Get vs. Have
Getverb
(ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire.
Getverb
(transitive) To receive.
Getverb
To have. See usage notes.
Getverb
(copulative) To become.
Getverb
(transitive) To cause to become; to bring about.
Getverb
(transitive) To fetch, bring, take.
Getverb
(transitive) To cause to do.
Getverb
To adopt, assume, arrive at, or progress towards (a certain position, location, state).
Getverb
(transitive) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
Getverb
(transitive) To cause to come or go or move.
Getverb
(transitive) To cause to be in a certain status or position.
Getverb
(intransitive) To begin (doing something).
Getverb
(transitive) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
Getverb
(transitive) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
Getverb
To be able, permitted (to do something); to have the opportunity (to do something).
Getverb
To understand. get it}}
Getverb
To be told; be the recipient of (a question, comparison, opinion, etc.).
Getverb
(informal) To be. Used to form the passive of verbs.
Getverb
(transitive) To become ill with or catch (a disease).
Getverb
To catch out, trick successfully.
Getverb
To perplex, stump.
Getverb
(transitive) To find as an answer.
Getverb
To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
Getverb
(transitive) To hear completely; catch.
Getverb
(transitive) To getter.
Getverb
To beget (of a father).
Getverb
(archaic) To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out.
Getverb
Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
Getverb
Go away; get lost.
Getverb
(euphemism) To kill.
Getverb
To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.
Getnoun
(dated) Offspring.
Getnoun
Lineage.
Getnoun
A difficult return or block of a shot.
Getnoun
Something gained.
Getnoun
A git.
Getnoun
(Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.
Getnoun
Jet, the mineral.
Getnoun
Fashion; manner; custom.
Getnoun
Artifice; contrivance.
Getnoun
Offspring; progeny; as, the get of a stallion.
Getnoun
A divorce granted by a Rabbi in accordance with Jewish law; also, the document attesting to the divorce.
Getverb
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.
Getverb
Hence, with have and had, to come into or be in possession of; to have.
Getverb
To beget; to procreate; to generate.
Getverb
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.
Getverb
To prevail on; to induce; to persuade.
Getverb
To procure to be, or to cause to be in any state or condition; - with a following participle.
Getverb
To betake; to remove; - in a reflexive use.
Getverb
To make acquisition; to gain; to profit; to receive accessions; to be increased.
Getverb
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.
Getverb
come into the possession of something concrete or abstract;
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enter or assume a certain state or condition;
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cause to move; cause to be in a certain position or condition;
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receive a specified treatment (abstract);
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reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress;
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go or come after and bring or take back;
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of mental or physical states or experiences;
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take vengeance on or get even;
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achieve a point or goal;
Getverb
cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner;
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succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase;
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come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes);
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be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness;
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communicate with a place or person; establish communication with, as if by telephone;
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give certain properties to something;
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move into a desired direction of discourse;
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grasp with the mind or develop an undersatnding of;
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attract and fix;
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reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot;
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reach by calculation;
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acquire as a result of some effort or action;
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purchase;
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perceive by hearing;
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suffer from the receipt of;
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receive as a retribution or punishment;
Getverb
leave immediately; used usually in the imperative form;
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reach and board;
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irritate;
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evoke an emotional response;
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apprehend and reproduce accurately;
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in baseball: earn or achieve a base by being walked by the pitcher;
Getverb
overcome or destroy;
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be a mystery or bewildering to;
Getverb
take the first step or steps in carrying out an action;
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undergo (as of injuries and illnesses);
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make children;
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come to have (something); receive
Getverb
experience, suffer, or be afflicted with (something bad)
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receive as a punishment or penalty
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contract (a disease or ailment)
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succeed in attaining, achieving, or experiencing; obtain
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move in order to pick up or bring (something); fetch
Getverb
prepare (a meal)
Getverb
tend to meet with or find in a specified place or situation
Getverb
travel by or catch (a bus, train, or other form of transport)
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obtain (a figure or answer) as a result of calculation.
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make contact with, especially by telephone
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respond to a ring of (a telephone or doorbell)
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used to draw attention to someone whom one regards as pretentious or vain
Getverb
reach or cause to reach a specified state or condition
Getverb
used with past participle to form the passive mood
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cause to be treated in a specified way
Getverb
induce or prevail upon (someone) to do something
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have the opportunity to do
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begin to be or do something, especially gradually or by chance
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come, go, or make progress eventually or with some difficulty
Getverb
move or come into a specified position, situation, or state
Getverb
succeed in making (someone or something) come, go, or move somewhere
Getverb
reach a specified point or stage
Getverb
see have
Getverb
catch or apprehend (someone)
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strike or wound (someone) with a blow or missile
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punish, injure, or kill (someone), especially as retribution
Getverb
be punished, injured, or killed
Getverb
be appropriately punished or rewarded
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annoy (someone) greatly
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baffle (someone)
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understand (an argument or the person making it)
Getverb
acquire (knowledge) by study; learn
Getnoun
an animal's offspring.
Getnoun
a person whom the speaker dislikes or despises.
Haveverb
(transitive) To possess, own, hold.
Haveverb
(transitive) To be related in some way to (with the object identifying the relationship).
Haveverb
(transitive) To partake of a particular substance (especially a food or drink) or action.
Haveverb
(transitive) To be scheduled to attend or participate in.
Haveverb
(auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) Used in forming the perfect aspect and the past perfect aspect.
Haveverb
See have to.
Haveverb
(transitive) To give birth to.
Haveverb
(transitive) To engage in sexual intercourse with.
Haveverb
(transitive) To accept as a romantic partner.
Haveverb
To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
Haveverb
To cause to be.
Haveverb
To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.)
Haveverb
To depict as being.
Haveverb
Used as interrogative auxiliary verb with a following pronoun to form tag questions. (For further discussion, see "Usage notes" below.)
Haveverb
To defeat in a fight; take.
Haveverb
(dated) To be able to speak a language.
Haveverb
To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
Haveverb
To be afflicted with, suffer from.
Haveverb
To experience, go through, undergo.
Haveverb
To trick, to deceive.
Haveverb
To allow; to tolerate.
Haveverb
To believe, buy, be taken in by.
Haveverb
(transitive) To host someone; to take in as a guest.
Haveverb
(transitive) To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation.
Haveverb
To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case.
Havenoun
A wealthy or privileged person.
Havenoun
(uncommon) One who has some (contextually specified) thing.
Havenoun
A fraud or deception; something misleading.
Haveverb
To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm.
Haveverb
To possess, as something which appertains to, is connected with, or affects, one.
Haveverb
To accept possession of; to take or accept.
Haveverb
To get possession of; to obtain; to get.
Haveverb
To cause or procure to be; to effect; to exact; to desire; to require.
Haveverb
To bear, as young; as, she has just had a child.
Haveverb
To hold, regard, or esteem.
Haveverb
To cause or force to go; to take.
Haveverb
To take or hold (one's self); to proceed promptly; - used reflexively, often with ellipsis of the pronoun; as, to have after one; to have at one or at a thing, i. e., to aim at one or at a thing; to attack; to have with a companion.
Haveverb
To be under necessity or obligation; to be compelled; followed by an infinitive.
Haveverb
To understand.
Haveverb
To put in an awkward position; to have the advantage of; as, that is where he had him.
Havenoun
a person who possesses great material wealth
Haveverb
have or possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense;
Haveverb
have as a feature;
Haveverb
of mental or physical states or experiences;
Haveverb
have ownership or possession of;
Haveverb
cause to move; cause to be in a certain position or condition;
Haveverb
serve oneself to, or consume regularly;
Haveverb
have a personal or business relationship with someone;
Haveverb
organize or be responsible for;
Haveverb
have left;
Haveverb
be confronted with;
Haveverb
undergo;
Haveverb
suffer from; be ill with;
Haveverb
cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner;
Haveverb
receive willingly something given or offered;
Haveverb
get something; come into possession of;
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undergo (as of injuries and illnesses);
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achieve a point or goal;
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give birth (to a newborn);
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have sex with; archaic use;
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possess, own, or hold
Haveverb
possess (a quality, characteristic, or feature)
Haveverb
provide or indulge oneself with (something)
Haveverb
be made up of; comprise
Haveverb
used to indicate a particular relationship
Haveverb
be able to make use of (something available or at one's disposal)
Haveverb
have gained (a qualification)
Haveverb
possess as an intellectual attainment; know (a language or subject)
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experience; undergo
Haveverb
suffer from (an illness, ailment, or disability)
Haveverb
let (a feeling or thought) come into one's mind; hold in the mind
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experience or suffer the specified action happening or being done to (something)
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cause to be in a particular state or condition
Haveverb
cause (something) to be done for one by someone else
Haveverb
tell or arrange for (someone) to do something for one
Haveverb
have put (someone) at a disadvantage in an argument
Haveverb
cheat or deceive (someone)
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engage in sexual intercourse with.
Haveverb
be obliged or find it necessary to do the specified thing
Haveverb
be strongly recommended to do something
Haveverb
be certain or inevitable to happen or be the case
Haveverb
perform the action indicated by the noun specified (used especially in spoken English as an alternative to a more specific verb)
Haveverb
organize and bring about
Haveverb
eat or drink
Haveverb
give birth to or be due to give birth to
Haveverb
show (a personal attribute or quality) by one's actions or attitude
Haveverb
exercise or show (mercy, pity, etc.) towards another person
Haveverb
accept or tolerate
Haveverb
place or keep (something) in a particular position
Haveverb
hold or grasp in a particular way
Haveverb
be the recipient of (something sent, given, or done)
Haveverb
take or invite into one's home so as to provide care or entertainment
Haveverb
used with a past participle to form the perfect, pluperfect, and future perfect tenses, and the conditional mood
Havenoun
people with plenty of money and possessions
Havenoun
a swindle.
