GET

get

(noun) a return on a shot that seemed impossible to reach and would normally have resulted in a point for the opponent

beget, get, engender, father, mother, sire, generate, bring forth

(verb) make (offspring) by reproduction; “Abraham begot Isaac”; “John fathered four daughters”

suffer, sustain, have, get

(verb) undergo (as of injuries and illnesses); “She suffered a fracture in the accident”; “He had an insulin shock after eating three candy bars”; “She got a bruise on her leg”; “He got his arm broken in the scuffle”

contract, take, get

(verb) be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness; “He got AIDS”; “She came down with pneumonia”; “She took a chill”

grow, develop, produce, get, acquire

(verb) come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes); “He grew a beard”; “The patient developed abdominal pains”; “I got funny spots all over my body”; “Well-developed breasts”

make, get

(verb) give certain properties to something; “get someone mad”; “She made us look silly”; “He made a fool of himself at the meeting”; “Don’t make this into a big deal”; “This invention will make you a millionaire”; “Make yourself clear”

get, let, have

(verb) cause to move; cause to be in a certain position or condition; “He got his squad on the ball”; “This let me in for a big surprise”; “He got a girl into trouble”

become, go, get

(verb) enter or assume a certain state or condition; “He became annoyed when he heard the bad news”; “It must be getting more serious”; “her face went red with anger”; “She went into ecstasy”; “Get going!”

receive, get, find, obtain, incur

(verb) receive a specified treatment (abstract); “These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation”; “His movie received a good review”; “I got nothing but trouble for my good intentions”

catch, get

(verb) grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of; “did you catch that allusion?”; “We caught something of his theory in the lecture”; “don’t catch your meaning”; “did you get it?”; “She didn’t get the joke”; “I just don’t get him”

perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound

(verb) be a mystery or bewildering to; “This beats me!”; “Got me--I don’t know the answer!”; “a vexing problem”; “This question really stuck me”

get

(verb) reach by calculation; “What do you get when you add up these numbers?”

induce, stimulate, cause, have, get, make

(verb) cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner; “The ads induced me to buy a VCR”; “My children finally got me to buy a computer”; “My wife made me buy a new sofa”

drive, get, aim

(verb) move into a desired direction of discourse; “What are you driving at?”

get

(verb) communicate with a place or person; establish communication with, as if by telephone; “Bill called this number and he got Mary”; “The operator couldn’t get Kobe because of the earthquake”

get, catch, capture

(verb) succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase; “We finally got the suspect”; “Did you catch the thief?”

bring, get, convey, fetch

(verb) go or come after and bring or take back; “Get me those books over there, please”; “Could you bring the wine?”; “The dog fetched the hat”

catch, arrest, get

(verb) attract and fix; “His look caught her”; “She caught his eye”; “Catch the attention of the waiter”

draw, get

(verb) earn or achieve a base by being walked by the pitcher; “He drew a base on balls”

arrive, get, come

(verb) reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress; “She arrived home at 7 o’clock”; “She didn’t get to Chicago until after midnight”

scram, buzz off, fuck off, get, bugger off

(verb) leave immediately; used usually in the imperative form; “Scram!”

experience, receive, have, get

(verb) go through (mental or physical states or experiences); “get an idea”; “experience vertigo”; “get nauseous”; “receive injuries”; “have a feeling”

catch, get

(verb) suffer from the receipt of; “She will catch hell for this behavior!”

get, acquire

(verb) come into the possession of something concrete or abstract; “She got a lot of paintings from her uncle”; “They acquired a new pet”; “Get your results the next day”; “Get permission to take a few days off from work”

have, get, make

(verb) achieve a point or goal; “Nicklaus had a 70”; “The Brazilian team got 4 goals”; “She made 29 points that day”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology 1

Verb

get (third-person singular simple present gets, present participle getting, simple past (archaic) gat or got, past participle (American, Canadian, Irish, Northern English, Scottish, archaic) gotten or got)

(ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire.

(transitive) To receive.

(transitive, in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes.

(copulative) To become, or cause oneself to become.

(transitive) To cause to become; to bring about.

(transitive) To fetch, bring, take.

(transitive) To cause to do.

(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.

(transitive) To cause to come or go or move.

(transitive) To cause to be in a certain status or position.

(intransitive) To begin (doing something).

(intransitive) To go, to leave.

(transitive) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).

(transitive) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).

(intransitive, followed by infinitive) To be able, permitted (to do something); to have the opportunity (to do something).

(transitive, informal) To understand. (compare get it)

(transitive, informal) To be told; be the recipient of (a question, comparison, opinion, etc.).

(informal) To be. Used to form the passive of verbs.

(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.

(informal, mostly, imperative) Go away; get lost.

(euphemism) To kill.

(intransitive, obsolete) To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.

(transitive) To measure.

Usage notes

• The meaning "to have" is found only in perfect tenses but has present meaning; hence "I have got" has the same meaning as "I have". (Sometimes the form had got is used to mean "had", as in "He said they couldn't find the place because they'd got the wrong address".) In speech and in all except formal writing, the word "have" is normally reduced to /v/ and spelled "-'ve" or dropped entirely (e.g. "I got a God-fearing woman, one I can easily afford", Slow Train, Bob Dylan), leading to nonstandard usages such as "he gots" = "he has", "he doesn't got" = "he doesn't have".

• Some dialects (e.g. American English dialects) use both gotten and got as past participles, while others (e.g. dialects of Southern England) use only got. In dialects that use both, got is used for the meanings "to have" and "to have to", while gotten is used for all other meanings. This allows for a distinction between "I've gotten a ticket" (I have received or obtained a ticket) vs. "I've got a ticket" (I currently have a ticket).

• "get" is one of the most common verbs in English, and the many meanings may be confusing for language learners. The following table indicates some of the different constructions found, along with the most common meanings of each

Synonyms

• (obtain): acquire, come by, have

• (receive): receive, be given

• (fetch): bring, fetch, retrieve

• (become): become

• (cause to become): cause to be, cause to become, make

• (cause to do): make

• (arrive): arrive at, reach

• (go, leave): get out go, leave, scram

• (adopt or assume (a position or state)): go, move

• (begin): begin, commence, start

• (catch (a means of public transport)): catch, take

• (respond to (telephone, doorbell)): answer

• (be able to; have the opportunity to do): be able to

• (informal: understand): dig, follow, make sense of, understand

• (informal: be (used to form the passive)): be

• (informal: catch (a disease)): catch, come down with

• (informal: trick): con, deceive, dupe, hoodwink, trick

• (informal: perplex): confuse, perplex, stump

• (find as an answer): obtain

• (bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal)): catch, nab, nobble

• (physically assault): assault, beat, beat up

• (informal: hear): catch, hear

• (getter): getter

Antonyms

• (obtain): lose

Noun

get (plural gets)

(dated) Offspring.

Lineage.

(sports, tennis) A difficult return or block of a shot.

(informal) Something gained; an acquisition.

Etymology 2

Noun

get (plural gets)

(British, regional) A git.

Etymology 3

Noun

get (plural gittim or gitten)

(Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.

Anagrams

• GTE, TGE, teg

Source: Wiktionary

Get, n.

Definition: Jet, the mineral. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Get, n. Etym: [OF. get.]

1. Fashion; manner; custom. [Obs.] Chaucer.

2. Artifice; contrivance. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Get, v. t. [imp. Got (Obs. Gat (); p. p. Got (Obsolescent Gotten); p. pr. & vb. n. Getting.] Etym: [OE. geten, AS. gitan, gietan (in comp.); akin to Icel. geta, Goth. bigitan to find, L. prehendere to seize, take, Gr. Comprehend, Enterprise, Forget, Impregnable, Prehensile.]

1. To procure; to obtain; to gain possession of; to acquire; to earn; to obtain as a price or reward; to come by; to win, by almost any means; as, to get favor by kindness; to get wealth by industry and economy; to get favor by kindness; to get wealth by industry and economy; to get land by purchase, etc.

2. Hence, with have and had, to come into or be in possession of; to have. Johnson. Thou hast got the face of man. Herbert.

3. To beget; to procreate; to generate. I had rather to adopt a child than get it. Shak.

4. To obtain mental possession of; to learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; as to get a lesson; also with out; as, to get out one's Greek lesson. It being harder with him to get one sermon by heart, than to pen twenty. Bp. Fell.

5. To prevail on; to induce; to persuade. Get him to say his prayers. Shak.

6. To procure to be, or to cause to be in any state or condition; -- with a following participle. Those things I bid you do; get them dispatched. Shak.

7. To betake; to remove; -- in a reflexive use. Get thee out from this land. Gen. xxxi. 13. He . . . got himself . . . to the strong town of Mega. Knolles.

Note: Get, as a transitive verb, is combined with adverbs implying motion, to express the causing to, or the effecting in, the object of the verb, of the kind of motion indicated by the preposition; thus, to get in, to cause to enter, to bring under shelter; as, to get in the hay; to get out, to make come forth, to extract; to get off, to take off, to remove; to get together, to cause to come together, to collect. To get by heart, to commit to memory.

– To get the better of, To get the best of, to obtain an advantage over; to surpass; to subdue.

– To get up, to cause to be established or to exit; to prepare; to arrange; to construct; to invent; as, to get up a celebration, a machine, a book, an agitation.

Syn.

– To obtain; gain; win; acquire. See Obtain.

Get, v. i.

1. To make acquisition; to gain; to profit; to receive accessions; to be increased. We mourn, France smiles; we lose, they daily get. Shak.

2. To arrive at, or bring one's self into, a state, condition, or position; to come to be; to become; -- with a following adjective or past participle belonging to the subject of the verb; as, to get sober; to get awake; to get beaten; to get elected. To get rid of fools and scoundrels. Pope. His chariot wheels get hot by driving fast. Coleridge.

Note: It [get] gives to the English language a middle voice, or a power of verbal expression which is neither active nor passive. Thus we say to get acquitted, beaten, confused, dressed. Earle.

Note: Get, as an intransitive verb, is used with a following preposition, or adverb of motion, to indicate, on the part of the subject of the act, movement or action of the kind signified by the preposition or adverb; or, in the general sense, to move, to stir, to make one's way, to advance, to arrive, etc.; as, to get away, to leave to escape; to disengage one's self from; to get down, to descend, esp. with effort, as from a literal or figurative elevation; to get along, to make progress; hence, to prosper, succeed, or fare; to get in, to enter; to get out, to extricate one's self, to escape; to get through, to traverse; also, to finish, to be done; to get to, to arrive at, to reach; to get off, to alight, to descend from, to dismount; also, to escape, to come off clear; to get together, to assemble, to convene. To get ahead, to advance; to prosper.

– To get along, to proceed; to advance; to prosper.

– To get a mile (or other distance), to pass over it in traveling.

– To get among, to go or come into the company of; to become one of a number.

– To get asleep, to fall asleep.

– To get astray, to wander out of the right way.

– To get at, to reach; to make way to. To get away with, to carry off; to capture; hence, to get the better of; to defeat.

– To get back, to arrive at the place from which one departed; to return.

– To get before, to arrive in front, or more forward.

– To get behind, to fall in the rear; to lag.

– To get between, to arrive between.

– To get beyond, to pass or go further than; to exceed; to surpass. "Three score and ten is the age of man, a few get beyond it." Thackeray.

– To get clear, to disengage one's self; to be released, as from confinement, obligation, or burden; also, to be freed from danger or embarrassment.

– To get drunk, to become intoxicated.

– To get forward, to proceed; to advance; also, to prosper; to advance in wealth.

– To get home, to arrive at one's dwelling, goal, or aim.

– To get into. (a) To enter, as, "she prepared to get into the coach." Dickens. (b) To pass into, or reach; as, " as, " a language has got into the inflated state." Keary.

– To get loose or free, to disengage one's self; to be released from confinement.

– To get near, to approach within a small distance.

– To get on, to proceed; to advance; to prosper.

– To get over. (a) To pass over, surmount, or overcome, as an obstacle or difficulty. (b) To recover from, as an injury, a calamity.

– To get through. (a) To pass through something. (b) To finish what one was doing.

– To get up. (a) To rise; to arise, as from a bed, chair, etc. (b) To ascend; to climb, as a hill, a tree, a flight of stairs, etc.

Get, n.

Definition: Offspring; progeny; as, the get of a stallion.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

GET

Etymology 1

Verb

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Etymology 2

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