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GO FOR
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Intend with some possibility of fulfilment
Example:
I hope to have finished this work by tomorrow evening
Synonyms:
go for; hope
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Hypernyms (to "go for" is one way to...):
be after; plan (have the will and intention to carry out some action)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s VERB-ing
Sense 2
Meaning:
Give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to
Example:
I go for this resolution
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "go for" is one way to...):
react; respond (show a response or a reaction to something)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "go for"):
give (consent to engage in sexual intercourse with a man)
agree (consent or assent to a condition, or agree to do something)
settle (accept despite lack of complete satisfaction)
contract in (consent in writing to pay money to a trade union for political use)
allow; countenance; let; permit (consent to, give permission)
buckle under; give in; knuckle under; succumb; yield (consent reluctantly)
take in charge; undertake (accept as a charge)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 3
Meaning:
Make an attempt at achieving something
Example:
She tried for the Olympics
Synonyms:
go for; try for
Classified under:
Verbs of fighting, athletic activities
Hypernyms (to "go for" is one way to...):
compete; contend; vie (compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 4
Meaning:
Have a fancy or particular liking or desire for
Example:
She fancied a necklace that she had seen in the jeweler's window
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms (to "go for" is one way to...):
desire; want (feel or have a desire for; want strongly)
"Go for" entails doing...:
like (find enjoyable or agreeable)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Sentence example:
They go for more bread
Sense 5
Meaning:
Be pertinent or relevant or applicable
Example:
The same rules go for everyone
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "go for" is one way to...):
bear on; come to; concern; have to do with; pertain; refer; relate; touch; touch on (be relevant to)
Verb group:
apply; lend oneself (be applicable to; as to an analysis)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Context examples:
It has been touch and go for our lives, said Lord John, gravely, and I could not think of a more rotten sort of death than to be outed by such filthy vermin.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Thank ye,” cried Thorpe, “but I did not come to Bath to drive my sisters about, and look like a fool. No, if you do not go, d— me if I do. I only go for the sake of driving you.”
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Go for them!
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Your mother will come, I know, and the late train is in at two A.M. I shall go for her, and you've only got to bottle up your rapture, and keep Beth quiet till that blessed lady gets here.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
So did I go for’ard.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
You have a gorgeous month in store, so treat yourself to a luxury or two at the shops, and go for a treatment at the spa.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Was it all to go for nothing?
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But I only go for the sake of seeing Edward.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
“Oh, my eyes and limbs!” he then cried, peeping hideously out of the shop, after a long pause, “will you go for twopence more?”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
One day in early spring he had so far relaxed as to go for a walk with me in the Park, where the first faint shoots of green were breaking out upon the elms, and the sticky spear-heads of the chestnuts were just beginning to burst into their five-fold leaves.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
