got |
1. v. simple past tense of get | |
We got the last bus home. | |
2. v. (British, Australian, NZ) past participle of get | |
By that time we'd got very cold. | |
I've got two children. | |
How many children have you got? | |
3. v. Expressing obligation. | |
I can't go out tonight, I've got to study for my exams. | |
4. v. (Southern US, with to) must; have (to). | |
I got to go study. | |
5. v. (Southern US, slang) have | |
They got a new car. | |
He got a lot of nerve. | |
6. v. (Southern US, AAVE, euphemistic, slang) to be murdered | |
He got got. | |
get |
1. v. (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. | |
2. v. 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. | |
3. v. (transitive, in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. (See usage notes.) | |
I've got a concert ticket for you. | |
4. v. (copulative) To become. | |
I'm getting hungry; how about you? | |
Don't get drunk tonight. | |
5. v. 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. | |
I can't get these boots off upright - (or on'upright,). | |
6. v. To fetch, bring, take. | |
Can you get my bag from the living-room, please? | |
I need to get this to the office. | |
7. v. To cause to do. | |
Somehow she got him to agree to it. | |
I can't get it to work. | |
8. v. (intransitive, with various prepositions, such as into, over, or behind; for specific idiomatic senses see individual entries get into, get over, etc.) To adopt, assume, arrive at, or progress towards | |
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. | |
9. v. To cover (a certain distance) while travelling. | |
to get a mile | |
10. v. To cause to come or go or move. | |
11. v. To cause to be in a certain status or position. | |
12. v. (intransitive) To begin (doing something). | |
We ought to get moving or we'll be late. | |
After lunch we got chatting. | |
13. v. 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. | |
14. v. To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc). | |
Can you get that call, please? I'm busy. | |
15. v. (intransitive, followed by infinitive) 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. | |
16. v. (transitive, informal) To understand. (compare 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. | |
17. v. (transitive, informal) To be told; be the recipient of (a question, comparison, opinion, etc.). | |
"You look just like Helen Mirren." / "I get that a lot.". | |
18. v. (informal) To be. Used to form the passive of verbs. | |
He got bitten by a dog. | |
19. v. To become ill with or catch (a disease). | |
I went on holiday and got malaria. | |
20. v. (transitive, informal) To catch out, trick successfully. | |
He keeps calling pretending to be my boss—it gets me every time. | |
21. v. (transitive, informal) To perplex, stump. | |
That question's really got me. | |
22. v. To find as an answer. | |
What did you get for question four? | |
23. v. (transitive, informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution. | |
The cops finally got me. | |
I'm gonna get him for that. | |
24. v. To hear completely; catch. | |
Sorry, I didn't get that. Could you repeat it? | |
25. v. To getter. | |
I put the getter into the container to get the gases. | |
26. v. (now rare) To beget (of a father). | |
27. v. (archaic) To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out. | |
to get a lesson; to get out one's Greek lesson | |
28. v. (imperative, informal) Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose. | |
Get her with her new hairdo. | |
29. v. (informal, mostly, imperative) Go away; get lost. | |
30. v. (euphemism) To kill. | |
They’re coming to get you, Barbara. | |
31. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit. | |
32. n. (dated) Offspring. | |
33. n. Lineage. | |
34. n. (sports) A difficult return or block of a shot. | |
35. n. Something gained. | |
36. n. (UK, regional) A git. | |
37. n. (Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce. | |
an |
1. art. Form of a used before a vowel sound | |
2. art. (now quite rare) Form of a used before 'h' in an unstressed syllable | |
3. art. (nonstandard) Form of a used before 'h' in a stressed syllable | |
4. conj. (archaic) If | |
5. conj. (archaic) So long as. | |
An it harm none, do what ye will. | |
6. conj. (archaic) As if; as though. | |
7. n. The first letter of the Georgian alphabet, ა (Mkhedruli), Ⴀ (Asomtavruli) or ⴀ (Nuskhuri). | |
8. prep. In each; to or for each; per. | |
I was only going twenty miles an hour. | |
itchy |
1. adj. Having or creating an itch, causing a person or animal to tend to want to scratch. | |
trigger |
1. n. A finger-operated lever used to fire a gun. | |
Just pull the trigger. | |
2. n. A similar device used to activate any mechanism. | |
3. n. An event that initiates others, or incites a response. | |
Sleeping in an unfamiliar room can be a trigger for sleepwalking. | |
4. n. A concept or image that upsets somebody. | |
I can't watch that violent film. Blood is one of my triggers. | |
5. n. (psychology) An event, experience or other stimulus that initiates a traumatic memory or action in a person. | |
6. n. (music) An electronic transducer allowing a drum, cymbal, etc. to control an electronic drum unit or similar device. | |
7. n. (music) A device that manually lengthens (or sometimes shortens) the slide or tubing of a brass instrument, allowing the pitch range to be altered while playing. | |
8. n. (electronics) A pulse in an electronic circuit that initiates some component. | |
9. n. (databases) An SQL procedure that may be initiated when a record is inserted, updated or deleted; typically used to maintain referential integrity. | |
10. n. (online gaming) A text string that, when received by a player, will cause the player to execute a certain command. | |
11. n. (archaic) A catch to hold the wheel of a carriage on a declivity. | |
12. v. To fire a weapon. | |
13. v. To initiate something. | |
The controversial article triggered a deluge of angry letters from readers. | |
14. v. (transitive, sensitive) To spark a response, especially a negative emotional response, in (someone). | |
This story contains a rape scene and may be triggering for rape victims. | |
15. v. (intransitive, especially, electronics) To activate; to become active. | |
finger |
1. n. (anatomy) A slender jointed extremity of the human hand, (often) exclusive of the thumb. | |
Humans have two hands and ten fingers. Each hand has one thumb and four fingers. | |
2. n. (zoology) Similar or similar-looking extremities in other animals, particularly: | |
3. n. The lower, smaller segment of an arthropod claw. | |
4. n. One of the supporting structures of wings in birds, bats, etc. evolved from earlier toes or fingers. | |
5. n. One of the slender bony structures before the pectoral fins of gurnards and sea robin, pl=s (Triglidae). | |
6. n. Something similar in shape to the human finger, particularly: | |
7. n. (cuisine) Finger-shaped pieces of food. | |
chocolate fingers; fish fingers; cheese fingers | |
8. n. (chemistry) A tube extending from a sealed system, or sometimes into one in the case of a cold finger. | |
9. n. (UK regional, botany, usually in plural, obsolete) (altname, foxglove) (D. purpurea). | |
10. n. Something similarly extending, (especially) from a larger body, particularly: | |
a finger of land; a finger of smoke | |
11. n. (botany) Various protruding plant structures, as a banana from its hand. | |
12. n. (anatomy, obsolete) A lobe of the liver. | |
13. n. (historical) The teeth parallel to the blade of a scythe, fitted to a wooden frame called a crade. | |
14. n. The projections of a reaper or mower which similarly separate the stalks for cutting. | |
15. n. (nautical) (clipping of finger pier): a shorter, narrower pier projecting from a larger dock. | |
16. n. (aviation) (altname, jet bridge): the narrow elevated walkway connecting a plane to an airport. | |
17. n. Something similar in function or agency to the human finger, (usually) with regard to touching, grasping, or pointing. | |
18. n. (obsolete) (altname, hand), the part of a clock pointing to the hour, minute, or second. | |
19. n. (US, obsolete slang) A policeman or prison guard. | |
20. n. (US, rare slang) An informer to the police, (especially) one who identifies a criminal during a lineup. | |
21. n. (US, rare slang) A criminal who scouts for prospective victims and targets or who performs reconnaissance before a crime. | |
22. n. (units of measure) Various units of measure based or notionally based on the adult human finger, particularly | |
23. n. (historical) (altname, digit): former units of measure notionally based on its width but variously standardized, (especially) the English digit of frac | |
24. n. (historical) A unit of length notionally based on the length of an adult human's middle finger, standardized as 4½(nbsp)inches (11.43nbspcm). | |
25. n. (historical) (altname, digit): frac, 1, 12 the observed diameter of the sun or moon, (especially) with regard to eclipses. | |
26. n. (originally US) An informal measure of alcohol based on its height in a given glass compared to the width of the pourer's fingers while holding it. | |
Gimme three fingers of bourbon. | |
27. n. (fashion) A part of a glove intended to cover a finger. | |
28. n. (informal, obsolete) Skill in the use of the fingers, as in playing upon a musical instrument. | |
29. n. (informal, rare) Someone skilled in the use of their fingers, (especially) a pickpocket. | |
30. n. (UK slang) A person. | |
31. n. A chicken finger. | |
32. n. (especially in the phrase 'give someone the finger') An obscene or insulting gesture made by raising one's middle finger towards someone with the palm of one's hand facing inwards. | |
33. v. To identify or point out. Also put the finger on. To report to or identify for the authorities, rat on, rat out, squeal on, tattle on, turn in, to finger. | |
34. v. To poke or probe with a finger or fingers. | |
35. v. To use the fingers to penetrate and sexually stimulate one's own or another person's vagina or anus; to fingerbang | |
36. v. (transitive, music) To use specified finger positions in producing notes on a musical instrument. | |
37. v. (transitive, music) To provide instructions in written music as to which fingers are to be used to produce particular notes or passages. | |
38. v. (transitive, computing) To query (a user's status) using the Finger protocol. | |
39. v. (obsolete) To steal; to purloin. | |
40. v. (transitive, obsolete) To execute, as any delicate work. | |