A Quick and Simple Dictionary

get

1. Verb.  (transitive) To obtain; to acquire.
2. Verb.  (transitive) To receive.
3. Verb.  (context, copulative) To become.
4. Verb.  (transitive) To fetch; to bring.
5. Verb.  (transitive) to take; to send.
6. Verb.  (transitive) to be subjected to.
7. Verb.  (transitive) To cause to become; to bring about.
8. Verb.  (transitive) (used with preposition) To don or doff clothing, etc.
9. Verb.  (transitive) To cause to do.
10. Verb.  (reflexive) To betake oneself.
11. Verb.  (intransitive) To arrive (at) or progress (towards a place or outcome).
12. Verb.  (intransitive) (qualifier, with various prepositions, such as into, over or behind; for specific idiomatic senses see individual entries get into, get over, etc.) To adopt or assume (a certain position or state).
13. Verb.  (intransitive) To begin (doing something).
14. Verb.  (transitive) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
15. Verb.  (transitive) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
16. Verb.  (intransitive, followed by infinitive) To be able, permitted (to do something); to have the opportunity (to do something).
17. Verb.  (transitive, informal) To understand (often used as (term, get it) ).
18. Verb.  (transitive, informal) To be subjected to.
19. Verb.  (transitive, informal) To be (''used to form the passive of verbs'').
20. Verb.  (transitive, informal) To become ill with or catch (a disease).
21. Verb.  (transitive, informal) To catch out, trick successfully.
22. Verb.  (transitive, informal) To perplex, stump.
23. Verb.  (transitive) To find as an answer.
24. Verb.  (transitive, informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
25. Verb.  (transitive, informal) To hear completely; catch.
26. Verb.  (transitive) To getter.
27. Verb.  (context, now) To beget (of a father).
28. Noun.  Offspring.
29. Noun.  Lineage.
30. Noun.  (sports, tennis) A difficult return or block of a shot.
31. Noun.  (British, regional) A '''git'''.
32. Noun.  (Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.