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say it: get
get is a verb and noun meaning "come into the possession of something concrete or abstract". It carries 37 recorded senses.
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!”
go through (mental or physical states or experiences)
“get an idea”
“experience vertigo”
“get nauseous”
“receive injuries”
“have a feeling”
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”
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”
reach by calculation
“What do you get when you add up these numbers?”
acquire as a result of some effort or action
“You cannot get water out of a stone”
“Where did she get these news?”
leave immediately; used usually in the imperative form
“Scram!”
irritate
“Her childish behavior really get to me”
“His lying really gets me”
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”
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”
a return on a shot that seemed impossible to reach and would normally have resulted in a point for the opponent
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for get come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.