A surname from Middle English.
Used in a Sentence
went
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for went.
Editorial note
That would be a 6 month time period, where the number of cars went from 58,295 to 64,500.
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Definitions2
Parts of speech1
Quick take
A surname from Middle English.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of went gathered in one view.
The River Went, a river in West Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire and East Riding of Yorkshire, England, a tributary of the River Don. It forms the boundary between South Yorkshire and both North Yorkshire and the East Riding in its lower reaches.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for went.
noun
A surname from Middle English.
noun
The River Went, a river in West Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire and East Riding of Yorkshire, England, a tributary of the River Don. It forms the boundary between South Yorkshire and both North Yorkshire and the East Riding in its lower reaches.
Example sentences
That would be a 6 month time period, where the number of cars went from 58,295 to 64,500.
One person would work half the day while the other person golfed, went to the bar, had fun, etc.
If the grid was 15% green when it went up, it will be 15% green when it comes down.
And then a weird thing happened, it went to $5m by 2011 and the rate dropped further, to 35%.
A few years back, I went to a trade show in Vegas, because my company had a booth.
Google bought it instead, just as it went from MVP to software product line.
I just went through the ordering process and from a designers standpoint, this is a really solid execution.
Twitter's problem is that it went public as a growth company comparable to Facebook when it might just be a niche social network.
They deleted a GamerGate repo then went on twitter to gloat about it.
Then I tried going to autodesk.com and I scrolled to the footer and went to the store.
There must be some technical reason for why they went with it.
I went home and seriously contemplated whether I did indeed waste my time in college.
Quote examples
Interestingly, as my price went higher and higher, the constant noise of "crappy" job offers quieted down and was replaced by a small number of great offers.
We went through this years ago with IE6, there were always plenty of devs with variations of "screw 'em", but blaming or penalising users for their set up is a bit of a dick move, and shutting out or inconveniencing a big chunk of potential market is not a good business strategy.
I went from working alone under a manager who seemed indifferent to my creative ideas and hard work, to working with a team under a manager who said "that's awesome" when I showed him my work.
My hiring success (in terms of impact the new hires made) went way up when we stopped wording job postings using traditional enterprisy language & bullets and instead posted much simpler "hackers wanted" at the local universities.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use went in a sentence?
That would be a 6 month time period, where the number of cars went from 58,295 to 64,500.
What does went mean?
A surname from Middle English.
What part of speech is went?
went is commonly used as noun.