get

Definitions

• (ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire.
• (transitive) To receive.
• (transitive) To have. See usage notes.
• (transitive) To fetch, bring, take.
• (copulative) To become, or cause oneself to become.
• (transitive) To cause to become; to bring about.
• (transitive) To cause to do.
• (transitive) To cause to come or go or move.
• (transitive) To cause to be in a certain status or position.
• (intransitive) To adopt, assume, arrive at, or progress towards (a certain position, location, state).
• (transitive) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
• (intransitive) To begin (doing something or to do something).
• (transitive) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
• (transitive) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
• (intransitive) To be able, be permitted, or have the opportunity (to do something desirable or ironically implied to be desirable).
• (transitive) To understand. compare m
• (transitive) To be told; be the recipient of (a question, comparison, opinion, etc.).
• (informal) To be.
• (transitive) To become ill with or catch (a disease).
• (transitive) To catch out, trick successfully.
• (transitive) To perplex, stump.
• (transitive) To find as an answer.
• (transitive) To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
• (transitive) To hear completely; catch.
• (transitive) To getter.
• (now) To beget (of a father).
• (archaic) To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out.
• (imperative)
• (intransitive) To go, to leave; to scram.
• (euphemism) To kill.
• (intransitive) To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.
• (transitive) To measure.