going
/ˈɡoʊ.ɪŋ/ noun A1- A departure.
- The suitability of ground for riding, walking etc. · The going was very difficult over the ice.
- Progress. · We made good going for a while, but then we came to the price.
- Conditions for advancing in any way. · Not only were the streets not paved with gold, but the going was difficult for an immigrant.
- Course of life; behaviour; doings; ways.
- The whereabouts (of something). · I can't find my sunglasses; you haven't seen the going of them, have you?
- The horizontal distance between the front of one step in a flight of stairs and the front of the next. · Each step had a rise of 170 mm and a going of 250 mm.
Plural goings
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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He seized a rope which Dantès flung to him, and with an activity that would have done credit to a sailor, climbed up the side of the ship, while the young man, going to his task, left the conversation to Danglars, who now came towards the owner.
Morrel, and this day and a half was lost from pure whim, for the pleasure of going ashore, and nothing else.”
I just love it already, and I’m so glad I’m going to live here.
I suppose I had, too, but how are you going to find out about things if you don’t ask questions?
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