get
IPA: gˈɛt
noun
- (dated) Offspring.
- Lineage.
- (sports, tennis) A difficult return or block of a shot.
- (informal) Something gained; an acquisition.
- (Britain, regional) Synonym of git (“contemptible person”)
- (Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.
- A member of the Getae.
verb
- (ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire.
- (transitive) To receive.
- (transitive, in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes.
- (transitive) To fetch, bring, take.
- (copulative) To become, or cause oneself to become.
- (transitive) To cause to become; to bring about.
- (transitive) To cause to do.
- (transitive) To cause to come or go or move.
- (intransitive, with various prepositions, such as into, over, or behind; for specific idiomatic senses see individual entries get into, get over, etc.) To adopt, assume, arrive at, or progress towards (a certain position, location, state).
- (transitive) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
- (intransitive, catenative) (with full infinitive or gerund-participle) To begin (doing something or to do something).
- (transitive) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
- (transitive) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
- (intransitive, catenative) (with full infinitive) To be able, be permitted, or have the opportunity (to do something desirable or ironically implied to be desirable).
- (transitive, informal) To understand. (compare get it)
- (transitive, informal) To be told; be the recipient of (a question, comparison, opinion, etc.).
- (auxiliary, informal) Used with the past participle to form the dynamic passive voice of a dynamic verb. Compared with static passive with to be, this emphasizes the commencement of an action or entry into a state.
- (transitive) To become ill with or catch (a disease).
- (transitive, informal) To catch out, trick successfully.
- (transitive, informal) To perplex, stump.
- (transitive) To find as an answer.
- (transitive, informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
- (transitive) To hear completely; catch.
- (transitive) To getter.
- (now rare) To beget (of a father).
- (archaic) To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out.
- (imperative, informal) Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
- (intransitive, informal, chiefly imperative) To go, to leave; to scram.
- (euphemistic) To kill.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.
- (transitive) To measure.
- (transitive) To cause someone to laugh.
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Examples of "get" in Sentences
- I have to get some water from the ford.
- I don't get the vitriol you have, the venom.
- This will be the main hurtle we have to get over.
- Do I have to get it signed in triplicate to remove it
- In the real world, they have to get a paycheck from somewhere.
- Yup, you get to hear my dulcet tones on your very own compooter
- First, however, they have to get rid of her disapproving mother.
- The receiver is used to hone in on the animal to get the payload back.
- But to get into the doctor faster, you have to be a wimp and whine, ime.
- I have a penchant for electronics, and am getting into the art of photography.
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