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
- Three to get ready; and four to -- _get ready to go!
- Don't you see it -- can't you get it -- can't you _get_ it! "
- _And by what law can you expect to get what you believe you can not get_?
- "How or where or when does not interest me -- but get him, you understand, _get him_!"
- Rather than making it harder to get divorced, which would cause problems for people in abusive situations, why not just make it harder to *get* married?
- Yes, -- and, to confirm my suspicions, here rattle in the drums and pipe in the fifes, wooing us to get up, _get up_, with music too peremptory to be harmonious.
- "It is impossible to say what quantity of gold the Kunsi may get; but their pretence that they _get none_ must be false, when every common Malay obtains from half to one bunkal per month.
- Even beyond that most people in the province probably know residents who had never shown an interest in jigging a cod before they were told they couldnt, and those same residents were among the first to decide they simply had to get out and get their fish.
- This enables me to easily get the hash value and update my page, whether that action is as simple as updating the page with the hash data itself, as shown below or whether it involves requesting data from the server based on a unique identifier stored in the hash: function HashChanged () {$get ( "content"). innerHTML = window. location.hash;}
- So that when the little beginner in the use of language, as he wakes up in his crib, and stretching out his hands to his mother says, "I want _to get up_" she comes to take him, and replies, her face beaming with delight, "My little darling! you shall _get up_;" thus filling his mind with happiness at the idea that his mother is not only pleased that he attempts to speak, but is fully satisfied, and more than satisfied, with his success.
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