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[ verb ] pass by, as of time
Used in print (Glayds H. Barr, The Master of Geneva....)Catholics who were truly Christians longed for the simple penance of days gone_by . (Arthur Miller, "The Prophecy," in The Best...)And she was made to fall_in_love with him again there in the rutted dirt driveway standing in the cold fog , mad as she was at his going_away when he really did n't have to , mad at their both got older in a life that seemed to have taken no more than a week to go_by . (Marvin Schiller, "The Sheep's in the Meadow,"...)The weeks went_by , and the longer our separation grew , the more unbounded and almost unbearable my fantasies became . |
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[ verb ] pass by
Examples "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" Used in print (Helen Hooven Santmyer, "There Were Fences"...)Thus shielded , we played many foolish games in comfortable unselfconsciousness ; even when the fences became a part of the game - when a vine embowered gate-post was the Sleeping_Beauty 's enchanted castle , or when Rapunzel let_down her golden hair from beneath the crocketed spire , even then we paid little heed to those who went_by on the path outside . (Edward Streeter, The Chairman of the Bored....)And then_again perhaps the reason why he could n't find time to do any of the things he had planned to do after retirement : reading , roaming , gardening , lying on his back and watching the clouds go_by , was because he did n't want to do them . |
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[ verb ] be called; go by a certain name
Synonyms Examples "She goes by her maiden name again" Used in print (The New York Times...)A bunch of young buckaroos from out West , who go_by the name of Texas Boys Choir , loped into Town_Hall last night and succeeded in corralling the hearts of a sizable audience . |
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[ verb ] be or act in accordance with
Examples "Go by this rule and you'll be safe" Related terms |
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