going

[go·ing]

The act of departing

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The act of moving in any manner; traveling; as, the going is bad.

Noun
act of departing

Noun
advancing toward a goal; "persuading him was easy going"; "the proposal faces tough sledding"

Noun
euphemistic expressions for death; "thousands mourned his passing"


p. pr. & vb. n.
of Go

n.
The act of moving in any manner; traveling; as, the going is bad.

n.
Departure.

n.
Pregnancy; gestation; childbearing.

n.
Course of life; behavior; doings; ways.


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.
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, ∨ 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.

The act of moving in any manner; traveling; as, the going is bad.

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Usage Examples

A million words were going through my head and honestly I didn't say one of them. I wanted to let it sit, simmer, you know I wanted to soak it all in - the moment was amazing.

A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is that you're not supposed to always know. It's subterranean.

A dream without ambition is like a car without gas... you're not going anywhere.

A guy came to the shop every day. A lot of guys put the foam like stuff that forms to you, kinda like the Indy car guys run. He fitted it up and it felt real good, so we're going to try to run it.

'Blind Curve,' the book I'm working on now, sprang from a crazy incident that happened to me last year while on my book tour. I was pulled out of my car for a minor traffic violation - an incident that escalated into my being thrown into cuffs and told I was going to jail. Except in my story, the hero doesn't get off as easily as I did.

A friend said to me, 'Be glad for your troubles - they strengthen you.' Well, if that's the truth, I'm going to be so strong they'll have to beat me to death!

'The Cut' is going to give someone the opportunity of a lifetime and help that person achieve his or her dreams.

A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I'm probably going to write about it in a different way.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

A lot of people feel very good about Mitt Romney and I think he's going to do a great job.

90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.

'Days' has always been strong as an icon in TV history, and it's still going on strong and represents the genre of daytime drama so well. I'm proud to be a part of it.

A lot of people have great hope, and a lot of people who have great hope live. And, some of them who have great hope die. So it's not that hope is going to save you.

A lot of victims, for example, have become addicted to alcohol and drugs. It seems to me that the church's healing ministry is going to be enhanced through this in much broader strokes. That's good, it's all positive.

A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that he is going to be a beginner all his life.

A person that much interested in science is going to neglect his social life somewhat, but not completely, because that isn't healthy either. So one has to work it out according to one's own inclinations, how one wants to proportion these things.

A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.

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