go vs turn

go

verb
  • To travel or pass along. 

  • To move through space (especially to or through a place). (May be used of tangible things like people or cars, or intangible things like moods or information.) 

  • To change (from one value to another) in the meaning of wend. 

  • To elapse, to pass; to slip away. (Compare go by.) 

  • To be spent or used up. 

  • To belong (somewhere). 

  • To (begin to) date or have sex with (a particular race). 

  • To make the (specified) sound. 

  • To fit. 

  • To urinate or defecate. 

  • To tend (toward a result). 

  • To be lost. 

  • To have (final) authority; to be authoritative. 

  • I woke up just before the clock went. 

  • To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of. 

  • Let's go halves on this. 

  • Synonyms: crumble, collapse, disintegrate, give way 

  • To continuously or habitually be in a state. 

  • I went at him with a knife. 

  • To be in general; to be usually; often in comparison to others of the same group. 

  • To enjoy. (Compare go for.) 

  • To attend. 

  • To be sold. 

  • To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time. 

  • Synonyms: become, turn, change into 

  • To move or travel in order to do something, or to do something while moving. 

  • To proceed (often in a specified manner, indicating the perceived quality of an event or state). 

  • To apply oneself; to undertake; to have as one's goal or intention. (Compare be going to.) 

  • To navigate (to a file or folder on a computer, a site on the internet, a memory, etc). 

  • To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted. 

  • To sound; to make a noise. 

  • To leave; to move away. 

  • To extend (from one point in time or space to another). 

  • To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result). 

  • To come to (a certain condition or state). 

  • To start; to begin (an action or process). 

  • To work (through or over), especially mentally. 

  • Synonyms: see Thesaurus:urinate, see also Thesaurus:defecate 

  • To attack. 

  • To say (something, aloud or to oneself). (Often used in present tense.) 

  • To date. 

  • Yesterday was the second-wettest day on record; you have to go all the way back to 1896 to find a day when more rain fell. 

  • Synonyms: function, work, operate 

  • To break down or decay. 

  • To be accepted. 

  • We've only gone twenty miles today. 

  • To be valid. 

  • To have a certain record. 

  • To take a turn, especially in a game. 

  • To make an effort, to subject oneself (to something). 

  • To be out. 

  • To resort (to). 

  • To move (a particular distance, or in a particular fashion). 

  • To yield or weigh. 

  • Those babies go five tons apiece. 

  • To be discarded or disposed of. 

  • To follow or proceed according to (a course or path). 

  • To lead (to a place); to give access to. 

  • To be expressed or composed (a certain way). 

  • Anything goes around here. 

  • Why don’t you go with us? 

  • Let's go this way for a while. 

  • To end or disappear. (Compare go away.) 

  • To fight or attack. 

  • How long can you go without water? 

  • To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay. 

  • To proceed (especially to do something foolish). 

  • To collapse or give way, to break apart. 

  • Expressing encouragement or approval. 

  • To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.) 

  • To move or travel through time (either literally—in a fictional or hypothetical situation in which time travel is possible—or in one's mind or knowledge of the historical record). (See also go back.) 

  • To contribute to a (specified) end product or result. 

  • To die. 

  • To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required). 

  • To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as. 

  • To be compatible, especially of colors or food and drink. 

noun
  • A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game). 

  • An attempt, a try. 

  • An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved. 

  • Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance. 

  • The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above thirty-one. 

  • An act; the working or operation. 

  • A period of activity. 

  • Synonym: green light 

  • A strategic board game, originally from China and today also popular in Japan and Korea, in which two players (black and white) attempt to control the largest area of the board with their counters. 

  • Synonyms: attempt, bash, shot, stab, try 

  • The act of going. 

adj
  • Working correctly and ready to commence operation; approved and able to be put into action. 

turn

verb
  • To change one's direction of travel. 

  • To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery. 

  • To magically or divinely attack undead. 

  • To be nauseated; said of the stomach. 

  • To change the color of the leaves in the autumn. 

  • To sour or spoil; to go bad. 

  • To reach a certain age. 

  • To sicken; to nauseate. 

  • Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control. 

  • To transform into a vampire, werewolf, zombie, etc. 

  • To position (something) by folding it, or using its folds. 

  • To rebel; to go against something formerly tolerated. 

  • To give form to; to shape or mould; to adapt. 

  • To complete. 

  • To become (begin to be). 

  • To change fundamentally; to metamorphose. 

  • To change (a person) into a vampire, werewolf, zombie, etc. 

  • To make (money); turn a profit. 

  • Of a bowler, to make (the ball) move sideways off the pitch when it bounces. 

  • To navigate through a book or other printed material. 

  • To change the direction or orientation of, especially by rotation. 

  • To make acid or sour; to ferment; to curdle. 

  • Of a body, person, etc, to move around an axis through itself. 

  • Of a ball, to move sideways off the pitch when it bounces. 

  • To change personalities, such as from being a face (good guy) to heel (bad guy) or vice versa. 

  • To become giddy; said of the head or brain. 

  • To undergo the process of turning on a lathe. 

  • To shape (something) symmetrically by rotating it against a stationary cutting tool, as on a lathe. 

  • To hinge; to depend. 

noun
  • The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em. 

  • A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others. 

  • A change in temperament or circumstance. 

  • A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the note below the one indicated, and the note itself again. 

  • One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players. 

  • A single loop of a coil. 

  • Character; personality; nature. 

  • A short skit, act, or routine. 

  • A fit or a period of giddiness. 

  • A unit of plane angle measurement based on this movement. 

  • A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight). 

  • A pass behind or through an object. 

  • An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control. 

  • A walk to and fro. 

  • A spell of work, especially the time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule. 

  • The profit made by a stockjobber, being the difference between the buying and selling prices. 

  • A deed done to another; an act of kindness or malice. 

  • A change of direction or orientation. 

  • A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to its initial orientation. 

  • The time required to complete a project. 

How often have the words go and turn occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )