Usually means: Acquire, receive, or obtain something.
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  15. GET (HTTP), GET, Get (animal), Get (divorce document), Get (song), Get: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
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(Note: See geting as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive or ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire.
verb:  (transitive) To receive.
verb:  (transitive, in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes.
verb:  (transitive) To fetch, bring, take.
verb:  (copulative) To become, or cause oneself to become.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to become; to bring about.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to do.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to come or go or move.
verb:  (intransitive, with various prepositions, such as into, over, or behind; for specific idiomatic senses see individual entries get into, get over, etc.) To adopt, assume, arrive at, or progress towards (a certain position, location, state).
verb:  (transitive) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
verb:  (intransitive, catenative) (with full infinitive or gerund-participle) To begin (doing something or to do something).
verb:  (transitive) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
verb:  (transitive) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
verb:  (intransitive, catenative) (with full infinitive) To be able, be permitted, or have the opportunity (to do something desirable or ironically implied to be desirable).
verb:  (transitive, informal) To understand. (compare get it)
verb:  (transitive, informal) To be told; be the recipient of (a question, comparison, opinion, etc.).
verb:  (auxiliary, 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.
verb:  (impersonal, 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.
verb:  (transitive) To become ill with or catch (a disease).
verb:  (transitive, informal) To catch out, trick successfully.
verb:  (transitive, informal) To perplex, stump.
verb:  (transitive) To find as an answer.
verb:  (transitive, informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
verb:  (transitive) To hear completely; catch.
verb:  (transitive) To getter.
verb:  (now rare) To beget (of a father).
verb:  (archaic) To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out.
verb:  (imperative, informal) Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
verb:  (intransitive, informal, chiefly imperative) To go, to leave; to scram.
verb:  (euphemistic) To kill.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.
verb:  (transitive) To measure.
verb:  (transitive) To cause someone to laugh.
noun:  (dated) Offspring.
noun:  Lineage.
noun:  (sports, tennis) A difficult return or block of a shot.
noun:  (informal) Something gained; an acquisition.
noun:  (British, regional) Synonym of git (“contemptible person”)
noun:  (Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.
noun:  A member of the Getae.

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