What's the difference between get and trick?

Get


Definition:

  • (n.) Jet, the mineral.
  • (n.) Fashion; manner; custom.
  • (n.) Artifice; contrivance.
  • (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.

Trick


Definition:

  • (a.) An artifice or stratagem; a cunning contrivance; a sly procedure, usually with a dishonest intent; as, a trick in trade.
  • (a.) A sly, dexterous, or ingenious procedure fitted to puzzle or amuse; as, a bear's tricks; a juggler's tricks.
  • (a.) Mischievous or annoying behavior; a prank; as, the tricks of boys.
  • (a.) A particular habit or manner; a peculiarity; a trait; as, a trick of drumming with the fingers; a trick of frowning.
  • (a.) A knot, braid, or plait of hair.
  • (a.) The whole number of cards played in one round, and consisting of as many cards as there are players.
  • (a.) A turn; specifically, the spell of a sailor at the helm, -- usually two hours.
  • (a.) A toy; a trifle; a plaything.
  • (v. t.) To deceive by cunning or artifice; to impose on; to defraud; to cheat; as, to trick another in the sale of a horse.
  • (v. t.) To dress; to decorate; to set off; to adorn fantastically; -- often followed by up, off, or out.
  • (v. t.) To draw in outline, as with a pen; to delineate or distinguish without color, as arms, etc., in heraldry.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Even if it were not the case that police use a variety of tricks to keep recorded crime figures low, this data would still represent an almost meaningless measure of the extent of crime in society, for the simple reason that a huge proportion of crimes (of almost all sorts) have always gone unreported.
  • (2) Trousers were cropped or rolled at the ankle, a styling trick that is emerging as a trend across the shows.
  • (3) When you score a hat trick in the first 16 minutes of a World Cup Final with tens of millions of people watching across the world, essentially ending the match and clinching the tournament before most players worked up a sweat or Japan had a chance to throw in the towel, your status as a sports legend is forever secure – and any favorable comparisons thrown your way are deserved.
  • (4) That was the thing that told against us in the end and we have to be serious about that.” In defence of the Corbyn camp’s plans to renationalise privatised industries, John McDonnell MP, who is the candidate’s campaign agent, said that privatisation had been “a confidence trick”.
  • (5) The announcement from the Congressional Budget Office, a research body, that health reform would cost $940bn (£627bn), which was less than had been expected, appears to have done the trick.
  • (6) It’s not going to change whether I score a hat-trick or don’t score at all.
  • (7) I don’t think it’s indicative of lower fish stocks, they just learned a new trick,” Mardisk F Leopold, who led the research, told the Guardian.
  • (8) It was his second hat-trick in four games and he has now scored 10 times in seven.
  • (9) "In the wake of Julio Baptista's quad-trick, which player has scored the most goals against Liverpool in one game at Anfield?"
  • (10) Christian Benteke has been revitalised under Sherwood and he followed up his hat-trick in last Tuesday’s 3-3 draw with Queens Park Rangers by scoring the winner here.
  • (11) He had to watch her score a hat-trick and lift the trophy on television instead.
  • (12) "So when you figure out that trick, that becomes how you attack anything bad.
  • (13) Highlight: Mike Magee’s opening day hat-trick against the team he ended the season with.
  • (14) Celebrities from Justin Bieber to Spike Lee were on hand for the opening of a spectacle that mixes circus tricks with the music of the late King of Pop – a pairing that has already proved lucrative for Cirque on the road with the arena show, Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour .
  • (15) Gordon Brown and David Cameron put the question of substance at the heart of the political battle yesterday, as the Tory leader accused his rival of relying on "short-term tricks" in place of long-term solutions.
  • (16) So it’s comforting to note that Spectre seems to be offering a significant upgrade: the trailer shows Q introducing Bond to his new ultra-speedy Aston Martin DB10, and promising it boasts a “few tricks”.
  • (17) It is impossible to trick your mind into veering away from the enormity of what happened in this tiny country in the centre of Africa.
  • (18) In the second world war, countries had their own encryption tools but now we share networks and tools, and if you can undermine the random number generator - if you can make it less random - and that’s what the NSA was doing by trying to trick, buy or persuade companies to make their encryption more breakable,” said Gellman.
  • (19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest China dismisses Trump call with Taiwan as ‘small trick’ However, Beijing’s public response has so far been measured, with the foreign ministry lodging a “solemn representation” with Washington and the foreign minister, Wang Yi, downplaying the development as “a petty move” by Taiwan.
  • (20) Take, for example, the "trick" of combining instrumental data and tree-ring evidence in a single graph to "hide the decline" in temperatures over recent decades that would be suggested by a naive interpretation of the tree-ring record.

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