go vs life

go

noun
  • An attempt, a try. 

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

  • 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. 

verb
  • 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 travel or pass along. 

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

life

noun
  • An opportunity for existence. 

  • A life sentence; a period of imprisonment that lasts until the convict's death (or, sometimes, parole). 

  • A worthwhile existence. 

  • The state of organisms preceding their death, characterized by biological processes such as metabolism and reproduction and distinguishing them from inanimate objects; the state of being alive and living. 

  • The span of time during which an object operates. 

  • The most lively component or participant. 

  • A particular phase or period of existence. 

  • Nature, reality, and the forms that exist in it. 

  • The period of time during which an object is recognizable. 

  • Animation; spirit; vivacity. 

  • A biography. 

  • One of the player's chances to play, lost when the player's character dies or when certain mistakes are made. 

  • A chance for the batter (or batting team) to bat again, given as a result of an misplay by a member of the fielding team. 

  • Social life. 

  • Something which is inherently part of a person's existence, such as job, family, a loved one, etc. 

  • A particular aspect of existence. 

  • The status possessed by any of a number of entities, including animals, plants, fungi, bacteria, and sometimes viruses, which have the properties of replication and metabolism. 

  • The animating principle or force that keeps an inorganic thing or concept metaphorically alive (dynamic, relevant, etc) and makes it a "living document", "living constitution", etc. 

  • The period during which one (a person, an animal, a plant; a civilization, species; a star; etc) is alive. 

  • Lifeforms, generally or collectively. 

  • A period extending from a when a (positive or negative) office, punishment, etc is conferred on someone until that person dies (or, sometimes, reaches retirement age). 

  • One of a player's chances to play in various children's playground games, lost when a mistake is made, for example being struck by the ball in dodgeball. 

  • The life insurance industry. 

  • A life assured under a life assurance policy (equivalent to the policy itself for a single life contract). 

  • Existence. 

  • A living individual; the fact of a particular individual being alive. (Chiefly when indicating individuals were lost (died) or saved.) 

verb
  • To replace components whose operational lifetime has expired. 

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