Go On

Definition: Go On

Go On

Verb

1. Continue a certain state, condition, or activity; "Keep on working!" "We continued to work into the night"; "Keep smiling"; "We went on working until well past midnight".

2. Come to pass; "What is happening?"; "The meeting took place off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important".

3. Move forward, also in the metaphorical sense: "Time marches on".

4. Continue with one's activities; "I know it's hard," he continued, "but there is no choice"; "carry on--pretend we are not in the room".

5. Start running, functioning, or operating, as of lights or power.

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

Synonyms: Go On

Continuance in action

Verb: continue, persist; go on, jog on, keep on, run on, hold on; abide, keep, pursue, stick to its course, take its course, maintain its course; carry on, keep up.

Sequence

Verb: advance; proceed, progress; get on, get along, get over the ground; gain ground; forge ahead; jog on, rub on, wag on; go with the stream; keep one;s course, hold on one's course; go on, move on, come one, get on, pass on, push on, press on, go forward, move forward, come forward, get forward, pass forward, push forward, press forward, go forwards, move forwards, come forwards, get forwards, pass forwards, push forwards, press forwards, go ahead, move ahead, come ahead, get ahead, pass ahead, push ahead, press ahead; make one's way, work one's way, carve one's way, push one's way, force one's way, edge one's way, elbow one's way; make progress, make head, make way, make headway, make advances, make strides, make rapid strides; (velocity); go ahead, shoot ahead; distance; make up leeway.

Time

Verb: continue last endure, go on, remain, persist; intervene; elapse; hold out.

Crosswords: Go On

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

It's kind of like when you go on vacation: you plan everything out, but then one day you make a wrong turn, or take a detour, and you end up in some crazy place you can't even find on the map, doing something you never thought you'd do. Maybe you feel a little lost while it's happening, but later you realize it was the best part of the whole trip (Threesome; writing credit: Andrew Fleming.)

I go on, night ever night (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice)

Look, I'll make it easy for you. The time has come when you must tell me you have a wife and two adorable childrenand this madness between us can't go on any longer (Notorious; writing credit: Ben Hecht)

Life will go on, we will prevail (Deep Impact; writing credit: Bruce Joel Rubin; Michael Tolkin)

`Cause I don't wanna go on with you like that (I Don't Wanna Go On With You Like That; performing artist: Elton John)

Who knows how much further we'll go on (The Longest Time; performing artist: Billy Joel)

Keep your head still, I'll be your thrill, the night will go on, the night will (All the Small Things; performing artist: Blink 182)

I will go on all day hear what I say (Hook; performing artist: Blues Traveler)

Why must we go on hating, why can't we live in bliss (Peace Train; performing artist: Cat Stevens)

The Shoe Must Go On! (1973)

I Could Go on Singing (1963)

The Shoe Must Go On (1960)

When the Lights Go On Again (1944)

Women Go on Forever (1931)

Go On (performing artist: George Strait)

The Show Must Go On (performing artist: Three Dog Knight)

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

Books

• Last Call at the 7-Eleven: Fine Dining at 2 A.M., the Search for Spandex People, and Other Reasons to Go on Living (reference)

• Curious Kids Go on Vacation: Another Big Book of Words (Antoine, Heloise. Big Book of Words Series, 3rd Bk.) (reference)

• Someone Will Go On Owing: Selected Poems, 1966-1992 (reference)

• Go On, Take The Shot! -- Tabasco Sauce, Woody Allen, Wayne Gretzky And Business Innovation [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

• The Whirlpool - Sometimes I Think I Can't Go on Anymore (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• 45 or 46 Songs That Weren't Good Enough to Go on Our Other Records (reference)

• Judy That's Entertainment / I Could Go on Singing (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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

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.

Aw, go on! it's not goin' t' rain, grandpa. Credit: Library of Congress.

The overworked lambs go on strike. Credit: Library of Congress.

Aw Jimmy! go on! be a German!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Industrial crisis: owing to loss taking, the J.P. Morgan Library is forced to go on a circulating basis. Credit: Library of Congress.

Auction. Farmer after farmer in the drought area is forced to see his few possessions to go on the block of the auctioneer as drought drives him from his homestead and makes him a propertyless migrant. Credit: Library of Congress.

Migratory agricultural workers waiting to go on night shift at the grading station at Camden, North Carolina. Credit: Library of Congress.

Join - Red Cross work must go on! All you need is a heart and a dollar / / Dexter. Credit: Library of Congress.

Join - Red Cross work must go on! All you need is a heart and a dollar / / Dexter. Credit: Library of Congress.

We've allowed a war to go on for over ten years. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

I did not know how I could reach him, where I could overtake him and go on hand in hand with him once more

However, he consented to go on.

Go on, my boy, you will repay this to your grandson

Go on yourself

Maybe you can go on relief

There must have been one, a moment, in childhood when it first occured to you that you don't go on for ever

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

They then go on the maintenance schedule earlier. (references)

Many go on to have different types of seizures in later childhood. (references)

The majority of colectomy patients go on to live normal, active lives. (references)

Business

As more treatment facilities go on line, great potential for operations and maintenance services open up. For example, the company that built the Yannawa treatment plant, a BOT project, is to transfer operations to the BMA in 2001. BMA officials have said this will become a test case for the BMA staff. (references)

Children

Croatia

An estimated 10 percent of Croatian Romani children begin primary school, and of these only 10 percent go on to secondary school. (references)

Macedonia

At both the primary and secondary levels, girls in some ethnic-Albanian communities remained underrepresented in schools, and only approximately half of ethnic minority students go on to high school. (references)

Civil Liberties

Korea

A religious studies program also was established at Kim Il Sung University in 1989; its graduates usually go on to work in the foreign trade sector. (references)

Economic History

Haiti

Working through the Haitian courts is a lengthy process and cases often go on for years. (references)

Suriname

Many former PNR members would go on to play a key role following the coup of February 1980. (references)

Uae

Enforcing judgments has not always been easy, and judicial proceedings can often go on several years. (references)

Human Rights

Guyana

Appeals of some murder cases may go on for several years. (references)

Cameroon

The prisoners threatened to go on hunger strikes or riot. (references)

Kenya

On October 26, the detainees were released on bond and scheduled to go on trial in December; all charges against the detainees later were dropped. (references)

Travel

Turkey

Visitors who will visit rural areas, or go on hiking, or trekking trips in the country may wish to get Rabies vaccine although this is not required. (references)

Worker Rights

Nicaragua

In April 2000, the representatives of the CST tried to obtain authorization from the Ministry of Labor to go on strike at Chentex, a Taiwanese-owned textile factory, for its failure to honor the terms of its collective bargaining agreement. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "go on": don't go on about it! ♦ go on a bat ♦ go on a bender ♦ go on a binge ♦ go on a buying spree ♦ go on a fool's errand ♦ go on a forlorn hope ♦ go on a hike ♦ go on a hunger strike ♦ go on a jag ♦ go on a jaunt ♦ go on a journey ♦ go on a pilgrimage ♦ go on a pub crawl ♦ go on a safari ♦ go on a shopping spree ♦ go on a spending spree ♦ go on a spree ♦ go on a visit ♦ go on a wild goose chase ♦ go on ahead ♦ go on all fours ♦ go on an excursion ♦ go on and on ♦ go on at smb. ♦ go on before ♦ go on board ♦ go on campaign trail ♦ go on doing ♦ go on doing smth. ♦ go on errands ♦ go on foot ♦ go on for ♦ go on for ever ♦ go on for months ♦ go on for twenty ♦ go on forever ♦ go on furlough ♦ go on hike ♦ go on his way ♦ go on holiday ♦ go on ill ♦ go on in the old jog trot way ♦ go on leave ♦ go on one's knees ♦ go on patrol ♦ go on pension ♦ go on pilgrimage ♦ go on reading ♦ go on safari ♦ go on sale ♦ go on shank's pony ♦ go on shore ♦ go on strike ♦ go on the air ♦ go on the booze ♦ go on the campaign ♦ go on the dole ♦ go on the parish ♦ go on the rampage ♦ go on the rocks ♦ go on the skid ♦ go on the spree ♦ go on the stage ♦ go on the stump ♦ go on the waggon ♦ go on the wagon ♦ go on tour ♦ go on trip ♦ go on vacation ♦ go on wheels ♦ go on with ♦ go on with smth. ♦ have smth. to go on ♦ To go on ♦ to go on all fours ♦ to go on the nod ♦ to go on the offensive ♦ To go on the road ♦ To go on the stump. Additional references.

Albanian

zhvillohem (be, blossom, develop, expand, grow up, move), vazhdoj (carry on, carry over, continue, extend, go ahead, hold on, hold over, keep, keep on, maintain, pick up, press on, proceed, prosecute, pursue, push on, run, spread), përparoj (advance, carry forward, come along, come on, do, do well, flourish, forge, get along, get on, go ahead, make one's way through, progress). (various references)

Arabic 

‏واصل (carry on, continue, follow in his footsteps, gear, hold on, keep, persist, press, proceed, pursue, push, push along, push on, roll on, stay, stick to smth., sustain), ‏إستمر (continue, drive up, endure, get back, get going, get on, go ahead, go in, hold, hold on, keep, keep going, keep on, last, persist, run on smth., sew on, subsist, take, wear out). (various references)

Bulgarian 

върши се, продължавам (carry on, continue, extend, go ahead, keep, keep on, last, lengthen, proceed, produce, prolong, prosecute, protract, push on, reach, resume, spread, stretch), постъпвам (act, behave, enter, proceed). (various references)

Chinese 

下去 (go down). (various references)

Czech

zapnout se, rozsvítit se (flare, light up), pokraèovat (carry on, continue, get on, get on with, go, hold, keep on, proceed, take up), nepovídej (don't give me that, get away), nastoupit na hřištì, jet (drive, go, ride, trek, wheel), jít na scénu, jít dál (walk on). (various references)

Danish

fortsætte (continue, proceed with). (various references)

Dutch

voortzetten (continue, proceed with), voortgaan (continue, proceed with), vervolgen (chase, continue, haunt, persecute, proceed with, prosecute, pursue), verder gaan met (continue, proceed with), doorgaan (continue, cover, go through, pass on, pass through, proceed with). (various references)

Esperanto

daŭrigi (continue, proceed with). (various references)

Finnish

jatkaa (add a piece to, carry on, continue, extend, join, keep on, lengthen, proceed, proceed with, resume, scarf). (various references)

French

continuer (get going, keep going). (various references)

German

fortfahren (continue, go away, leave, proceed, proceed with, resume, take up, to continue, to keep up). (various references)

Greek 

συμβαίνω (bechance, befall, betide, chance, come about, fall out, fortune, go on 1, go on 2, hap, happen, occur, pass off, transpire, turn up), προχωρώ (advance, get on, go ahead, go along, move on, proceed, progress), περνώ (come across, cross, fare, get by, go by, go through, pass, pass through, spend time, step over, surpass, while), εξακολουθώ (carry on, continue, keep, keep on, persist), αρχίζω (begin, come on, commence, start). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"משיך ללכת (keep going). (various references)

Hungarian

továbbmegy (to get on, to go on, to jog, to move along, to move on, to pass by, to pass on, to push along), folytat (carry on, continue, pursue, to carry on, to exercise, to follow, to inquire, to keep going, to ply, to propagandize, to prosecute, to restart, to resume). (various references)

Indonesian

bermuhibah (go on a goodwill mission), berlibur (go on vacation). (various references)

Italian

continuare (continue, go, hold, keep, keep on, last, pick up, ply, press on, proceed, proceed with, prosecute, push on, stand). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

歩む (to go on foot, to walk). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

デート (date, go on a date), どさまわり�'やる (to be on the road, to go on tour), せいとにのぼる (to go on a military expedition, to start on a journey), あゆむ (to go on foot, to walk), む� あし (go on fool's errand, visit for no reason), よみすすむ (to go on reading). (various references)

Papiamen

kontinuá (continue, proceed with). (various references)

Pig Latin

ogay onay.(various references)

Portuguese

continuar (abide, carry on, continue, endure, go ahead, go along, hold on, keep, keep on, last, lengthen, maintain, proceed, proceed with, progress, prolong, prosecute, run, stay). (various references)

Romanian

zi-i-nainte (carry on), trece (bequeath, blow over, call, call on, cease, clear away, cross, die, diminish, disappear, elapse, enter, flow, Ford, get in, get under, go, go by, insert, jot down, lapse, lapse away, pass, pass away, pass by, pass off, pass on, pop, reeve, register, roll, sail, sift, slip away, slip by, transmit, traverse, wear), se sprijini (abut, bear on, depend on, go upon, hang, recline, repose), se lungi (become longer, elongate, fall, get longer, grow longer, lengthen, loll), se desfãşura (be on, deploy, evolve, expand, go off, pass off, stream, unfold, unreel, unroll), se baza pe (go upon, rest), reuşi (answer, be a success, bring home the bacon, contrive, do well, hit, make one's mark, manage, pan out, pass, pay off, prevail, prosper, qualify, speed, strike, strike oil, succeed, win, work), porni în (deliver), dã-i drumul (blaze away, fire away, go ahead, go it, look alive, spill it), continua (bide, carry on, carry through, continue, follow, hold, keep, keep it up, keep on, keep up, last, persist, play off, proceed, prosecute, pursue, resume), începe (begin, commence, develop, enter upon, go into the army, initiate, it starts, lead off, lead out, open, preface, set, set forth, set off, start). (various references)

Russian 

продолжать (carry on, continue, continue in, continue to, continue with, follow up, go ahead, keep on, keep to, porceeded, proceed, prolong). (various references)

Scottish

siuthad (begin, say away). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

odigravati se (take place), nastaviti (carry forward, carry on, continue, follow up, get on with, go ahead, keep on, keep up, move along, move on). (various references)

Somali

sii. (various references)

Spanish

continuar (carry on, continue, drag on, endure, get along with smth., hold, keep, keep on, keep up, last, last out, proceed with, pursue, push on, remain, resume, sustain). (various references)

Swedish

vet du vad, traggla, tändas (light), resa vidare, räcka (be enough, do, endure, file, fill the bill, hand, last, last out, line, pass, pass over, rank, reach, row, series, suffice, turn), pågå (be going on, be in progress, run), fortsätta (carry on, come on, continue, keep, keep going, keep on, move on, pass on, persevere, persist, proceed, proceeding, take up), fortgå (continue, proceed), fortfara (continue, last), försätta (remove, set), åka på. (various references)

Turkish

güvenmek (accredit, bank on, bargain on, base oneself on, believe, build, calculate, confide, confide in, count on, credit, depend, fall back upon a thing, figure on, give credence to, have confidence in, lean on, look to, pin one's faith on, place one's trust in, place reliance in, place reliance on, put faith in, put one's trust in, reckon on, reckon upon, recline upon, rely on, rely upon, repose, repose in, rest on, take smth. on trust, throw oneself on, trust), gelmek (arrive, attain, carry over, come, come to, come up to, fall on, get, go to scale at, pull, put in, roll up, scale in, scale out, set, stem, turn the scale at, weigh), ilerlemek (advance, develop, forge ahead, gain, get along, go ahead, go along, go forward, improve, keep going, make headway, make one's way, make progress, move, move on, proceed, progress, push on, run on), dır dır etmek, dayanmak (abut, be based on, be predicated on, bear up, bear up against, bear with, Brook, consist, endure, found, ground, hang, hang on, hinge on, hold, hold on, hold one's own, hold out, hold up, last, lean, lean upon, offer resistance, osculate, put up with, rely on, rely upon, repose, repose on, resist, rest, rest against, root in, stand, stand on, stand the racket, stand up, stand upon, stay, stick, stick it, stick out, survive, sweat out, take, take it, thole, tolerate, trace, wear, withstand), devam et (go ahead, keep going, keep it up), devam etmek (attend, carry forward, carry over, continue, draw, endure, follow on, get along, go ahead, go ahead with smth., go along, hang over, hold, keep at, keep going, keep on, keep up, last, pass on, persist, proceed, progress, prosecute, pursue, push, run on, stand, stand to), bel bağlamak (bank on, bargain on, base oneself on, build, calculate, look to, place reliance in, place reliance on, reckon on, reckon upon, rely on, rely upon, repose in, rest on, trust to), ilerle, yapma (accomplishment, acquittal, artificial, construction, cut it out, drop it, dummy, execution, exercise, fulfillment, fulfilment, imitated, implement, making, perpetration, postiche, pursuance, sham, spurious, stop it), inanmam, konuşup durmak (chatter), olmak (be, be situated, become, befall, come about, come off, come over, eventuate, exist, fare, get, go, grow, hap, happen, hatch, have, hit, mature, occur, take place, turn), saçma (absurd, applesauce, balls, baloney, blind, boloney, bunk, bunkum, chimerical, claptrap, cockeyed, dissemination, eradiation, fantastic, fantastical, farcical, fatuous, fiddle, fiddle-de-dee, fiddlesticks, foolish, for the birds, froth, frothy, fudge, hog-wash, hooey, impertinent, inane, incongruous, inept, irrational, jabber wocky, kibosh, laugh, malarkey, nonsense, nonsensical, outlandish, paltry, pointless, poppycock, raving, rhubarb, rot, scattering, senseless, shot, shucks, skittles, small shot, smearcase, sorry, spinach, stuff, tommyrot, tosh, trash, trifling, tripe, trivial, trumpery, unreasonable, wacky, waffle, whacky), saçmalama (come off it, yap), yanmak (be hot, broil, burn, burn out, fire, fuse, fuze, glow, inflame, kindle, light, light up, scorch, smart, sting, swelter, take, tan, toast), haydi (come on, go ahead, tally-ho). (various references)

Ukrainian

іти далі (go along, move along, move on, outstep), продовжувати (carry, carry on, continue, elongate, go ahead, go along, keep on, proceed, produce, prolong, prolongate, prosecute, protract, pursue, resume). (various references)

Yucatec

segirtik (continue, proceed with). (various references)

expergescimini, pergam, pergami, pergamum, pergant, pergat, pergatur, perge, pergebam, pergebant, pergebat, pergemus, pergens, pergensque, pergent, pergentem, pergentes, pergentesque, pergentibus, pergere, pergeremus, pergerent, pergeres, pergeret, pergeretis, perges, pergesque, perget, pergimus, pergis, pergit, pergite, pergitis, pergunt, perrexerant, perrexerat, perrexeris, perrexerunt, perrexeruntque, perrexissent, perrexisti, perrexit, perrexitque. (various references)

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

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: goon.

-1 letter: goo, nog, noo.

-2 letters: go, no, on.

+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.