Get vs. Put

Getverb

(ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire.

‘I'm going to get a computer tomorrow from the discount store.’; ‘Lance is going to get Mary a ring.’;

Putverb

To place something somewhere.

‘She put her books on the table.’;

Getverb

(transitive) To receive.

‘I got a computer from my parents for my birthday.’; ‘You need to get permission to leave early.’; ‘He got a severe reprimand for that.’;

Putverb

To bring or set into a certain relation, state or condition.

‘Put your house in order!’; ‘He is putting all his energy into this one task.’; ‘She tends to put herself in dangerous situations.’;

Getverb

To have. See usage notes.

‘I've got a concert ticket for you.’;

Putverb

(finance) To exercise a put option.

‘He got out of his Procter and Gamble bet by putting his shares at 80.’;

Getverb

(copulative) To become.

‘I'm getting hungry; how about you?’; ‘Don't get drunk tonight.’;

Putverb

To express something in a certain manner.

‘When you put it that way, I guess I can see your point.’;

Getverb

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

‘That song gets me so depressed every time I hear it.’; ‘I'll get this finished by lunchtime.’;

Putverb

(athletics) To throw a heavy iron ball, as a sport. See shot put. Do not confuse with putt.

Getverb

(transitive) To fetch, bring, take.

‘Can you get my bag from the living-room, please?’; ‘I need to get this to the office.’;

Putverb

To steer; to direct one's course; to go.

Getverb

(transitive) To cause to do.

‘Somehow she got him to agree to it.’; ‘I can't get it to work.’;

Putverb

To play a card or a hand in the game called put.

Getverb

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

‘The actors are getting into position.’; ‘When are we going to get to London?’; ‘I'm getting into a muddle.’; ‘We got behind the wall.’;

Putverb

To attach or attribute; to assign.

‘to put a wrong construction on an act or expression’;

Getverb

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

‘to get a mile’;

Putverb

(obsolete) To lay down; to give up; to surrender.

Getverb

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

Putverb

To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention.

‘to put a question; to put a case’;

Getverb

(transitive) To cause to be in a certain status or position.

Putverb

(obsolete) To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.

Getverb

(intransitive) To begin (doing something).

‘We ought to get moving or we'll be late.’; ‘After lunch we got chatting.’;

Putverb

(mining) To convey coal in the mine, as for example from the working to the tramway.

Getverb

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

‘I normally get the 7:45 train.’; ‘I'll get the 9 a.m. [flight] to Boston.’;

Putnoun

(business) A right to sell something at a predetermined price.

Getverb

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

‘Can you get that call, please? I'm busy.’;

Putnoun

(finance) A contract to sell a security at a set price on or before a certain date.

‘He bought a January '08 put for Procter and Gamble at 80 to hedge his bet.’;

Getverb

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!’; ‘The finders get to keep 80 percent of the treasure.’;

Putnoun

The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push.

‘the put of a ball’;

Getverb

To understand. get it}}

‘Yeah, I get it, it's just not funny.’; ‘I don't get what you mean by "fun". This place sucks!’; ‘I mentioned that I was feeling sad, so she mailed me a box of chocolates. She gets me.’;

Putnoun

An old card game.

Getverb

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

‘"You look just like Helen Mirren." / "I get that a lot."’;

Putnoun

(obsolete) An idiot; a foolish person; a duffer.

Getverb

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

‘He got bitten by a dog.’;

Putnoun

(obsolete) A prostitute.

Getverb

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

‘I went on holiday and got malaria.’;

Putnoun

A pit.

Getverb

To catch out, trick successfully.

‘He keeps calling pretending to be my boss—it gets me every time.’;

Putnoun

A rustic; a clown; an awkward or uncouth person.

‘Queer country puts extol Queen Bess's reign.’; ‘What droll puts the citizens seem in it all.’;

Getverb

To perplex, stump.

‘That question's really got me.’;

Putnoun

The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push; as, the put of a ball.

Getverb

(transitive) To find as an answer.

‘What did you get for question four?’;

Putnoun

A certain game at cards.

Getverb

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

‘The cops finally got me.’; ‘I'm gonna get him for that.’;

Putnoun

A privilege which one party buys of another to "put" (deliver) to him a certain amount of stock, grain, etc., at a certain price and date.

‘A put and a call may be combined in one instrument, the holder of which may either buy or sell as he chooses at the fixed price.’;

Getverb

(transitive) To hear completely; catch.

‘Sorry, I didn't get that. Could you repeat it?’;

Putnoun

A prostitute.

Getverb

(transitive) To getter.

‘I put the getter into the container to get the gases.’;

Put

3d pers. sing. pres. of Put, contracted from putteth.

Getverb

To beget (of a father).

Putverb

To move in any direction; to impel; to thrust; to push; - nearly obsolete, except with adverbs, as with by (to put by = to thrust aside; to divert); or with forth (to put forth = to thrust out).

‘His chief designs are . . . to put thee by from thy spiritual employment.’;

Getverb

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

‘to get a lesson;’; ‘to get out one's Greek lesson’;

Putverb

To bring to a position or place; to place; to lay; to set; figuratively, to cause to be or exist in a specified relation, condition, or the like; to bring to a stated mental or moral condition; as, to put one in fear; to put a theory in practice; to put an enemy to fight.

‘This present dignity,In which that I have put you.’; ‘I will put enmity between thee and the woman.’; ‘He put no trust in his servants.’; ‘When God into the hands of their delivererPuts invincible might.’; ‘In the mean time other measures were put in operation.’;

Getverb

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

‘Get her with her new hairdo.’;

Putverb

To attach or attribute; to assign; as, to put a wrong construction on an act or expression.

Getverb

Go away; get lost.

Putverb

To lay down; to give up; to surrender.

‘No man hath more love than this, that a man put his life for his friends.’;

Getverb

(euphemism) To kill.

‘They’re coming to get you, Barbara.’;

Putverb

To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention; to offer; to state; to express; figuratively, to assume; to suppose; - formerly sometimes followed by that introducing a proposition; as, to put a question; to put a case.

‘Let us now put that ye have leave.’; ‘Put the perception and you put the mind.’; ‘These verses, originally Greek, were put in Latin.’; ‘All this is ingeniously and ably put.’;

Getverb

To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.

Putverb

To incite; to entice; to urge; to constrain; to oblige.

‘These wretches put us upon all mischief.’; ‘Put me not use the carnal weapon in my own defense.’; ‘Thank him who puts me, loath, to this revenge.’;

Getnoun

(dated) Offspring.

Putverb

To throw or cast with a pushing motion "overhand," the hand being raised from the shoulder; a practice in athletics; as, to put the shot or weight.

Getnoun

Lineage.

Putverb

To convey coal in the mine, as from the working to the tramway.

‘Put case that the soul after departure from the body may live.’; ‘Coming from thee, I could not put him back.’; ‘Mark, how a plain tale shall put you down.’; ‘Sugar hath put down the use of honey.’; ‘I hoped for a demonstration, but Themistius hoped to put me off with an harangue.’; ‘We might put him off with this answer.’; ‘For the certain knowledge of that truthI put you o'er to heaven and to my mother.’;

Getnoun

A difficult return or block of a shot.

Putverb

To go or move; as, when the air first puts up.

Getnoun

Something gained.

Putverb

To steer; to direct one's course; to go.

‘His fury thus appeased, he puts to land.’;

Getnoun

A git.

Putverb

To play a card or a hand in the game called put.

Getnoun

(Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.

Putnoun

the option to sell a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date

Getnoun

Jet, the mineral.

Putverb

put into a certain place or abstract location;

‘Put your things here’; ‘Set the tray down’; ‘Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children’; ‘Place emphasis on a certain point’;

Getnoun

Fashion; manner; custom.

Putverb

cause to be in a certain state; cause to be in a certain relation;

‘That song put me in awful good humor’;

Getnoun

Artifice; contrivance.

Putverb

formulate in a particular style or language;

‘I wouldn't put it that way’; ‘She cast her request in very polite language’;

Getnoun

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

Putverb

attribute or give;

‘She put too much emphasis on her the last statement’; ‘He put all his efforts into this job’; ‘The teacher put an interesting twist to the interpretation of the story’;

Getnoun

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

Putverb

make an investment;

‘Put money into bonds’;

Getverb

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.

Putverb

estimate;

‘We put the time of arrival at 8 P.M.’;

Getverb

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

‘Thou hast got the face of man.’;

Putverb

cause (someone) to undergo something;

‘He put her to the torture’;

Getverb

To beget; to procreate; to generate.

‘I had rather to adopt a child than get it.’;

Putverb

adapt;

‘put these words to music’;

Getverb

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.

‘It being harder with him to get one sermon by heart, than to pen twenty.’;

Putverb

arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events, etc.;

‘arrange my schedule’; ‘set up one's life’; ‘I put these memories with those of bygone times’;

Getverb

To prevail on; to induce; to persuade.

‘Get him to say his prayers.’;

Putverb

move to or place in a particular position

‘Harry put down his cup’; ‘I put my hand out towards her’; ‘watch where you're putting your feet!’;

Getverb

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

‘Those things I bid you do; get them dispatched.’;

Putverb

cause (someone or something) to go to a particular place and remain there for a time

‘India has put three experimental satellites into space’;

Getverb

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

‘Get thee out from this land.’; ‘He . . . got himself . . . to the strong town of Mega.’;

Putverb

(of a ship) proceed in a particular direction

‘they put in at Cuba to refit’; ‘she stepped into the boat and put out to sea’;

Getverb

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

‘We mourn, France smiles; we lose, they daily get.’;

Putverb

(of a river) flow in a particular direction.

Getverb

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.

‘To get rid of fools and scoundrels.’; ‘His chariot wheels get hot by driving fast.’;

Putverb

bring into a particular state or condition

‘he is putting himself at risk’; ‘they tried to put me at ease’; ‘a large aid programme was put into practice’;

Getverb

come into the possession of something concrete or abstract;

‘She got a lot of paintings from her uncle’; ‘They acquired a new pet’; ‘Get your results the next day’; ‘Get permission to take a few days off from work’;

Putverb

imagine oneself in (a particular situation)

‘it was no use trying to put herself in his place’;

Getverb

enter or assume a certain state or condition;

‘He became annoyed when he heard the bad news’; ‘It must be getting more serious’; ‘her face went red with anger’; ‘She went into ecstasy’; ‘Get going!’;

Putverb

write or print (something) in a particular place

‘they put my name on the cover page’;

Getverb

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

‘He got his squad on the ball’; ‘This let me in for a big surprise’; ‘He got a girl into trouble’;

Putverb

express (a thought or comment) in a particular way

‘to put it bluntly, he was not really divorced’;

Getverb

receive a specified treatment (abstract);

‘These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation’; ‘His movie received a good review’; ‘I got nothing but trouble for my good intentions’;

Putverb

cause (someone or something) to be subject to something

‘commentators put some of the blame on Congress’; ‘he defended his decision to put VAT on domestic fuel’;

Getverb

reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress;

‘She arrived home at 7 o'clock’; ‘She didn't get to Chicago until after midnight’;

Putverb

assign a particular value, figure, or limit to

‘it is very difficult to put a figure on the size of the budget’;

Getverb

go or come after and bring or take back;

‘Get me those books over there, please’; ‘Could you bring the wine?’; ‘The dog fetched the hat’;

Putverb

estimate something to be (a particular amount)

‘estimates put the war's cost at £1 million a day’;

Getverb

of mental or physical states or experiences;

‘get an idea’; ‘experience vertigo’; ‘get nauseous’; ‘undergo a strange sensation’; ‘The chemical undergoes a sudden change’; ‘The fluid undergoes shear’; ‘receive injuries’; ‘have a feeling’;

Putverb

throw (a shot or weight) as an athletic sport

‘she set a women's record by putting the shot 56' 7"’;

Getverb

take vengeance on or get even;

‘We'll get them!’; ‘That'll fix him good!’; ‘This time I got him’;

Putnoun

a throw of a shot or weight.

Getverb

achieve a point or goal;

‘Nicklaus had a 70’; ‘The Brazilian team got 4 goals’; ‘She made 29 points that day’;

Putnoun

short for put option

Getverb

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

‘The ads induced me to buy a VCR’; ‘My children finally got me to buy a computer’; ‘My wife made me buy a new sofa’;

Getverb

succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase;

‘We finally got the suspect’; ‘Did you catch the thief?’;

Getverb

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

‘He grew a beard’; ‘The patient developed abdominal pains’; ‘I got funny spots all over my body’; ‘Well-developed breasts’;

Getverb

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

‘He got AIDS’; ‘She came down with pneumonia’; ‘She took a chill’;

Getverb

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

‘Bill called this number and he got Mary’; ‘The operator couldn't get Kobe because of the earthquake’;

Getverb

give certain properties to something;

‘get someone mad’; ‘She made us look silly’; ‘He made a fool of himself at the meeting’; ‘Don't make this into a big deal’; ‘This invention will make you a millionaire’; ‘Make yourself clear’;

Getverb

move into a desired direction of discourse;

‘What are you driving at?’;

Getverb

grasp with the mind or develop an undersatnding of;

‘did you catch that allusion?’; ‘We caught something of his theory in the lecture’; ‘don't catch your meaning’; ‘did you get it?’; ‘She didn't get the joke’; ‘I just don't get him’;

Getverb

attract and fix;

‘His look caught her’; ‘She caught his eye’; ‘Catch the attention of the waiter’;

Getverb

reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot;

‘the rock caught her in the back of the head’; ‘The blow got him in the back’; ‘The punch caught him in the stomach’;

Getverb

reach by calculation;

‘What do you get when you add up these numbers?’;

Getverb

acquire as a result of some effort or action;

‘You cannot get water out of a stone’; ‘Where did she get these news?’;

Getverb

purchase;

‘What did you get at the toy store?’;

Getverb

perceive by hearing;

‘I didn't catch your name’; ‘She didn't get his name when they met the first time’;

Getverb

suffer from the receipt of;

‘She will catch hell for this behavior!’;

Getverb

receive as a retribution or punishment;

‘He got 5 years in prison’;

Getverb

leave immediately; used usually in the imperative form;

‘Scram!’;

Getverb

reach and board;

‘She got the bus just as it was leaving’;

Getverb

irritate;

‘Her childish behavior really get to me’; ‘His lying really gets me’;

Getverb

evoke an emotional response;

‘Brahms's `Requiem' gets me every time’;

Getverb

apprehend and reproduce accurately;

‘She really caught the spirit of the place in her drawings’; ‘She got the mood just right in her photographs’;

Getverb

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

‘He drew a base on balls’;

Getverb

overcome or destroy;

‘The ice storm got my hibiscus’; ‘the cat got the goldfish’;

Getverb

be a mystery or bewildering to;

‘This beats me!’; ‘Got me--I don't know the answer!’; ‘a vexing problem’; ‘This question really stuck me’;

Getverb

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

‘We began working at dawn’; ‘Who will start?’; ‘Get working as soon as the sun rises!’; ‘The first tourists began to arrive in Cambodia’; ‘He began early in the day’; ‘Let's get down to work now’;

Getverb

undergo (as of injuries and illnesses);

‘She suffered a fracture in the accident’; ‘He had an insulin shock after eating three candy bars’; ‘She got a bruise on her leg’; ‘He got his arm broken in the scuffle’;

Getverb

make children;

‘Abraham begot Isaac’; ‘Men often father children but don't recognize them’;

Getverb

come to have (something); receive

‘I got a letter from him the other day’; ‘what kind of reception did you get?’;

Getverb

experience, suffer, or be afflicted with (something bad)

‘I got a sudden pain in my left eye’;

Getverb

receive as a punishment or penalty

‘I'll get the sack if things go wrong’;

Getverb

contract (a disease or ailment)

‘I might be getting the flu’;

Getverb

succeed in attaining, achieving, or experiencing; obtain

‘he got a teaching job in California’; ‘I need all the sleep I can get’;

Getverb

move in order to pick up or bring (something); fetch

‘I'll get you a drink’; ‘get another chair’;

Getverb

prepare (a meal)

‘Celia went to the kitchen to start getting their dinner’;

Getverb

tend to meet with or find in a specified place or situation

‘for someone used to the tiny creatures we get in England it was something of a shock’;

Getverb

travel by or catch (a bus, train, or other form of transport)

‘I got a taxi across to Baker Street’;

Getverb

obtain (a figure or answer) as a result of calculation.

Getverb

make contact with, especially by telephone

‘you can get me at home if you need me’;

Getverb

respond to a ring of (a telephone or doorbell)

‘I'll get the door!’;

Getverb

used to draw attention to someone whom one regards as pretentious or vain

‘get her!’;

Getverb

reach or cause to reach a specified state or condition

‘I need to get my hair cut’; ‘he'd got thinner’; ‘it's getting late’; ‘you'll get used to it’;

Getverb

used with past participle to form the passive mood

‘the cat got drowned’;

Getverb

cause to be treated in a specified way

‘get the form signed by a doctor’;

Getverb

induce or prevail upon (someone) to do something

‘they got her to sign the consent form’;

Getverb

have the opportunity to do

‘he got to try out a few of these nice new cars’;

Getverb

begin to be or do something, especially gradually or by chance

‘we got talking one evening’;

Getverb

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

‘Nigel got home very late’; ‘he hadn't got very far with the book yet’;

Getverb

move or come into a specified position, situation, or state

‘Henry got to his feet’; ‘she got into the car’; ‘you don't want to get into debt’;

Getverb

succeed in making (someone or something) come, go, or move somewhere

‘she had to get them away from the rocks’; ‘let's get you home’;

Getverb

reach a specified point or stage

‘it's getting so I can't even think’;

Getverb

see have

Getverb

catch or apprehend (someone)

‘the police have got him’;

Getverb

strike or wound (someone) with a blow or missile

‘you got me in the eye!’;

Getverb

punish, injure, or kill (someone), especially as retribution

‘I'll get you for this!’;

Getverb

be punished, injured, or killed

‘wait until dad comes home, then you'll get it!’;

Getverb

be appropriately punished or rewarded

‘I'll get mine, you'll get yours, we'll all get wealthy’;

Getverb

annoy (someone) greatly

‘cleaning the same things all the time, that's what gets me’;

Getverb

baffle (someone)

‘she had got me there: I could not answer’;

Getverb

understand (an argument or the person making it)

‘What do you mean? I don't get it’;

Getverb

acquire (knowledge) by study; learn

‘that knowledge which is gotten at school’;

Getnoun

an animal's offspring.

Getnoun

a person whom the speaker dislikes or despises.