Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Departure.
- noun The condition underfoot as it affects one's headway in walking or riding.
- noun Informal Progress toward a goal; headway.
- adjective Working; running.
- adjective In full operation; flourishing.
- adjective Current; prevailing.
- adjective To be found; available.
- idiom (going on) Approaching.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In stair-building, the width of the stairway or length of a tread.
- noun The act of moving in any manner.
- noun Departure.
- noun Time of pregnancy; gestation.
- noun Way; shape; behavior; deportment: used chiefly in the plural.
- noun Condition of paths and roads for walking or driving.
- noun A right of pasturage for a beast on a common.
- noun An outlet.
- noun A starting; a departure: as, the going forth of the house of Israel.
- noun Expenditure; outlay.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- That goes; in existence; available for present use or enjoyment; current; obtainable; also, moving; working; in operation; departing.
- Carrying on its ordinary business; conducting business, or carried on, with an indefinite prospect of continuance; -- chiefly used in the phrases a going business, concern, etc.
- Of or pertaining to a going business or concern.
- noun The act of moving in any manner; traveling.
- noun Departure.
- noun Pregnancy; gestation; childbearing.
- noun Course of life; behavior; doings; ways.
- noun (Horology) A device for maintaining a force to drive the train while the timepiece is being wound up.
- noun (Script.) A limit; a border.
- noun (Script.) Departure or journeying.
- noun behavior; actions; conduct; -- usually in a bad sense.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
go . - noun A
departure . - noun The
suitability ofground for riding, walking etc. - noun
progress - noun figuratively Conditions for advancing in any way.
- noun obsolete
pregnancy ;gestation ;childbearing - noun plural Course of life; behaviour; doings; ways.
- adjective Likely to
continue ;viable . - adjective That attends habitually or regularly.
- adjective
Current ,prevailing . - adjective
Available .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun advancing toward a goal
- adjective in full operation
- noun euphemistic expressions for death
- noun the act of departing
Etymologies
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Examples
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Time we were going, Maggie -- (_going to her_, C.); -- you'll be glad to see the back of us.
Hobson's Choice Harold Brighouse 1920
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I am going, I continued, going willingly; but, should I say forever, perhaps I may not keep my word.
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\ "When the going gets tough, the tough get going\".
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He _is_ going to do those things, just as he _is _going to sink the _Brandenburg _tonight, because he's already _done _them and there's nothing you can do about it. "
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If she ever attains that goal is everything that happens during her term going to be Obama's fault?
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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"What has always kept me and the label going is the music itself," he said.
A Label With Swing to Spare Tad Hendrickson 2011
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The term going concern refers to the ability of a company to generate enough funds to stay operational.
Jet Airways Auditors Ask Company to Raise Funds Ashutosh Joshi 2011
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"What has always kept me and the label going is the music itself," he said.
A Label With Swing to Spare Tad Hendrickson 2011
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Sebastian nodded, his expression going dim and the volume of his words lowering.
Darkness Becomes Her Kelly Keaton 2011
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Value is going to be the watch word going forward.
Hotel Pioneer Returns to N.Y. Craig Karmin 2011
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The r/GeekSquad subreddit, an unofficial community for Geek Squad workers, is full of posts about the layoffs, with many users posting photos of their Geek Squad badges and noting that they are agents “going sleeper,” a Sleeper Cell reference meaning they’ve been laid off.
Best Buy Geek Squad Agents ‘Going Sleeper’ After Mass Layoffs Jason Koebler 2024
brobbins commented on the word going
metaphysical extenstion
July 22, 2009