Crossword clues for getting
getting
- Come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
- Enter or assume a certain state or condition
- Cause to move
- Cause to be in a certain position or condition
- Receive a specified treatment (abstract)
- Reach a destination
- Arrive by movement or by making progress
- Go or come after and bring or take back
- Leave immediately
- Take vengeance on or get even
- Cause to do
- The act of acquiring something
- Cause to act in a specified manner
- Succeed in catching or seizing, , esp. after a chase
- Come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)
- Be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness
- Communicate with a place or person
- Establish communication with, as if by telephone
- Give certain properties to something
- Of mental or physical states or experiences
- Elderly, compatible to some extent
- Obtaining; becoming
- Part 3 of quote
- Receive as a retribution or punishment
- Perceive by hearing
- Purchase
- Acquire as a result of some effort or action
- Get to or be allowed to do something
- Reach by calculation
- Used usually in the imperative form
- Attract and fix
- In baseball earn or achieve a base by being walked by the pitcher
- Reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot
- Reach and board
- Irritate
- Grasp with the mind
- Apprehend and reproduce accurately
- Suffer from the receipt of
- Overcome or destroy
- Be a mystery or bewildering to
- Take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
- Undergo (as of injuries and illnesses)
- Make children
- Evoke an emotional response
- Achieve a point or goal, as in a sport
- Move into a desired direction of discourse
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Get \Get\ (g[e^]t), v. t. [imp. Got (g[o^]t) (Obs. Gat (g[a^]t)); p. p. Got (Obsolescent Gotten (g[o^]t"t'n)); p. pr. & vb. n. Getting.] [OE. geten, AS. gitan, gietan (in comp.); akin to Icel. geta, Goth. bigitan to find, L. prehendere to seize, take, Gr. chanda`nein to hold, contain. Cf. Comprehend, Enterprise, Forget, Impregnable, Prehensile.]
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.
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Hence, with have and had, to come into or be in possession of; to have.
--Johnson.Thou hast got the face of man.
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To beget; to procreate; to generate.
I had rather to adopt a child than get it.
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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.
It being harder with him to get one sermon by heart, than to pen twenty.
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To prevail on; to induce; to persuade.
Get him to say his prayers.
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To procure to be, or to cause to be in any state or condition; -- with a following participle.
Those things I bid you do; get them dispatched.
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To betake; to remove; -- in a reflexive use.
Get thee out from this land.
--Gen. xxxi. 13.He . . . got himself . . . to the strong town of Mega.
--Knolles.Note: Get, as a transitive verb, is combined with adverbs implying motion, to express the causing to, or the effecting in, the object of the verb, of the kind of motion indicated by the preposition; thus, to get in, to cause to enter, to bring under shelter; as, to get in the hay; to get out, to make come forth, to extract; to get off, to take off, to remove; to get together, to cause to come together, to collect.
To get by heart, to commit to memory.
To get the better of, To get the best of, to obtain an advantage over; to surpass; to subdue.
To get up, to cause to be established or to exit; to prepare; to arrange; to construct; to invent; as, to get up a celebration, a machine, a book, an agitation.
Syn: To obtain; gain; win; acquire. See Obtain.
Getting \Get"ting\, n.
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The act of obtaining or acquiring; acquisition.
With all thy getting, get understanding.
--Prov. iv. 7. That which is got or obtained; gain; profit.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of obtaining or acquiring; acquisition. 2 That which is got or obtained; gain; profit. vb. (present participle of get English)
WordNet
See get
n. the act of acquiring something; "I envied his talent for acquiring"; "he's much more interested in the getting than in the giving" [syn: acquiring]
v. come into the possession of something concrete or abstract; "She got a lot of paintings from her uncle"; "They acquired a new pet"; "Get your results the next day"; "Get permission to take a few days off from work" [syn: acquire]
enter or assume a certain state or condition; "He became annoyed when he heard the bad news"; "It must be getting more serious"; "her face went red with anger"; "She went into ecstasy"; "Get going!" [syn: become, go]
cause to move; cause to be in a certain position or condition; "He got his squad on the ball"; "This let me in for a big surprise"; "He got a girl into trouble" [syn: let, have]
receive a specified treatment (abstract); "These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation"; "His movie received a good review"; "I got nothing but trouble for my good intentions" [syn: receive, find, obtain, incur]
reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress; "She arrived home at 7 o'clock"; "She didn't get to Chicago until after midnight" [syn: arrive, come] [ant: leave]
go or come after and bring or take back; "Get me those books over there, please"; "Could you bring the wine?"; "The dog fetched the hat" [syn: bring, convey, fetch] [ant: take away]
of mental or physical states or experiences; "get an idea"; "experience vertigo"; "get nauseous"; "undergo a strange sensation"; "The chemical undergoes a sudden change"; "The fluid undergoes shear"; "receive injuries"; "have a feeling" [syn: experience, receive, have, undergo]
take vengeance on or get even; "We'll get them!"; "That'll fix him good!"; "This time I got him" [syn: pay back, pay off, fix]
achieve a point or goal; "Nicklaus had a 70"; "The Brazilian team got 4 goals"; "She made 29 points that day" [syn: have, make]
cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner; "The ads induced me to buy a VCR"; "My children finally got me to buy a computer"; "My wife made me buy a new sofa" [syn: induce, stimulate, cause, have, make]
succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase; "We finally got the suspect"; "Did you catch the thief?" [syn: catch, capture]
come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes); "He grew a beard"; "The patient developed abdominal pains"; "I got funny spots all over my body"; "Well-developed breasts" [syn: grow, develop, produce, acquire]
be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness; "He got AIDS"; "She came down with pneumonia"; "She took a chill" [syn: contract, take]
communicate with a place or person; establish communication with, as if by telephone; "Bill called this number and he got Mary"; "The operator couldn't get Kobe because of the earthquake"
give certain properties to something; "get someone mad"; "She made us look silly"; "He made a fool of himself at the meeting"; "Don't make this into a big deal"; "This invention will make you a millionaire"; "Make yourself clear" [syn: make]
move into a desired direction of discourse; "What are you driving at?" [syn: drive, aim]
grasp with the mind or develop an undersatnding of; "did you catch that allusion?"; "We caught something of his theory in the lecture"; "don't catch your meaning"; "did you get it?"; "She didn't get the joke"; "I just don't get him" [syn: catch]
attract and fix; "His look caught her"; "She caught his eye"; "Catch the attention of the waiter" [syn: catch, arrest]
reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot; "the rock caught her in the back of the head"; "The blow got him in the back"; "The punch caught him in the stomach" [syn: catch]
reach by calculation; "What do you get when you add up these numbers?"
acquire as a result of some effort or action; "You cannot get water out of a stone"; "Where did she get these news?"
purchase; "What did you get at the toy store?"
perceive by hearing; "I didn't catch your name"; "She didn't get his name when they met the first time" [syn: catch]
suffer from the receipt of; "She will catch hell for this behavior!" [syn: catch]
receive as a retribution or punishment; "He got 5 years in prison" [syn: receive]
leave immediately; used usually in the imperative form; "Scram!" [syn: scram, buzz off, fuck off, bugger off]
reach and board; "She got the bus just as it was leaving"
irritate; "Her childish behavior really get to me"; "His lying really gets me" [syn: get under one's skin]
evoke an emotional response; "Brahms's `Requiem' gets me every time"
apprehend and reproduce accurately; "She really caught the spirit of the place in her drawings"; "She got the mood just right in her photographs" [syn: catch]
in baseball: earn or achieve a base by being walked by the pitcher; "He drew a base on balls" [syn: draw]
overcome or destroy; "The ice storm got my hibiscus"; "the cat got the goldfish"
be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me--I don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me" [syn: perplex, vex, stick, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound]
take the first step or steps in carrying out an action; "We began working at dawn"; "Who will start?"; "Get working as soon as the sun rises!"; "The first tourists began to arrive in Cambodia"; "He began early in the day"; "Let's get down to work now" [syn: get down, begin, start out, start, set about, set out, commence] [ant: end]
undergo (as of injuries and illnesses); "She suffered a fracture in the accident"; "He had an insulin shock after eating three candy bars"; "She got a bruise on her leg"; "He got his arm broken in the scuffle" [syn: suffer, sustain, have]
make children; "Abraham begot Isaac"; "Men often father children but don't recognize them" [syn: beget, engender, father, mother, sire, generate, bring forth]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "getting".
But I have bethought me, that, since I am growing old and past the age of getting children, one of you, my sons, must abide at home to cherish me and your mother, and to lead our carles in war if trouble falleth upon us.
Where Abie Singleton was concerned, getting personal was definitely high on his list of priorities.
All the while the shaft of phosphorescence from the well was getting brighter and brighter, bringing to the minds of the huddled men, a sense of doom and abnormality which far outraced any image their conscious minds could form.
She stated the only reason she went to the doctor was due to the abrasions on her knee getting infected.
We therefore had to practice abseiling into I the jungle and getting in all the emergency equipment that would be needed.
Often trauma victims are too concerned with finding their family, surviving, grieving deaths, getting away from their abuser, etc.
Talking of Serviliuses and getting back to the grain shortage, Servilius the Augur continues to do abysmally in Sicily.
Turnbull put down his pill box before getting a glass of water, and in his attack of giddiness accidentally opened your box of aconitine pills, Mrs.
With the acrid juice of this herb, and of others belonging to the same Ranunculous order, beggars in England used to produce sores about their body for the sake of exciting pity, and getting alms.
Months he had wandered about the gates of the Bonnet, wondering, sighing, knocking at them, and getting neither admittance nor answer.
Usually, she enjoyed getting lost in a throng of art aficionados, eavesdropping on the various off-the-cuff critiques, but just then, the crowd loomed like a threatening swarm.
Right now, the action was all afoot, and hand-to-hand, and there was no place for a mounted force to goexcept for the heavy cavalry, who kept trying to plow through the enemy lines without getting trapped behind them.
Meanwhile, he busied himself adjusting his microscope and test-tubes and getting the agar slides ready for examination.
Confronted by the full implications of the message he would deliver tomorrow to Lady Agatine Slegin, getting blind drunk tonight was a real temptation.
Not getting enough sleep may be one of the reasons you can get addicted to many of those simple carbohydrates and sugars, as well as the aging fats that are impostors to real food.