Get vs. Make — What's the Difference?

Come to have (something); receive

To cause to exist or happen; bring about; create

Succeed in attaining, achieving, or experiencing; obtain

To bring into existence by shaping, modifying, or putting together material; construct

Reach or cause to reach a specified state or condition

To form by assembling individuals or constituents

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

To change from one form or function to another

See have

To cause to be or become

Catch or apprehend (someone)

To cause to assume a specified function or role

Understand (an argument or the person making it)

To cause to act in a specified manner

Acquire (knowledge) by study; learn

To compel

An animal's offspring.

To form in the mind

A person whom the speaker dislikes or despises.

To compose

To come into possession or use of; receive

To prepare; fix

To meet with or incur

To get ready or set in order for use

To go after and obtain

To gather and light the materials for (a fire).

To go after and bring

To engage in

To purchase; buy

To carry out; perform

To acquire as a result of action or effort

To achieve, produce, or attain

To earn

To institute or establish; enact

To accomplish or attain as a result of military action.

To draw up and execute in a suitable form

To obtain by concession or request

To arrange or agree to

To arrive at; reach

To arrive at; reach

To reach and board; catch

To reach in time

To succeed in communicating with, as by telephone

To attain the rank or position of

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

To acquire a place in or on

To be subjected to; undergo

To gain or earn, as by working

To receive as retribution or punishment

To behave so as to acquire

To sustain a specified injury to

To score or achieve, as in a sport

To perceive or become aware of by one of the senses

To assure the success of

To gain or have understanding of

To favor the development of

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

To be suited for

To find or reach by calculating

To develop into

To procreate; beget

To draw a conclusion as to the significance or nature of

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

To calculate as being; estimate

To make ready; prepare

To consider as being

To cause to come or go

To constitute

To cause to move or leave

To add up to

To cause to undertake or perform; prevail on

To amount to

To take, especially by force; seize

To cover (a distance)

(Informal) To overcome or destroy

To constitute the essence or nature of

To evoke an emotional response or reaction in

To cause to be especially enjoyable or rewarding

To annoy or irritate

To appear to begin (an action)

To present a difficult problem to; puzzle

(Slang) To persuade to have sexual intercourse.

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

To act or behave in a specified manner

(Informal) To hit or strike

To begin or appear to begin an action

(Baseball) To put out or strike out

To cause something to be as specified

To begin or start. Used with the present participle

To proceed in a certain direction

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

(Slang) To pretend to be; imitate. Used with like

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

To undergo fabrication or manufacture

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

To rise or accumulate

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

The style or manner in which a thing is made

To become or grow to be

A specific line of manufactured goods, identified by the manufacturer's name or the registered trademark

To be successful in coming or going

The origin of a product's manufacturing

To be able or permitted

The physical or moral nature of a person

To be successful in becoming

The physical nature or build of an animal or person

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

(Slang) Identification of a person or thing, often from information in police records

To become drawn in, entangled, or involved

(transitive) To create.

(Informal) To depart immediately

To build, construct, produce, or originate.

To work for gain or profit; make money

To write or compose.

Progeny; offspring

To bring about; to effect or produce by means of some action.

Chiefly British Slang git2.

(religious) To create (the universe), especially (in Christianity) from nothing.

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

(transitive) To prepare (food); to cook (food).

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

To behave, to act.

A divorce effected by a get.

(intransitive) To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for or against.

(ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire.

To constitute.

(transitive) To receive.

(transitive) To add up to, have a sum of.

To have. See usage notes.

To interpret.

(transitive) To fetch, bring, take.

To bring into success.

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

To cause to be.

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

To cause to appear to be; to represent as.

(transitive) To cause to do.

To cause (to do something); to compel (to do something).

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

To force to do.

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

To indicate or suggest to be.

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

To cover neatly with bedclothes.

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

To recognise, identify, spot.

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

To arrive at a destination, usually at or by a certain time.

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

To proceed (in a direction).

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

(transitive) To cover (a given distance) by travelling.

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

(transitive) To move at (a speed).

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

To appoint; to name.

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

To induct into the Mafia or a similar organization (as a made man).

To catch out, trick successfully.

To defecate or urinate.

To perplex, stump.

(transitive) To earn, to gain (money, points, membership or status).

(transitive) To find as an answer.

(transitive) To pay, to cover (an expense); chiefly used after expressions of inability.

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

To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify.

(transitive) To hear completely; catch.

To enact; to establish.

(transitive) To getter.

To develop into; to prove to be.

To beget (of a father).

To form or formulate in the mind.

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

To perform a feat.

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

(intransitive) To gain sufficient audience to warrant its existence.

To go, to leave; to scram.

(obsolete) To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; often in the phrase to meddle or make.

(euphemism) To kill.

(obsolete) To increase; to augment; to accrue.

To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.

(obsolete) To be engaged or concerned in.

(transitive) To measure.

To cause to be (in a specified place), used after a subjective what.

(dated) Offspring.

To take the virginity of.

Lineage.

(transitive) To have sexual intercourse with.

A difficult return or block of a shot.

(intransitive) Of water, to flow toward land; to rise.

(informal) Something gained; an acquisition.

Brand or kind; model.

A git.

Manner or style of construction (style of how a thing is made); form.

(Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.

Origin (of a manufactured article); manufacture; production.

Jet, the mineral.

A person's character or disposition.

Fashion; manner; custom.

(dated) The act or process of making something, especially in industrial manufacturing.

Artifice; contrivance.

(uncountable) Quantity produced, especially of materials.

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

(computing) A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of this utility.

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

(slang) Identification or recognition (of identity), especially from police records or evidence.

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.

Past, present, or future target of seduction (usually female).

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

A promotion.

To beget; to procreate; to generate.

A home-made project

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.

(cards) Turn to declare the trump for a hand (in bridge), or to shuffle the cards.

To prevail on; to induce; to persuade.

(basketball) A made basket.

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

(physics) The closing of an electrical circuit.

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

Mate; a spouse or companion; a match.

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

A halfpenny.

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.

An agricultural tool resembling a scythe, used to cut (harvest) certain plants such as peas, reeds, or tares.

Come into the possession of something concrete or abstract;

A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.

Enter or assume a certain state or condition;

Structure, texture, constitution of parts; construction; shape; form.

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

To cause to exist; to bring into being; to form; to produce; to frame; to fashion; to create.

Receive a specified treatment (abstract);

To produce, as something artificial, unnatural, or false; - often with up; as, to make up a story.

Reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress;

To cause to be or become; to put into a given state verb, or adjective; to constitute; as, to make known; to make public; to make fast.

Go or come after and bring or take back;

To bring about; to bring forward; to be the cause or agent of; to effect, do, perform, or execute; - often used with a noun to form a phrase equivalent to the simple verb that corresponds to such noun; as, to make complaint, for to complain; to make record of, for to record; to make abode, for to abide, etc.

Of mental or physical states or experiences;

To cause to appear to be; to constitute subjectively; to esteem, suppose, or represent.

Take vengeance on or get even;

To execute with the requisite formalities; as, to make a bill, note, will, deed, etc.

Achieve a point or goal;

To require; to constrain; to compel; to force; to cause; to occasion; - followed by a noun or pronoun and infinitive.

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

To find, as the result of calculation or computation; to ascertain by enumeration; to find the number or amount of, by reckoning, weighing, measurement, and the like; as, he made the distance of; to travel over; as, the ship makes ten knots an hour; he made the distance in one day.

Succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase;

To become; to be, or to be capable of being, changed or fashioned into; to do the part or office of; to furnish the material for; as, he will make a good musician; sweet cider makes sour vinegar; wool makes warm clothing.

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

To compose, as parts, ingredients, or materials; to constitute; to form; to amount to; as, a pound of ham makes a hearty meal.

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

To be engaged or concerned in.

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

To reach; to attain; to arrive at or in sight of.

Give certain properties to something;

To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; - often in the phrase to meddle or make.

Move into a desired direction of discourse;

To proceed; to tend; to move; to go; as, he made toward home; the tiger made at the sportsmen.

Grasp with the mind or develop an undersatnding of;

To tend; to contribute; to have effect; - with for or against; as, it makes for his advantage.

Attract and fix;

To increase; to augment; to accrue.

Reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot;

To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify.

Reach by calculation;

A recognizable kind;

Acquire as a result of some effort or action;

The act of mixing cards haphazardly

Purchase;

Engage in;

Perceive by hearing;

Give certain properties to something;

Suffer from the receipt of;

Make or cause to be or to become;

Receive as a retribution or punishment;

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

Leave immediately; used usually in the imperative form;

Give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally;

Reach and board;

Create or manufacture a man-made product;

Irritate;

Make, formulate, or derive in the mind;

Evoke an emotional response;

Compel or make somebody or something to act in a certain way;

Apprehend and reproduce accurately;

Create by artistic means;

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

Earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages;

Overcome or destroy;

Create or design, often in a certain way;

Be a mystery or bewildering to;

To compose or represent:

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

Reach a goal, e.g.,

Undergo (as of injuries and illnesses);

Be or be capable of being changed or made into;

Make children;

Make by shaping or bringing together constituents;

Perform or carry out;

Make by combining materials and parts;

Change from one form into another;

Act in a certain way so as to acquire;

Charge with a function; charge to be;

Achieve a point or goal;

Reach a destination, either real or abstract;

Institute, enact, or establish;

Carry out or commit;

Add up to;

Form by assembling individuals or constituents;

Organize or be responsible for;

Prepare for eating by applying heat;

Put in order or neaten;

Head into a specified direction;

Have a bowel movement;

Undergo fabrication or creation;

Be suitable for;

Amount to;

Constitute the essence of;

Appear to begin an activity;

Proceed along a path;

Reach in time;

Gather and light the materials for;

Induce to have sex;

Assure the success of;

Represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like;

Consider as being;

Calculate as being;

Cause to be enjoyable or pleasurable;

Favor the development of;

Develop into;

Behave in a certain way;

Eliminate urine;