() imp. & p. p. of Wend; -- now obsolete except as the imperfect of go, with which it has no etymological connection. See Go.
(n.) Course; way; path; journey; direction.
Example Sentences:
(1) The buses recently went up by 50p per journey, but my wages went up with national inflation which was pennies.
(2) The district’s $110bn of economic activity went up by 22% since 2007, outpacing city growth by 9% during the same period.
(3) Half the bullet got me and the other half went into a shop window across the road.
(4) BT Sport went down this route, appointing Channel 4 Sales, the TV ad sales house that represents the broadcaster and partners including UKTV.
(5) The majority of the hearts went spontaneously into ventricular fibrillation at some stage of the operation.
(6) The first source attended was a private practitioner for 53 % of the patients, another private medical establishment for 4 %, a Government chest clinic for only 11 % and another Government medical establishment for 17 %, 9 % went first to a herbalist and 5 % went to a drug store or treated themselves.
(7) His mother, meanwhile, had to issue Peyton with a series of polaroids of his own clothes showing him which ones went together.
(8) It was sent into the box and Jaap Stam's free header went towards Kaka at the far post.
(9) The local guide led us down a rough, uneven pathway, talking as he went.
(10) FBI assistant director David Bowdich said that Syed Farook, 28, and his wife Tashfeen Malik, 27, were radicalized long before they went on a rampage at a community center in southern California last Wednesday, but would not specify whether he meant months or years.
(11) Cable argued that the additional £30bn austerity proposed by the chancellor after 2015 went beyond the joint coalition commitment to eradicate the structural part of the UK's current budget deficit – the part of non-investment spending that will not disappear even when the economy has fully emerged from the recession of 2008-09.
(12) The stiffness of the fibre first rose abruptly in response to stretch and then started to decrease linearly while the stretch went on; after the completion of stretch the stiffness decreased towards a steady value which was equal to that during the isometric tetanus at the same sarcomere length, indicating that the enhancement of isometric force is associated with decreased stiffness.
(13) The night's special award went to armed forces broadcaster, BFBS Radio, while long-standing BBC radio DJ Trevor Nelson received the top prize of the night, the gold award.
(14) I went to a reasonably good school, though I think I hated the headmaster just as much as he hated me.
(15) So when President Obama went before his country on Wednesday, this is the context in which what he had to say about his plans should be considered.
(16) Aitken was subsequently declared bankrupt and went to prison.
(17) "Some of the shrapnel went into the arm of the Australian soldier that was hit, another part went into the foot [of the New Zealand soldier]," he told a news conference .
(18) I'll admit to not having realised that more than £100bn would be committed to Trident – I half-remembered reading that it would cost £20bn, so went online, only to discover that the higher figure checks out .
(19) To this day, 10 patients (31%) are alive with a functioning kidney transplant, 16 (50%) are still treated by CPD awaiting a transplant, 5 have died (16%) and one went back to hemodialysis (3%).
(20) They said it shows Bergdahl, now 27, in poorer health than previous footage taken in the years since he went missing in Afghanistan on 30 June 2009.
Wert
Definition:
() The second person singular, indicative and subjunctive moods, imperfect tense, of the verb be. It is formed from were, with the ending -t, after the analogy of wast. Now used only in solemn or poetic style.
(n.) A wart.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, they lose inhibitory effectiveness almost completely within a narrow zone centered at normal (1 X) levels (Pösö, A. R., Wert, J. J., Jr., and Mortimore, G.E.
(2) Spain's sports minister, Jose Wert, asked for "patience" given the long legal process that is likely to be ahead of the footballer.
(3) According to this evaluation only a single substance (methylmercury) is embryotoxic in man, a prenatal risk cannot be excluded for eight chemicals, and 18 chemicals are safe at occupational exposure limits (MAK-Werte).
(4) The law will regulate the rights to transmit first and second division games as well as the Copa del Rey and Super Cup competitions, the sports minister, José Ignacio Wert said.
(5) Next to his body was a Kalashnikov, a book on Salafism and an Islamic State flag,” said Thierry Werts, of the Belgian federal prosecutor’s office.
(6) For the first time exposure levels during pregnancy have been evaluated for industrial chemicals in the German list of "Maximal occupational exposure limits and biological tolerance levels of occupational chemicals 1985" (MAK-Werte-Liste).
(7) But preventing a child from inheriting a nasty disease gives them a more open future, not less, says Guido de Wert , professor of biomedical ethics at Maastricht University.
(8) Myocardial samples wert taken from the left ventricle and divided into four groups according to the number of spheres per sample.
(9) Wert said the Spanish leagues obtained “somewhat less than €800m” for the 2013-14 season from the worldwide sales of its audiovisual rights.
(10) Next to his body was a Kalashnikov, a book on Salafism and an Islamic State flag,” according to Thierry Werts, of the Belgian federal prosecutor’s office.
(11) "We should be honest and acknowledge that we are talking about genetic modification, that this changes the genome, and it may be transmitted to future generations," says de Wert.