The difference between Go and Measure

When used as nouns, go means the act of going, whereas measure means moderation, temperance.

When used as verbs, go means to move through space (especially to or through a place), whereas measure means to ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard.

check bellow for the other definitions of Go and Measure

  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.

  1. Measure as a noun (obsolete):

    A prescribed quantity or extent. Moderation, temperance. A limit that cannot be exceeded; a bound. (Now chiefly in set phrases.) An (unspecified) portion or quantity.

    Examples:

    "a measure of salt"

  2. Measure as a noun (now, chiefly, cooking):

    The act or result of measuring. A receptacle or vessel of a standard size, capacity etc. as used to deal out specific quantities of some substance. A standard against which something can be judged; a criterion. Any of various standard units of capacity. A unit of measurement. The size of someone or something, as ascertained by measuring. (Now chiefly in .) The act or process of measuring. A ruler, measuring stick, or graduated tape used to take measurements. A number which is contained in a given number a number of times without a remainder; a divisor or factor. A bed or stratum. A function that assigns a non-negative number to a given set following the mathematical nature that is common among length, volume, probability and the like.

    Examples:

    "Honesty is the true measure of a man."

    "The villagers paid a tithe of a thousand measures of corn."

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    "the greatest common measure of two or more numbers"

    "coal measures; lead measures"

  3. Measure as a noun (now, archaic):

    Metrical rhythm. A melody. A dance. The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a metrical foot. A musical designation consisting of all notes and or rests delineated by two vertical bars; an equal and regular division of the whole of a composition; a bar.

    Examples:

    "a poem in iambic measure"

  4. Measure as a noun (in plural):

    A course of action. Actions designed to achieve some purpose; plans. A piece of legislation.

  1. Measure as a verb:

    To ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard.

    Examples:

    "We measured the temperature with a thermometer. You should measure the angle with a spirit level."

  2. Measure as a verb:

    To be of (a certain size), to have (a certain measurement)

    Examples:

    "The window measured two square feet."

  3. Measure as a verb:

    To estimate the unit size of something.

    Examples:

    "I measure that at 10 centimetres."

  4. Measure as a verb:

    To judge, value, or appraise.

  5. Measure as a verb:

    To obtain or set apart; to mark in even increments.

  6. Measure as a verb (rare):

    To traverse, cross, pass along; to travel over.

  7. Measure as a verb:

    To adjust by a rule or standard.

  8. Measure as a verb:

    To allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; often with out or off.

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