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go by

 
Noun go by has 1 sense
  1. goby, gudgeon - small spiny-finned fish of coastal or brackish waters having a large head and elongated tapering body having the ventral fins modified as a sucker
    --1 is a kind of percoid fish, percoid, percoidean
    --1 is a member of Gobiidae, family Gobiidae
    --1 has particulars: mudskipper, mudspringer
Verb go by has 4 senses
  1. elapse, lapse, pass, slip by, glide by, slip away, go by, slide by, go along - pass by; "three years elapsed"
    --1 is one way to advance, progress, pass on, move on, march on, go on
    Sample sentences:
    Something ----s
    Something is ----ing PP
  2. travel by, pass by, surpass, go past, go by, pass - pass by; "A black limousine passed by when she looked out the window"; "He passed his professor in the hall"; "One line of soldiers surpassed the other"
    --2 is one way to travel, go, move, locomote
    Sample sentences:
    Something ----s
    Somebody ----s
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody
    Something ----s somebody
    Something ----s something
  3. go by, go under - be called; go by a certain name; "She goes by her maiden name again"
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
  4. go by - be or act in accordance with; "Go by this rule and you'll be safe"
    --4 is one way to
    follow, conform to
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
go back through go back through go bad go ballistic go banana go between go board go broke go by go by the book go deep go down go down on go dutch go far go fish go fishing wiht my friend

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