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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

GO'ING, ppr. [from go.] Moving; walking; traveling; turning; rolling; flying; sailing, etc.
GO'ING, n. The act of moving in any manner.
1. The act of walking.
2. Departure.
3. Pregnancy.
4. Procedure; way; course of life; behavior; deportment; used chiefly in the plural.
His eyes are on the ways of man, and he seeeth all his goings. Job 34.
5. Procedure; course of providential agency or government.
They have seen thy goings, O God; even the goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary. Psalms 68.
Going out,
Goings out, In scripture, utmost extremity or limit; the point where an extended body terminates. Num
34:5.9.
1. Departure or journeying. Numbers 33.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: in full operation; "a going concern" n
1: the act of departing [syn: departure, going, going away, leaving]
2: euphemistic expressions for death; "thousands mourned his passing" [syn: passing, loss, departure, exit, expiration, going, release]
3: advancing toward a goal; "persuading him was easy going"; "the proposal faces tough sledding" [syn: going, sledding]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Date: 14th century 1. an act or instance of going 2. plural behavior, actions <for his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings — Job
34:21 (Authorized Version)> 3. the condition of the ground (as for walking) 4. advance toward an objective <when the going gets tough> II. adjective Date: 14th century 1. a. that goes — often used in combination <easygoing> <outgoing> b. working, moving <everything was in going order> 2. living, existing <the best novelist going> 3. current, prevailing <going price> 4. conducting business with the expectation of indefinite continuance <going concern>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & adj. --n. 1 a the act or process of going. b an instance of this; a departure. 2 a the condition of the ground for walking, riding, etc. b progress affected by this (found the going hard). --adj. 1 in or into action (set the clock going). 2 existing, available; to be had (there's cold beef going; one of the best fellows going). 3 current, prevalent (the going rate). Phrases and idioms: get going start steadily talking, working, etc. (can't stop him when he gets going). going away a departure, esp. on a honeymoon. going concern a thriving business. going for one colloq. acting in one's favour (he has got a lot going for him). going on fifteen etc. esp. US approaching one's fifteenth etc. birthday. going on for approaching (a time, an age, etc.) (must be going on for 6 years). going-over 1 colloq. an inspection or overhaul. 2 sl. a thrashing. 3 US colloq. a scolding. goings-on behaviour, esp. morally suspect. going to intending or intended to; about to; likely to (it's going to sink!). heavy going slow or difficult to progress with (found Proust heavy going). to be going on with to start with; for the time being. while the going is good while conditions are favourable. Etymology: GO(1): in some senses f. earlier a-going: see A(2)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Going Go"ing, p. pr. of Go. Specif.: (a) That goes; in existence; available for present use or enjoyment; current; obtainable; also, moving; working; in operation; departing; as, he is of the brightest men going; going prices or rate. (b) 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. (c) Of or pert. to a going business or concern; as, the going value of a company.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Go Go, v. i. [imp. Went (w[e^]nt); p. p. Gone (g[o^]n; 115); p. pr. & vb. n. Going. Went comes from the AS, wendan. See Wend, v. i.] [OE. gan, gon, AS. g[=a]n, akin to D. gaan, G. gehn, gehen, OHG. g[=e]n, g[=a]n, SW. g[*a], Dan. gaae; cf. Gr. kicha`nai to reach, overtake, Skr. h[=a] to go, AS. gangan, and E. gang. The past tense in AS., eode, is from the root i to go, as is also Goth. iddja went. [root]47a. Cf. Gang, v. i., Wend.] 1. To pass from one place to another; to be in motion; to be in a state not motionless or at rest; to proceed; to advance; to make progress; -- used, in various applications, of the movement of both animate and inanimate beings, by whatever means, and also of the movements of the mind; also figuratively applied. 2. To move upon the feet, or step by step; to walk; also, to walk step by step, or leisurely. Note: In old writers go is much used as opposed to run, or ride. ``Whereso I go or ride.'' --Chaucer. You know that love Will creep in service where it can not go. --Shak. Thou must run to him; for thou hast staid so long that going will scarce serve the turn. --Shak. He fell from running to going, and from going to clambering upon his hands and his knees. --Bunyan. Note: In Chaucer go is used frequently with the pronoun in the objective used reflexively; as, he goeth him home. 3. To be passed on fron one to another; to pass; to circulate; hence, with for, to have currency; to be taken, accepted, or regarded. The man went among men for an old man in the days of Saul. --1 Sa. xvii. 12. [The money] should go according to its true value. --Locke. 4. To proceed or happen in a given manner; to fare; to move on or be carried on; to have course; to come to an issue or result; to succeed; to turn out. How goes the night, boy ? --Shak. I think, as the world goes, he was a good sort of man enough. --Arbuthnot. Whether the cause goes for me or against me, you must pay me the reward. --I Watts. 5. To proceed or tend toward a result, consequence, or product; to tend; to conduce; to be an ingredient; to avail; to apply; to contribute; -- often with the infinitive; as, this goes to show. Against right reason all your counsels go. --Dryden. To master the foul flend there goeth some complement knowledge of theology. --Sir W. Scott. 6. To apply one's self; to set one's self; to undertake. Seeing himself confronted by so many, like a resolute orator, he went not to denial, but to justify his cruel falsehood. --Sir P. Sidney. Note: Go, in this sense, is often used in the present participle with the auxiliary verb to be, before an infinitive, to express a future of intention, or to denote design; as, I was going to say; I am going to begin harvest.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Going Go"ing, n. 1. The act of moving in any manner; traveling; as, the going is bad. 2. Departure. --Milton. 3. Pregnancy; gestation; childbearing. --Crew. 4. pl. Course of life; behavior; doings; ways. His eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings. --Job xxxiv. 21. Going barrel. (Horology) (a) A barrel containing the mainspring, and having teeth on its periphery to drive the train. (b) A device for maintaining a force to drive the train while the timepiece is being wound up. Going forth. (Script.) (a) Outlet; way of exit. ``Every going forth of the sanctuary.'' --Ezek. xliv. 5. (b) A limit; a border. ``The going forth thereof shall be from the south to Kadesh-barnea.'' --Num. xxxiv. 4. Going out, or Goings out. (Script.) (a) The utmost extremity or limit. ``The border shall go down to Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at the salt sea.'' --Num. xxxiv. 12. (b) Departure or journeying. ``And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys.'' --Num. xxxiii. 2. Goings on, behavior; actions; conduct; -- usually in a bad sense.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. If you say that something is going to happen, you mean that it will happen in the future, usually quite soon. I think it's going to be successful... You're going to enjoy this... I'm going to have to tell him the truth... Are they going to be alright? PHRASE 2. You say that you are going to do something to express your intention or determination to do it. I'm going to go to bed... He announced that he's going to resign... I was not going to compromise. PHRASE 3. You use the going to talk about how easy or difficult it is to do something. You can also say that something is, for example, hard going or tough going. He has her support to fall back on when the going gets tough... Though the talks had been hard going at the start, they had become more friendly. N-UNCOUNT: the N, adj N 4. In horse racing and horse riding, when you talk about the going, you are talking about the condition of the surface the horses are running on. The going was soft; some horses found it hard work. N-UNCOUNT: oft the N 5. The going rate or the going salary is the usual amount of money that you expect to pay or receive for something. She says that's the going rate for a house this big... That's about half the going price on world oil markets. ADJ: ADJ n 6. see also go 7. If someone or something has a lot going for them, they have a lot of advantages. This area has a lot going for it... I wish I could show you the things you've got going for you. PHRASE: V inflects, PHR n 8. When you get going, you start doing something or start a journey, especially after a delay. Now what about that shopping list? I've got to get going. PHRASE: V inflects 9. If you say that someone should do something while the going is good, you are advising them to do it while things are going well and they still have the opportunity, because you think it will become much more difficult to do. People are leaving in their thousands while the going is good. PHRASE: V inflects 10. If you keep going, you continue doing things or doing a particular thing. I like to keep going. I hate to sit still. PHRASE: V inflects 11. If you can keep going with the money you have, you can manage to live on it. Things were difficult, and we needed her wages to keep going. PHRASE: V inflects 12. If you say that something is enough to be going on with, you mean that it is enough for your needs at the moment, although you will need something better at some time in the future. (mainly BRIT) It was a good enough description for Mattie to be going on with. PHRASE: usu PHR after v 13. You can use going on before a number to say that something has almost reached that number. For example, you can say that someone is going on 40 to indicate that they are nearly 40. PHRASE: PHR num 14. going concern: see concern see also comings and goings

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