Search Result:go by
Overview of noun go_by
The noun goby has 1 sense
- 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)
Overview of verb go_by
The verb go by has 4 senses
- elapse, lapse, pass, slip by, glide by, slip away, go by, slide by, go along -- (pass by; "three years elapsed")
- travel by, pass by, surpass, go past, go by, pass -- (move past; "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")
- go by, go under -- (be called; go by a certain name; "She goes by her maiden name again")
- go by -- (be or act in accordance with; "Go by this rule and you'll be safe")