Get vs. Put — What's the Difference?

Come to have (something); receive

Move to or place in a particular position

Succeed in attaining, achieving, or experiencing; obtain

Bring into a particular state or condition

Reach or cause to reach a specified state or condition

Cause (someone or something) to be subject to something

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

Throw (a shot or weight) as an athletic sport

See have

A throw of a shot or weight.

Catch or apprehend (someone)

Short for put option

Understand (an argument or the person making it)

To place in a specified location; set

Acquire (knowledge) by study; learn

To cause to be in a specified condition

An animal's offspring.

To cause (one) to undergo something; subject

A person whom the speaker dislikes or despises.

To assign; attribute

To come into possession or use of; receive

To estimate

To meet with or incur

To impose or levy

To go after and obtain

(Games) To wager (a stake); bet

To go after and bring

(Sports) To hurl with an overhand pushing motion

To purchase; buy

To bring up for consideration or judgment

To acquire as a result of action or effort

To express; state

To earn

To render in a specified language or literary form

To accomplish or attain as a result of military action.

To adapt

To obtain by concession or request

To urge or force to an action

To arrive at; reach

To apply

To reach and board; catch

To force the purchase of (a stock or commodity) by exercising a put option.

To succeed in communicating with, as by telephone

(Nautical) To proceed

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

(Sports) An act of putting the shot.

To be subjected to; undergo

An option to sell a stipulated amount of stock or securities within a specified time and at a fixed price.

To receive as retribution or punishment

Fixed; stationary

To sustain a specified injury to

To place something somewhere.

To perceive or become aware of by one of the senses

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

To gain or have understanding of

(finance) To exercise a put option.

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

To express something in a certain manner.

To find or reach by calculating

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

To procreate; beget

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

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

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

To make ready; prepare

To attach or attribute; to assign.

To cause to come or go

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

To cause to move or leave

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

To cause to undertake or perform; prevail on

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

To take, especially by force; seize

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

(Informal) To overcome or destroy

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

To evoke an emotional response or reaction in

(finance) Short for put option.

To annoy or irritate

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

To present a difficult problem to; puzzle

(uncountable) An old card game.

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

(obsolete) A fellow, especially an eccentric or elderly one; a duffer.

(Informal) To hit or strike

(obsolete) A prostitute.

(Baseball) To put out or strike out

A pit.

To begin or start. Used with the present participle

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

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

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

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

A certain game at cards.

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

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.

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

A prostitute.

To become or grow to be

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).

To be successful in coming or going

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.

To be able or permitted

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

To be successful in becoming

To lay down; to give up; to surrender.

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

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.

To become drawn in, entangled, or involved

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

(Informal) To depart immediately

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.

To work for gain or profit; make money

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

Progeny; offspring

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

Chiefly British Slang git2.

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

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

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

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

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

A divorce effected by a get.

Put into a certain place or abstract location;

(ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire.

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

(transitive) To receive.

Formulate in a particular style or language;

To have. See usage notes.

Attribute or give;

(transitive) To fetch, bring, take.

Make an investment;

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

Estimate;

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

Cause (someone) to undergo something;

(transitive) To cause to do.

Adapt;

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

Arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events, etc.;

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To catch out, trick successfully.

To perplex, stump.

(transitive) To find as an answer.

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

(transitive) To hear completely; catch.

(transitive) To getter.

To beget (of a father).

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

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

To go, to leave; to scram.

(euphemism) To kill.

To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.

(transitive) To measure.

(dated) Offspring.

Lineage.

A difficult return or block of a shot.

(informal) Something gained; an acquisition.

A git.

(Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.

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;