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Go is a commonly used verb that means to move from one place to another. This word has a rich and complex etymology. As an imperative sentence where the word you is the implied subject, "Go!" is the shortest sentence in the English language.
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Games
- Go (board game), an ancient board game invented in China which is gaining popularity worldwide. It is also studied in computer science and game theory due to its difficulty.
- Go is the starting square in a game of Monopoly (game)
- Go was also the name of a television game show in the early 1980s.
Companies and Organizations
- GO is the Government of Ontario, Canada's provincial bus and train service
- Go Fly was a British airline that was purchased by EasyJet
- GO Corporation was a software company founded in 1987 that pioneered the idea of pen-based handheld computers
- GO.com is the name used by the Walt Disney Internet Group for their public portal. see http://www.go.com/
Motion Pictures, Radio and Music
- Go (2001), a Japanese motion picture about a Korean teen in Japan.
- Go (1999), an American motion picture about three views of one drug deal.
- Go (Vertical Horizon album), a 2003 album by the rock music group Vertical Horizon.
- Go (Moby album), an album by Moby.
- Go!, an album by the rock band Letters To Cleo.
- Go is a mini-album by Sarah Bettens (of K's Choice)
- Go (radio), a Canadian radio program hosted by Brent Bambury.
- Eurobeat, "Go" is a very common phrase used in Eurobeat music.
People
- Go Nagai, a manga-ka
- Go Mifune, the Japanese name of Speed Racer, a character in Speed Racer
- Go Seigen, a go player
- "Go", the Japanese term for an artist's pen name.
Science
- Gene ontology, abbreviated as GO, a controlled vocabulary for information in biology, especially genomics