Meaning of going | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A departure.
   countable, uncountable
2. A surname
3. present participle and gerund of go
4. A surname.
5. The suitability of ground for riding, walking etc.
   countable, uncountable
6. Attending or visiting (a stated event, place, etc.) habitually or regularly
7. Progress.
   countable, uncountable
8. A departure
9. Conditions for advancing in any way.
   countable, figuratively, uncountable
10. The suitability of ground for riding, walking etc
11. Course of life; behaviour; doings; ways.
    countable, in-plural, uncountable
12. Progress
13. The whereabouts (of something).
    countable, uncountable
14. The horizontal distance between the front of one step in a flight of stairs and the front of the next.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Māna-Yood-Sushāī was before the beginning of the gods, and shall be after their going. […] After the going of the gods there will be no small worlds nor big.”

“But he found it strange to think […] of all these little things that cluster round the comings, and the stayings, and the goings, that he would know nothing of them, nothing of what they had been, as long as he lived, […]”

“The going was very difficult over the ice.”

“We made good going for a while, but then we came to the price.”

“Not only were the streets not paved with gold, but the going was difficult for an immigrant.”

“His eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings.”

“I can't find my sunglasses; you haven't seen the going of them, have you?”

“Each step had a rise of 170 mm and a going of 250 mm.”

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