What is get?

More definitions of "get":

• (verb): Purchase.
  Example: "What did you get at the toy store?"

• (verb): Take the first step or steps in carrying out an action.
  Example: "Get working as soon as the sun rises!"; "Let's get down to work now"
  Synonyms: get down, begin, start out, start, set about, set out, commence

• (verb): Be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness.
  Synonyms: contract, take

• (verb): Communicate with a place or person; establish communication with, as if by telephone.
  Example: "Bill called this number and he got Mary"; "The operator couldn't get Kobe because of the earthquake"

• (verb): Irritate.
  Example: "Her childish behavior really get to me"
  Synonyms: get under one's skin

• (verb): Be a mystery or bewildering to.
  Synonyms: perplex, vex, stick, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound

• (verb): Acquire as a result of some effort or action.
  Example: "You cannot get water out of a stone"; "Where did she get these news?"

• (verb): Grasp with the mind or develop an undersatnding of.
  Example: "Did you get it?"; "She didn't get the joke"; "I just don't get him"
  Synonyms: catch

• (verb): Reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress.
  Example: "She didn't get to Chicago until after midnight"
  Synonyms: arrive, come

• (verb): Move into a desired direction of discourse.
  Synonyms: drive, aim

• (verb): Make children.
  Synonyms: beget, engender, father, mother, sire, generate, bring forth

• (verb): Reach and board.
  Example: "She got the bus just as it was leaving"

• (verb): Reach by calculation.
  Example: "What do you get when you add up these numbers?"

• (verb): Come into the possession of something concrete or abstract.
  Example: "Get your results the next day"; "Get permission to take a few days off from work"
  Synonyms: acquire

• (verb): Take vengeance on or get even.
  Example: "We'll get them!"
  Synonyms: pay back, pay off, fix

• (verb): Suffer from the receipt of.
  Synonyms: catch

• (verb): Enter or assume a certain state or condition.
  Example: "Get going!"
  Synonyms: become, go

• (verb): Of mental or physical states or experiences.
  Example: "Get an idea"; "get nauseous"
  Synonyms: experience, receive, have, undergo

• (verb): Receive as a retribution or punishment.
  Synonyms: receive

• (verb): Apprehend and reproduce accurately.
  Synonyms: catch

• (verb): Perceive by hearing.
  Example: "She didn't get his name when they met the first time"
  Synonyms: catch

• (verb): Give certain properties to something.
  Example: "Get someone mad"
  Synonyms: make

• (verb): Cause to move; cause to be in a certain position or condition.
  Synonyms: let, have

• (verb): Achieve a point or goal.
  Synonyms: have, make

• (verb): Evoke an emotional response.
  Example: "Brahms's 'Requiem' gets me every time"

• (verb): Come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes).
  Synonyms: grow, develop, produce, acquire

• (verb): Reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot.
  Synonyms: catch

• (verb): Cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner.
  Synonyms: induce, stimulate, cause, have, make

• (verb): Leave immediately; used usually in the imperative form.
  Synonyms: scram, buzz off, fuck off, bugger off

• (verb): Succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase.
  Synonyms: catch, capture

• (verb): Receive a specified treatment (abstract).
  Synonyms: receive, find, obtain, incur

• (verb): Overcome or destroy.
  Example: "The ice storm got my hibiscus"; "the cat got the goldfish"

• (verb): Undergo (as of injuries and illnesses).
  Synonyms: suffer, sustain, have

• (verb): Attract and fix.
  Synonyms: catch, arrest

• (verb): In baseball: earn or achieve a base by being walked by the pitcher.
  Synonyms: draw