get🔊

(ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire. +

To receive. +

(in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. {{n-g|See usage notes.}}

To fetch, bring, take. +

(become) (followed by an adjective) To (id=copulative), or cause oneself to become {{q|often with temporary states, past participle adjectives and comparatives}}.

To cause to become; to bring about. +

To cause to do. +

To cause to come or go or move.

(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). +

To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.

(catenative) (with full infinitive or gerund-participle) To begin (doing something or to do something). +

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

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

(catenative) (with full infinitive) To be able, be permitted, or have the opportunity (to do something desirable or ironically implied to be desirable). +

(understand) (informal) To understand. {{qualifier|compare (get it)}} +

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

(informal) {{non-gloss|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.}}

(informal) {{non-gloss|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.}}

To become ill with or catch (a disease). +

(informal) To catch out, trick successfully. +

(informal) To perplex, stump. +

To find as an answer. +

(informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (usually as a criminal); to effect retribution. +

To hear completely; catch. +

To getter. +

(rare) To beget (of a father).

(archaic) To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with ''out''.

(informal) {{non-gloss|Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.}}

(imperative) To go, to leave; to scram. +

(euphemism) To kill. +

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

To measure.

To cause someone to laugh.

(dated) Offspring, especially illegitimate.

Lineage.

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

(informal) Something gotten, something gained or won; an acquisition.

(regional) (contemptible person).

(Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.