The difference between Come and Go

When used as nouns, come means coming, arrival, whereas go means the act of going.

When used as verbs, come means to move from further away to nearer to. to move towards the speaker. to move towards the listener. to move towards the object that is the focus of the sentence. to move towards the agent or subject of the main clause. to move towards an unstated agent, whereas go means to move through space (especially to or through a place).

Come is also interjection with the meaning: an exclamation to express annoyance.

check bellow for the other definitions of Come and Go

  1. Come as a verb (intransitive):

    To move from further away to nearer to. To move towards the speaker. To move towards the listener. To move towards the object that is the focus of the sentence. To move towards the agent or subject of the main clause. To move towards an unstated agent.

    Examples:

    "She’ll be coming ’round the mountain when she comes..."

    "I called the dog, but she wouldn't come."

    "Stop dawdling and come here!"

    "Hold on, I'll come in a second."

    "You should ask the doctor to come to your house."

    "No-one can find Bertie Wooster when his aunts come to visit."

    "Hundreds of thousands of people come to Disneyland every year."

    "King Cnut couldn't stop the tide coming."

    "He threw the boomerang, which came right back to him."

    "The butler should come when called."

  2. Come as a verb (intransitive):

    To arrive.

  3. Come as a verb (intransitive):

    To appear, to manifest itself.

    Examples:

    "The pain in his leg comes and goes."

  4. Come as a verb (intransitive):

    To take a position relative to something else in a sequence.

    Examples:

    "Which letter comes before Y? Winter comes after autumn."

  5. Come as a verb (intransitive, vulgar, slang):

    To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate.

    Examples:

    "He came after a few minutes."

  6. Come as a verb (copulative, figuratively, with ''close''):

    To approach a state of being or accomplishment.

    Examples:

    "They came very close to leaving on time. His test scores came close to perfect."

    "One of the screws came loose, and the skateboard fell apart."

  7. Come as a verb (figuratively, with ''to''):

    To take a particular approach or point of view in regard to something.

    Examples:

    "He came to SF literature a confirmed technophile, and nothing made him happier than to read a manuscript thick with imaginary gizmos and whatzits."

  8. Come as a verb (copulative, archaic):

    To become, to turn out to be.

    Examples:

    "He was a dream come true."

  9. Come as a verb (intransitive):

    To be supplied, or made available; to exist.

    Examples:

    "He's as tough as they come. Our milkshakes come in vanilla, strawberry and chocolate flavours."

  10. Come as a verb (slang):

    To carry through; to succeed in.

    Examples:

    "You can't come any tricks here."

  11. Come as a verb (intransitive):

    Happen.

    Examples:

    "This kind of accident comes when you are careless."

  12. Come as a verb (intransitive, with ''from'' or sometimes ''of''):

    To have as an origin, originate. To have a certain social background. To be or have been a resident or native. To have been brought up by or employed by. To begin (at a certain location); to radiate or stem (from).

    Examples:

    "Where did you come from?"

    "She comes from a good family."

    "He comes from a disreputable legal firm."

    "The river comes from Bear Lake."

    "Where does this road come from?"

  13. Come as a verb (intransitive, of ''grain''):

    To germinate.

  1. Come as a noun (obsolete):

    Coming, arrival; approach.

  2. Come as a noun (vulgar, slang):

    Semen

  3. Come as a noun (vulgar, slang):

    Female ejaculatory discharge.

  1. Come as a preposition:

    Examples:

    "Leave it to settle for about three months and, come Christmas time, you'll have a delicious concoction to offer your guests."

    "Come retirement, their Social Security may turn out to be a lot less than they counted on."

  1. Come as a noun:

    in its medieval use as a middot ⟨·⟩ serving as a form of colon.

  1. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To move: To move through space (especially to or through a place). To move or travel through time (either literally—in a fictional or hypothetical situation in which time travel is possible—or in one's mind or knowledge of the historical record). To navigate (to a file or folder on a computer, a site on the internet, a memory, etc). To move (a particular distance, or in a particular fashion). To move or travel in order to do something, or to do something while moving. To leave; to move away. To walk; to travel on one's feet.

    Examples:

    "Why don’t you go with us? This train goes through Cincinnati on its way to Chicago. Chris, where are you going? There's no public transit where I'm going. Wow, look at him go!"

    "Yesterday was the second-wettest day on record; you have to go all the way back to 1896 to find a day when more rain fell."

    "Fans want to see the Twelfth Doctor go to the 51st century to visit River in the library."

    "We've only gone twenty miles today. This car can go circles around that one."

    "We went swimming. Let's go shopping."

    "Please don't go! I really must be going. Workmen were coming and going at all hours of the night."

  2. Go as a verb (intransitive, chiefly, of a, machine):

    To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).

    Examples:

    "The engine just won't go anymore."

  3. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To start; to begin (an action or process).

    Examples:

    "Get ready, get set, go! [[on your marks, get set, go On your marks, get set, go]]! [[on your marks On your marks]], set, go!"

    "Here goes nothing. Let's go and hunt."

  4. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To take a turn, especially in a game.

    Examples:

    "It’s your turn; go."

  5. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To attend.

    Examples:

    "I go to school at the schoolhouse. She went to Yale. They only go to church on Christmas."

  6. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To proceed: To proceed (often in a specified manner, indicating the perceived quality of an event or state). To proceed (especially to do something foolish).

    Examples:

    "That went well. "How are things going?" "Not bad, thanks."

    "Why'd you have to go and do that?"

    "Why'd you have to go do that?"

    "He just went and punched the guy. "

  7. Go as a verb:

    To follow or travel along (a path): To follow or proceed according to (a course or path). To travel or pass along.

    Examples:

    "Let's go this way for a while."

    "She was going that way anyway, so she offered to show him where it was."

  8. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To extend (from one point in time or space to another).

    Examples:

    "This property goes all the way to the state line."

  9. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To lead (to a place); to give access to.

    Examples:

    "Does this road go to Fort Smith?"

  10. Go as a verb (copula):

    To become.

    Examples:

    "You'll go blind. I went crazy / went mad. After failing as a criminal, he decided to go straight."

  11. Go as a verb:

    To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.

  12. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To continuously or habitually be in a state.

    Examples:

    "I don't want my children to go hungry. We went barefoot in the summer."

  13. Go as a verb:

    To come to (a certain condition or state).

    Examples:

    "they went into debt'', ''she goes to sleep around 10 o'clock'', ''the local shop wants to go digital, and eventually go global"

  14. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To change (from one value to another) in the meaning of wend.

    Examples:

    " The traffic light went straight from green to red."

  15. Go as a verb:

    To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).

    Examples:

    "How did your meeting with Smith go?"

  16. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To tend (toward a result).

    Examples:

    "Well, that goes to show you. These experiences go to make us stronger."

  17. Go as a verb:

    To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.

    Examples:

    "qualities that go to make a lady / lip-reader / sharpshooter"

  18. Go as a verb (intransitive, of time):

    To pass, to be used up: To elapse, to pass; to slip away. To end or disappear. To be spent or used up.

    Examples:

    "The time went slowly."

    "After three days, my headache finally went."

    "His money went on drink."

  19. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To die.

  20. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To be discarded.

    Examples:

    "This chair has got to go."

  21. Go as a verb (intransitive, cricket):

    To be lost or out: To be lost. To be out.

  22. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To break down or apart: To collapse or give way, to break apart. To break down or decay.

    Examples:

    "This meat is starting to go off. My mind is going. She's 83; her eyesight is starting to go."

  23. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To be sold.

    Examples:

    "Everything must go. The car went for five thousand dollars."

  24. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.

    Examples:

    "The property shall go to my wife. The award went to Steven Spielberg."

  25. Go as a verb (transitive, intransitive):

    To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.

    Examples:

    "How long can you go without water? We've gone without your help for a while now. I've gone ten days now without a cigarette. Can you two go twenty minutes without arguing?!"

  26. Go as a verb (transitive, sports):

    To have a certain record.

    Examples:

    "They've gone one for three in this series. The team is going five in a row."

  27. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To be authoritative, accepted, or valid: To have (final) authority; to be authoritative. To be accepted. To be valid.

    Examples:

    "Whatever the boss says goes, do you understand?"

    "Anything goes around here."

  28. Go as a verb (transitive, slang):

    To say (something), to make a sound: To say (something, aloud or to oneself). To make the (specified) sound. To sound; to make a noise.

    Examples:

    "I go, "As if!" And she was all like, "Whatever!"

    "As soon as I did it, I went "that was stupid."

    "Cats go "meow". Motorcycles go "vroom"."

    "I woke up just before the clock went."

  29. Go as a verb:

    To be expressed or composed (a certain way).

    Examples:

    "The tune goes like this. As the story goes, he got the idea for the song while sitting in traffic."

  30. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To resort (to).

    Examples:

    "I'll go to court if I have to."

  31. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To apply or subject oneself to: To apply oneself; to undertake; to have as one's goal or intention. To make an effort, to subject oneself (to something). To work (through or over), especially mentally.

    Examples:

    "I'm going to join a sports team.'' ''I wish you'd go and get a job.'' ''He went to pick it up, but it rolled out of reach."

    "He's going to leave town tomorrow''."

    "You didn't have to go to such trouble. I never thought he'd go so far as to call you. She went to great expense to help them win."

    "I've gone over this a hundred times. Let's not go into that right now."

  32. Go as a verb (intransitive, often followed by a preposition):

    To fit (in a place, or together with something): To fit. To be compatible, especially of colors or food and drink. To belong (somewhere).

    Examples:

    "Do you think the sofa will go through the door? The belt just barely went around his waist."

    "This shade of red doesn't go with the drapes. White wine goes better with fish than red wine."

    "My shirts go on this side of the wardrobe. This piece of the jigsaw goes on the other side."

  33. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To date.

    Examples:

    "How long having they been going together? He's been going with her for two weeks."

  34. Go as a verb (intransitive):

    To attack: To fight or attack. To attack.

    Examples:

    "I went at him with a knife."

  35. Go as a verb:

    To be in general; to be usually.

    Examples:

    "As sentences go, this one is pretty boring."

  36. Go as a verb (transitive):

    To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.

    Examples:

    "Let's go halves on this."

  37. Go as a verb (transitive):

    To yield or weigh.

    Examples:

    "Those babies go five tons apiece."

  38. Go as a verb (transitive, intransitive):

    To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.

    Examples:

    "That's as high as I can go. We could go two fifty."

    "I'll go a ten-spot. I'll go you a shilling."

  39. Go as a verb (transitive, colloquial):

    To enjoy.

    Examples:

    "I could go a beer right about now."

  40. Go as a verb (intransitive, colloquial):

    To urinate or defecate.

    Examples:

    "I really need to go. Have you managed to go today, Mrs. Miggins?"

  1. Go as a noun (uncommon):

    The act of going.

  2. Go as a noun:

    A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).

    Examples:

    "You’ve been on that pinball machine long enough—now let your brother have a go."

    "It’s your go."

  3. Go as a noun:

    An attempt, a try.

    Examples:

    "I’ll give it a go."

  4. Go as a noun:

    An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.

    Examples:

    "We will begin as soon as the boss says it's a go."

  5. Go as a noun:

    An act; the working or operation.

  6. Go as a noun (slang, dated):

    A circumstance or occurrence; an incident.

  7. Go as a noun (dated):

    The fashion or mode.

    Examples:

    "quite the go"

  8. Go as a noun (dated):

    Noisy merriment.

    Examples:

    "a high go"

  9. Go as a noun (slang, archaic):

    A glass of spirits; a quantity of spirits.

  10. Go as a noun:

    Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.

    Examples:

    "There is no go in him."

  11. Go as a noun (cribbage):

    The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above thirty-one.

  12. Go as a noun:

    A period of activity.

    Examples:

    "ate it all in one go"

  13. Go as a noun (obsolete, British slang):

    A dandy; a fashionable person.

  1. Go as a noun (board game):

    A strategic board game, originally from China, in which two players (black and white) attempt to control the largest area of the board with their counters.

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