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Meaning Of Get
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.