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What (who) is get - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
GET; Get (disambiguation)
get
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.
get
v.
1) (B) ('to deliver') I have to get a message to her
2) (C) ('to obtain') she got a newspaper for me; or: she got me a newspaper
3) (d; intr., tr.) to get across ('to cross'); ('to cause to cross') (to get across a bridge; the general finally got his troops across the river)
4) (d; intr.) to get after ('to exert pressure on') (you'll have to get after them: they are coming to work late every day)
5) (d; intr.) to get around ('to evade') (we cannot get around the regulations)
6) (d; intr.) to get at ('to suggest') (what are you getting at?)
7) (d; intr.) to get at ('to reach') (I hope that the children cannot get at the medicine; you're safe here: your enemies cannot get at you; to get at the truth)
8) (esp. AE) (d; intr.) to get behind ('to support') (we must get behind her campaign)
9) (d; intr.) to get between ('to try to separate') (never get between fighting dogs)
10) (d; intr., refl., tr.) to get into ('to enter'); ('to cause to enter') (to get into trouble; to get oneself into debt; to get smb. into trouble; to get into a fight)
11) (d; intr.) to get into ('to affect') (what got into him?)
12) (d; intr.) to get off ('to leave') (to get off a train)
13) (d; intr.) to get on ('to enter') (to get on a train)
14) (d; intr.) to get on ('to affect') (to get on smb.'s nerves)
15) (d; tr.) to get on ('to cause to enter') (he finally got the whole group on the train)
16) (d; intr.) to get onto ('to enter') (she could not get onto the train)
17) (d; intr.) to get onto ('to take up for discussion') (we got onto a very interesting topic)
18) (colloq.) (esp. AE) (d; intr.) to get onto ('to become aware of') (we finally got onto her schemes)
19) (d; intr., tr.) to get out of ('to leave'); ('to extricate'); ('to extricate oneself from') (to get out of a car; I got him out of trouble; to get out of trouble; when did he get out of prison?)
20) (d; intr.) to get over ('to overcome') (you'll have to get over your fear of speaking in public)
21) (d; intr.) to get over ('to recover from') (has she got/gotten over the shock?)
22) (d; intr.) to get past ('to slip by') (we got past the guard)
23) (d; intr.) ('to be unnoticed') to get past (the error got past him)
24) (d; intr., tr.) ('to pass'); ('to cause to pass') to get through (to get through a door; we could not get the piano through the window)
25) (d; intr.) to get to ('to reach') (to get to a telephone; to get to the point; we got to the theater late)
26) (colloq.) (d; intr.) to get to ('to affect') (her pleas got to me)
27) (colloq.) (d; intr.) to get to ('to bribe') (they got to the mayor himself)
28) (d; tr.) ('to deliver') to get to (to get smb. to a hospital)
29) (d; intr.) to get within ('to come') (don't get within range of the enemy artillery)
30) (E) ('to succeed in') if you can get to see her, you may receive some help; if you get to know her, you'll like her
31) (colloq.) (E; used in the perfect tense) ('to be obliged to') she's got to finish the work by tomorrow
32) (G) ('to begin') he finally got going
33) (H; no passive) ('to bring about') she finally got the television to work; I got a gardener to cut the grass
34) (J; more usu. is H) ('to bring about') she finally got the television working
35) (N; used with an adjective, past participle) ('to make') we got our tools ready; he got us involved; try to get them interested
36) (P; intr.) ('to arrive') he finally got home
37) (s) ('to become') to get angry; to get drunk; to get loose; to get rid of; to get even with smb.
38) (misc.) to get cracking ('to start moving'); to get in touch with smb.; to get nowhere ('to be unsuccessful'); to get somewhere ('to score a success')
USAGE NOTE: In AE, the past participle of to get is usu. gotten--they'd gotten everything ready. In BE, it is got--they'd got everything ready. (Note that ill-gotten gains is CE.) However. AE does use have got especially in the meaning 'must'. Thus, the sentence I've got to go is CE. Only BE uses had got to form the past tense of this construction--I'd got to do it yesterday 'I had to do it yesterday'. BE also has he'd got work 'he had work'.
Get
·noun Jet, the mineral.
II. Get ·noun Artifice; contrivance.
III. Get ·noun Fashion; manner; custom.
IV. Get ·noun Offspring; progeny; as, the get of a stallion.
- in a reflexive use.
VII. Get ·vt Hence, with have and had, to come into or be in possession of; to Have.
VIII. Get ·vt To procure to be, or to cause to be in any state or condition;
- with a following participle.
XI. Get ·vt 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.
XII. Get ·vi 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.
Wikipedia
Get
Get or GET may refer to:
- Get (animal), the offspring of an animal
- Get (divorce document), in Jewish religious law
- GET (HTTP), a type of HTTP request
- "Get" (song), by the Groggers
- Georgia Time, used in the Republic of Georgia
- Get AS, a Norwegian cable-TV operator and internet service provider
- GET-ligaen, the premier Norwegian ice hockey league
- Gets (people), or Getae, Thracian tribes
- Graded exercise therapy, a therapy for chronic fatigue syndrome
- Groupe des Écoles des Télécommunications, now Institut Mines-Télécom, a French public institution
- Guaranteed Education Tuition Program, in Washington state
- GetTV, an American digital multicast television network
- Get 27, a mint liqueur
- Geraldton Airport, IATA airport code "GET"
Examples of use of get
1. "You get 83 acres (34 hectares), you get redwoods, you get a river, you get eight houses, you get a post office.
2. We have to get this thing done quickly, and get it down –– get it out there.
3. Male stars get dumped, get drunk, get lonely, but they do not undergo the same scrutiny.
4. I had to get out, get away from being trapped inside, get into the open air.
5. They get hit by media, when they get it wrong, and seldom get praise.