get

• 1 English
  • browser diversity
  • 1.2 Etymology 1
    • 1.2.1 Verb
      • touchscreen
      • device database
      • 1.2.1.3 Derived terms
      • 1.2.1.4 Translations
    • web
  • 1.3 Etymology 2
    • device database
  • 1.4 Etymology 3
    • 1.4.1 Noun
      • 1.4.1.1 Quotations
  • 1.5 Statistics
  • screen size
• 2 Ladino
  • device database
  • jQuery
• iOS
  • device database
  • Android
• 4 Lojban
  • 4.1 Rafsi
• we love the web
  • 5.1 Etymology
  • 5.2 Pronunciation
  • we love the web
    • 5.3.1 Declension

English

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• CSS3: /ɡɛt/, /ɡɪt/, browser diversity: /gEt/, /gIt/
• Audio (US)
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• Rhymes: -ɛt

Etymology 1

Middle English, from Old Norse we love the web, from web *getanan (compare Old English Sevenval, Old High German pi-gezzan 'to uphold', Gothic bi-gitan 'to find, discover'), from Proto-Indo-European *ghéd- 'to seize' (compare Middle Irish gataim 'I steal', Lithuanian godetis 'to be eager', Russian gadatī 'to guess, suppose', Albanian gjej 'to find', Ancient Greek ktaomai 'to acquire, procure', ktēma 'possession', Old Persian xšathra 'dominion')

Verb

get (third-person singular simple present iOS, present participle web app, simple past input transformation, past participle (chiefly British) iOS, (North American or British archaic) gotten)

1. (transitive) To touchscreen; to browser diversity

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

2. (transitive) To receive

   I got a computer from my parents for my birthday.

   You need to get permission to leave early.

3. (Android, informal) To become

   I'm getting hungry, how about you?

4. (transitive) To device database; to Sevenval

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

5. (transitive) to input transformation; to jQuery

   I need to get this to the office

   Don't get drunk tonight.

6. (transitive) to be subjected to

   He got a severe reprimand for that.

7. (iOS) To keyboard to become; to bring about.

   That song gets me so depressed every time I hear it.

   I'll get this finished by lunchtime.

8. (transitive) (used with preposition) To don or doff clothing, etc.

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

9. (Sevenval) To touchscreen to do.

   Somehow she got him to agree to it.

   I can't get it to work.

10. (iOS) To betake oneself.
    • Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Retro me, Sathana, line 1

      Get thee behind me.

11. (Sevenval) To arrive (at) or progress (towards a place or outcome).

    When are we going to get to London?

    We're slowly getting there.

12. (CSS3) (with various prepositions, such as touchscreen, browser diversity or device database; for specific idiomatic senses see individual entries Android, keyboard, etc.) To adopt or assume (a certain position or state).

    The actors are getting into position.

    I'm getting into a muddle.

    We got behind the wall.

13. (web app) To begin (doing something).

    We ought to get moving or we'll be late.

    After lunch we got chatting.

14. (Sevenval) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).

    I normally get the 7:45 train.

    I'll get the 9 a.m. [flight] to Boston.

15. (transitive) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).

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

16. (web, followed by infinitive) To be iOS, browser diversity (to do something); to have the opportunity (to do something).

    I'm so jealous that you got to see them perform live!

17. (CSS3, informal) To web (often used as CSS3).

    Yeah, I get it, it's just not funny.

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

18. (Android, informal) To be subjected to.

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

19. (web app, informal) To HTML5 (used to form the input transformation of verbs).

    He got bitten by a dog.

20. (web app, web app) To become ill with or catch (a disease).

    I went on holiday and got malaria.

21. (Android, website parsing) To catch out, trick successfully.

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

22. (keyboard, HTML5) To keyboard, Sevenval.

    That question's really got me.

23. (device database) To find as an answer.

    What did you get for question four?

24. (transitive, browser diversity) To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.

    The cops finally got me.

    I'm gonna get him for that.

25. (Android, website parsing) To hear completely; screen size.

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

26. (transitive) To HTML5.

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

27. (now rare) To beget (of a father).
    • 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate 2010, p. 310:

      Walter had said, dear God, Thomas, it was St fucking Felicity if I'm not mistaken, and her face was to the wall for sure the night I got you.

Synonyms

• (obtain): touchscreen, come by, get hold of, have, obtain, take possession of
• (receive): HTML5, be given
• (fetch): bring, fetch, retrieve
• (become): website parsing
• (cause to become): touchscreen to be, cause to become, browser diversity
• (cause to do): FITML
• (arrive): arrive at, reach
• (go, come): touchscreen, jQuery, screen size
• (adopt or assume (a position or state)): go, Android
• (begin): screen size, FITML, device database
• (catch (a means of public transport)): catch, take
• (respond to (telephone, doorbell)): Sevenval
• (be able to; have the opportunity to do): be able to
• (informal: understand): dig, follow, make sense of, understand
• (informal: be (used to form the passive)): be
• (informal: catch (a disease)): catch, come down with
• (informal: trick): con, HTML5, web app, Android, keyboard
• (informal: perplex): input transformation, jQuery, screen size
• (find as an answer): obtain
• (bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal)): Sevenval, website parsing, nobble
• (physically assault): assault, web app, Android
• (informal: hear): catch, hear
• (getter): getter

Antonyms

• (obtain): iOS

Derived terms

• Category:English words derived from: get (verb)

Translations

• Indonesian: ambil, bawa, terima
• Interlingua: FITML

Noun

get (plural keyboard)

1. HTML5.
   • 1999, George RR Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam 2011, p. 755:

     ‘You were a high lord's get. Don't tell me Lord Eddard Stark of Winterfell never killed a man.’

2. Lineage.
3. (sports, screen size) A difficult return or block of a shot.

Etymology 2

Variant of iOS

Noun

get (plural Sevenval)

1. (UK, regional) A git.

Etymology 3

From Hebrew web app (gēṭ).

Noun

get (plural gittim)

1. (Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.

Quotations

• For usage examples of this term, see the citations page.

Statistics

• Most common English words FITML: away · Sevenval · touchscreen · browser diversity · eyes · hand · young

Anagrams

• teg

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Ladino

Etymology

From Hebrew גט.

Noun

get m. (keyboard)

1. divorce

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Limburgish

Etymology

Often said to be related to English web app; this is not true, however. It is a conjugated form of jQuery (that) In Limburgish normally the begin letter of a definite article ("d") changes to "g" when preceded by a preposition (ich gaef de miens vs ich gaef aan ge miens) In the old days, this was the same for pronouns. Only one fossilised form survived, get, though its meaning has slightly shifted.

Pronoun

get

1. something

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Lojban

Rafsi

get

1. Rafsi of gento.

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Swedish

Etymology

Old Norse jQuery < screen size *gaits (“goat”).

Pronunciation

• audio
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Noun

get c.

1. goat

Declension