A member of the Getae.
Lineage.
(sports, tennis) A difficult return or block of a shot.
(informal) Something gained; an acquisition.
(Britain, regional) Synonym of git (“contemptible person”)
(Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.
(ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire.
(transitive) To receive.
(transitive, in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes.
(transitive) To fetch, bring, take.
(copulative) To become, or cause oneself to become.
(transitive) To cause to become; to bring about.
(transitive) To cause to do.
(transitive) To cause to come or go or move.
(intransitive, with various prepositions, such as into, over, or behind; for specific idiomatic senses see individual entries get into, get over, etc.) To adopt, assume, arrive at, or progress towards (a certain position, location, state).
(transitive) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
(intransitive) To begin (doing something or to do something).
(transitive) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
(transitive) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
(intransitive, followed by infinitive) To be able, be permitted, or have the opportunity (to do something desirable or ironically implied to be desirable).
(transitive, informal) To understand.
(transitive, informal) To be told; be the recipient of (a question, comparison, opinion, etc.).
(informal) To be. Used to form the passive of verbs.
(transitive) To become ill with or catch (a disease).
(transitive, informal) To catch out, trick successfully.
(transitive, informal) To perplex, stump.
(transitive) To find as an answer.
(transitive, informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
(transitive) To hear completely; catch.
(transitive) To getter.
(now rare) To beget (of a father).
(imperative, informal) Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
(intransitive, informal, chiefly imperative) To go, to leave; to scram.
(euphemistic) To kill.
(transitive) To measure.
(transitive) To cause someone to laugh.