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Rodney Carrington

Meaning of "go about" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF GO ABOUT

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GO ABOUT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Go about is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb go about in English.

WHAT DOES GO ABOUT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of go about in the English dictionary

The first definition of go about in the dictionary is to move from place to place. Other definition of go about is to busy oneself with. Go about is also to tackle.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO GO ABOUT

PRESENT

Present
I go about
you go about
he/she/it goes about
we go about
you go about
they go about
Present continuous
I am going about
you are going about
he/she/it is going about
we are going about
you are going about
they are going about
Present perfect
I have gone about
you have gone about
he/she/it has gone about
we have gone about
you have gone about
they have gone about
Present perfect continuous
I have been going about
you have been going about
he/she/it has been going about
we have been going about
you have been going about
they have been going about
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I went about
you went about
he/she/it went about
we went about
you went about
they went about
Past continuous
I was going about
you were going about
he/she/it was going about
we were going about
you were going about
they were going about
Past perfect
I had gone about
you had gone about
he/she/it had gone about
we had gone about
you had gone about
they had gone about
Past perfect continuous
I had been going about
you had been going about
he/she/it had been going about
we had been going about
you had been going about
they had been going about
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will go about
you will go about
he/she/it will go about
we will go about
you will go about
they will go about
Future continuous
I will be going about
you will be going about
he/she/it will be going about
we will be going about
you will be going about
they will be going about
Future perfect
I will have gone about
you will have gone about
he/she/it will have gone about
we will have gone about
you will have gone about
they will have gone about
Future perfect continuous
I will have been going about
you will have been going about
he/she/it will have been going about
we will have been going about
you will have been going about
they will have been going about
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would go about
you would go about
he/she/it would go about
we would go about
you would go about
they would go about
Conditional continuous
I would be going about
you would be going about
he/she/it would be going about
we would be going about
you would be going about
they would be going about
Conditional perfect
I would have go about
you would have go about
he/she/it would have go about
we would have go about
you would have go about
they would have go about
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been going about
you would have been going about
he/she/it would have been going about
we would have been going about
you would have been going about
they would have been going about
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you go about
we let´s go about
you go about
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to go about
Past participle
gone about
Present Participle
going about
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GO ABOUT

go a bundle on
go against
go ahead
go all out
go along
go and
go ape
go ape over
go around
go astray
go at
go away
go back
go back to the mat
go back to the pa
go bad
go bail
go ballistic
go bang
go begging

WORDS THAT END LIKE GO ABOUT

about
bout
bring about
come about
get about
hang about
just about
kick about
make no bones about
marabout
nothing to write home about
out and about
right about
roundabout
see about
set about
talk about
thereabout
time about
walkabout
what about

Synonyms and antonyms of go about in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «go about» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF GO ABOUT

Find out the translation of go about to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of go about from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «go about» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

ir sobre
570 millions of speakers

English

go about
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

के बारे में जाना
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

التوجه نحو
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

идти о
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

ir sobre
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সম্পর্কে যান
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

aller sur
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pergi
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

herumgehen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

約行く
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

에 대한 이동
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Lunga
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đi về
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

செல்லுங்கள்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सुमारे जा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Hakkında gitmek
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

andare su
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

go o
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

йти про
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

du-te cu privire la
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πάμε για
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

gaan
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

gå om
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

gå om
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of go about

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GO ABOUT»

The term «go about» is quite widely used and occupies the 23.841 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «GO ABOUT» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «go about» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «go about» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about go about

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10 QUOTES WITH «GO ABOUT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word go about.
1
Alan Alda
A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I've seen actors do that. But often it's a mechanical transformation, which isn't as interesting, and you've got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.
2
Sherwood Anderson
I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.
3
David Antin
I'm aware of my audience in a way, and I do try to engage with them while I'm trying to go about my business of thinking. I believe they help me by providing a focus.
4
Joy Behar
I don't get jealous of people. Jealousy is such a waste of time because you're jealous of them, and they go about their lives and have a wonderful time, so what's the point?
5
William Bennett
Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.
6
Eve Best
When I left Oxford, I knew I wanted to act, but I was unsure how to go about it.
7
Vinoba Bhave
In nonviolence you must go full steam ahead, if you want the good to come speedily you must go about it with vigor.
8
Cara Buono
I've had a job since I was 11. I had a paper route, I worked at a video store, I was a toy doll at FAO Schwartz when I was in high school. And I think that it's made me really disciplined when it came to pursuing acting, because I had no clue how to go about it.
9
Ellen Burstyn
I wanted to work on this central problem of killing. How you go about killing. Now, in the film I had to kill my children - well, I didn't want to get that far.
10
Rodney Carrington
You can talk about anything if you go about it the right way, which is never malicious.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GO ABOUT»

Discover the use of go about in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to go about and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Herrings Go About the Sea in Shawls: And Other Classic ...
A compilation of ill-digested juvenile learning offers some of the earliest drawings in the Dr. Seuss treasury
Alexander Abingdon, 1997
2
Java/J2EE Job Interview Companion
196 How would you go about...? How would you go about applying the design patterns in your Java/J2EE application? 253 How would you go about applying the Object Oriented (OO) design concepts in your Java/J2EE application? 247 How ...
Arulkumaran Kumaraswamipillai, Sivayini Arulkumaran, 2007
3
Spider Woman Walks This Land: Traditional Cultural ...
Before me it is blessed where I go about, behind me it is blessed where I go about, as that I continue to go about, at dawn I go about, ni yo 0. Those Holy People from the east left for the east in a group. At dawn I go about, as that I go about, ...
Kelli Carmean, 2002
4
Never Let Me Go
A story of love, friendship and memory, Never Let Me Go is charged throughout with a sense of the fragility of life.
Kazuo Ishiguro, 2009
5
A Dictionary of the Bible: Feign-Kinsman
ov. uses the same phrase in ob 27" '\Vherfore then do ye go aboute with soeh vayne wordes'; Hos ll'2 'Ephraim goeth ahoute me with lies' (EV 'compasseth me') ; and Tind. in J n 71 'After that, Jesus went about in Galile and woldc not go about  ...
James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie, Andrew Bruce Davidson, 1906
6
'React and Go with It': Interviewing Persons with ...
Because this field is in its formative stages, one would expect there to be in-depth accounts of how to go about pursuing the firsthand accounts of this population. This is not the reality of the situation, however, as methods sections in published  ...
Brandi M. McCullough, 2008
7
The royal dictionary abridged in two parts: I. French and ...
(¡3* To go about, [or endeavour) Tacher, faire fes efforts. To go abroad, Sortir. (¡3- Such a Report goes a- broad, On fait courir ce bruit. To go againft, S'oppofer, être ontraire, ou oppose. q3* The Choice went againft' him, Il ne fut pas cboifi cu ...
Abel Boyer, 1728
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Dictionary of the Bible: A-Fests
To go about = here and there, up and down : Jer. 3122 ' How long wilt thou go about (RV 'hither and thither'), O thou backsliding daughter ? ' 3. To go about = to seek, attempt: Jn 719 ' Why go ye about to kill Me ?' RV gives 'seek' in Jn 719- *>  ...
James Hastings, 1911
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Notes and Queries
S. J. A. F. [Many replies, some of interest, are acknowledged] f'Go ABOUT ” (9"' S. ii. 64).—1 venture to think MR. LYNN mistaken in speakin of this phrase as obsolete. I find it in uttall's Dictionary' (1886): “To go about, to set one's ielf tqeaa  ...
‎1898
10
Don't Let Me Go: What My Daughter Taught Me about the ...
We only have about two miles to go, about two thousand feet in altitude to gain, but every step will be a wobbly one. Only we can't take off until someone owns up to the wet noodles Larry found in the weeds. I hesitate. This is my first day on the  ...
David Pierce, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GO ABOUT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term go about is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Jeff Lindsay Talks About His Latest Dexter Book and Where to Dump …
How would you murder someone if you were to go about it? You know, about 80-some-percent of murders go unsolved. So there might be too ... «Miami New Times, Jul 15»
2
DVD review: Thunderbirds Are Go
... old daughter and nine year old son snuggle on the sofa with Dad to watch the Tracy family go about their business as International Rescue. «Stuff.co.nz, Jul 15»
3
ATM Robbers Use A Backhoe -- What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Of course, with the rise of ATM thefts, the ways in which the robbers go about trying to obtain the money has diversified as well. ADVERTISING. «The Inquisitr, Jul 15»
4
Taser use down in Staffordshire as police use other methods
... more rigorous checks and balances which I hoped would ultimately improve public confidence in the way police go about their business. «Staff Newsletter, Jul 15»
5
Sydney Swans ready to give Hawthorn a taste of their own medicine
That's one of them, that's the way they go about, and that's why they're so successful and we want to match them in that area," star Sydney ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»
6
Warner says Watto 'doing everything right'
... and spoken to him about little things in general, about coming into big series, how does he go about things and how you can learn off him.". «The West Australian, Jul 15»
7
Career Spotlight: What I Do As An Anesthesiologist
How did you go about getting your job? What kind of education and experience did you need? It takes many years to become an ... «Lifehacker Australia, Jul 15»
8
Will Hooley 'getting used to' Exeter Chiefs playing style
Hooley is already starting to feel comfortable with the way the Chiefs go about things. “As soon as I came to the club, Ali brought me over and ... «Western Morning News, Jul 15»
9
Orange Order kick off marching season in Northern Ireland peacefully
Today will be a peaceful protest and I hope and believe we can go about our business peacefully. And I hope that the atmosphere perhaps will ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
10
For Danny Ainge's team, it's a fluid situation
“You know, listen, we know all the different ways teams go about their business, but we are trying to continue to win games. There's a time and ... «Boston Herald, Jul 15»

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