going : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: going	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
going adj in full operation; "a going concern" n the act of departing [syn: departure, going, {going away}, leaving] euphemistic expressions for death; "thousands mourned his passing" Synonym(s): passing, loss, departure, exit, expiration, going, release advancing toward a goal; "persuading him was easy going"; "the proposal faces tough sledding" Synonym(s): going, sledding
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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. [bd]Every going forth of the sanctuary.[b8] --Ezek. xliv. 5. (b) A limit; a border. [bd]The going forth thereof shall be from the south to Kadesh-barnea.[b8] --Num. xxxiv. 4. {Going out}, [or] {Goings out}. (Script.) (a) The utmost extremity or limit. [bd]The border shall go down to Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at the salt sea.[b8] --Num. xxxiv. 12. (b) Departure or journeying. [bd]And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys.[b8] --Num. xxxiii. 2. {Goings on}, behavior; actions; conduct; -- usually in a bad sense.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Go \Go\, v. i. [imp. {Went} (w[ecr]nt); p. p. {Gone} (g[ocr]n; 115); p. pr. & vb. n. {Going}. Went comes from the AS, wendan. See {Wend}, v. i.] [OE. gan, gon, AS. g[be]n, akin to D. gaan, G. gehn, gehen, OHG. g[emac]n, g[be]n, SW. g[aring], Dan. gaae; cf. Gr. kicha`nai to reach, overtake, Skr. h[be] 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. [bd]Whereso I go or ride.[b8] --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.