Definition of gets Gets
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| get - a return on a shot that seemed impossible to reach and would normally have resulted in a point for the opponent | ||
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| get - 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" | ||
| acquire | ||
| isolate place or set apart; "They isolated the political prisoners from the other inmates" | ||
| incur, obtain, receive, find, get make oneself subject to; bring upon oneself; become liable to; "People who smoke incur a great danger to their health" | ||
| win back, get back recover something or somebody that appeared to be lost; "We got back the money after we threatened to sue the company"; "He got back his son from the kidnappers" | ||
| press out, express, extract obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action; "Italians express coffee rather than filter it" | ||
| capture, catch capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping; "I caught a rabbit in the trap today" | ||
| come into, come by obtain, especially accidentally | ||
| purchase, buy accept as true; "I can't buy this story" | ||
| charter, hire, lease, rent, engage, take grant a charter to | ||
| receive, have convert into sounds or pictures; "receive the incoming radio signals" | ||
| turn pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become; "The weather turned nasty"; "She grew angry" | ||
| buy accept as true; "I can't buy this story" | ||
| find come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds; "I feel that he doesn't like me"; "I find him to be obnoxious"; "I found the movie rather entertaining" | ||
| glom seize upon or latch onto something; "The Republicans glommed onto Whitewater" | ||
| enter upon, luck into, come upon take possession of; "She entered upon the estate of her rich relatives" | ||
| get hold, line up, come up, find take one's position before a kick-off | ||
| accept, have, take tolerate or accommodate oneself to; "I shall have to accept these unpleasant working conditions"; "I swallowed the insult"; "She has learned to live with her husband's little idiosyncrasies" | ||
| obtain come into possession of; "How did you obtain the visa?" | ||
| regain, retrieve, recover, find run after, pick up, and bring to the master; "train the dog to retrieve" | ||
| catch contract; "did you catch a cold?" | ||
| recoup, recuperate, recover reimburse or compensate (someone), as for a loss | ||
| repossess, reclaim make useful again; transform from a useless or uncultivated state; "The people reclaimed the marshes" | ||
| regain, find come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds; "I feel that he doesn't like me"; "I find him to be obnoxious"; "I found the movie rather entertaining" | ||
| win, acquire, gain be the winner in a contest or competition; be victorious; "He won the Gold Medal in skating"; "Our home team won"; "Win the game" | ||
| earn, pull in, bring in, realise, realize, gain, take in, clear, make acquire or deserve by one's efforts or actions | ||
| earn, garner acquire or deserve by one's efforts or actions | ||
| benefit, profit, gain be beneficial for; "This will do you good" | ||
| partake in, partake, share be active in | ||
| preempt make a preemptive bid in the game of bridge | ||
| preempt make a preemptive bid in the game of bridge | ||
| gather up, call for, collect, pick up get or bring together; "accumulate evidence" | ||
| inherit obtain from someone after their death; "I inherited a castle from my French grandparents" | ||
| borrow get temporarily; "May I borrow your lawn mower?" | ||
| pick up lift out or reflect from a background; "The scarf picks up the color of the skirt"; "His eyes picked up his smile" | ||
| get 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" | ||
| poll convert into a pollard; "pollard trees" | ||
| get - succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase; "We finally got the suspect"; "Did you catch the thief?" | ||
| catch, capture | ||
| prehend, clutch, seize affect; "Fear seized the prisoners"; "The patient was seized with unbearable pains"; "He was seized with a dreadful disease" | ||
| retake, recapture photograph again; "Please retake that scene" | ||
| lasso, rope catch with a lasso; "rope cows" | ||
| get - purchase; "What did you get at the toy store?" | ||
| purchase, buy accept as true; "I can't buy this story" | ||
| commercialism, mercantilism, commerce an economic system (Europe in 18th century) to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests | ||
| get - acquire as a result of some effort or action; "You cannot get water out of a stone"; "Where did she get these news?" | ||
| acquire, get win something through one's efforts; "I acquired a passing knowledge of Chinese"; "Gain an understanding of international finance" | ||
| get - reach by calculation; "What do you get when you add up these numbers?" | ||
| compute, cipher, cypher, figure, calculate, reckon, work out understand; "He didn't figure her" | ||
| get 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" | ||
| get - evoke an emotional response; "Brahms's `Requiem' gets me every time" | ||
| stir, touch mix or add by stirring; "Stir nuts into the dough" | ||
| get under one's skin, get 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" | ||
| get - irritate; "Her childish behavior really get to me"; "His lying really gets me" | ||
| get under one's skin | ||
| get 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" | ||
| annoy, rile, nettle, devil, nark, irritate, gravel, get to, get at, vex, chafe, rag, bother cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations; "Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers me"; "It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves" | ||
| get - reach and board; "She got the bus just as it was leaving" | ||
| arrive, come, get reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress; "She arrived home at 7 o'clock"; "She didn't get to Chicago until after midnight" | ||
| catch contract; "did you catch a cold?" | ||
| get - 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" | ||
| let, have | ||
| get, make 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" | ||
| get - 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" | ||
| intercommunicate, communicate be interconnected, afford passage; "These rooms intercommunicate" | ||
| get - 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" | ||
| catch | ||
| hit pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to; "He tries to hit on women in bars" | ||
| get - overcome or destroy; "The ice storm got my hibiscus"; "the cat got the goldfish" | ||
| destroy, ruin put (an animal) to death; "The customs agents destroyed the dog that was found to be rabid"; "the sick cat had to be put down" | ||
| get - receive as a retribution or punishment; "He got 5 years in prison" | ||
| receive | ||
| catch, get contract; "did you catch a cold?" | ||
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Wiktionary 
- get (Noun)
Offspring. - get (Noun)
Lineage. - get (Noun)
A difficult return or block of a shot. - get (Noun)
A git. - get (Noun)
A Jewish writ of divorce. - get (Verb)
To obtain; to acquire. - get (Verb)
To receive. - get (Verb)
To become. - get (Verb)
To cause to become; to bring about. - get (Verb)
To fetch, bring, take. - get (Verb)
To cause to do. - get (Verb)
To betake oneself. - get (Verb)
To adopt, assume, arrive at, or progress towards a certain position, location, state. - get (Verb)
To begin doing something. - get (Verb)
To take or catch a scheduled transportation service. - get (Verb)
To respond to a telephone call, a doorbell, etc. - get (Verb)
To be able, permitted to do something; to have the opportunity to do something. - get (Verb)
To be subjected to. - get (Verb)
To become ill with or catch a disease. - get (Verb)
To catch out , trick successfully. - get (Verb)
To perplex, stump. - get (Verb)
To find as an answer. - get (Verb)
To bring to reckoning; to catch as a criminal; to effect retribution. - get (Verb)
To hear completely; catch. - get (Verb)
To getter. - get (Verb)
To beget of a father.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- get (n.)
Jet, the mineral. - get (n.)
Fashion; manner; custom. - get (n.)
Artifice; contrivance. - get (v. t.)
To procure; to obtain; to gain possession of; to acquire; to earn; to obtain as a price or reward; to come by; to win, by almost any means; as, to get favor by kindness; to get wealth by industry and economy; to get land by purchase, etc. - get (v. t.)
Hence, with have and had, to come into or be in possession of; to have. - get (v. t.)
To beget; to procreate; to generate. - get (v. t.)
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. - get (v. t.)
To prevail on; to induce; to persuade. - get (v. t.)
To procure to be, or to cause to be in any state or condition; -- with a following participle. - get (v. t.)
To betake; to remove; -- in a reflexive use. - get (v. i.)
To make acquisition; to gain; to profit; to receive accessions; to be increased. - get (v. i.)
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. - get (n.)
Offspring; progeny; as, the get of a stallion.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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To come to a destination. -
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To get or obtain an item; to come into the possession of something. -
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To take the first step or steps in carrying out an action. -
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To go somewhere to bring back something. -
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To experience or suffer an injury, a disease, etc. -
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To acquire or catch (a disease, something noxious, bad condition). -
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To achieve (a point, a goal, an honor, etc.). -
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To go through (mental or physical states or experiences). -
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To take revenge on or get even. -
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To succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase. -
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To come to have or undergo a change of physical features or attributes. -
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To attract and fix (e.g. someone or his/her eyes). -
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To reach (e.g. an arithmetic result) by calculation. -
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To get or obtain by the payment of money or its equivalent. -
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To perceive by hearing. -
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To receive as a retribution or punishment. -
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To reach and board. -
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To cause (someone) to have a feeling of impatience or anger. -
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To apprehend and reproduce accurately. -
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To go or come after and bring or take back. -
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To reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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get, v.t. to obtain: to seize: to procure or cause to be: to beget offspring: to learn: to persuade: (B.) to betake, to carry.—v.i. to arrive or put one's self in any place, state, or condition: to become:—pr.p. get′ting; pa.t. got; pa.p. got, (obs.) got′ten.—ns. Get′ter, one who gets or obtains: one who begets; Get′ting, a gaining: anything gained: procreation; Get′-up, equipment: general appearance.—Get ahead, along, to make progress, advance; Get at, to reach, attain; Get off, to escape; Get on, to proceed, advance; Get out, to produce: to go away; Get over, to surmount; Get round, to circumvent: to persuade, talk over; Get through, to finish; Get up, to arise, to ascend: to arrange, prepare. [A.S. gitan, to get.]
Vulgar Tongue DictionaryDictionary of the Vulgar Tongue 👅
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One of his get; one of his offspring, or begetting.
Proverbs DictionaryProverbs Dictionary 📗
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Get what you can, and what you get, hold, 'Tis the stone which will turn your lead into gold.
