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  1. transitive verb To come into possession or use of; receive: got a cat for her birthday.
  2. transitive verb To meet with or incur: got nothing but trouble for her efforts.
  3. transitive verb To go after and obtain: got a book at the library; got breakfast in town.
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  • You get -- you get, like -- I just had a natural feeling for science and setting up experiments. —  Kary Mullis on what scientists do
  • Materialism is all about getting -- get, get, get, get all you can, can all you get, sit on the can and spoil the rest. —  Rick Warren on a life of purpose
  • The degree of interactivity you're going to get is totally different, I think, from what you're getting right now. —  Torsten Reil builds better animations
  • Lacking the support of the people and the reserves which Miranda had expected to get from the English colony of Jamaica, he withdrew and went to London, altogether discouraged. —  Simon Bolivar, the Liberator
  • I did altavista to try to get the French word for Legit - légitime. —  KBCafe Blog Network (technology)
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  1. Middle English geten, from Old Norse geta; see ghend- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Formerly also gett; dial. git; Middle English geten (rarely ʒeten, preterit gat, plural gaten, geten, past participle geten, later goten), from Anglo-Saxon gitan, gytan, gietan, take, obtain, very rare in the simple form, but frequent in comp., ā-gitan, get, and-gitan, on-gitan, understand, an-gitan, on-gitan, seize upon, be-gitan (later English beget), for-gitan (later English forget), ofer-gitan, forget, under-gitan, understand (preterit -geat, plural -geáton, past participle -geten), and in the other tongues usually in like compounds; = Old Saxon bi-getan, far-getan = OFries. ur-jeta, for-jeta = Middle Dutch ver-ghiten, Dutch ver-geten = Middle Low German vor-getten, Low German ver-geten = Old High German ir-gezzan, pi-gezzan, fer-gezzan, Middle High German vergezzen, German vergessen = Icelandic geta, get, = Swedish för-gäta = Old Danish for-gœtte, forget (cf. Swedish gitta = Danish gide, feel inclined to, gjette, guess), = Goth, bi-gitan, find, obtain, = L. -hendere (✓ hed), in comp. prehendere, contr. prendere, seize (later ult. English prehend, etc., prize, prison, etc.), and in prœda, booty, prey (later English prey), prœdium, property, estate, hedera, ivy (that which clings), etc.; = Greek χαδάνειν (✓ χαδ) seize: the orig. meaning being ‘seize, take,’ whence the wide range of special applications, to express any kind of literal or figurative attainment.
  2. As Scots also written gait, geat; from get, v.
  3. Aram, get.
 

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