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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
get
    n 1: a return on a shot that seemed impossible to reach and
         would normally have resulted in a point for the opponent
    v 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: get,
         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, get]
    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:
       get, 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,
       get, 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, get, come] [ant: go
       away, go forth, 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, get, convey, fetch]
       [ant: bear away, bear off, carry away, carry off,
       take away]
    7: go through (mental or physical states or experiences); "get
       an idea"; "experience vertigo"; "get nauseous"; "receive
       injuries"; "have a feeling" [syn: experience, receive,
       have, get]
    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, get, 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, get, 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, get, make]
    11: succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase;
        "We finally got the suspect"; "Did you catch the thief?"
        [syn: get, 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,
        get, 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, get]
    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, get]
    16: move into a desired direction of discourse; "What are you
        driving at?" [syn: drive, get, aim]
    17: grasp with the mind or develop an understanding 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, get]
    18: attract and fix; "His look caught her"; "She caught his
        eye"; "Catch the attention of the waiter" [syn: catch,
        arrest, get]
    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:
        get, 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,
        get]
    24: suffer from the receipt of; "She will catch hell for this
        behavior!" [syn: catch, get]
    25: receive as a retribution or punishment; "He got 5 years in
        prison" [syn: get, receive]
    26: leave immediately; used usually in the imperative form;
        "Scram!" [syn: scram, buzz off, fuck off, get,
        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, 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, get]
    31: earn or achieve a base by being walked by the pitcher; "He
        drew a base on balls" [syn: draw, get]
    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, get,
        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, get, start out,
        start, set about, set out, commence] [ant: end,
        terminate]
    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, get]
    36: make children; "Abraham begot Isaac"; "Men often father
        children but don't recognize them" [syn: beget, get,
        engender, father, mother, sire, generate, bring
        forth]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Get \Get\ (j[e^]t), n.
   Jet, the mineral. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Get \Get\ (g[e^]t), n. [OF. get.]
   1. Fashion; manner; custom. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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   2. Artifice; contrivance. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Get \Get\ (g[e^]t), v. t. [imp. Got (g[o^]t) (Obs. Gat
   (g[a^]t)); p. p. Got (Obsolescent Gotten (g[o^]t"t'n));
   p. pr. & vb. n. Getting.] [OE. geten, AS. gitan, gietan (in
   comp.); akin to Icel. geta, Goth. bigitan to find, L.
   prehendere to seize, take, Gr. chanda`nein to hold, contain.
   Cf. Comprehend, Enterprise, Forget, Impregnable,
   Prehensile.]
   1. 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.
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   2. Hence, with have and had, to come into or be in possession
      of; to have. --Johnson.
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            Thou hast got the face of man.        --Herbert.
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   3. To beget; to procreate; to generate.
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            I had rather to adopt a child than get it. --Shak.
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   4. 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.
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            It being harder with him to get one sermon by heart,
            than to pen twenty.                   --Bp. Fell.
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   5. To prevail on; to induce; to persuade.
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            Get him to say his prayers.           --Shak.
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   6. To procure to be, or to cause to be in any state or
      condition; -- with a following participle.
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            Those things I bid you do; get them dispatched.
                                                  --Shak.
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   7. To betake; to remove; -- in a reflexive use.
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            Get thee out from this land.          --Gen. xxxi.
                                                  13.
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            He . . . got himself . . . to the strong town of
            Mega.                                 --Knolles.
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   Note: Get, as a transitive verb, is combined with adverbs
         implying motion, to express the causing to, or the
         effecting in, the object of the verb, of the kind of
         motion indicated by the preposition; thus, to get in,
         to cause to enter, to bring under shelter; as, to get
         in the hay; to get out, to make come forth, to extract;
         to get off, to take off, to remove; to get together, to
         cause to come together, to collect.
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   To get by heart, to commit to memory.

   To get the better of, To get the best of, to obtain an
      advantage over; to surpass; to subdue.

   To get up, to cause to be established or to exit; to
      prepare; to arrange; to construct; to invent; as, to get
      up a celebration, a machine, a book, an agitation.

   Syn: To obtain; gain; win; acquire. See Obtain.
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5. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Get \Get\ (g[e^]t), v. i.
   1. To make acquisition; to gain; to profit; to receive
      accessions; to be increased.
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            We mourn, France smiles; we lose, they daily get.
                                                  --Shak.
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   2. 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.
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            To get rid of fools and scoundrels.   --Pope.
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            His chariot wheels get hot by driving fast.
                                                  --Coleridge.
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   Note: It [get] gives to the English language a middle voice,
         or a power of verbal expression which is neither active
         nor passive. Thus we say to get acquitted, beaten,
         confused, dressed.
         --Earle.
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   Note: Get, as an intransitive verb, is used with a following
         preposition, or adverb of motion, to indicate, on the
         part of the subject of the act, movement or action of
         the kind signified by the preposition or adverb; or, in
         the general sense, to move, to stir, to make one's way,
         to advance, to arrive, etc.; as, to get away, to leave,
         to escape; to disengage one's self from; to get down,
         to descend, esp. with effort, as from a literal or
         figurative elevation; to get along, to make progress;
         hence, to prosper, succeed, or fare; to get in, to
         enter; to get out, to extricate one's self, to escape;
         to get through, to traverse; also, to finish, to be
         done; to get to, to arrive at, to reach; to get off, to
         alight, to descend from, to dismount; also, to escape,
         to come off clear; to get together, to assemble, to
         convene.
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   To get ahead, to advance; to prosper.

   To get along, to proceed; to advance; to prosper.

   To get a mile (or other distance), to pass over it in
      traveling.

   To get among, to go or come into the company of; to become
      one of a number.

   To get asleep, to fall asleep.

   To get astray, to wander out of the right way.

   To get at, to reach; to make way to.

   To get away with, to carry off; to capture; hence, to get
      the better of; to defeat.

   To get back, to arrive at the place from which one
      departed; to return.

   To get before, to arrive in front, or more forward.

   To get behind, to fall in the rear; to lag.

   To get between, to arrive between.

   To get beyond, to pass or go further than; to exceed; to
      surpass. "Three score and ten is the age of man, a few get
      beyond it." --Thackeray.

   To get clear, to disengage one's self; to be released, as
      from confinement, obligation, or burden; also, to be freed
      from danger or embarrassment.

   To get drunk, to become intoxicated.

   To get forward, to proceed; to advance; also, to prosper;
      to advance in wealth.

   To get home, to arrive at one's dwelling, goal, or aim.

   To get into.
      (a) To enter, as, "she prepared to get into the coach."
          --Dickens.
      (b) To pass into, or reach; as, " a language has got into
          the inflated state." --Keary.

   To get loose or To get free, to disengage one's self; to
      be released from confinement.

   To get near, to approach within a small distance.

   To get on, to proceed; to advance; to prosper.

   To get over.
      (a) To pass over, surmount, or overcome, as an obstacle or
          difficulty.
      (b) To recover from, as an injury, a calamity.

   To get through.
      (a) To pass through something.
      (b) To finish what one was doing.

   To get up.
      (a) To rise; to arise, as from a bed, chair, etc.
      (b) To ascend; to climb, as a hill, a tree, a flight of
          stairs, etc.
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6. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Get \Get\, n.
   Offspring; progeny; as, the get of a stallion.
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7. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
get \get\ (g[e^]t), n.; pl. gittin or gitim.
   A divorce granted by a Rabbi in accordance with Jewish law;
   also, the document attesting to the divorce. --RHUD
   [PJC]

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