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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

GET, v.t. pret. got. [gat, obs.] pp. got, gotten.
1. To procure; to obtain; to gain possession of, by almost any means. We get favor by kindness; we get wealth by industry and economy; we get land by purchase; we get praise by good conduct; and we get blame by doing injustice. The merchant should get a profit on his goods; the laborer should get a due reward for his labor; most men get what they can for their goods or for their services. Get differs from acquire, as it does not always express permanence of possession, which is the appropriate sense of acquire. We get a book or a loaf of bread by borrowing, we do not acquire it; but we get or acquire an estate.
2. To have.
Thou hast got the face of a man.
This is a most common, but gross abuse of this word. We constantly hear it said, I have got no corn, I have got no money, she has got a fair complexion, when the person means only, I have no corn, I have no money, she has a fair complexion.
3. To beget; to procreate; to generate.
4. To learn; as, to get a lesson.
5. To prevail on; to induce; to persuade.
Though the king could not get him to engage in a life of business. [This is not elegant.]
6. To procure to be. We could not get the work done. [Not elegant.]
To get off, to put off; to take or pull off; as, to get off a garment: also,to remove; as, to get off a ship from shoals.
To sell; to dispose of; as, to get off goods.
To get on, to put on; to draw or pull on; as, to get on a coat; to get on boots.
To get in, to collect and shelter; to bring under cover; as, to get in corn.
To get out, to draw forth; as, to get out a secret.
To draw out; to disengage.
To get the day, to win; to conquer; to gain the victory.
To get together, to collect; to amass.
To get over, to surmount; to conquer; to pass without being obstructed; as, to get over difficulties: also, to recover; as, to get over sickness.
To get above, to surmount; to surpass.
To get up, to prepare and introduce upon the stage; to bring forward.
With a pronoun following, it signifies to betake; to remove; to go; as, get you to bed; get thee out of the land. But this mode of expression can hardly be deemed elegant.
GET, v.i. To arrive at any place or state; followed by some modifying word,and sometimes implying difficulty or labor; as,
To get away or away from, to depart; to quit; to leave; or to disengage one's self from.
To get among, to arrive in the midst of; to become one of a number.
To get before, to arrive in front, or more forward.
To get behind, to fall in the rear; to lag.
To get back, to arrive at the place from which one departed; to return.
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 down, to descend; to come from an elevation.
To get home, to arrive at one's dwelling.
To get in or into, to arrive within an inclosure, or a mixed body; to pass in; to insinuate one's self.
To get loose or free, to disengage one's self; to be released from confinement.
To get off, to escape; to depart; to get clear; also, to alight; to descend from.
To get out, to depart from an inclosed place or from confinement; to escape; to free one's self from embarrassment.
To get along, to proceed; to advance.
To get rid of, to disengage one's self from; also, to shift off; to remove.
To get together, to meet; to assemble; to convene.
To get up, to arise; to rise from a bed or a seat; also, to ascend; to climb.
To get through, to pass through and reach a point beyond any thing; also, to finish; to accomplish.
To get quit of, to get rid of; to shift off, or to disengage one's self from.
To get forward, to proceed; to advance; also, to prosper; to advance in wealth.
To get near, to approach within a small distance.
To get ahead, to advance; to prosper.
To get on, to proceed; to advance.
To get a mile or other distance, to pass over it in traveling.
To get at, to reach; to make way to.
To get asleep, to fall asleep.
To get drunk, to become intoxicated.
To get between, to arrive between.
To get to, to reach; to arrive.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a return on a shot that seemed impossible to reach and would normally have resulted in a point for the opponent v
1: 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" [syn: get, acquire]
2: 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!" [syn: become, go, get]
3: 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" [syn: get, let, have]
4: 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" [syn: receive, get, find, obtain, incur]
5: reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress; "She arrived home at 7 o'clock"; "She didn't get to Chicago until after midnight" [syn: arrive, get, come] [ant: go away, go forth, leave]
6: 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" [syn: bring, get, convey, fetch] [ant: bear away, bear off, carry away, carry off, take away]
7: go through (mental or physical states or experiences); "get an idea"; "experience vertigo"; "get nauseous"; "receive injuries"; "have a feeling" [syn: experience, receive, have, get]
8: take vengeance on or get even; "We'll get them!"; "That'll fix him good!"; "This time I got him" [syn: pay back, pay off, get, fix]
9: achieve a point or goal; "Nicklaus had a 70"; "The Brazilian team got 4 goals"; "She made 29 points that day" [syn: have, get, make]
10: 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" [syn: induce, stimulate, cause, have, get, make]
11: succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase; "We finally got the suspect"; "Did you catch the thief?" [syn: get, catch, capture]
12: 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" [syn: grow, develop, produce, get, acquire]
13: be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness; "He got AIDS"; "She came down with pneumonia"; "She took a chill" [syn: contract, take, get]
14: 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"
15: 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" [syn: make, get]
16: move into a desired direction of discourse; "What are you driving at?" [syn: drive, get, aim]
17: 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" [syn: catch, get]
18: attract and fix; "His look caught her"; "She caught his eye"; "Catch the attention of the waiter" [syn: catch, arrest, get]
19: reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot; "the rock caught her in the back of the head"; "The blow got him in the back"; "The punch caught him in the stomach" [syn: get, catch]
20: reach by calculation; "What do you get when you add up these numbers?"
21: acquire as a result of some effort or action; "You cannot get water out of a stone"; "Where did she get these news?"
22: purchase; "What did you get at the toy store?"
23: perceive by hearing; "I didn't catch your name"; "She didn't get his name when they met the first time" [syn: catch, get]
24: suffer from the receipt of; "She will catch hell for this behavior!" [syn: catch, get]
25: receive as a retribution or punishment; "He got 5 years in prison" [syn: get, receive]
26: leave immediately; used usually in the imperative form; "Scram!" [syn: scram, buzz off, fuck off, get, bugger off]
27: reach and board; "She got the bus just as it was leaving"
28: irritate; "Her childish behavior really get to me"; "His lying really gets me" [syn: get, get under one's skin]
29: evoke an emotional response; "Brahms's `Requiem' gets me every time"
30: apprehend and reproduce accurately; "She really caught the spirit of the place in her drawings"; "She got the mood just right in her photographs" [syn: catch, get]
31: earn or achieve a base by being walked by the pitcher; "He drew a base on balls" [syn: draw, get]
32: overcome or destroy; "The ice storm got my hibiscus"; "the cat got the goldfish"
33: 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" [syn: perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound]
34: take the first step or steps in carrying out an action; "We began working at dawn"; "Who will start?"; "Get working as soon as the sun rises!"; "The first tourists began to arrive in Cambodia"; "He began early in the day"; "Let's get down to work now" [syn: get down, begin, get, start out, start, set about, set out, commence] [ant: end, terminate]
35: 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" [syn: suffer, sustain, have, get]
36: make children; "Abraham begot Isaac"; "Men often father children but don't recognize them" [syn: beget, get, engender, father, mother, sire, generate, bring forth]

Merriam Webster's

I. verb (got; got or gotten; getting) Etymology: Middle English, from Old Norse geta to get, beget; akin to Old English bigietan to beget, Latin prehendere to seize, grasp, Greek chandanein to hold, contain Date: 13th century transitive verb 1. a. to gain possession of b. to receive as a return ; earn <he got a bad reputation for carelessness> 2. a. to obtain by concession or entreaty <get your mother's permission to go> b. to become affected by (a disease or bodily condition) ; catch <got measles from his sister> 3. a. to seek out and obtain <hoped to get dinner at the inn> b. to obtain and bring where wanted or needed <get a pencil from the desk> 4. beget 5. a. to cause to come or go <quickly got his luggage through customs> b. to cause to move <get it out of the house> c. to cause to be in a certain position or condition <got his feet wet> d. to make ready ; prepare <get breakfast> 6. a. to be subjected to <got a bad fall> b. to receive by way of punishment c. to suffer a specified injury to <got my nose broken> 7. a. to achieve as a result of military activity b. to obtain or receive by way of benefit or advantage <he got little for his trouble> <get the better of an enemy> 8. a. seize b. overcome c. to have an emotional effect on <the final scene always gets me> d. irritate <the delays were starting to get her> e. puzzle f. to take vengeance on; specifically kill g. hit 9. to prevail on ; cause <finally got them to tidy up their room> 10. a. have — used in the present perfect tense form with present meaning <I've got no money> b. to have as an obligation or necessity — used in the present perfect tense form with present meaning <you have got to come> 11. a. to find out by calculation <get the answer to a problem> b. memorize <got the verse by heart> c. hear d. understand <he got the joke> 12. to establish communication with 13. to put out in baseball 14. deliver 6b <the car gets 20 miles to the gallon> intransitive verb 1. a. to succeed in coming or going ; to bring or move oneself <get away to the country> <got into the car> b. to reach or enter into a certain condition <got to sleep after midnight> c. to make progress <hasn't gotten far with the essay> 2. to acquire wealth 3. a. to be able <never got to go to college> b. to come to be — often used with following present participle <got talking about old times> 4. a. to succeed in becoming ; become <how to get clear of all the debts I owe — Shakespeare> b. to become involved <people who get into trouble with the law> 5. to leave immediately <told them to get> verbal auxiliary — used with the past participle of transitive verbs as a passive voice auxiliary <they got caught in the act> Usage: The pronunciation ?git has been noted as a feature of some British and American dialects since the 16th century. In the phonetic spelling of his own speech Benjamin Franklin records git. However, since at least 1687 some grammarians and teachers have disapproved this pronunciation. It nonetheless remains in widespread and unpredictable use in many dialects, often, but not exclusively, when get is a passive auxiliary (as in get married) or an imperative (as in get up!). II. noun Date: 14th century 1. a. something begotten: (1) offspring (2) the entire progeny of a male animal b. lineage 2. a return of a difficult shot in a game (as tennis) III. noun (plural gittin) Etymology: Late Hebrew g?? Date: 1892 1. a document of release from obligation in Jewish law; specifically a bill of divorce 2. a religious divorce by Jewish law

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. & n. --v. (getting; past got; past part. got or US (and in comb.) gotten) 1 tr. come into the possession of; receive or earn (get a job; got £200 a week; got first prize). 2 tr. fetch, obtain, procure, purchase (get my book for me; got a new car). 3 tr. go to reach or catch (a bus, train, etc.). 4 tr. prepare (a meal etc.). 5 intr. & tr. reach or cause to reach a certain state or condition; become or cause to become (get rich; get one's feet wet; get to be famous; got them ready; got him into trouble; cannot get the key into the lock). 6 tr. obtain as a result of calculation. 7 tr. contract (a disease etc.). 8 tr. establish or be in communication with via telephone or radio; receive (a radio signal). 9 tr. experience or suffer; have inflicted on one; receive as one's lot or penalty (got four years in prison). 10 a tr. succeed in bringing, placing, etc. (get it round the corner; get it on to the agenda; flattery will get you nowhere). b intr. & tr. succeed or cause to succeed in coming or going (will get you there somehow; got absolutely nowhere). 11 tr. (prec. by have) a possess (have not got a penny). b (foll. by to + infin.) be bound or obliged (have got to see you). 12 tr. (foll. by to + infin.) induce; prevail upon (got them to help me). 13 tr. colloq. understand (a person or an argument) (have you got that?; I get your point; do you get me?). 14 tr. colloq. inflict punishment or retribution on, esp. in retaliation (I'll get you for that). 15 tr. colloq. a annoy. b move; affect emotionally. c attract, obsess. d amuse. 16 tr. (foll. by to + infin.) develop an inclination as specified (am getting to like it). 17 intr. (foll. by verbal noun) begin (get going). 18 tr. (esp. in past or perfect) catch in an argument; corner, puzzle. 19 tr. establish (an idea etc.) in one's mind. 20 intr. sl. be off; go away. 21 tr. archaic beget. 22 tr. archaic learn; acquire (knowledge) by study. --n. 1 a an act of begetting (of animals). b an offspring (of animals). 2 sl. a fool or idiot. Phrases and idioms: get about (or around) 1 travel extensively or fast; go from place to place. 2 manage to walk, move about, etc. (esp. after illness). 3 (of news) be circulated, esp. orally. get across 1 manage to communicate (an idea etc.). 2 (of an idea etc.) be communicated successfully. 3 colloq. annoy, irritate. get along (or on) 1 (foll. by together, with) live harmoniously, accord. 2 be off! nonsense! get at 1 reach; get hold of. 2 colloq. imply (what are you getting at?). get away 1 escape. 2 (as imper.) colloq. expressing disbelief or scepticism. 3 (foll. by with) escape blame or punishment for. get back at colloq. retaliate against. get by colloq. 1 just manage, even with difficulty. 2 be acceptable. get down 1 alight, descend (from a vehicle, ladder, etc.). 2 record in writing. get a person down depress or deject him or her. get down to begin working on or discussing. get even (often foll. by with) 1 achieve revenge; act in retaliation. 2 equalize the score. get his (or hers etc.) sl. be killed. get hold of 1 grasp (physically). 2 grasp (intellectually); understand. 3 make contact with (a person). 4 acquire. get in 1 enter. 2 be elected. get into become interested or involved in. get it sl. be punished or in trouble. get it into one's head (foll. by that + clause) firmly believe or maintain; realize. get off 1 colloq. be acquitted; escape with little or no punishment. 2 start. 3 alight; alight from (a bus etc.). 4 go, or cause to go, to sleep. 5 (foll. by with, together) Brit. colloq. form an amorous or sexual relationship, esp. abruptly or quickly. get a person off colloq. cause a person to be acquitted. get on 1 make progress; manage. 2 enter (a bus etc.). 3 = get along 1. get on to colloq. 1 make contact with. 2 understand; become aware of. get out 1 leave or escape. 2 manage to go outdoors. 3 alight from a vehicle. 4 transpire; become known. 5 succeed in uttering, publishing, etc. 6 solve or finish (a puzzle etc.). 7 Cricket be dismissed. get-out n. a means of avoiding something. get a person out 1 help a person to leave or escape. 2 Cricket dismiss (a batsman). get out of 1 avoid or escape (a duty etc.). 2 abandon (a habit) gradually. get a thing out of manage to obtain it from (a person) esp. with difficulty. get outside (or outside of) sl. eat or drink. get over 1 recover from (an illness, upset, etc.). 2 overcome (a difficulty). 3 manage to communicate (an idea etc.). get a thing over (or over with) complete (a tedious task) promptly. get one's own back colloq. have one's revenge. get-rich-quick adj. designed to make a lot of money fast. get rid of see RID. get round (US around) 1 successfully coax or cajole (a person) esp. to secure a favour. 2 evade (a law etc.). get round to deal with (a task etc.) in due course. get somewhere make progress; be initially successful. get there colloq. 1 succeed. 2 understand what is meant. get through 1 pass or assist in passing (an examination, an ordeal, etc.). 2 finish or use up (esp. resources). 3 make contact by telephone. 4 (foll. by to) succeed in making (a person) listen or understand. get a thing through cause it to overcome obstacles, difficulties, etc. get to 1 reach. 2 = get down to. get together gather, assemble. get-together n. colloq. a social gathering. get up 1 rise or cause to rise from sitting etc., or from bed after sleeping or an illness. 2 ascend or mount, e.g. on horseback. 3 (of fire, wind, or the sea) begin to be strong or agitated. 4 prepare or organize. 5 enhance or refine one's knowledge of (a subject). 6 work up (a feeling, e.g. anger). 7 produce or stimulate (get up steam; get up speed). 8 (often refl.) dress or arrange elaborately; make presentable; arrange the appearance of. 9 (foll. by to) colloq. indulge or be involved in (always getting up to mischief). get-up n. colloq. a style or arrangement of dress etc., esp. an elaborate one. get-up-and-go colloq. energy, vim, enthusiasm. get the wind up see WIND(1). get with child archaic make pregnant. have got it bad (or badly) sl. be obsessed or affected emotionally. Derivatives: gettable adj. Etymology: ME f. ON geta obtain, beget, guess, corresp. to OE gietan (recorded only in compounds), f. Gmc

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Get Get, n. Jet, the mineral. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Get Get, n. [OF. get.] 1. Fashion; manner; custom. [Obs.] --Chaucer. 2. Artifice; contrivance. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Get Get (g[e^]t), v. t. [imp. Got (g[o^]t) (Obs. Gat (g[a^]t)); p. p. Got (Obsolescent Gotten (g[o^]t"t'n)); p. pr. & vb. n. Getting.] [OE. geten, AS. gitan, gietan (in comp.); akin to Icel. geta, Goth. bigitan to find, L. prehendere to seize, take, Gr. chanda`nein to hold, contain. Cf. 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 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Get Get (g[e^]t), 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, `` 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Get Get, n. Offspring; progeny; as, the get of a stallion.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

I. CHANGING, CAUSING, MOVING, OR REACHING (gets, getting, got, or gotten) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. Note: In most of its uses 'get' is a fairly informal word. 'Gotten' is an American form of the past tense and past participle. 1. You use get with adjectives to mean 'become'. For example, if someone gets cold, they become cold, and if they get angry, they become angry. The boys were getting bored... There's no point in getting upset... From here on, it can only get better. V-LINK: V adj, V adj, V adj 2. Get is used with expressions referring to states or situations. For example, to get into trouble means to start being in trouble. Half the pleasure of an evening out is getting ready... Perhaps I shouldn't say that–I might get into trouble... How did we get into this recession, and what can we do to get out of it? V-LINK: V adj, V prep/adv, V prep/adv 3. To get someone or something into a particular state or situation means to cause them to be in it. I don't know if I can get it clean... What got me interested was looking at an old New York Times... Brian will get them out of trouble. VERB: V n adj, V n adj, V n prep 4. If you get someone to do something, you cause them to do it by asking, persuading, or telling them to do it. ...a long campaign to get US politicians to take the Aids epidemic more seriously... How did you get him to pose for this picture? = persuade VERB: V n to-inf, V n to-inf 5. If you get something done, you cause it to be done. I might benefit from getting my teeth fixed... It was best to get things done quickly. VERB: V n -ed, V n -ed 6. To get somewhere means to move there. I got off the bed and opened the door... I heard David yelling and telling them to get back. VERB: V prep/adv, V prep/adv 7. When you get to a place, you arrive there. Generally I get to work at 9.30am... It was dark by the time she got home. VERB: V to n, V adv 8. To get something or someone into a place or position means to cause them to move there. Mack got his wallet out... The UN was supposed to be getting aid to where it was most needed. VERB: V n with adv, V n prep 9. Get is often used in place of 'be' as an auxiliary verb to form passives. Does she ever get asked for her autograph?... A pane of glass got broken. AUX: AUX -ed, AUX -ed 10. If you get to do something, you eventually or gradually reach a stage at which you do it. No one could figure out how he got to be so wealthy. VERB: V to-inf 11. If you get to do something, you manage to do it or have the opportunity to do it. Do you get to see him often?... They get to stay in nice hotels. VERB: V to-inf, V to-inf 12. You can use get in expressions like get moving, get going, and get working when you want to tell people to begin moving, going, or working quickly. I aim to be off the lake before dawn, so let's get moving... VERB: V -ing 13. If you get to a particular stage in your life or in something you are doing, you reach that stage. We haven't got to the stage of a full-scale military conflict... If she gets that far, Jane may get legal aid to take her case to court... It got to the point where I was so ill I was waiting to die. VERB: V to n, V adv, it V to n 14. You can use get to talk about the progress that you are making. For example, if you say that you are getting somewhere, you mean that you are making progress, and if you say that something won't get you anywhere, you mean it will not help you to progress at all. Radical factions say the talks are getting nowhere and they want to withdraw... My perseverance was getting me somewhere. VERB: V adv, V n adv 15. When it gets to a particular time, it is that time. If it is getting towards a particular time, it is approaching that time. It got to after 1am and I was exhausted... It was getting towards evening when we got back... It's getting late. V-LINK: it V to n, it V towards n, it V adj 16. If something that has continued for some time gets to you, it starts causing you to suffer. That's the first time I lost my cool in 20 years in this job. This whole thing's getting to me. VERB: V to n 17. If something gets you, it annoys you. (INFORMAL) What gets me is the attitude of so many of the people. VERB: no passive, V n II. OBTAINING, RECEIVING, OR CATCHING (gets, getting, got, or gotten) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. If you get something that you want or need, you obtain it. I got a job at the sawmill... He had been having trouble getting a hotel room... I asked him to get me some information. VERB: V n, V n, V n n, also V n for n 2. If you get something, you receive it or are given it. I'm getting a bike for my birthday... He gets a lot of letters from women... VERB: V n, V n 3. If you get someone or something, you go and bring them to a particular place. I came down this morning to get the newspaper... Go and get me a large brandy... Go and get your daddy for me. VERB: V n, V n n, V n for n 4. If you get a meal, you prepare it. She was getting breakfast as usual. VERB: V n 5. If you get a particular result, you obtain it from some action that you take, or from a calculation or experiment. You could run that race again and get a different result each time... What do you get if you multiply six by nine? VERB: V n, V n 6. If you get a particular price for something that you sell, you obtain that amount of money by selling it. He can't get a good price for his crops. VERB: V n for n 7. If you get the time or opportunity to do something, you have the time or opportunity to do it. You get time to think in prison... Whenever I get the chance I go to Maxim's for dinner. VERB: V n, V n 8. If you get an idea, impression, or feeling, you begin to have that idea, impression, or feeling as you learn or understand more about something. I get the feeling that you're an honest man... The study is an attempt to get a better idea of why people live where they do... VERB: V n, V n 9. If you get a feeling or benefit from an activity or experience, the activity or experience gives you that feeling or benefit. Charles got a shock when he saw him... She gets enormous pleasure out of working freelance... VERB: V n, V n out of/from n/-ing 10. If you get a look, view, or glimpse of something, you manage to see it. Young men climbed on buses and fences to get a better view... Crowds shouted and pushed to get a glimpse of their hero. = obtain VERB: V n, V n 11. If a place gets a particular type of weather, it has that type of weather. Riyadh got 25 mm of rain in just 12 hours... Northern Kentucky is likely to get snow mixed with sleet. VERB: V n, V n 12. If you get a joke or get the point of something that is said, you understand it. Did you get that joke, Ann? I'll explain later... You don't seem to get the point. VERB: V n, V n 13. If you get an illness or disease, you become ill with it. When I was five I got measles. VERB: V n 14. When you get a train, bus, plane, or boat, you leave a place on a particular train, bus, plane, or boat. What time are you getting your train? VERB: V n 15. If you get a person or animal, you succeed in catching, killing, or hitting them. Take it easy. We've got him. He's not going to kill anyone else. VERB: V n 16. see also getting, got III. PHRASES AND PHRASAL VERBS (gets, getting, got, or gotten) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. You can say that something is, for example, as good as you can get to mean that it is as good as it is possible for that thing to be. Consort has a population of 714 and is about as rural and isolated as you can get. PHRASE: v-link PHR, PHR after v 2. If you say you can't get away from something or there is no getting away from something, you are emphasizing that it is true, even though people might prefer it not to be true. (INFORMAL) There is no getting away from the fact that he is on the left of the party. PHRASE: PHR n [emphasis] 3. If you get away from it all, you have a holiday in a place that is very different from where you normally live and work. ...the ravishing island of Ischia, where rich Italians get away from it all. PHRASE: V inflects 4. Get is used in rude expressions like get stuffed and get lost to express contempt, disagreement, or refusal to do something. (RUDE) CONVENTION [feelings] 5. You can say, for example, 'How lucky can you get?' or 'How stupid can you get?' to show your surprise that anyone could be as lucky or stupid as the person that you are talking about. (INFORMAL) I mean, how crazy can you get? PHRASE [feelings] 6. You can use you get instead of 'there is' or 'there are' to say that something exists, happens, or can be experienced. (SPOKEN) You get a lot of things like that now don't you... That's where you get some differences of opinion. PHRASE: PHR n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. v. a. 1. Procure, obtain, acquire, gain, win, earn, achieve, realize, secure, come by. 2. Master, finish, prepare. 3. Learn, memorize, commit to memory, get by heart. 4. Beget, generate, engender, procreate, breed. 5. Procure to be, cause to be, have. 6. Persuade, induce, dispose, influence, prevail upon. 7. Receive. 8. [Always in past participle with have.] Have, be in possession of, possess. II. v. n. 1. Gain, make acquisition, increase (one's goods or position or power). 2. Become, fall, go. 3. Arrive, reach, win.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

One of his get; one of his offspring, or begetting.

Moby Thesaurus

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