get
noun
1. a return on a shot that seemed impossible to reach and would normally have resulted in a point for the opponent
verb
1. come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
- Get your results the next day
- Get permission to take a few days off from work
Similar word(s): acquire
Definition categories: possession
2. enter or assume a certain state or condition
- It must be getting more serious
- Get going!
Definition categories: change, turn
3. cause to move; cause to be in a certain position or condition
Definition categories: change, get, make
4. receive a specified treatment (abstract)
Similar word(s): find, incur, obtain, receive
Definition categories: change
5. reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress
- She didn't get to Chicago until after midnight
Definition categories: motion
6. go or come after and bring or take back
- Get me those books over there, please
Similar word(s): bring, convey, fetch
Definition categories: contact, channel, channelise, channelize, transfer, transmit, transport
7. go through (mental or physical states or experiences)
- get an idea
- get nauseous
Similar word(s): experience, have, receive
Definition categories: perception, undergo
8. take vengeance on or get even
- We'll get them!
Similar word(s): fix
Definition categories: competition
9. achieve a point or goal
Definition categories: possession, hit, score, tally
10. cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner
Similar word(s): cause, have, induce, make, stimulate
Definition categories: communication
11. succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase
Similar word(s): capture, catch
Definition categories: contact, clutch, prehend, seize
12. come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)
Similar word(s): acquire, develop, grow, produce
Definition categories: body, change
13. be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness
Similar word(s): contract, take
Definition categories: body, sicken
14. communicate with a place or person; establish communication with, as if by telephone
- The operator couldn't get Kobe because of the earthquake
Definition categories: communication, communicate, intercommunicate
15. give certain properties to something
- get someone mad
Similar word(s): make
Definition categories: change, alter, modify
16. move into a desired direction of discourse
Definition categories: communication, intend, mean
17. grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of
- did you get it?
- She didn't get the joke
- I just don't get him
Similar word(s): catch
Definition categories: cognition, understand
18. attract and fix
Similar word(s): arrest, catch
Definition categories: contact, attract, draw, pull
19. reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot
Similar word(s): catch
Definition categories: contact, hit
20. reach by calculation
- What do you get when you add up these numbers?
Definition categories: cognition
21. acquire as a result of some effort or action
- You cannot get water out of a stone
- Where did she get these news?
Definition categories: possession, acquire, get
22. purchase
- What did you get at the toy store?
Definition categories: possession, buy, purchase
23. perceive by hearing
- She didn't get his name when they met the first time
Similar word(s): catch
Definition categories: perception, hear
24. suffer from the receipt of
Similar word(s): catch
Definition categories: perception, ache, hurt, suffer
25. receive as a retribution or punishment
Similar word(s): receive
Definition categories: perception
26. leave immediately; used usually in the imperative form
Similar word(s): scram
Definition categories: motion, leave
27. reach and board
Definition categories: motion, catch
28. irritate
- Her childish behavior really get to me
- His lying really gets me
Definition categories: emotion, annoy, bother, chafe, devil, gravel, irritate, nark, nettle, rag, rile, vex
29. evoke an emotional response
- Brahms's `Requiem' gets me every time
Definition categories: emotion, stir, touch
30. apprehend and reproduce accurately
Similar word(s): catch
Definition categories: creation, reproduce
31. earn or achieve a base by being walked by the pitcher
Similar word(s): draw
Definition categories: creation, effect, effectuate
32. overcome or destroy
Definition categories: contact, destroy, ruin
33. be a mystery or bewildering to
Similar word(s): amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex
Definition categories: cognition, bedevil, befuddle, confound, confuse, discombobulate, fox, fuddle, throw
34. take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
- Get working as soon as the sun rises!
- Let's get down to work now
Similar word(s): begin, commence, start
Definition categories: change
35. undergo (as of injuries and illnesses)
Similar word(s): have, suffer, sustain
Definition categories: body, experience, get, have, receive
36. make (offspring) by reproduction
Similar word(s): beget, engender, father, generate, mother, sire
Definition categories: body, create, make
Sentences with get as a verb:
- I'm going to get a computer tomorrow from the discount store.
- You need to get permission to leave early.
- I'm getting hungry; how about you?
- Don't get drunk tonight.
- 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 (or on).
- Can you get my bag from the living-room, please?
- I need to get this to the office.
- I can't get it to work.
- The actors are getting into position.
- When are we going to get to London?
- I'm getting into a muddle.
- to get a mile
- We ought to get moving or we'll be late.
- 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.
- The finders get to keep 80 percent of the treasure.
- 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."
- He keeps calling pretending to be my boss—it gets me every time.
- What did you get for question four?
- 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.
- to get a lesson; to get out one's Greek lesson
- Get her with her new hairdo.
- They’re coming to get you, Barbara.