go, tend). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | o-gonay calibrador de limite (no-go gage). (various references) lista go-no-go (go no-go item), elemento esencial (no-go item), calibrador fijo con tolerancia (no-go gage), calibrador de límite (no-go gage), artículo crítico (no-go item). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: goon. | |
| Words within the letters "g-n-o-o" | |
-1 letter: goo, nog, noo. | |
-2 letters: go, no, on. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-n-o-o" | |
+1 letter: bongo, cogon, congo, gonof, gonzo, goons, goony, mongo. | |
+2 letters: bongos, booing, cogons, congos, congou, cooing, drongo, gaboon, gentoo, gnomon, gobony, godown, godson, gonion, gonofs, gonoph, gooney, goonie, gorgon, isogon, lagoon, logion, looing, mongoe, mongol, mongos, mooing, nonego, noodge, oblong, oogeny, oohing, oolong, oozing, orgone, trogon, wooing. | |
+3 letters: bologna, bongoes, boobing, booking, booming, booting, boozing, cologne, congoes, congous, cooking, cooling, cooping, doggone, dongola, dooming, dragoon, drongos, enology, foghorn, fooling, footing, forgone, fourgon, gaboons, gadroon, galloon, gentoos, glonoin, gnomons, gobonee, godowns, godroon, godsons, gondola, gonophs, goodman, goodmen, goofing, gooneys, goonies, goosing, gorgons, gossoon, gunroom, hoboing, hognose, hooding, hoofing, hooking, hooping, hooting, ionogen, isogone, isogons, isogony, jargoon, lagoons, locoing, logions, longbow, looking, looming, looping, loosing, looting, lorgnon, mongoes, mongols, monolog, mooning, mooring, mooting, neology, nonagon, nonegos, noodged, noodges, nooning, noosing, oblongs, octagon, ongoing, oogonia, oolongs, oregano, organon, orgones, orogeny, outgone, pogonia, pogonip, polygon, poohing, pooling, pooping, prolong, roofing, rooking, rooming, roosing, rooting, shooing, soloing, sooting, tooling, tooting, trogons, wooding, woofing, zooming. | |
| 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)4E 6F 2D 67 6F |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01101111 00101101 01100111 01101111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N o - g o |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 006F 002D 0067 006F |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4881157381 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage Frequency 4. Expressions | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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