gets

  • (noun): Offspring.
  • (noun): Lineage.
  • (noun): A difficult return or block of a shot.
  • (noun): Something gained; an acquisition.
  • (verb): (ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire.
  • (verb): To receive.
  • (verb): (in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes.
  • (verb): To fetch, bring, take.
  • (verb): To become, or cause oneself to become.
  • (verb): To cause to become; to bring about.
  • (verb): To cause to do.
  • (verb): To cause to come or go or move.
  • (verb): To cause to be in a certain status or position.
  • (verb): (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).
  • (verb): To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
  • (verb): To begin (doing something or to do something).
  • (verb): To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
  • (verb): To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
  • (verb): (followed by infinitive) To be able, be permitted, or have the opportunity (to do something desirable or ironically implied to be desirable).
  • (verb): To understand. (compare get it)
  • (verb): To be told; be the recipient of (a question, comparison, opinion, etc.).
  • (verb): To be. Used to form the passive of verbs.
  • (verb): To become ill with or catch (a disease).
  • (verb): To catch out, trick successfully.
  • (verb): To perplex, stump.
  • (verb): To find as an answer.
  • (verb): To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
  • (verb): To hear completely; catch.
  • (verb): To getter.
  • (verb): To beget (of a father).
  • (verb): To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out.
  • (verb): Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
  • (verb): To go, to leave; to scram.
  • (verb): To kill.
  • (verb): To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.
  • (verb): To measure.
  • (noun): A git.
  • I'm going to get a computer tomorrow from the discount store.
  • He got a severe reprimand for that.
  • I've got a concert ticket for you.
  • Can you get my bag from the living-room, please?
  • I'm getting hungry; how about you?