Get vs. Come — What's the Difference?

Come to have (something); receive

Move or travel towards or into a place thought of as near or familiar to the speaker

Succeed in attaining, achieving, or experiencing; obtain

Occur; happen; take place

Reach or cause to reach a specified state or condition

Take or occupy a specified position in space, order, or priority

Come, go, or make progress eventually or with some difficulty

Pass into a specified state, especially one of separation or disunion

See have

Be sold, available, or found in a specified form

Catch or apprehend (someone)

Have an orgasm.

Understand (an argument or the person making it)

When a specified time is reached or event happens

Acquire (knowledge) by study; learn

Semen ejaculated at an orgasm.

An animal's offspring.

To advance toward the speaker or toward a specified place; approach

A person whom the speaker dislikes or despises.

To advance in a specified manner

To come into possession or use of; receive

To make progress; advance

To meet with or incur

To fare

To go after and obtain

To reach a particular point in a series or as a result of orderly progression

To go after and bring

To arrive, as in due course

To purchase; buy

To move into view; appear

To acquire as a result of action or effort

To occur in time; take place

To earn

To arrive at a particular result or end

To accomplish or attain as a result of military action.

To arrive at or reach a particular state or condition

To obtain by concession or request

To move or be brought to a particular position

To arrive at; reach

To extend; reach

To reach and board; catch

To have priority; rank

To succeed in communicating with, as by telephone

To happen as a result

To become affected with (an illness, for example) by infection or exposure; catch

To fall to one

To be subjected to; undergo

To occur in the mind

To receive as retribution or punishment

To issue forth

To sustain a specified injury to

To be derived; originate

To perceive or become aware of by one of the senses

To be descended

To gain or have understanding of

To be within a given range or spectrum of reference or application

To learn (a poem, for example) by heart; memorize.

To be a native or resident

To find or reach by calculating

To add up to a certain amount

To procreate; beget

To become

To cause to become or be in a specified state or condition

To turn out to be

To make ready; prepare

To be available or obtainable

To cause to come or go

Vulgar Slang To experience orgasm.

To cause to move or leave

Semen ejaculated during orgasm.

To cause to undertake or perform; prevail on

(intransitive) To move from further away to nearer to.

To take, especially by force; seize

To move towards the speaker.

(Informal) To overcome or destroy

To move towards the listener.

To evoke an emotional response or reaction in

To move towards the object that is the focus of the sentence.

To annoy or irritate

(in subordinate clauses and gerunds) To move towards the agent or subject of the main clause.

To present a difficult problem to; puzzle

To move towards an unstated agent.

To take revenge on, especially to kill in revenge for a wrong.

(intransitive) To arrive.

(Informal) To hit or strike

(intransitive) To appear, to manifest itself.

(Baseball) To put out or strike out

(with an infinitive) To begin to have an opinion or feeling.

To begin or start. Used with the present participle

(with an infinitive) To do something by chance, without intending to do it.

To have current possession of. Used in the present perfect form with the meaning of the present

(intransitive) To take a position relative to something else in a sequence.

(Nonstandard) To have current possession of. Used in the past tense form with the meaning of the present

To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate.

To have as an obligation. Used in the present perfect form with the meaning of the present

To become butter by being churned.

(Nonstandard) To have as an obligation. Used in the past tense with the meaning of the present

To approach a state of being or accomplishment.

To become or grow to be

To take a particular approach or point of view in regard to something.

To be successful in coming or going

To become, to turn out to be.

To be able or permitted

(intransitive) To be supplied, or made available; to exist.

To be successful in becoming

(slang) To carry through; to succeed in.

Used with the past participle of transitive verbs as a passive voice auxiliary

(intransitive) Happen.

To become drawn in, entangled, or involved

To have as an origin, originate.

(Informal) To depart immediately

To have a certain social background.

To work for gain or profit; make money

To be or have been a resident or native.

Progeny; offspring

To have been brought up by or employed by.

Chiefly British Slang git2.

To begin (at a certain location); to radiate or stem (from).

(Sports) A return, as in tennis, on a shot that seems impossible to reach.

To germinate.

A document presented by a husband to his wife whereby a divorce is effected between them according to Jewish religious law.

To pretend to be; to behave in the manner of.

A divorce effected by a get.

(obsolete) Coming, arrival; approach.

(ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire.

Semen

(transitive) To receive.

Female ejaculatory discharge.

To have. See usage notes.

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(transitive) To fetch, bring, take.

Used to indicate a point in time at or after which a stated event or situation occurs.

(copulative) To become, or cause oneself to become.

An exclamation to express annoyance.

(transitive) To cause to become; to bring about.

An exclamation to express encouragement, or to precede a request.

(transitive) To cause to do.

To move hitherward; to draw near; to approach the speaker, or some place or person indicated; - opposed to go.

(transitive) To cause to come or go or move.

To complete a movement toward a place; to arrive.

To adopt, assume, arrive at, or progress towards (a certain position, location, state).

To approach or arrive, as if by a journey or from a distance.

(transitive) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.

To approach or arrive, as the result of a cause, or of the act of another.

(intransitive) To begin (doing something or to do something).

To arrive in sight; to be manifest; to appear.

(transitive) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).

To get to be, as the result of change or progress; - with a predicate; as, to come untied.

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

To carry through; to succeed in; as, you can't come any tricks here.

To be able, be permitted, or have the opportunity (to do something desirable or ironically implied to be desirable).

Coming.

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

Move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody;

(informal) To be. Used to form the passive of verbs.

Reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress;

(transitive) To become ill with or catch (a disease).

Come to pass; arrive, as in due course;

To catch out, trick successfully.

Reach a state, relation, or condition;

To perplex, stump.

To be the product or result;

(transitive) To find as an answer.

Enter or assume a condition, relation, use, or position;

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

Be found or available;

(transitive) To hear completely; catch.

Come forth;

(transitive) To getter.

Be a native of;

To beget (of a father).

Extend or reach;

(archaic) To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out.

Exist or occur in a certain point in a series;

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

Come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example;

To go, to leave; to scram.

Cover a certain distance;

(euphemism) To kill.

Come under, be classified or included;

To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.

Happen as a result;

(transitive) To measure.

Add up in number or quantity;

(dated) Offspring.

Develop into;

Lineage.

Be received;

A difficult return or block of a shot.

Come to one's mind; suggest itself;

(informal) Something gained; an acquisition.

Proceed or get along;

A git.

Experience orgasm;

(Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.

Have a certain priority;

Jet, the mineral.

Fashion; manner; custom.

Artifice; contrivance.

Offspring; progeny; as, the get of a stallion.

A divorce granted by a Rabbi in accordance with Jewish law; also, the document attesting to the divorce.

To procure; to obtain; to gain possession of; to acquire; to earn; to obtain as a price or reward; to come by; to win, by almost any means; as, to get favor by kindness; to get wealth by industry and economy; to get land by purchase, etc.

Hence, with have and had, to come into or be in possession of; to have.

To beget; to procreate; to generate.

To obtain mental possession of; to learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; as to get a lesson; also with out; as, to get out one's Greek lesson.

To prevail on; to induce; to persuade.

To procure to be, or to cause to be in any state or condition; - with a following participle.

To betake; to remove; - in a reflexive use.

To make acquisition; to gain; to profit; to receive accessions; to be increased.

To arrive at, or bring one's self into, a state, condition, or position; to come to be; to become; - with a following adjective or past participle belonging to the subject of the verb; as, to get sober; to get awake; to get beaten; to get elected.

Come into the possession of something concrete or abstract;

Enter or assume a certain state or condition;

Cause to move; cause to be in a certain position or condition;

Receive a specified treatment (abstract);

Reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress;

Go or come after and bring or take back;

Of mental or physical states or experiences;

Take vengeance on or get even;

Achieve a point or goal;

Cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner;

Succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase;

Come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes);

Be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness;

Communicate with a place or person; establish communication with, as if by telephone;

Give certain properties to something;

Move into a desired direction of discourse;

Grasp with the mind or develop an undersatnding of;

Attract and fix;

Reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot;

Reach by calculation;

Acquire as a result of some effort or action;

Purchase;

Perceive by hearing;

Suffer from the receipt of;

Receive as a retribution or punishment;

Leave immediately; used usually in the imperative form;

Reach and board;

Irritate;

Evoke an emotional response;

Apprehend and reproduce accurately;

In baseball: earn or achieve a base by being walked by the pitcher;

Overcome or destroy;

Be a mystery or bewildering to;

Take the first step or steps in carrying out an action;

Undergo (as of injuries and illnesses);

Make children;