Tra từ go - Từ điển tiếng Anh - Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary

go UK [gəʊ] US [goʊ] verb [ going ], [ went ], [ gone ] [ goes going went gone ]

MOVE/TRAVEL
gone or been?
The past participle of 'go' is gone. • I'm sorry but she's gone abroad on business - she'll be back next week.
Sometimes, however, been is used to say that someone has gone somewhere and come back, or to say that someone has visited somewhere. • He's been abroad many times.
1. <E > intransitive usually + adverb or preposition to travel or move to another place
• We went into the house.
• I went to Paris last summer. Have you ever been there?
• We don't go to the cinema very often these days.
• Wouldn't it be quicker to go by train?
• Does this train go to Newcastle?
• Where do you think you're going? Shouldn't you be at school?
Thesaurus⁺: ↑General words for movement
2. <E > intransitive usually + adverb or preposition to be in the process of moving
• Can't we go any faster?
• We were going along at about 50 miles an hour.
• to go down the road
• to go up/down stairs
• to go over the bridge
• to go through a tunnel
• figurative I've got a tune going around/round in my head (= I am continually hearing it) and I just can't remember the name of it.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑General words for movement
3. <E > intransitive to move or travel somewhere in order to do something
• + -ing verb We go shopping every Friday night.
• I've never gone skiing.
• They've gone for a walk, but they should be back soon.
• + to infinitive She's gone to meet Brian at the station.
• There's a good film on at the Odeon. Shall we go?
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Travelling
4. where has/have sth gone?
<A > said when you cannot find something
• Where have my keys gone?
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Searching

Common errors:
When talking about travelling or moving to another place, the most usual preposition to use with 'go' is to.
Don't say 'go in/at/on a place', say go to a place:
✗ I want to go in/at/on England/the cinema/university.
• I want to go to England/the cinema/university.
Remember: go is used to talk about movement to another place, away from where the speaker is.
• I am going to London next week.
To talk about movement towards where the speaker is, don't say 'go', say come:
✗ You can go to visit me here whenever you want.
• You can come to visit me here whenever you want.
Warning: choose the correct verb!
To talk about reaching or arriving at a particular place, don't say 'go to', say get to:
✗ It takes two hours to go to London from here.
• It takes two hours to get to London from here.
Warning: do not use the infinitive with to after go to talk about leisure activities.
Don't say 'go to fish/shop/sail/hike', say go fishing/shopping/sailing/hiking:
✗ Let's go to camp at the weekend.
Remember: do not use a preposition between go and the leisure activity verb:
✗ We went for swimming in the lake.

• You won't be able to go swimming tomorrow if your cold hasn't cleared up.
• You should change trains at Peterborough if you're going to Newcastle.
• We went dancing at a nightclub.
• I was thinking we might go on a shopping trip to Oxford on Saturday.
• Simon and Jo have gone to visit their grandmother this weekend.

LEAVE

5. <E > intransitive to leave a place, especially in order to travel to somewhere else
• Is it midnight already? I really must go/must be going.
• She wasn't feeling well, so she went home early.
• mainly UK What time does the last train to Bath go?
• I'm afraid he'll have to go (= be dismissed from his job) - he's far too inefficient to continue working for us.
• This carpet's terribly old and worn - it really will have to go (= be got rid of).
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Departing
6. to go mainly US
<A > If you ask for some food to go at a restaurant, you want it wrapped up so that you can take it away with you instead of eating it in the restaurant
• I'd like a cheeseburger and strawberry milk shake to go, please.
See also takeaway
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Meals and parts of meals
7. intransitive polite word for to die
• She went peacefully in her sleep.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Death and dying

• You can stay if you want, but I'm going to go.
• The next train for Manchester goes in ten minutes.
• Get your coat, we're going.
• He was here a minute ago, but he must have just gone.
• He was disappointed to find they'd already gone.

LEAD

8. <E > intransitive + adverb or preposition If a road, path, etc. goes in a particular direction, it leads there
• This road goes to Birmingham.
• A huge crack went from the top to the bottom of the wall.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Taking someone somewhere or telling them the way
9. <E > intransitive usually + adverb or preposition to continue for a particular length
• The tree's roots go down three metres.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Measurements in general

• Their friendship goes back to when they were at school together.
• The M4 goes from London to Bristol.
• The tunnel goes right underneath the city.
• The cable went from the video into the back of the TV.
• The scratch goes along the entire length of the vehicle.

FUTURE TIME
10. be going to do/be sth
A. <E > to intend to do or be something in the future
• Are you going to go to Claire's party?
• He wants me to mend his shirt for him, but I'm not going to!
• I'm going to be a famous pop star when I'm older.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑In the future and soon
B. <E > to be certain or expected to happen in the future
• They're going to have a baby in the spring.
• There's going to be trouble when Paul finds out about this.
• The forecast said it was going to be hot and sunny tomorrow.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑In the future and soon

BECOME

11. <E > L only + adjective to become
• The idea of going grey doesn't bother me, but I'd hate to go bald.
• Her father's going senile/blind/deaf.
• If anything goes wrong, you can call our emergency hotline free of charge.
• After 12 years of Republican presidents, the US went Democratic in 1992.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Starting and beginning ↑Starting again

• Paul will go mad when he finds out you've broken his watch.
• Because the book's so old, the pages are going yellow.
• The cars pull away when the lights go green.
• Many small businesses went broke during the recession.
• He goes all misty-eyed whenever he hears that song.

MOVE BODY

12. <A > intransitive usually + adverb or preposition to move a part of the body in a particular way or the way that is shown
• Go like this with your hand to show that you're turning left.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑General words for movement

• Can you go like this with your tongue?
• The player went like this to show that his wasn't hurt.
• His face went like this when he tasted the soup.
• Go like this with your arm to stretch the muscle.

OPERATE

13. <A > intransitive to operate (in the right way)
• Have you any idea why this watch won't go?
• Can you help me get my car going?
• Our company has been going (= has been in business) for twenty years.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Functioning ↑Performing a function

• My watch stopped going after I dropped it.
• That radio has been going all morning.
• She received a grant to get her business going.
• I can't get the vacuum cleaner to go.
• The driver of the getaway car kept the engine going.

TIME

14. <A > intransitive If a period of time goes, it passes
• I had a wonderful weekend but it went awfully quickly.
• Time seems to go faster as you get older.
• There's only a week to go before (= until) my exam results come out.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Spending time and time passing

• The final hour of the exam went very quickly.
• There are only ten days to go before Christmas.
• Two hours went by before they reported the child missing.
• Time goes quickly when you're having fun.
• The afternoon was going very slowly.

BE

15. L only + adjective to be or stay in a particular, especially unpleasant, condition
• In spite of the relief effort, thousands of people continue to go hungry.
• Why do so many rapes go unreported?
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Keeping and staying the same ↑Not able to be changed

16. as...go
in comparison with most other things of a particular type, especially when you do not think that type of thing is very good
• It was quite a good film, as horror films go.
• I suppose the concert was OK, as these things go.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Quite good, or not very good ↑Suitable and acceptable
17. go to prove/show
to prove that something is true
• Your daughter's attitude only goes to prove how much society has changed over the last 30 years.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Proving and disproving

START

18. intransitive to start doing or using something
• I'll just connect up the printer to the computer and then we'll be ready to go.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Starting and beginning ↑Starting again

PLAY GAME

19. intransitive to use your opportunity to play in a game
• It's your turn to go now.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Miscellaneous games and activities

DIVIDE

20. intransitive not continuous (of a number) to fit into another number especially resulting in a whole number
• 5 into 11 won't go.
• 5 goes into 11 twice with 1 left over.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division ↑Calculations and calculating

SAY

21. + speech informal to say, especially when a story is being told
• "I never want to see you ever again, " he goes, and storms out the house.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Saying and uttering ↑Saying again

WEAKEN

22. intransitive to become weak or damaged, especially from being used (too much), or to stop working
• After a gruelling six months singing on a world tour, it is hardly surprising that her voice is starting to go.
• I really must get a new jacket - this one's starting to go at the elbows.
• Her hearing is going, but otherwise she's remarkably fit for a 95-year-old.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Deteriorating and making worse

NOISE

23. intransitive or transitive to produce a noise
• I think I heard the doorbell go (= ring) just now.
• I wish my computer would stop going 'beep' whenever I do something wrong.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Sounds made by objects, movement or impact

BE EXPRESSED

24. intransitive not continuous to be expressed, sung or played
• I can never remember how that song goes.
• "Doesn't it go something like this?" said Joan, and played the first couple of bars on her guitar.
• + (that) The story goes (= People say) (that) he was sacked after he was caught stealing company property.
• A headless ghost walks the castle at night - or so the story goes (= so people say).
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Playing music ↑Singing in general

HAPPEN

25. intransitive usually + adverb or preposition to happen or be found regularly or typically with each other or another
• Wisdom and maturity don't necessarily go together.
• She knows all about the health problems that go with smoking.
• Great wealth often goes hand in hand with meanness.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Occurring and happening

BE SITUATED

26. intransitive usually + adverb or preposition not continuous to be put in a particular place, especially as the usual place
• The sofa went against that wall before we had the radiator put in.
• I'll put it all away if you tell me where everything goes.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Placing and positioning an object

BE SOLD

27. intransitive to be sold or be available
• The shop is having a closing-down sale - everything must go.
• The painting will go to the highest bidder.
• I bought some flowers that were going cheap.
• "Going... going... gone! (= Sold!) " said the auctioneer, banging down the hammer.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Available and accessible ↑Present ↑Buying and selling in general

BE ACCEPTABLE

28. intransitive not continuous to look or be acceptable or suitable
• That picture would go well on the wall in the living room.
• The TV would go nicely in that corner, wouldn't it?
• If I wear the orange hat with the blue dress, do you think it will go?
• Just remember that I'm the boss and what I say goes (= you have to accept what I say).
• My parents don't worry too much about what I get up to, and most of the time anything goes (= I can do what I want).
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Matching and co-ordinating ↑Being suitable or unsuitable

BE KNOWN

29. intransitive usually + adverb or preposition to be known (by a particular name)
• He had a scruffy old teddy bear which went by the name of Augustus.
• In Britain, this flour usually goes under the name of maize meal.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Names and titles

DEVELOP

30. intransitive usually + adverb or preposition to develop or happen
• "How did the interview go?" "It went very well, thanks."
• Things have gone badly for him since his business collapsed.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Occurring and happening

• Everything was going smoothly until suddenly disaster struck.
• "I hear things aren't going too well at work." "You don't know the half of it!"
• Everything went swimmingly until Peter started talking about money.
• The party went like clockwork.
• Did it all go according to plan?
Idioms: What are you going to do? ▪ go and... ▪ go for it ▪ go it alone ▪ gone on somebody ▪ have something going for you ▪ not go there ▪ same goes for somebody ▪ something gone mad
Phrasal Verbs: go about something ▪ go after somebody ▪ go after something ▪ go against somebody ▪ go ahead ▪ go along ▪ go along with somebody ▪ go around ▪ go at somebody ▪ go at something ▪ go away ▪ go back ▪ go back on something ▪ go back to somebody ▪ go back to something ▪ go by ▪ go by something ▪ go down ▪ go down on somebody ▪ go down with something ▪ go for somebody ▪ go for something ▪ go in ▪ go in for something ▪ go into something ▪ go off ▪ go off somebody ▪ go off with somebody ▪ go off with something ▪ go on ▪ go on something ▪ go out ▪ go out to somebody ▪ go over ▪ go over something ▪ go over to something ▪ go round ▪ go round something ▪ go through ▪ go through something ▪ go through with something ▪ go to somebody ▪ go together ▪ go under ▪ go up ▪ go up to something ▪ go with somebody ▪ go with something ▪ go without

noun [plural goes ]

ATTEMPT

1. <I > countable ( US usually try ) an attempt to do something
• Georgina passed her driving test (on her) first go.
• "This jar is impossible to open." "Here, let me have a go."
• I want to have a go at finishing my essay tonight.
• We can't do the work all in one go (= all at the same time).
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Trying and making an effort ↑Effort and expending energy
2. make a go of sth ( US usually try )
to try to make something succeed, usually by working hard
• She's really making a go of her new antique shop.
• I can't see him ever making a go of accountancy.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Trying and making an effort ↑Effort and expending energy

• I can't do the crossword. Do you want to have a go?
• After several goes at the puzzle, she eventually gave up.
• They each had a go at lifting the box, but neither of them could move it.
• If you fail the test this time, you can have another go at it in August.
• I don't know if I can fix the taps but I'll have a go.

OPPORTUNITY

3. <I > countable ( US usually turn ) an opportunity to play in a game, or to do or use something
• Hey, it's Ken's go now! You've just had your go.
• Please can I have a go (= can I ride) on your bike?
• I'll have a go at driving for a while if you're tired.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Miscellaneous games and activities

• Is it my go yet?
• May I have a go on your computer?
• We can have two goes each.
• You have to miss a go if you land on that square.
• Whose go is it?

CRITICIZE
4. have a go at sb UK
to criticize someone
• My Dad's always having a go at me about getting a proper job.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Disapproving and criticizing ↑Damaging reputation

ENERGY
5. uncountable the condition of being energetic and active
• You're full of go this morning.
• He doesn't have much go about him, does he?
See also get-up-and-go
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Excitement, interest, energy and enthusiasm
Idiom: no go