单词 | to go around |
释义 | > as lemmasto go around to go around 1. intransitive. a. To be passed from person to person (in early use esp. among a group of people at a table). Also: to circulate; to be or become widely known. Cf. to go round 1a at Phrasal verbs 1. ΚΠ 1673 Bp. G. Burnet Vindic. Church & State Scotl. iv. 351 Another expedient they had, when a Bishop was heretical, that the neighboring Bishops used to publish it in their Cicular [sic] Letters, which went around, and so they did excommunicate or depose them. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 232 The Goblet goes around. 1721 Weekly Jrnl. 18 Mar. 716/1 When Phillis o'er Tea's sitting, And Stories go around. 1779 Public Advertiser 21 Sept. The Glass went around, And Mirth did abound. 1813 C. Lamb Mr. H. i. iv. 18 When the question goes around, who is your master? and who do you serve? One says, I serve lord so-and-so. 1891 Bye-gones 22 Apr. 66/1 A second toast goes around; and when the cup again reaches the president..he says, ‘Thou givest us a third cup.’ 1918 32nd Ann. Rep. Bureau Amer. Ethnol. 1910–11 160 When the hunters reached home the report went around that a child had been left in the woods. 1995 Guardian (Nexis) 16 Aug. 2 There were a lot of drugs going around, a hell of a lot, but the college was never raided. 2005 J. Canseco Juiced 117 Once the rumor went around that I was on steroids..I was persona non grata. b. Of food, or anything distributed or shared out: to supply each person in a group, or to satisfy demand. Chiefly in the infinitive after an expression of quantity, as enough, plenty, etc. Cf. to go round 1b at Phrasal verbs 1. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > be sufficient [verb (intransitive)] > to be distributed to go around1841 to go round1855 1841 Newchurchman Jan. 42 The supply of ice cream..look [sic] as if it was hardly enough to go around. 1883 Harper's Mag. Feb. 446/1 The apples and nuts are just enough to go around. 1904 Bull. National Metal Trades Assoc. July 310/1 There was so much to go around that their material demands were readily granted. 1922 B. Hecht 1001 Afternoons in Chicago 128 But there's enough of you to go around, you can bet. 2002 Time 27 May 27/3 The blame game is under way... And one thing we now know: there is plenty of blame to go around. c. Of an illness, disease, etc.: to spread, be prevalent. ΚΠ 1892 Amer. Homeopathist 15 Apr. 127/1 In our grandfather's day the itch went around every winter. 1913 U.S. Naval Med. Bull. 7 621 At the seaside in little cottages and lodgings people crowd together in the evenings, and they would infect each other if a cold were going around. 1966 H. Arundel High House vi. 79 Whenever you have a cold or a sore throat someone always tells you that there's a lot of it going around. 1993 Spin Apr. 15/4 Meticulous condom use is a sensible thing, considering all the STDs going around. 2. intransitive. a. To go from one place to another, esp. in an indirect, circuitous, or roundabout way. In later use also: to pay a visit in an informal or incidental way (to someone or somewhere). Cf. to go round 5a at Phrasal verbs 1. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [verb (intransitive)] scritheOE walka1200 fizgig1594 itinerate1600 to go round1636 to travel it1687 to go around1742 flitch1787 society > leisure > social event > visit > visiting > visit [verb (intransitive)] > visit informally to call in1573 to drop in1609 to look ina1616 to come round1620 to go round1636 to put in1668 to go around1742 to happen in1749 to run in and out1779 to come around1822 to pop in and out1846 to happen in with1883 to stop in1904 stop1905 society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > direct one's course [verb (intransitive)] > change course or turn off > diverge from direct course > make a detour > go or come by circuitous route to come round1620 to go round1636 to go around1742 1742 J. Cennick Let. 26 Apr. in Christian's Mag. (1792) 3 20 Then I also think to go around into Gloucestershire, and visit brother Adam's society. 1811 I. Mitchell Asylum II. x. 47 He clambered over the garden wall and went around to the back side of the house. 1899 K. Chopin Awakening xxii. 173 Then I'll go around and see her. 1917 E. Wharton Summer xi. 154 She went around to the kitchen door and felt under the mat for the key. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xviii. [Penelope] 727 Would I go around by the quays there some dark evening..and pick up a sailor. 1989 G. Anderson in New Q. (Canada) Spring 20 The key I've just had made... doesn't fit my lock so I go around to the superintendent. 2005 K. Holden In my Skin 37 I'd go around to James's late at night, after a day on my feet in the store. b. To visit (in succession) a number of places or people; to go from place to place, typically while engaged in a specified activity. Cf. to go round 5b at Phrasal verbs 1. ΘΚΠ society > travel > [verb (intransitive)] > travel about or visit many places runeOE to go aboutc1300 passc1400 discur1557 dispace1588 perambulate1607 to get about1776 to go around1796 to get around1798 circulate1848 1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc ix. 347 Well-pleased he [sc. a Dæmon] went around, Plunging his dagger in the hearts of some, Or probing with a poison'd lance their breasts. 1846 J. F. Cooper Redskins I. v. 76 I had dispensed with the monkey, after trying to get along with the creature for an hour or two, and went around only with my music. 1921 Z. Grey Call of Canyon (1924) x. 240 She goes around knocking everybody and saying New York backs Sodom off the boards. 1932 J. G. Neihardt Black Elk Speaks ii. 14 A medicine man..went around among the people curing snowblinds. 2011 Daily Tel. 11 July 13/2 The study found that fathers were most likely to go around turning off lights and standby switches. c. colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.). To be regularly in company (with a person, esp. a lover). Also with together. Cf. to go round 7 at Phrasal verbs 1, to go with —— at Phrasal verbs 2. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > associate together or with [verb (intransitive)] mingc1275 company1387 joinc1390 meddlec1390 herd?a1400 fellowshipc1430 enfellowship1470 to step in1474 accompany?1490 yoke?a1513 to keep with ——c1515 conjoin1532 wag1550 frequent1577 encroach1579 consort1588 sort1595 commerce1596 troop1597 converse1598 to keep (also enter, come into, etc.) commons1598 to enter common1604 atone1611 to walk (also travel) in the way with1611 minglea1616 consociate1638 associate1644 corrive1647 co-unite1650 walk1650 cohere1651 engage1657 mix1667 accustom1670 to make one1711 coalite1735 commerciate1740 to have nothing to say to (also with)1780 gang?1791 companion1792 mess1795 matea1832 comrade1865 to go around1904 to throw in with1906 to get down1975 the mind > emotion > love > courtship or wooing > court or woo [verb (transitive)] > keep company with as a lover to go with ——c1330 to go rounda1867 trot1888 to go around1904 track1916 1904 Secret Service 19 Aug. 21/1 Do you know anything about a large, good-looking woman who goes around with him? 1917 Boys' Life Apr. 26/2 Oh, Capio is a peach of a Scout, he is—going around with Fat and the gang and smoking pills! 1939 Life 8 May 80 We started going around together..and the first thing we knew—at least I knew—it was getter hotter. 1959 J. Braine Vodi xii. 162 Once he started going around with her there were more withdrawals than deposits in his Post Office savings book. 2008 J. Beattiey Twelve Girls 214 They'd been going around together for two years or so now, quite happily, friends, companions, not quite lovers. 3. intransitive. To move in a circular or orbital course; to revolve, rotate. Cf. to go round 2a at Phrasal verbs 1. ΚΠ 1750 Wks. Beaumont & Fletcher (rev. ed.) VII. 272 The Jew or the Turk, Have leave for to work, The whilst that the Mill goes around. 1755 W. Huggins & T. H. Croker tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso I. iv. 49 He took his way where does exactly fall The Sun, when with the Crab he goes around. 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1324 Upon the cutting cylinder, between the spiral blades, it is proposed to place stripes of plush..to raise the nap or pile as the cylinder goes around. 1877 Locomotive Engine Safety Truck Company vs. Pennsylvania Railroad Company: Defendant's Proofs (Circuit Court of U.S.: E. District Pennsylvania) 137 If the wheels are not in line and running parallel to the rail they cannot be expected to go around easy. 1909 Sat. Evening Post 20 Feb. 38/2 The wheel goes around; wherever the little indicator at the point of the pin stops, there is your prize. 1935 S. P. Meek Monkeys have no Tails in Zamboanga xii. 233 He just went around in a circle until he got dizzy and fell down. 2001 S. Roaf et al. Ecohouse (2002) v. 116 Winds of this speed in a ‘closed circulation’, meaning they go around in a complete circle, are classified as hurricanes or typhoons. < as lemmas |
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