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Phonetic: "/ɡɛt/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: Offspring.

Definition: Lineage.

Definition: A difficult return or block of a shot.

Definition: Something gained; an acquisition.

Phonetic: "/ɡɛt/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: (ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire.

Example: I'm going to get a computer tomorrow from the discount store.

Definition: To receive.

Example: He got a severe reprimand for that.

Definition: (in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes.

Example: I've got a concert ticket for you.

Definition: To fetch, bring, take.

Example: Can you get my bag from the living-room, please?

Definition: To become, or cause oneself to become.

Example: I'm getting hungry; how about you?

Definition: To cause to become; to bring about.

Example: I can't get these boots off (or on).

Definition: To cause to do.

Example: I can't get it to work.

Definition: To cause to come or go or move.

Example: I got him to his room.

Definition: To cause to be in a certain status or position.

Example: Get him here at once.

Definition: (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).

Example: I'm getting into a muddle.

Definition: To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.

Example: to get a mile

Definition: To begin (doing something or to do something).

Example: After lunch we got chatting.

Definition: To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).

Example: I normally get the 7:45 train.

Definition: To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).

Example: Can you get that call, please? I'm busy.

Definition: (followed by infinitive) To be able, be permitted, or have the opportunity (to do something desirable or ironically implied to be desirable).

Example: Great. I get to clean the toilets today.

Definition: To understand. (compare get it)

Example: I don't get what you mean by "fun". This place sucks!

Definition: To be told; be the recipient of (a question, comparison, opinion, etc.).

Example: "You look just like Helen Mirren." / "I get that a lot."

Definition: To be. Used to form the passive of verbs.

Example: He got bitten by a dog.

Definition: To become ill with or catch (a disease).

Example: I went on holiday and got malaria.

Definition: To catch out, trick successfully.

Example: He keeps calling pretending to be my boss—it gets me every time.

Definition: To perplex, stump.

Example: That question's really got me.

Definition: To find as an answer.

Example: What did you get for question four?

Definition: To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.

Example: I'm gonna get him for that.

Definition: To hear completely; catch.

Example: Sorry, I didn't get that. Could you repeat it?

Definition: To getter.

Example: I put the getter into the container to get the gases.

Definition: To beget (of a father).

Definition: To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out.

Example: to get a lesson;  to get out one's Greek lesson

Definition: Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.

Example: Get her with her new hairdo.

Definition: To go, to leave; to scram.

Definition: To kill.

Example: They’re coming to get you, Barbara.

Definition: To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.

Definition: To measure.

Example: Did you get her temperature?

Phonetic: "/leɪd/"

Part Of Speech: adjective

Definition: (of paper) Marked with parallel lines, as if ribbed, from wires in the mould.

Phonetic: "/leɪd/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position.

Example: A shower of rain lays the dust.

Definition: To cause to subside or abate.

Definition: To prepare (a plan, project etc.); to set out, establish (a law, principle).

Definition: To install certain building materials, laying one thing on top of another.

Example: lay brick;  lay flooring

Definition: To produce and deposit an egg.

Example: Did dinosaurs lay their eggs in a nest?

Definition: To bet (that something is or is not the case).

Example: I'll lay that he doesn't turn up on Monday.

Definition: To deposit (a stake) as a wager; to stake; to risk.

Definition: To have sex with.

Definition: To take a position; to come or go.

Example: to lay forward;  to lay aloft

Definition: To state; to allege.

Example: to lay the venue

Definition: To point; to aim.

Example: to lay a gun

Definition: (ropemaking) To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them.

Example: to lay a cable or rope

Definition: To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone.

Definition: To place (new type) properly in the cases.

Definition: To apply; to put.

Definition: To impose (a burden, punishment, command, tax, etc.).

Example: to lay a tax on land

Definition: To impute; to charge; to allege.

Definition: To present or offer.

Example: to lay an indictment in a particular county;   to lay a scheme before one

Phonetic: "/leɪd/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To don or put on (tefillin (phylacteries)).