GO IN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does go in mean? 

• GO IN (verb)
  The verb GO IN has 1 sense:

1. to come or go into

  Familiarity information: GO IN used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GO IN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To come or go into

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

come in; enter; get in; get into; go in; go into; move into

Context example:

the boat entered an area of shallow marshes

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "go in"):

take the field (go on the playing field, of a football team)

penetrate; perforate (pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance)

re-enter (enter again)

file in (enter by marching in a file)

pop in (enter briefly)

walk in (enter by walking)

call at; out in (enter a harbor)

take water (enter the water)

turn in (make an entrance by turning from a road)

board; get on (get on board of (trains, buses, ships, aircraft, etc.))

intrude; irrupt (enter uninvited)

encroach upon; intrude on; invade; obtrude upon (to intrude upon, infringe, encroach on, violate)

dock (come into dock)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

Oh, God, let these poor white hairs go in evidence of what he has suffered, who all his life has done no wrong, and on whom so many sorrows have come.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I had much rather go in the coach.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Besides, he is undoubtedly a valuable dog, as dogs go in Alaska, and that is sufficient explanation of your desire to get possession of him.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Here, when we go in, is a crowd of them, running down to the door, and handing Traddles about to be kissed, until he is out of breath.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I think that I will go in and have a word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The second did not want to go in at all, but was forced.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The blood flow can slow down, go in the wrong direction or to the wrong place, or be blocked completely.

(Congenital Heart Defects, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

It had been her wish to start for Spain and to search for him, but Alleyne had persuaded her to let him go in her place.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A rough crowd had assembled in the street to see the fighting-men go in, and my uncle warned me to look to my pockets as we pushed our way through it.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Perhaps we’d better go in at once, for I know how impatient he is.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)