go around
To move or spread from person to personTo move or spread from person to person.
» It's going to cost around thirty dollars.
Это будет стоить около тридцати долларов.
Це коштуватиме біля тридцяти доларів.
Meaning
6 senses(intransitive)To move or spread from person to person.
The rumor is going around that Mr. X and Ms. Y are having an affair. There's a cough going around.
(intransitive)To visit (a place) or with (somebody).
I'm going around to John's house later.
(intransitive, slang)To fight or argue; to obsess over something.
(intransitive)To be shared with everyone.
There's plenty of fish to go around.
(intransitive)To perform a go-around maneuver.
ATC told the flight to go around because another plane was still on the runway.
turn on or around an axis or a center
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, around.
Let's make the wheels go around.
Examples
216 sentencesIt's going to cost around thirty dollars.
Це коштуватиме біля тридцяти доларів.
ruЭто будет стоить около тридцати долларов.
I don't know what's going on around here.
Я не знаю, що тут відбувається.
ruЯ не знаю, что тут происходит.
deIch weiß nicht, was hier passiert.
What's going on around here?
Що тут діється?
There's a rumor going around that she got a new job.
Ходять чутки, що вона отримала нову посаду.
Go around it.
Обійди навколо нього.
deGeh drumrum.
Translations
2 languagesForms
goes around, going around, went around, gone around| Base form | go around · to go around |
|---|---|
| 3rd person singular | goes around |
| Present participle | going around |
| Past simple | went around |
| Past participle | gone around |
irregular · Lesson
Phrasal verbs
16 phrasal verbs- go upпіднятися, підніматисяTo move upwards.
- go offслужити, обслуговуватиTo explode.
- go outвийти, виходитиTo leave, especially a building.
- go onпродовжувати, продовжитиTo continue in extent.
- go downспуститися, спускатисяTo descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one.
- go backповертатисяTo return to a place or state after having been there at a previous time.
- go overперевірити, перевірятиUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, over.
- go awayвід'їхати, від'їжджатиTo depart or leave a place.
More 8
- go afterстежити, слідкуватиTo pursue in attempt to catch another.
- go forсподіватися, надіятисяUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, for.
- go throughзрозуміти, розумітиTo travel from one end of something to the other.
- go aboutнаблизитися, наближатисяTo busy oneself with.
- go withу /в мене, матиUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, with.
- go byвикористовувати, використатиTo pass or go past without much interaction.
- go aheadTo proceed with; to begin.
- go roundTo physically swirl or rotate.
Synonyms
8 synonyms- become widely known and passed on:spreadcirculate
- turn on or around an axis or a center:revolverotate
- go around the flank of (an opposing army):outflank
- avoid something unpleasant or laborious:bypassshort-circuitget around
Word family
2 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, irregular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Phrasal verbs: introduction — Because it is a phrasal verb