To follow or proceed according to (a course or path).
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 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 travel or pass along.
To be compatible, especially of colors or food and drink.
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.
Working correctly and ready to commence operation; approved and able to be put into action.
To guide or conduct oneself in, through, or along (a certain course); hence, to proceed in the way of; to follow the path or course of; to pass; to spend. Also, to cause (one) to proceed or follow in (a certain course).
To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing with authority, etc.; to have precedence or preeminence; to be first or chief; — used in most of the senses of the transitive verb.
To guide or conduct in a certain course, or to a certain place or end, by making the way known; to show the way, especially by going with or going in advance of, to lead a pupil; to guide somebody somewhere or to bring somebody somewhere by means of instructions.
To direct; to counsel; to instruct
To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge of; to command, especially a military or business unit.
To go or to be in advance of; to precede; hence, to be foremost or chief among.
To step off base and move towards the next base.
To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure
To be ahead of others, e.g., in a race.
Lead climb.
To produce (with to).
To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection.
To place leads between the lines of.
To aim in front of a moving target, in order that the shot may hit the target as it passes.
To cover, fill, or affect with lead.
To have the highest interim score in a game.
To tend or reach in a certain direction, or to a certain place.
To lead off or out, to go first; to begin.
To live or experience (a particular way of life).
To be more advanced in technology or business than others.
To begin a game, round, or trick, with
Foremost.
Main, principal, primary, first, chief, foremost.
The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound engine, on the same shaft.
A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at sea or (dated) to estimate velocity in knots.
The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive force producing it.
Information obtained by a detective or police officer that allows him or her to discover further details about a crime or incident.
Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.
The situation where a runner steps away from a base while waiting for the pitch to be thrown.
In a steam engine, the width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release of steam, at the instant when the piston is at end of its stroke.
An important news story that appears on the front page of a newspaper or at the beginning of a news broadcast
The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts.
The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course
The action of a tooth, such as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.
bullets; ammunition.
A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
In a barbershop quartet, the person who sings the melody, usually the second tenor
The actor who plays the main role; lead actor.
A lode.
Information obtained by a news reporter about an issue or subject that allows him or her to discover more details.
Precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; the state of being ahead in a race; the highest score in a game in an incomplete game.
The main role in a play or film; the lead role.
A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished; both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic number 82, symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum).
A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance of others.
An insulated metallic wire for electrical devices and equipment.
The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played
The distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.
The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter symmetrical between the poles.
Vertical space in advance of a row or between rows of text. Also known as leading.
The person in charge of a project or a work shift etc.
A rope, leather strap, or similar device with which to lead an animal; a leash
The player who throws the first two rocks for a team.
A thin cylinder of graphite used in pencils.
The course of a rope from end to end.
The axial distance a screw thread travels in one revolution. It is equal to the pitch times the number of starts.
A roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
A channel of open water in an ice field.
Hypothesis that has not been pursued
Potential opportunity for a sale or transaction, a potential customer.
A teaser; a lead-in; the start of a newspaper column, telling who, what, when, where, why and how. (Sometimes spelled as lede for this usage to avoid ambiguity.)