Meaning of GOING
| Pronunciation: | | 'gowing
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- [n] advancing toward a goal; "persuading him was easy going"; "the proposal faces tough sledding"
- [n] act of departing
- [n] euphemistic expressions for death; "thousands mourned his passing"
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| | Synonyms: | | departure, departure, exit, expiration, going away, leaving, loss, passing, release, sledding |
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| | See Also: | | accomplishment, achievement, boarding, breaking away, death, decease, deed, despatch, disappearance, disappearing, dispatch, effort, embarkation, embarkment, exit, exploit, farewell, feat, French leave, leave, leave-taking, parting, sailing, shipment, takeoff, withdrawal | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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.
\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.
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