Definitions of get:

• verb:   receive as a retribution or punishment
• verb:   purchase

  Example: "What did you get at the toy store?"

• verb:   come into the possession of something concrete or abstract

  Example: "Get your results the next day"

• verb:   acquire as a result of some effort or action

  Example: "You cannot get water out of a stone"

• verb:   reach by calculation

  Example: "What do you get when you add up these numbers?"

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

  Example: "The operator couldn't get Kobe because of the earthquake"

• verb:   succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase
• verb:   cause to move; cause to be in a certain position or condition
• verb:   reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot
• verb:   overcome or destroy
• verb:   evoke an emotional response

  Example: "Brahms's `Requiem' gets me every time"

• verb:   irritate

  Example: "Her childish behavior really get to me"

• verb:   reach and board
• verb:   suffer from the receipt of
• verb:   perceive by hearing

  Example: "She didn't get his name when they met the first time"

• verb:   achieve a point or goal
• verb:   receive a specified treatment (abstract)
• verb:   grasp with the mind or develop an undersatnding of

  Example: "Did you get it?"

• verb:   make children
• verb:   move into a desired direction of discourse
• verb:   give certain properties to something

  Example: "Get someone mad"

• verb:   go or come after and bring or take back

  Example: "Get me those books over there, please"

• verb:   in baseball: earn or achieve a base by being walked by the pitcher
• verb:   apprehend and reproduce accurately
• verb:   reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress

  Example: "She didn't get to Chicago until after midnight"

• verb:   take the first step or steps in carrying out an action

  Example: "Get working as soon as the sun rises!"

• verb:   be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness
• verb:   take vengeance on or get even

  Example: "We'll get them!"

• verb:   enter or assume a certain state or condition

  Example: "It must be getting more serious"

• verb:   attract and fix
• verb:   of mental or physical states or experiences

  Example: "Get an idea"

• verb:   be a mystery or bewildering to
• verb:   undergo (as of injuries and illnesses)
• verb:   come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)
• verb:   leave immediately; used usually in the imperative form
• verb:   cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner