Go By

Definition: Go By

Go By

Verb

1. Pass by, as of time.

2. Pass by; "A black limousine passed by when she looked out the window"; "He passed his professor in the hall"; "One line of soldiers surpassed the other".

3. Be called; go by a certain name; "She goes by her maiden name again".

4. Be or act in accordance with; "Go by this rule and you'll be safe".

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

Synonyms: Go By

Avoidance

Beat a retreat; turn tail, turn one's back; take to one's heels; runaway, run for one's life; cut and run; be off like a shot; fly, flee; fly away, flee away, run away from; take flight, take to flight; desert, elope; make off, scamper off, sneak off, shuffle off, sheer off; break away, tear oneself away, slip away, slink away, steel away, make away from, scamper away from, sneak away from, shuffle away from, sheer away from; slip cable, part company, turn one's heel; sneak out of, play truant, give one the go by, give leg bail, take French leave, slope, decamp, flit, bolt, abscond, levant, skedaddle, absquatulate, cut one's stick, walk one's chalks, show a light pair of heels, make oneself scarce; escape; go away; (depart); abandon; reject.

Conformity

Be regular; Adjective: move in a groove; follow observe the rules, go by the rules, bend to the rules,obey the rules, obey the precedents; comply with, tally with, chime in with, fall in with; be guided by, be regulated by; fall into a custom,fall into a usage; follow the fashion, follow the crowd, follow the multitude; pass muster, do as others do, hurler avec les loups; stand on ceremony; when in Rome do as the Romans do; go with the stream, go with the flow, swim with the stream, swim with the current, swim with the tide, blow with the wind; stick to the beaten track; (habit); keep one in countenance.

Course

Run out, expire; go by, pass by; be -past.

Cunning

Art, artifice; device, machination; plot; (plan); maneuver, stratagem, dodge, sidestep, artful dodge, wile; trick, trickery; (deception); ruse, ruse de guerre; finesse, side blow, thin end of the wedge, shift, go by, subterfuge, evasion; white lie; (untruth); juggle, tour de force; tricks of the trade, tricks upon travelers; espieglerie; net, trap.

Destruction

Verb: be destroyed; perish; fall to the ground; tumble, topple; go to pieces, fall to pieces; break up; crumble to dust; go to the dogs, go to the wall, go to smash, go to shivers, go to wreck, go to pot, go to wrack and ruin; go by the board, go all to smash; be all over, be all up, be all with; totter to its fall.

Impotence

Collapse, faint, swoon, fall into a swoon, drop; go by the board, go by the wayside; go up in smoke, end in smoke; (fail).

Journey

Walk, march, step, tread, pace, plod, wend, go by shank's mare; promenade; trudge, tramp; stalk, stride, straddle, strut, foot it, hoof it, stump, bundle, bowl along, toddle; paddle; tread a path.

Nomenclature

Be -called; Verb: take the name of, bean the name of, go by the name of, be known by the name of, go under the name of, pass under the name of, rejoice in the name of.

The Past

Verb: be past; Adjective: have expired; Adjective:, have run its course, have had its day; pass; pass by, go by, pass away, go away, pass off, go off; lapse, blow over.

Transcursion

Verb: transgress, surpass, pass; go beyond, go by; show in front, come to the front; shoot ahead of; steal a march upon, steal a gain upon.

Untimeliness

Lose an opportunity, throw away an opportunity, waste an opportunity, neglect; an opportunity; allow the opportunity to pass, suffer the opportunity to pass, allow the opportunity to slip, suffer the opportunity to slip, allow the opportunity to go by, suffer the opportunity to go by, allow the opportunity to escape, suffer the opportunity to escape, allow the opportunity to lapse, suffer the opportunity to lapse, allow the occasion to pass, allow the occasion to slip by; waste time; (be inactive); let slip through the fingers, lock the barn door after the horse is stolen.

Crosswords: Go By

Don't they go by in a blink? (Meet Joe Black; writing credit: Martin Brest, screenplay adaptation by Walter Ferris. Based on the play 'Death Takes a Holiday' by Alberto Casella.)

If watching's all you're going to do, then you're going to watch your life go by without you. (The Hunchback of Notre Dame; writing credit: Victor Hugo; Irene Mecchi)

Well at least I don't have to pull over to the side just to let a funeral go by man. (American Graffiti; writing credit: George Lucas ; Gloria Katz)

You did just see three monkeys go by on a motorcycle; right? (Jumanji; writing credit: Greg Taylor)

Frog in the swamp, where mosquitoes and fireflies roam, Where if you're rod toed, you stay out of the road, Cause the cars that go by, they don't honk. (Muppet Babies; writing credit: Katherine Lawrence; Jeffrey Scott)

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

Their faces fade as the years go by (More Than a Feeling; performing artist: BOSTON)

Don't let the days go by (Glycerine; performing artist: Bush)

Now the days go by so fast (A Long December; performing artist: Counting Crows)

I don`t want any night to go by (Could I Have This Kiss Forever - (with Whitney Houston); performing artist: Enrique Iglesias)

The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By (1953)

As Tears Go By (performing artist: The Rolling Stones)

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

Hoover, Texas. An Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe train stopping to let an east-bound freight go by between Canadian and Amarillo, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress.

Play between 6 and 12, the bright hours - Go by underground / E. McK. Kauffer. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Alice got behind a tree, for fear of being run over, and watched them go by.

Rose of Sharon watched the cars go by on the highway.

After all our discoveries and inventions no man will go by a pile of wood.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Slowly, the light sensitive cells in the macula break down. With less of the macula working, you may start to lose central vision in the affected eye as the years go by. Dry AMD often occurs in just one eye at first. (references)

Civil Liberties

Bangladesh

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

Iraq

Foreign journalists must work from offices located within the ministry building and are accompanied everywhere they go by ministry officers, who reportedly restrict their movements and make it impossible for them to interact freely with citizens. (references)

Travel

Austria

This institution is more than a café, more than a pastry and snack shop, is a venerable cultural institution and social gathering spot where you can linger over your postcard writing or read a newspaper, and watch the world go by. (references)

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

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

Expressions using "go by": as years go by ♦ go by air ♦ go by appearances ♦ go by bicycle ♦ go by boat ♦ go by bus ♦ go by car ♦ go by easy journeys ♦ go by interrial ♦ go by plane ♦ go by priority ♦ go by rail ♦ go by smth. ♦ go by taxi ♦ go by the board ♦ go by the boards ♦ go by the book ♦ go by the instructions ♦ go by the name of ♦ go by the rules ♦ go by train ♦ go by tram ♦ let a chance go by ♦ To go by ♦ To go by the board ♦ To let go by the run. Additional references.

Albanian

udhëhiqem nga, shkoj (be, befit, call on, come round, destine, elapse, get, go, ride, step, thread, trace, tread, visit, wend), nisem nga, kaloj (alternate, beguile, come by, come round, cross, cut, devolve, elapse, exceed, float, get by, glide, go, go off, go past, negotiate, outbalance, overstep, pass, passage, ram, run, run in, rush by, skip, slip by, slip past, span, spend, strain, take across, track, transcend, transgress, turn, undergo, witness). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مر (acrid, bitter, embittered, go along, go over, go past, pass, pass by), ‏تقوم على, ‏إهتدى (convert). (various references)

Bulgarian 

минавам край (come by, edge, round), минавам през (go through, pass through, penetrate), минавам (elapse, flow, get by, go, lapse, pass, pass away, pass by, pass into, pass round, pass through, range, roll by, roll on, run, wear through), преминавам (adjourn, get over, get through, melt, merge, overblow, overpass, pass, pass along, pass away, pass by, pass on, passage, proceed, run, shade, surmount, traverse), позовавам се (advert, allude, refer, rely). (various references)

Chinese 

轉�" (go by way of, make a detour). (various references)

Czech

uplynout (elapse, expire, intervene, lapse), míjet (pass, pass by), jít kolem (come by, go around, pass). (various references)

Dutch

afgaan op (go straight to, rely on, trust). (various references)

Esperanto

juĝi laŭ (rely on, trust). (various references)

Finnish

sivuuttaa (overlook, pass, supersede, supplant), kulua (be used up, be worn, elapse, pass, wear). (various references)

French

suivre (go after), s'écouler, passer (go, go beyond, go over, to go through). (various references)

German

vergehen (be about, blame, crime, delinquencies, delinquency, die, die away, elapse, fade, fading, fault, guilt, malfeasance, misdemeanor, misdemeanour, misdoing, offense, pass, pass away, pass by, passing, slip away, swelter, to pass off, wear off). (various references)

Greek 

καθοδηγούμαι, περνώ (come across, cross, fare, get by, go on, go through, pass, pass through, spend time, step over, surpass, while). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"� טש (go by the board). (various references)

Hungarian

telik (gone, to elapse, to fill, to go, to lapse away, to pass, to roll on, went), múlik az idõ, igazodik (adjust, Orient, to fall into step with sy, to go by, to orient, to orientate, to toe the mark), elhalad valami mellett. (various references)

Indonesian

melewati (by way of). (various references)

Italian

passare (be passed, be taken for, call at, cross, elapse, get through, give, go beyond, go through, hand, hand on, happen, help, lapse, pass, pass off, put, put through, roll by, roll on, run, see out, slip, spend, stop by, strain, switch, take place, to pass, transfer), andare (be, be in, drive, fare, get, get on, go, going, like, ride, run, run along, step, to go, travel, tread, walk, work). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

陸行 (go by land), 陸�'行く (to go by land, to travel overland), 見過す (to let go by, to let pass, to miss, to overlook), 見過�"す (to let go by, to let pass, to miss, to overlook), 見逃し (letting a good ball go by, overlooking), 見送る (to escort, to farewell, to let a pitch go by, to let pass, to see off, to wait and see, to watch a batted ball go into the stands), 罷り通る (to get away with, to go by, to let pass), 経�"� (go by the way, via). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

まかりとおる (to get away with, to go by, to let pass), りく�'いく (to go by land, to travel overland), りっ�"う (exertion, go by land, strenuous efforts), けいゆ (diesel oil, gasoline, go by the way, light oil, via), みす�"す (to let go by, to let pass, to miss, to overlook), みおくる (to escort, to farewell, to let a pitch go by, to let pass, to see off, to wait and see, to watch a batted ball go into the stands), みのがし (letting a good ball go by, overlooking). (various references)

Manx

goll shaghey (elapse, get beyond, miss, pass by, roll by, slip by). (various references)

Pig Latin

ogay ybay

Portuguese

passar (blow over, come, draw, drew, dub, elapse, fare, give in, go, go beyond, hand, pass, pass by, rake, rake up, slip away, spend, strop, to pass, to spend, transfer, wear off, wile). (various references)

Romanian

trece (bequeath, blow over, call, call on, cease, clear away, cross, die, diminish, disappear, elapse, enter, flow, Ford, get in, get under, go, go on, 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 lua dupã (follow), rãcealã (ague, chill, chilliness, cold, coldness, cool, coolness, distance, freshness, frigidity, frost, reserve, rheum), nepasare, neluare în seamã (flout), depãşi (beat, better, defy, exceed, Excel, forereach, get ahead of, head, outdo, outreach, outrun, outstep, outstrip, overmatch, overreach, overrun, overshoot, overtake, pass, surpass, top, transcend, transgress). (various references)

Russian 

проходить мимо (come by, gone by, pass by, slide by). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

proći (come through, get by, get off, go, go past, go through, log, pass, pass by, pass through, run), mimoići (evade, pass over), ići (gang, get on, go, mosey, redound, tread in, truck, walk, wend). (various references)

Spanish

guiarse (go on), atenerse a (abide, abide by, hold to, stand by), basarse (be based, go on, ground), basarse en, darse por, fundarse, fundarse en, atenerse (keep), pasar (blow over, bypass, come, come about, come by, come down, come in, come off, cross, dilute, draw, elapse, enact, ensue, expend, function, gait, get, get across, get by, get over, get through, give, go, go off, go on, go over, go past, go through, goffer, hand, hand down, hand on, hand over, happen, kick around, knot, lapse, last, light out, line, live, live through, move, occupy, occur, outdo, overstep, overtake, pass, pass across, pass away, pass by, pass off, pass on, pass round, passing, pop in, post, proceed, put across, put down, reach, relay, render, ride by, roll by, run, shift, skip, smuggle, spend, strain, suffer, swallow, take away, throw out, tick away, tick by, to pass, to spend, touch, tough, turn, turn about, turn around, turn over, wear off, wear on, while), transcurrir (await, elapse, lapse, pass by, wait for, wear on), pasar cerca de, pasar delante, pasar delante de, pasar junto, pasar junto a, pase (come in, entrance card, go past, pass, permit, you may pass, you pass), juzgar (adjudicate, arbitrate, assess, estimate, go in, go into, judge, take part, try). (various references)

Swedish

resa med, passera (come about, cross, get by, happen, occur, pass, pass by, pass through), förlida (pass), förbi (all in, by, done, gone, over, past), avsnoppning. (various references)

Turkish

geçmek (abate, adjourn, be current, be over, be transmitted, be valid, beat, best, better, cap, catch, change to, clear, come down, cross, cut across, devolve, distance, elapse, exceed, Excel, expire, fit in, get through, go, go down, go out, have outgrown smb., interlace, intervene, lapse, leave behind, negotiate, outdistance, outdo, outgo, outgrow, outpace, outrange, outrival, outrun, outstrip, pass, pass away, pass beyond, pass by, pass into, pass off, pass on, pass over, pass up, permeate, ride, rub on, run, run out, subside, surpass, top, tower above, track, transmigrate, turn, wear off), geçip gitmek (flit, pass by, roll by, run, slip by, stride), görmemezlik, göre hareket etmek, göre davranmak (act on, act upon), kaçmak (abscond, blow, bolt, break, break away, bunk, clear off, decamp, defect, desert, elope, escape, fade, flee, fly, fly away, get away, hook it, ladder, Lam, lapse, leg it, light out, make a bolt for it, make off, nip off, pack up, pull out, retreat, run, run away, run off, scamper away, scoot, scuttle, skip, skip it, skip out, slip, slip off, slope off, take flight, travel, walk off), izlemek (chase, come on, dog, eye, follow, follow in smb.'s wake, follow up, give chase, hound, keep tabs on, monitor, monitorize, observe, pursue, shadow, supervene, tail, trace, track, trail, watch). (various references)

Turkmen 

pyяadalamak (go by foot). (various references)

Ukrainian

проходити мимо (come by, get by, overpass, pass by). (various references)

Welsh

mordwyo (go by sea, sail, voyage). (various references)

Xhosa

ukuzihambela (To go by yourself). (various references)

praetereat, praetereunte, praetereuntem, praetereuntes, praetereuntibus, praeteribant, praeteribis, praeteribit, praeteribo, praeteriens, praeterient, praeterierint, praeterieris, praeterierit, praeterieritis, praeterierunt, praeteriet, praeterii, praeteriit, praeterire, praeteriret, praeterissent, praeterisset, praeterit, praeterita, praeteriti, praeteritis, praeterito, praeteritum, praeterivi, praeterivit. (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: bogy, goby.

-1 letter: bog, boy, gob, goy, yob.

-2 letters: bo, by, go, oy, yo.

+1 letter: bogey, boggy, boogy.

+2 letters: bogeys, boogey, bygone, cyborg, globby, gobony, goodby.

+3 letters: bigotry, biogeny, biology, bodying, bogeyed, bogyism, bogyman, bogymen, boogeys, buoyage, buoying, bygones, cyborgs, goodbye, goodbys, goombay, highboy, ignobly, obeying, pageboy.

+4 letters: bodingly, bogeying, bogeyman, bogeymen, bogyisms, boogeyed, boogying, boogyman, boogymen, boringly, bowingly, broguery, bryology, buoyages, dogberry, dogsbody, doughboy, globally, goodbyes, goombays, gorbelly, gorblimy, highboys, lobbygow, lobbying, moneybag, oblongly, pageboys.