Go vs Commence - What's the difference?
go | commence |
To begin, start.
* (William Shakespeare)
* (Oliver Goldsmith)
* , chapter=4
, title= To begin to be, or to act as.
* (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
(UK, intransitive, dated) To take a degree at a university.
* Fuller
In intransitive terms the difference between go and commence
is that go is to fight or attack while commence is to begin, start.In transitive terms the difference between go and commence
is that go is to yield or weigh while commence is to begin to be, or to act as.As verbs the difference between go and commence
is that go is to move while commence is to begin, start.As a proper noun GO
is abbreviation of Gorontalo|lang=en, a province of Indonesia.As an abbreviation GO
is abbreviation of lang=en|graphene oxide.As a noun go
is the act of going.commence
English
Verb
(commenc)- Here the anthem doth commence .
- His heaven commences ere the world be past.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.}}
- We commence judges ourselves.
- I question whether the formality of commencing was used in that age.