Meaning of get | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To obtain; to acquire.
   ditransitive, transitive
2. To receive.
   transitive
3. To urge or scold: You should get after them to mow the lawn.
4. To improve one's situation; be successful.
5. To have. See usage notes.
   transitive
6. To return to a person, place, or condition: Let's get back to the subject at hand.
7. To fetch, bring, take.
   transitive
8. To find the time or occasion for; deal with: We finally got around to unpacking our knickknacks.
9. To become, or cause oneself to become (often with temporary states, past participle adjectives and comparatives).
   copulative
10. To escape the consequences of (a blameworthy act, for example): got away with cheating.
11. To cause to become; to bring about.
    transitive
12. To take revenge on.
13. To cause to do.
    transitive
14. To cause to come or go or move.
    transitive
15. To begin to work; get started.
16. To adopt, assume, arrive at, or progress towards (a certain position, location, state).
    intransitive, usually
17. To obtain revenge.
18. To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
    transitive
19. To repay with an equivalent act, as for revenge.
20. (with full infinitive or gerund-participle) To begin (doing something or to do something).
    catenative, intransitive
21. To make a beginning; get started.
22. To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
    transitive
23. To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
    transitive
24. (with full infinitive) To be able, be permitted, or have the opportunity (to do something desirable or ironically implied to be desirable).
    catenative, intransitive
25. To understand. (compare get it)
    informal, transitive
26. To be told; be the recipient of (a question, comparison, opinion, etc.).
    informal, transitive
27. 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.
    auxiliary, informal
28. Used with a pronoun subject, usually you but sometimes one, to indicate that the object of the verb exists, can occur or is otherwise typical.
    impersonal, informal
29. To become ill with or catch (a disease).
    transitive
30. To catch out, trick successfully.
    informal, transitive
31. To perplex, stump.
    informal, transitive
32. To find as an answer.
    transitive
33. To bring to reckoning; to catch (usually as a criminal); to effect retribution.
    informal, transitive
34. To hear completely; catch.
    transitive
35. To getter.
    transitive
36. To beget (of a father).
    archaic
37. To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out.
    archaic
38. Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
    imperative, informal
39. To go, to leave; to scram.
    imperative, informal, intransitive
40. To kill.
    euphemistic
41. To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.
    intransitive, obsolete
42. To measure.
    transitive
43. To cause someone to laugh.
    transitive

Equivalents

Examples

“I'm going to get a computer tomorrow from the discount store.”

“Lance is going to get Mary a ring.”

“I got a computer from my parents for my birthday.”

“He got a severe reprimand for that.”

“Afore we got to the shanty Colonel Applegate stuck his head out of the door. His temper had been getting raggeder all the time, and the sousing he got when he fell overboard had just about ripped what was left of it to ravellings.”

“I've got a concert ticket for you.”

“"Yeah, and I got a bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to sell you," was Peter's response to his wife.”

“Can you get my bag from the living-room, please?”

“I need to get this to the office.”

“Get thee out from this land.”

“He[…]got himself[…]to the strong town of Mega.”

“Near-synonyms: become, turn, go, come, fall, grow, wax”

“I'm getting hungry; how about you?”

“I'm going out to get drunk.”

“November 1, 1833, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk His chariot wheels get hot by driving fast.”

“That song gets me so depressed every time I hear it.”

“I'll get this finished by lunchtime.”

“I can't get these boots off.”

“I can’t get my hands warm.”

“Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.”

“Somehow she got him to agree to it.”

“I can't get it to work.”

“I can't get it working.”

“I can’t get my kids to go to bed early.”

“Get him to say his prayers.”

“Anstruther laughed good-naturedly. “[…] I shall take out half a dozen intelligent maistries from our Press and get them to give our villagers instruction when they begin work and when they are in the fields.””

“I got him to his room.”

“Get thee behind me.”

“The actors are getting into position.”

“When are we going to get to London?”

“I'm getting into a muddle.”

“We got behind the wall.”

“to get a mile”

“We ought to get moving or we'll be late.”

“After lunch we got chatting.”

“I'm getting to like him better now.”

“I normally get the 7:45 train.”

“I'll get the 9 a.m. [flight] to Boston.”

“Can you get that call, please? I'm busy.”

“I'm so jealous that you got to see them perform live!”

“The finders get to keep 80 percent of the treasure.”

“Great. I get to clean the toilets today.”

“Yeah, I get it, it's just not funny.”

“I don't get what you mean by "fun". This place sucks!”

“I mentioned that I was feeling sad, so she mailed me a box of chocolates. She gets me.”

“"You look just like Helen Mirren." / "I get that a lot."”

“Do you mind? Excuse me / I saw you over there / Can I just tell you ¶ Although there are millions of / Cephalophores that wander through this world / You've got something extra going on / I think you probably know ¶ You probably get that a lot / I'll bet that people say that a lot to you, girl.”

“He got bitten by a dog.”

“Of particular importance is the bureaucratic organization of European judiciaries. The judiciary is a career. You start at the bottom and get assigned and promoted at the pleasure of your superiors.”

“You get some very rude people here.”

“It was the kind of shop you used to get in most small towns.”

“He thinks that proper to northern man is the cellular composition, you know, the kind of thing one gets in Celtic ornamentation, for example, which a subject that interests him greatly.”

“You get non-binary people – you get people who don't identify as a man or a woman.”

“It was a terrible place to live. You get places like that. It is just the way it is.”

“I went on holiday and got malaria.”

“He keeps calling pretending to be my boss—it gets me every time.”

“That question's really got me.”

“What did you get for question four?”

“The cops finally got me.”

“I'm gonna get him for that.”

“Sorry, I didn't get that. Could you repeat it?”

“I put the getter into the container to get the gases.”

“I had rather to adopt a child than get it.”

“Thou poisonous slave, got by the devil himself / Upon thy wicked dam, come forth!”

“Walter had said, dear God, Thomas, it was St fucking Felicity if I'm not mistaken, and her face was to the wall for sure the night I got you.”

“to get a lesson;  to get out one's Greek lesson”

“it being harder with him to get one sermon by heart, than to pen twenty”

“Get her with her new hairdo.”

“Brother, get her! Draped on a bedspread made from three kinds of fur!”

“Money's pouring in somewhere, because Churchgate's got lovely new stone setts, and a cultural quarter (ooh, get her) is promised.”

“Get, now — get! — before I call an officer and lay a charge against ye.”

“I had a sneaking suspicion that it wasn't no flashlight and I wasn't too curious, just then, to find out what would happen if he did more than wave it at me, so I got. I went back about twenty feet or so and watched.”

“'Go on, get. You look a state. We can't let Leo see you like that.'”

“Now go on, get! Get! Get! (she chases Joanne out the door with the hammer.)”

“"[…] and then I'll switch over to the police band to know when the bacon's getting ready to stick its nose in. When I tell you to get, you get, understand?" Calamity asks as she retapes the earbud into her ear.”

“They’re coming to get you, Barbara.”

“He got Dancer and Prancer with an old German Luger And he slashed up Dasher just like Freddy Krueger”

“We mourn, France smiles; we lose, they daily get.”

“Did you get her temperature?”

“It gets me every time!”

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