Get vs. Have — What's the Difference?

Come to have (something); receive

Possess, own, or hold

Succeed in attaining, achieving, or experiencing; obtain

Experience; undergo

Reach or cause to reach a specified state or condition

Be obliged or find it necessary to do the specified thing

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

Perform the action indicated by the noun specified (used especially in spoken English as an alternative to a more specific verb)

See have

Show (a personal attribute or quality) by one's actions or attitude

Catch or apprehend (someone)

Place or keep (something) in a particular position

Understand (an argument or the person making it)

Be the recipient of (something sent, given, or done)

Acquire (knowledge) by study; learn

Used with a past participle to form the perfect, pluperfect, and future perfect tenses, and the conditional mood

An animal's offspring.

People with plenty of money and possessions

A person whom the speaker dislikes or despises.

A swindle.

To come into possession or use of; receive

To be in possession of

To meet with or incur

To possess as a characteristic, quality, or function

To go after and obtain

To possess or contain as a constituent part

To go after and bring

To occupy a particular relation to

To purchase; buy

To possess knowledge of or facility in

To acquire as a result of action or effort

To hold in the mind; entertain

To earn

To use or exhibit in action

To accomplish or attain as a result of military action.

To come into possession of; acquire

To obtain by concession or request

To receive; get

To arrive at; reach

To accept; take

To reach and board; catch

To suffer from

To succeed in communicating with, as by telephone

To be subject to the experience of

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

To cause to do something, as by persuasion or compulsion

To be subjected to; undergo

To cause to be in a specified place or state

To receive as retribution or punishment

To permit; allow

To sustain a specified injury to

To carry on, perform, or execute

To perceive or become aware of by one of the senses

To place at a disadvantage

To gain or have understanding of

(Informal) To get the better of, especially by trickery or deception

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

(Informal) To influence by dishonest means; bribe

To find or reach by calculating

To procreate (offspring)

To procreate; beget

To give birth to; bear

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

To partake of

To make ready; prepare

To be obliged to; must

To cause to come or go

To engage in sexual intercourse with.

To cause to move or leave

Used with a past participle to form the present perfect, past perfect, and future perfect tenses indicating completed action

To cause to undertake or perform; prevail on

One enjoying especially material wealth

To take, especially by force; seize

(transitive) To possess, own.

(Informal) To overcome or destroy

(transitive) To hold, as something at someone's disposal.

To evoke an emotional response or reaction in

(transitive) To include as a part, ingredient, or feature.

To annoy or irritate

(transitive) Used to state the existence or presence of someone in a specified relationship with the subject.

To present a difficult problem to; puzzle

(transitive) To consume or use up (a particular substance or resource, especially food or drink).

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

(transitive) To undertake or perform (an action or activity).

(Informal) To hit or strike

(transitive) To be scheduled to attend, undertake or participate in.

(Baseball) To put out or strike out

To experience, go through, undergo.

To begin or start. Used with the present participle

To be afflicted with, suffer from.

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

(auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) Used in forming the perfect aspect.

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

Used as an interrogative verb before a pronoun to form a tag question, echoing a previous use of 'have' as an auxiliary verb or, in certain cases, main verb. (For further discussion, see the appendix English tag questions.)

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

See have to.

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

(transitive) To give birth to.

To become or grow to be

(usually passive) To obtain.

To be successful in coming or going

(transitive) To engage in sexual intercourse with.

To be able or permitted

(transitive) To accept as a romantic partner.

To be successful in becoming

To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.

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

To cause to be.

To become drawn in, entangled, or involved

To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.)

(Informal) To depart immediately

To depict as being.

To work for gain or profit; make money

To defeat in a fight; take.

Progeny; offspring

To inflict punishment or retribution on.

Chiefly British Slang git2.

To be able to speak (a language).

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

To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.

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

To trick, to deceive.

A divorce effected by a get.

To allow; to tolerate.

(ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire.

To believe, buy, be taken in by.

(transitive) To receive.

(transitive) To host someone; to take in as a guest.

To have. See usage notes.

(transitive) To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation.

(transitive) To fetch, bring, take.

To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case.

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

To make an observation of (a bird species).

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

A wealthy or privileged person.

(transitive) To cause to do.

(uncommon) One who has some (contextually specified) thing.

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

A fraud or deception; something misleading.

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

To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm.

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

To possess, as something which appertains to, is connected with, or affects, one.

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

To accept possession of; to take or accept.

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

To get possession of; to obtain; to get.

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

To cause or procure to be; to effect; to exact; to desire; to require.

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

To bear, as young; as, she has just had a child.

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

To hold, regard, or esteem.

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

To cause or force to go; to take.

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

To take or hold (one's self); to proceed promptly; - used reflexively, often with ellipsis of the pronoun; as, to have after one; to have at one or at a thing, i. e., to aim at one or at a thing; to attack; to have with a companion.

To catch out, trick successfully.

To be under necessity or obligation; to be compelled; followed by an infinitive.

To perplex, stump.

To understand.

(transitive) To find as an answer.

To put in an awkward position; to have the advantage of; as, that is where he had him.

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

A person who possesses great material wealth

(transitive) To hear completely; catch.

Have or possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense;

(transitive) To getter.

Have as a feature;

To beget (of a father).

Of mental or physical states or experiences;

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

Have ownership or possession of;

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

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

To go, to leave; to scram.

Serve oneself to, or consume regularly;

(euphemism) To kill.

Have a personal or business relationship with someone;

To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.

Organize or be responsible for;

(transitive) To measure.

Have left;

(dated) Offspring.

Be confronted with;

Lineage.

Undergo;

A difficult return or block of a shot.

Suffer from; be ill with;

(informal) Something gained; an acquisition.

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

A git.

Receive willingly something given or offered;

(Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.

Get something; come into possession of;

Jet, the mineral.

Undergo (as of injuries and illnesses);

Fashion; manner; custom.

Achieve a point or goal;

Artifice; contrivance.

Give birth (to a newborn);

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

Have sex with; archaic use;

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;