get

Significado

Verb

1. To obtain; to acquire.
2. To receive.
3. To have. See usage notes.
4. To fetch, bring, take.
5. To become, or cause oneself to become.
6. To cause to become; to bring about.
7. To cause to do.
8. To cause to come or go or move.
9. To adopt, assume, arrive at, or progress towards (a certain position, location, state).
10. To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
11. (with full infinitive or gerund-participle) To begin (doing something or to do something).
12. To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
13. To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
14. (with full infinitive) To be able, be permitted, or have the opportunity (to do something desirable or ironically implied to be desirable).
15. (informal) To understand. (compare get it)
16. (informal) To be told; be the recipient of (a question, comparison, opinion, etc.).
17. (informal) Used with the past participle to form the dynamic passive voice of a dynamic verb. Compared with static passive with to be, this emphasizes the commencement of an action or entry into a state.
18. (informal) Used with a pronoun subject, usually you but sometimes one, to indicate that the object of the verb exists, can occur or is otherwise typical.
19. To become ill with or catch (a disease).
20. (informal) To catch out, trick successfully.
21. (informal) To perplex, stump.
22. To find as an answer.
23. (informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
24. To hear completely; catch.
25. To getter.
26. To beget (of a father).
27. To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out.
28. (informal) Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
29. (informal) To go, to leave; to scram.
30. To kill.
31. (obsolete) To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.
32. To measure.
33. To cause someone to laugh.

Noun

1. Offspring.
2. Lineage.
3. A difficult return or block of a shot.
4. (informal) Something gained; an acquisition.

Noun

Synonym of git (“contemptible person”)

Noun

A Jewish writ of divorce.

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ɡɛt/

Etimoloxía

From Middle English geten, from Old Norse geta, from Proto-Germanic *getaną. Cognate with Old English ġietan (whence also English yet), Old Saxon getan (“to get, to gain sth.”), Old High German pigezzan (“to uphold”), Gothic 𐌱𐌹𐌲𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (bigitan, “to find, discover”)), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰed- (“to seize”).

Oracións

Can I get you a drink ?

Only get me back to my husband and kids .

Get your guns out .

The train is probably the best way to get there .

How big do elephants get ?

" I need it to get to the Pyramids ," he said .

Why don't you fellows get your own news ?

It's shooting branches from the trunk , which means it can't properly get its sap to the top .