(v. t.) To procure; to obtain; to gain possession of; to acquire; to earn; to obtain as a price or reward; to come by; to win, by almost any means; as, to get favor by kindness; to get wealth by industry and economy; to get land by purchase, etc.
(v. t.) Hence, with have and had, to come into or be in possession of; to have.
(v. t.) To beget; to procreate; to generate.
(v. t.) To obtain mental possession of; to learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; as to get a lesson; also with out; as, to get out one's Greek lesson.
(v. t.) To prevail on; to induce; to persuade.
(v. t.) To procure to be, or to cause to be in any state or condition; -- with a following participle.
(v. t.) To betake; to remove; -- in a reflexive use.
(v. i.) To make acquisition; to gain; to profit; to receive accessions; to be increased.
(v. i.) To arrive at, or bring one's self into, a state, condition, or position; to come to be; to become; -- with a following adjective or past participle belonging to the subject of the verb; as, to get sober; to get awake; to get beaten; to get elected.
(n.) Offspring; progeny; as, the get of a stallion.
Example Sentences:
(1) I want to get some good insight before I make my decision,” said Hiddink.
(2) But when they decided to get married, "finding the clothes became my project," says Melanie.
(3) For viewers in the US, you get the worst possible in-game managerial interview in Mike Matheny, one that's so bad, it's actually great!
(4) The way we are going to pay for that is by making the rules the same for people who go into care homes as for people who get care at their home, and by means-testing the winter fuel payment, which currently isn’t.” Hunt said the plan showed the Conservatives were capable of making difficult choices.
(5) I said: ‘Apologies for doing this publicly, but I did try to get a meeting with you, and I couldn’t even get a reply.’ And then I had a massive go at him – about everything really, from poverty to uni fees to NHS waiting times.” She giggles again.
(6) In a Bloomberg article last week, for example, one Stanford student compared women who get raped to unlocked bicycles : ‘Do I deserve to have my bike stolen if I leave it unlocked on the quad?’ [Chris] Herries, 22, said.
(7) I’m hopeful but I just can’t get over all my experiences in the past.
(8) Translation: 'We do less, you get yourself sorted.'"
(9) The only way we can change it, is if we get people to look in and understand what is happening.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Dean, Clare and their baby son.
(10) Considerate touches includes the free use of cruiser bicycles (the best method of tackling the Palm Springs main drag), home-baked cookies … and if you'd like to get married, ask the manager: he's a minister.
(11) That is what needs to happen for this company, which started out as a rebellious presence in the business, determined to get credit for its creative visionaries.
(12) She stopped working only when the pain made it hard for her to get to work.
(13) Because they generally have to be positioned on hills to get the maximum benefits of the wind, some complain that they ruin the landscape.
(14) To get a better understanding of the different cell interactions during the immune response to a hapten-carrier complex, the effects of immunogenic or tolerogenic injections of various hapten-containing compounds on the responses induced by immunization with the same hapten coupled to protein carriers were studied.
(15) In a new venture, BDJ Study Tours will offer a separate itinerary for partners on the Study Safari so whilst the business of dentistry gets under way they can explore additional sights in this fascinating country.
(16) Other than failing to get a goal, I couldn’t ask for anything more.” From Lambert’s perspective there was an element of misfortune about the first and third goals, with Willian benefitting from handy ricochets on both occasions.
(17) After friends heard that he was on them, Brumfield started observing something strange: “If we had people over to the Super Bowl or a holiday season party, I’d notice that my medicines would come up short, no matter how good friends they were.” Twice people broke into his house to get to the drugs.
(18) Yorkshire is going to get a lot of tourists after this."
(19) "In my era, we'd get a phone call from John [Galliano] before the show: this is what the show's about, what do you think?
(20) What shouldn't get lost among the hits, home runs and the intentional and semi-intentional walks is that Ortiz finally seems comfortable with having a leadership role with his team.
Taker
Definition:
(n.) One who takes or receives; one who catches or apprehends.
Example Sentences:
(1) He’s been so consistent this season.” Barkley took the two late penalties because the regular taker, Romelu Lukaku, had been withdrawn at half-time with a back injury that is likely to keep the striker out of Saturday’s trip to Stoke City.
(2) Only 2% of the subjects refused to take any pills, and, among pill takers, over 95% were reported to be taking most of their pills at the end of the study.
(3) 3.51pm GMT 116 min: John Motson says that Bobby Robson told him this afternoon that the five penalty takers, if needed, would be Lineker, Beardsley, Gascoigne, Pearce and Platt.
(4) Matthew d’Ancona : She’s a risk-taker, and a potentially transformative leader Theresa May may be a compassionate Conservative, but her arrival in Downing Street has been anything but a velvet revolution.
(5) For the rebellious risk taker, a newspaper article with a state agency source caused higher levels of concern and information seeking about the risk than a newspaper article with the Surgeon General as the source.
(6) Use of these findings in the clinical management of patients and in health education of mothers and other care-takers is suggested.
(7) Subjects were assigned to a no-accountability condition (they learned that all of their responses would be anonymous), a preexposure-accountability condition (they learned of the need to justify their responses before seeing the test-takers' PRF responses), and a postexposure-accountability condition (they learned of the need to justify their responses after seeing the test-takers' PRF responses).
(8) Today's demands are more mundane: hostage-takers range from single mothers to the nearly retired - they want jobs, proper pay and no brutal layoffs.
(9) Four experiments were carried out to investigate the effect on the static pressure seal of earmolds made from currently used impression and earmold materials; the occasional practice of making more than one earmold from an impression; the earmoldmaker buildup of impressions; and the multistage buildup of impressions by the impression taker.
(10) Detailed examination revealed that these were mainly due to confounding from several sources, for example, from the underlying cause of the dyspepsia which resulted in cimetidine use, from the higher level of physician contact in cimetidine takers, and smoking.
(11) She did not flinch when hostage-takers took over the Iranian embassy; most were killed by the SAS.
(12) Reports said the hostage-takers freed those who were able to quote passages from the Qur’an.
(13) For the 600 hostages snacking on biscuits and chocolate, there is no sleep, no beds, no hot food, no hot drinks, no toilet paper, no washing facilities, a meagre supply of medicines - and, apparently, a deepening bond between the hostage takers and their victims.
(14) Intestinal perforation and hemorrhage are more frequent in anti-inflammatory drug takers than in control groups.
(15) Experimental suggestions that non-aspirin non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) cause gastritis and erosions have been overshadowed by evidence that takers of NSAIDs tend to develop serious complications with acute bleeding and perforations of duodenal and gastric ulcers.
(16) The proposals, expected to be published early next week, would mark the first time a remuneration level had been published to define who are the "material risk takers" who will be subject to the bonus cap.
(17) Test setters retain influence over what counts, and there is no adjusting for test-takers' inclination to apply themselves – or not.
(18) Mata has replaced Rooney as United’s designated penalty-taker, steering this one to the left of Diego Benaglio, then tucking the ball under his arm and sprinting back to the centre-circle like a man who meant business.
(19) The incidence of hypokalaemic paralysis in gossypol takers showed distinct regional differences, being much higher in Nanjing, where the dietary potassium level of the inhabitants was low, than in Taian, where the dietary potassium level was high.
(20) After excluding six, whose tablet-taking was unreliable, it was found that two patients had serum digoxin levels above the usually accepted upper limit and a total of 23 patients (38 per cent of the digoxin takers) had some alteration made to their dose, including eight whose digoxin was stopped.