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Go vs Commence - What's the difference?

go | commence |

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.

go

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • , a province of Indonesia.
  • , a state of Brazil.
  • Abbreviation

    (Abbreviation) (head)
  • Anagrams

    * ----

    commence

    English

    Verb

    (commenc)
  • To begin, start.
  • * (William Shakespeare)
  • Here the anthem doth commence .
  • * (Oliver Goldsmith)
  • His heaven commences ere the world be past.
  • * , chapter=4
  • , title= 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.}}
  • To begin to be, or to act as.
  • * (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
  • We commence judges ourselves.
  • (UK, intransitive, dated) To take a degree at a university.
  • * Fuller
  • I question whether the formality of commencing was used in that age.

    Antonyms

    * cease * stop