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Get can be a noun or a verb.

get used as a noun:

  1. Offspring.
  2. Lineage.
  3. A difficult return or block of a shot.
  4. A git.
  5. A Jewish writ of divorce.

Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →

get used as a verb:

  1. To obtain, purchase or acquire.
    "I'm going to get a computer tomorrow from the discount store."
  2. To receive.
    "I got a computer from my parents for my birthday."
  3. To fetch.
    "Can you get my bag from the living-room, please?"
  4. To become.
    "I'm getting hungry, how about you?"
  5. To cause to become; to bring about.
    "That song gets me so depressed every time I hear it."
  6. (used with preposition) To don or doff clothing, etc.
    "I can't get these boots off (or on)."
  7. To cause to do.
    "Somehow she got him to agree to it."
  8. To betake oneself.
  9. To arrive (at) or progress (towards a place or outcome).
    "When are we going to get to London?"
  10. To go or come (to a specified place, or in a specified manner).
    "Get over here!"
  11. To adopt or assume (a certain position or state).
    "The actors are getting into position."
  12. To begin (doing something).
    "We ought to get moving or we'll be late."
  13. To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
    "I normally get the 7:45 train."
  14. To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
    "Can you get that call, please? I'm busy."
  15. To be able, permitted (to do something); to have the opportunity (to do something).
    "I'm so jealous that you got to see them perform live!"
  16. To understand.
    "Yeah, I get it, it's just not funny."
  17. To be (used to form the passive of verbs).
    "He got bitten by a dog."
  18. To become ill with or catch (a disease).
    "I went on holiday and got malaria."
  19. To catch out, trick successfully.
    "He keeps calling pretending to be my boss — it gets me every time."
  20. To perplex, stump.
    "That question's really got me."
  21. To find as an answer.
    "What did you get for question four?"
  22. To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal).
    "The cops finally got me."
  23. To physically assault.
    "I'm gonna get him for that."
  24. To hear completely; catch.
    "Sorry, I didn't get that. Could you repeat it?"
  25. To getter.
    "I put the getter into the container to get the gases."

Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →

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What type of word is get?

As detailed above, 'get' can be a noun or a verb. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Verb usage: I'm going to get a computer tomorrow from the discount store.
  2. Verb usage: You need to get permission to leave early.
  3. Verb usage: I got a computer from my parents for my birthday.
  4. Verb usage: He got a severe reprimand for that.
  5. Verb usage: Can you get my bag from the living-room, please?
  6. Verb usage: I'm getting hungry, how about you?
  7. Verb usage: Don't get drunk tonight.
  8. Verb usage: That song gets me so depressed every time I hear it.
  9. Verb usage: I'll get this finished by lunchtime.
  10. Verb usage: I can't get these boots off (or on).
  11. Verb usage: Somehow she got him to agree to it.
  12. Verb usage: I can't get it to work.
  13. Verb usage: When are we going to get to London?
  14. Verb usage: We're slowly getting there.
  15. Verb usage: Get over here!
  16. Verb usage: She got from one side of the bridge to the other in no time.
  17. Verb usage: The actors are getting into position.
  18. Verb usage: I'm getting into a muddle.
  19. Verb usage: We got behind the wall.
  20. Verb usage: We ought to get moving or we'll be late.
  21. Verb usage: After lunch we got chatting.
  22. Verb usage: I normally get the 7:45 train.
  23. Verb usage: I'll get the 9 a.m. [flight] to Boston.
  24. Verb usage: Can you get that call, please? I'm busy.
  25. Verb usage: I'm so jealous that you got to see them perform live!
  26. Verb usage: Yeah, I get it, it's just not funny.
  27. Verb usage: He's weird. I don't get him.
  28. Verb usage: Do you get math class today?
  29. Verb usage: I don't get what you mean by "fun". This place sucks!
  30. Verb usage: He got bitten by a dog.
  31. Verb usage: I went on holiday and got malaria.
  32. Verb usage: He keeps calling pretending to be my boss — it gets me every time.
  33. Verb usage: That question's really got me.
  34. Verb usage: What did you get for question four?
  35. Verb usage: The cops finally got me.
  36. Verb usage: I'm gonna get him for that.
  37. Verb usage: Sorry, I didn't get that. Could you repeat it?
  38. Verb usage: I put the getter into the container to get the gases.

Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of get are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of get, and guess at its most common usage.

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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.

The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.

Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.

Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).

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