Dictionary Definition
get
Verb
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: 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]
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: 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, 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, come] [ant: 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, convey, fetch] [ant: take
away]
7 of mental or physical states or experiences;
"get an idea"; "experience vertigo"; "get nauseous"; "undergo a
strange sensation"; "The chemical undergoes a sudden change"; "The
fluid undergoes shear"; "receive injuries"; "have a feeling" [syn:
experience, receive, have, undergo]
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, 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, 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, make]
11 succeed in catching or seizing, especially
after a chase; "We finally got the suspect"; "Did you catch the
thief?" [syn: 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, 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]
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]
17 grasp with the mind or develop an
undersatnding 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]
18 attract and fix; "His look caught her"; "She
caught his eye"; "Catch the attention of the waiter" [syn: catch, arrest]
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: 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]
24 suffer from the receipt of; "She will catch
hell for this behavior!" [syn: catch]
25 receive as a retribution or punishment; "He
got 5 years in prison" [syn: receive]
26 leave immediately; used usually in the
imperative form; "Scram!" [syn: scram, buzz off,
fuck
off, 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
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]
31 in baseball: earn or achieve a base by being
walked by the pitcher; "He drew a base on balls" [syn: draw]
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, 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, start out,
start, set about,
set out,
commence] [ant:
end]
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]
36 make children; "Abraham begot Isaac"; "Men
often father children but don't recognize them" [syn: beget, engender, father, mother, sire, generate, bring forth]
[also: gotten, got, getting]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /gɛt/, /gEt/
- Rhymes with: -ɛt
Etymology 1
From geta (the Old English cognate existing only in compounds such as forġietan ‘forget’, beġietan ‘beget’, etc.).Verb
- To obtain, purchase or acquire.
- I'm going to get a computer tomorrow from the discount store.
- You need to get permission to leave early.
- I'm going to get a computer tomorrow from the discount store.
- To receive.
- I got a computer from my parents for my birthday.
- He got a severe reprimand for that.
- I got a computer from my parents for my birthday.
- To fetch.
- Can you get my bag from the living-room, please?
- To become.
- I'm getting hungry, how about you?
- Don't get drunk tonight.
- I'm getting hungry, how about you?
- To cause to become; to
bring about
- 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'll get this finished by lunchtime.
- That song gets me so depressed every time I hear it.
- To cause to do.
- Somehow she got him to agree to it.
- I can't get it to work.
- Somehow she got him to agree to it.
- To arrive (at) or
progress (towards a place or outcome).
- When are we going to get to London?
- We're slowly getting there.
- When are we going to get to London?
- To go or come (to a specified place, or in a specified manner)
- Get over here!
- She got from one side of the bridge to the other in no time.''
- Get over here!
- To adopt or assume (a certain position or state).
- The actors are getting into position.
- I'm getting into a muddle.
- We got behind the wall.
- I'm getting into a muddle.
- The actors are getting into position.
- To begin (doing
something).
- We ought to get moving or we'll be late.
- After lunch we got chatting.
- We ought to get moving or we'll be late.
- To catch (a means of
public transport).
- I normally get the 7.45 train.
- In the context of "transitive|idiom": To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
- Can you get that call, please? I'm busy.
- In the context of "intransitive|followed by infinitive": To be
able, permitted (to do something);
to have the opportunity (to do something).
- I'm so jealous that you got to see them perform live!
- In the context of "transitive|informal": To understand.
- Yeah, I get it, it's just not funny.
- He's weird. I don't get him.
- Do you get math class?
- I don't get what you mean by "fun". This place sucks!
- He's weird. I don't get him.
- Yeah, I get it, it's just not funny.
- In the context of "transitive": To be (used to form the passive of verbs)
- He got bitten by a dog.
- In the context of "transitive|informal": To catch (a disease).
- I went on holiday and got malaria.
- In the context of "transitive|informal": To catch out,
trick.
- He keeps calling pretending to be my boss — it gets me every time.
- In the context of "transitive|informal": To perplex, stump.
- That question's really got me.
- To find as an answer.
- What did you get for question four?
- In the context of "transitive|informal": To bring to reckoning;
to catch (as a criminal).
- The cops finally got me.
- In the context of "transitive|informal": To physically assault.
- I'm gonna get him for that.
- In the context of "transitive|informal": To hear.
- Sorry, I didn't get that. Could you repeat it?
Synonyms
- italbrac obtain: acquire, come by, get hold of, have, obtain, take possession of
- italbrac receive: receive, be given
- italbrac fetch: bring, fetch
- italbrac become: become
- italbrac cause to become: cause to be, cause to become, make
- italbrac cause to do: make
- italbrac arrive: arrive at, reach
- : come, go, travel
- : go, move
- italbrac begin: begin, commence, start
- : catch, take
- : answer
- : be able to
- : dig, follow, make sense of, understand
- : be
- : catch, come down with
- : con, deceive, dupe, hoodwink, trick
- : confuse, perplex, stump
- italbrac find as an answer: obtain
- : catch, nab, nobble
- italbrac physically assault: assault, beat, beat up
- : catch, hear
Translations
obtain
- Catalan: aconseguir, obtindre
- Chinese: 获得 (huòdé), 取 (qǔ)
- Danish: få fat i
- Dutch: nemen, pakken, halen
- French: obtenir
- German: besorgen, holen, erwischen; colloquial: kriegen, sich schnappen
- Ido: aquirar
- Irish: faigh
- Italian: ottenere
- Norwegian: få tak i, oppnå
- Portuguese: obter
- Russian: доставать
- Scottish Gaelic: faigh
- Slovene: dobiti
- Spanish: conseguir, obtener
- Swedish: få tag i, komma över
- Turkish: elde etmek, ele geçirmek
receive
- Catalan: rebre
- Czech: dostávat
- Danish: få, modtage
- Dutch: krijgen, verkrijgen
- Finnish: saada, vastaanottaa
- French: recevoir
- German: bekommen; colloquial: kriegen
- Greek: παίρνω
- Ido: aquirar
- Irish: faigh
- Italian: ricevere
- Norwegian: få, motta
- Portuguese: receber
- Russian: получать
- Scottish Gaelic: faigh
- Slovene: prejeti
- Spanish: recibir
- Swedish: få, ta emot, emottaga (archaic)
- Turkish: almak
colloquial: understand
- Catalan: entendre, comprendre, agafar
- Danish: forstå
- Dutch: begrijpen, verstaan
- Finnish: ymmärtää, tajuta
- French: capter, piger
- German: kapieren; regional: haben
- Norwegian: forstå, fatte
- Portuguese: entender
- Russian: понимать
- Scottish Gaelic: tuig
- Spanish: entender
- Swedish: fatta, haja (slang)
- Turkish: anlamak
colloquial: be
- Catalan: ser
- French: être
- German: werden
- Italian: essere
- Norwegian: bli
- Portuguese: ser
- Scottish Gaelic: bi
- Spanish: ser
- Swedish: bli
become
- Danish: blive
- Dutch: worden
- French: devenir; (get + is often translated by a reflexive verb in French; get drunk = s'enivrer)
- German: werden, in some cases: gehen (sometimes translated by a reflexive verb: get drunk = sich betrinken)
- Italian: divenire, diventare; (get + is often translated by a reflexive verb in Italian; get drunk = ubriacarsi)
- Norwegian: bli
- Portuguese: tornar, transformar; (get + is often translated by a reflexive verb in Portuguese; get drunk = embriagar-se)
- Russian: делаться
- Scottish Gaelic: fàs
- Spanish: volverse, convertirse en; (get + is often translated by a reflexive verb in Spanish; get drunk = emborracharse)
- Swedish: bli
- Turkish: olmak
- ttbc Indonesian: ambil, bawa, terima
Quotations
- 1971, Carol King and Gerry Goffin, “Smackwater Jack”, Tapestry,
Ode Records
- We got to ride to clean up the streets / For our wives and our daughters!
Derived terms
- get away from
- get away with
- get back
- get back to
- get behind
- get beyond
- get by
- get done
- get down
- get going
- get in
- get in with
- get into
- get into trouble
- get it
- get it across one's head
- get it into one's head
- get it on
- get it over with
- get knotted
- get lost
- get moving
- get off
- get off easy
- get off lightly
- get off with
- get on
- get up in
- get up to
- get well soon
- get with the program, get with the programme
- go-getter
- go-getting
- got
- have got
Etymology 2
Variant of git.Noun
- A git.
Etymology 3
Hebrew גט.Noun
Swedish
Pronunciation
Noun
getExtensive Definition
Get may refer to:
- GET, the most common type of HTTP request
- Get, a Norwegian cable distributor, formerly known as UPC Norway.
- Get (divorce document) - the Jewish divorce procedure.
- Get (conflict) - legal issues around the Jewish divorce procedure
- Groupe des Ecoles des Télécommunications, the former name of the TELECOM Institute
get in Italian: GET
get in Japanese: ゲット
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
OD,
absorb, accede to,
accept, access, accumulate, acquire, addle, admit, advance, affect, age, aggravate, agree with,
alight, amaze, anger, annex, annoy, answer, apparel, appreciate, apprehend, approach, arise, arouse, arrange, arrest, arrive, arrive at, ascend, ascertain, assemble, assimilate, associate with,
assume, attend to,
attire, avails, avoid, awaken, back, badger, baffle, bag, bait, bamboozle, be agreeable, be
at, be brought down, be changed, be converted into, be felled, be
informed, be into, be off, be paid, be responsible for, be seized
of, be struck down, be successful, be traumatized, be up to, be
with one, beat, beat it,
become, become acquainted
with, become aware of, become known, bedevil, beget, begone, beset, bewilder, blast, blot out, boggle, book, bother, bottom, bound, box office, break away,
break free, break out, breed, breed true, bribe, bring, bring back, bring down,
bring on, bring upon, bristle, broaden the mind,
brood, brown off, buffalo, bug, bullyrag, bump off, burn up,
buy, bypass, cajole, call for, call forth,
canter, capital gains,
capture, carp, catch, catch cold, catch on, catch
up, cause, chalk up, chase
after, children,
chivy, circulate, circumvent, claim, clap hands on, clasp, claw, cleanup, clear, clear out, clear profit,
clear up, clench,
climb, climb down, climb
up, clinch, clothe, clutch, coax, collapse, collar, collect, come, come back, come by, come
down, come down with, come in, come in for, come into, come to,
come to be, come to terms, commissions, communicate, communicate
with, compass, complete, comprehend, conceive, concentrate on,
conclude, confound, confuse, congregate, contact, contemplate, contract, contrive, convene, cope, copulate, corral, corrupt, crack, cram the mind, create, credit, credits, criticize, croak, cross, crossbreed, damage, daze, debug, decipher, deck out, decode, deject, delineate, depart, deplane, depress, derive, derive from, descend, descend from, describe, detail, determine, detrain, devil, devise, dig, digest, disappear, discompose, discourage, discover, discuss, disembark, disentangle, dishearten, dismount, dispirit, disposable income,
distemper, disturb, dividend, dividends, divine, do, do in, do well, doff, dog, don, dope, dope out, drag down, drag
out, drain off, draw, draw
down, draw from, draw off, draw on, dress, dress in, dress up,
earn, earned income,
earnings, eat, effect, elicit, elude, embark, embrace, emplane, engage, engender, enjoy, enplane, enter, enter into possession,
entrain, erase, erupt, escape, evade, evoke, exasperate, excite, exercise, explain, extract, fall, fall in with, fall into,
family, fare, farrow, fash, father, fathom, fetch, fetch and carry, fever, figure out, filthy lucre,
finance, find, find out, find out about,
find the answer, find the solution, finish, fit, fit in, fit out, fit up,
fix, flake off, flatter, flee, floor, flourish, focus on, folks, follow, force, fox-trot, fry, fuddle, fund, gad about, gain, gain knowledge, gains, gallop, gate, gate receipts, gather, generate, get, get about, get across, get
ahead, get along, get an earful, get around, get at, get away, get
back, get back at, get behind, get by, get down, get even with, get
from, get going, get high on, get hold of, get in, get into, get
lost, get off, get on, get on with, get out, get out of, get over,
get right, get round, get the drift, get the idea, get the picture,
get through, get to, get to be, get together, get up, get up on,
gettings, git, give the business, glean, gleanings, glom on to,
go, go aboard, go about, go
after, go along, go and get, go around, go away, go back, go by, go
down, go fetch, go for, go get, go in, go into, go into shock, go
off, go out, go places, go to get, grab, grab hold of, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, gross, gross income, gross profit,
gross receipts, grow,
guess, guess right, gun
down, harass, harm, harry, harvest, hatch, have, have coming in, have in mind,
have in view, have it, have it taped, hear, hear of, hear tell of,
hearth, heckle, hector, hightail, hint at, hire, hit, hit it, hit the road, hoard, homefolks, hop, hop along, hotfoot, hound, house, household, hug, hunt down, hurt, hype, ice, impart, imply, impress, inbreed, include, income, incur, induce, influence, inherit, injure, insert, insinuate, inspire, instigate, intake, intend, interest, interpret, intimidate, invent, invite, irk, irritate, issue, journey, keep in suspense,
ken, killing, know, land, lay hands on, lay hold of,
lay out, lead, leak out,
leap, learn, learn about, lease, leave, lick, like, listen to, litter, load the mind, locate, loot, lope, lucre, make, make clear, make do, make
good, make love, make out, make tracks, make yourself scarce,
makings, manage, manipulate, master, maze, mean, meet, menage, miff, molest, mother, motivate, mount, move, move away, muddle, multiply, mystify, nab, nag, nail, near, neat profit, needle, nest, net, net income, net profit, net
receipts, nettle,
nip, nip up, nonplus, note down, nudzh, obtain, off, offspring, open the lock,
organize, outbreed, outfit, outflank, output, outsmart, outwit, overdose, overhear, palm, paper profits, partake, pass, peeve, pelf, penetrate, people, perceive, percentage, perk, perks, perplex, perquisite, persecute, persuade, perturb, pester, pick on, pick up, pick up
information, pickings,
pillage, pinch, pinpoint, pique, place, plague, pluck the beard, plug, plumb, pocket, polish off, possess, pother, prepare, prevail upon, proceed, proceeds, procreate, procure, produce, profit, profits, progress, proliferate, promote, propagate, prosper, provoke, pry out, psych, psych out, pull down,
punch, purchase, pursue, push, put, put across, put on, put over,
puzzle, puzzle out,
rake-off, ravel, ravel
out, reach, reacquire, read, realize, reap, receipt, receipts, receivables, receive, record, recoup, recover, rediscover, regain, remove, rent, repossess, reproduce in kind,
resolve, retain, retire, retrieve, return, returns, revenue, riddle, ride, rig out, rile, roil, royalties, rub out, ruffle, run, run a temperature, run about,
run after, run around, run down, run to earth, sack, sadden, savvy, score, scram, secure, see, seize, seize the meaning, sense, set, set off, set out, settle, shag, shed, shift, shoot, shove off, sicken, sidestep, sire, skirt, slip in, slug, smack, snap up, snatch, socialize, sock, solve, sort out, spat, spawn, spread, spring, sprint, squeeze in, stand up,
start, steal, step, step down, step lively,
stick, stimulate, stir, store, strike, study, stump, suborn, subvert, succeed, succeed to, suggest, superinduce, support, surmount, survive, swallow, sway, take, take by assault, take by
storm, take care of, take hold of, take ill, take in, take off,
take on, take over, take possession, take up, take-in, takings, taunt, tease, thrive, throw, torment, touch, trace, trace down, track down,
travel, traverse, treat, trip, trot, try the patience, turn, turn into, turn out, turn up,
tweak the nose, twig,
undermine, understand, undo, unearned income, unlock, unravel, unriddle, unscramble, untangle, untwist, unweave, vamoose, vex, wake up, wangle, waste, wealth, welcome, wheedle, whip up, wiggle, win, win over, winnings, wipe out, work, work out, worry, wrest, wriggle, wring from, write down,
yield, young, zap