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Get It

Definitions: Get It

Get It

Verb

1. Understand, usually after some initial difficulty.

2. Receive punishment; "You are going to get it!".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Get It

Synonyms: catch on (v), cotton on (v), get onto (v), latch on (v), tumble (v), twig (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Get It

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Belief

Get it into one's head, take it into one's head; come round to an opinion; swallow; (credulity).

Sexuality

Have the hots; become aroused, get hot; have an erection, get it up.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Get It

English words defined with "get it": aboveboard, American football, Armillariella, arriveby-and-byeffective, efficientFor my heartgenus Armillariella, get in, get it on, go farhonestlylabyrinth, Lancashire style wrestlingmake it, maze, Minenoovertakingpassing, Puss in the cornerreveilleSpan counterTo gain the wind, To get beyond, To help up, To tone downwaste. (references)

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Modern Usage: Get It

DomainUsage

Screenplays

But you know what? It's never too late to get it back. (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball)

Would the two of you just do it and get it over with? (Reality Bites; writing credit: Ben Stiller, written by Helen Childress.)

We'll be doing this for real tomorrow night and I don't want nobody to remember some stupid joke like that and get it going again. (The Green Mile; writing credit: Frank Darabont)

All he said was he didn't get it. (Big; writing credit: Gary Ross; Anne Spielberg)

Gonna get it right this time. (Trainspotting; writing credit: Irvine Welsh; John Hodge)

Lyrics

Lets get it on (Let's Get It On; performing artist: Marvin Gaye)

To get it all out what's in my head (What's up; performing artist: 4 Non Blondes)

Don't get it twisted, Don't misuse it (We Need A Resolution; performing artist: Aaliyah)

Want you to get it on I'm your main man (Rock In A Hard Place (Cheshire Cat); performing artist: Aerosmith)

Forgive me when I get it wrong (Price of Love; performing artist: Bad English)

Clever

The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

Carmen Get It! (1962)

So You Want to Get It Wholesale (1952)

I Can Get It for You Wholesale (1951)

Come and Get It (1936)

Go and Get It (1920)

Song Titles

Let's Get It On (performing artist: Marvin Gaye)

Get It On Tonite (performing artist: Montell Jordan)

Get It On ( Bang A Gong) (performing artist: The Neanderthal Spongecake)

Got To Get It (performing artist: Sisqo)

Get It On (performing artist: T Rex)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Get It

DomainTitle

Books

  • The Mystery of Christ ... and Why We Don't Get It (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

  

High Tech

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Get It

Computer Images:
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Photo Album: Get It

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

Have You Got ASTHMA? : Did You Get It Through Work?.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

The wrong choice can Kill you. : Aids - Don't Get it!.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Trying to get it.Credit: Library of Congress.

What I say, pal, is what's the difference? : we're going to get it in the neck either way.Credit: Library of Congress.

Cranking car to get it started, the old way, Worthington, Ohio.Credit: Library of Congress.

Pushing a truck of migrant family en route to California in order to get it started, near Henrietta, Oklahoma.Credit: Library of Congress.

"Come and get it." Casa Grande Farms, a FSA (Farm Security Administration) project. Coolidge, Arizona.Credit: Library of Congress.

For victory they paid their all--For a Victory Bond you pay money and get it back with interest / R.L.B.Credit: Library of Congress.

Get it on! : join the Republican Party!.Credit: Library of Congress.

Let's get it all together : here's how.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Get It

AuthorQuotation

Author Unknown

Convince a man of what he wants, and he'll move heaven and earth to get it.

Don Herold

Unhappiness is in not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.

H.l. Mencken

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

Henry Ward Beecher

Success is full of promise till men get it; and then it is last year's nest, from which the bird has flown.

John Bunyan

My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.

Maxwell Anderson

This liberty will look easy by and by when nobody dies to get it.

Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.

Samuel Pepys

Gives me some kind of content to remember how painful it is sometimes to keep money, as well as to get it.

Socrates

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Get It

TitleAuthorQuote

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

Get it out in bits!

Neverwhere

Neil Gaiman

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

He drank too much when he could get it, ate too much when it was there, talked too much all the time.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Get It

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Or, if you had gestational diabetes before, you may not get it with this pregnancy. (references)

Even if you didn't have gestational diabetes when you were pregnant before, you might get it during your current pregnancy. (references)

Business

With the aggressive approach of the government, the public sector employees are also being encouraged to get IT training. (references)

Economic History

Uzbekistan

During Soviet times, food processing companies which needed packaging equipment or materials could get it from other republics of the USSR. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

REDEMPTION, n. Deliverance of sinners from the penalty of their sin, through their murder of the deity against whom they sinned. The doctrine of Redemption is the fundamental mystery of our holy religion, and whoso believeth in it shall not perish, but have everlasting life in which to try to understand it. We must awake Man's spirit from his sin, And take some special measure for redeeming it; Though hard indeed the task to get it in Among the angels any way but teaming it, Or purify it otherwise than steaming it. I'm awkward at Redemption -- a beginner: My method is to crucify the sinner. Golgo Brone

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Get It

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Ann Richards

Women after menopause because of the loss of estrogen. Men get it too, though. And a lot of cases I will be hairline fractures, you'll see people who are sort of bent over stooped.

Bill Clinton

I don't know. I'm trying to get it done this year, but it's amazing. You know, I've got massive documents. I've saved every letter my mother wrote to me and that I wrote to her in college.

James Dobson

You're right. That's what I meant when I said I'm worried about it because once you let that cat out of the bag you can't get it back in and who knows where that's going. But I think we ought to curtail it.

Julie Andrews

The you lip sync it later. You prerecord it hoping that you're going to get it right to look as though you really are. You roughly know thanks to the prework where you'll be and what you'll be doing.

Mary Tyler Moore

Nobody knows how you get it. They know certain things about it, that the predisposition to get it is genetic. You start with that. Either a virus, a trauma, either physical or an emotional one, can bring it on into active diabetes.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: Get It

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

George Bush

1989-1993There is work to do, and they sent us here to get it done.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Expressions: Get It

Expressions using "get it": get it all taped get it here get it hot get it in the neck get it into ones head get it into one's head get it mended get it on get it up get it wrong. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Get It

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
  ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  get it now

308

  get it lyrics over soundtrack

14

  get it on

170

  get it now ringtone

14

  get it now verizon

128

  come get it.com n

13

  let get it on

106

  download everybody get it

11

  get it let lyrics

78

  get it lyrics wet

11

  get it wet

68

  get it tonight

10

  gaye get it let lyrics marvin

42

  bet.com first get it

10

  let me get it

41

  early get it let morn til

10

  get it lyrics over

38

  get it now.com

9

  get it now verizon wireless

31

  all.net get it

9

  get it together

27

  get it now ring tone

9

  get it right

24

  avril get it lavigne over

9

  come and get it

21

  get it on cd

8

  get it lyrics

19

  get it on tonite

8

  early get it let morn till

18

  get it now game

8

  702 get it lyrics together

17

  down get it lyrics

8

  let get it on marvin gaye

17

  around get get it now

8

  get it lyrics twista wet

17

  alcohol detox does get it long take

7

  back can get it t

16

  702 get it together

7

  back cant get it

16

  course get it

7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Get It

Language Translations for "get it"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

e ha (dispose of). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏وجد (ecstasy, ecstatic, find, hit, locate, manage, passion, puzzle out, rhapsody, trance). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

донасям (bring, bring around, bring round, fetch, inform, notify, report, return, work). (various references)

   

Czech

  

chápat (appreciate, apprehend, comprehend, construe, follow, grasp, perceive, see, take, take in, understand). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

en minä sitä saanut (etkä myöskään sinä, I did not get it, neither did you). (various references)

   

French

  

trouver (get), comprendre. (various references)

   

German

  

schalten (advance, change gear, connect, feed, get the message, latch on, operating, place, react, shift, switch, switching). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

לקבל זיפ" (get it in the neck). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

érti. (various references)

   

Italian

  

ripararla (to get it fixed). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

済ます (to conclude, to finish, to get along, to get it over with, to pay back, to settle). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

すます (look prim, put on airs, to be unruffled, to clear, to conclude, to finish, to get along, to get it over with, to look demure, to look unconcerned, to make clear, to pay back, to settle). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

etgay itay

   

Romanian

  

o cãpãta (get it hot), da-l la reparat (get it mended), adu-o aici (get it here). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

получить нагоняй (get it in the neck). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

razumeti (apprehend, catch on, cognize, comprehend, see, understand). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

todo funciona perfectamente (get it all taped), tenemos todo organizado (get it all taped), recibir un rapapolvo (get it in the neck), pagar (acquit, allow, bear, cheque out, clear off, defray, discharge, divvy, fee, foot, fund, get it in the neck, give, honor, honour, lash out, let in, light, make good, meet, pay, pay away, pay back, pay for, pay out, pay over, pay up, paying, put down, repay, requite, return, settle, shell out, throw, throw back, to pay), meterse en la cabeza (get it into one's head). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

få en tillrättavisning (get it in the neck). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yanlış anlamak (be at cross-purposes, get hold the wrong end of the stick, get it wrong, get the wrong sow by the ear, misapprehend, misconstrue, misinterpret, mistake, misunderstand, take a word in the wrong sense, take amiss), ters anlamak (get hold the wrong end of the stick, get it wrong, give a wrench to, misunderstand, spell backward, take a word in the wrong sense, take amiss, wrench, wrest from meaning), kafasına koymak (be determined, get it into one's head, set one's mind on, set one's mind on doing), işten çıkarılmak (be fired, get it in the neck, get the gate), ağır ceza görmek (get it in the neck). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Bible Trace: Get It

LanguageDateSourceRomans Chapter 9, Verse 31
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintIsrahl de diwkwn nomon dikaiosunhV eiV nomon dikaiosunhV ouk efqasen
Latin405VulgateIsrahel vero sectans legem iustitiae in legem iustitiae non pervenit
Old English990West SaxonAc þæt Israel þe ane æ þære rihtwisnes sohte, hire næbbeð?
Middle English1395WyclifBut Israel suynge the lawe of riytwisnesse, cam not parfitli in to the lawe of riytwisnesse.
Renaissance English1526TyndaleBut Israel which folowed the lawe of rightewesnes coulde not attayne vnto ye lawe of rightewesnes.
Jacobean English1611King JamesBut Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.
Victorian English1833WebsterBut Israel, who followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.
Basic English1964OgdenBut Israel, going after a law of righteousness, did not get it.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: Get It

LanguageRomans Chapter 9, Verse 31
Cebuanoapan ang Israel nga nag-agpas sa pagkamatarung nga pinasikad sa kasugoan wala makakab-ot sa pagtuman sa kasugoan.
CroatianIzrael pak koji je tražio neki zakon pravednosti, nije do zakona dopro.
Danishmen Israel, som jagede efter en Retfærdigheds Lov, nåede ikke til en sådan Lov.
DutchMaar Israel, die de wet der rechtvaardigheid zocht, is tot de wet der rechtvaardigheid niet gekomen.
Finnishmutta Israel, joka tavoitteli vanhurskauden lakia, ei ole sitä lakia saavuttanut.
Frenchtandis qu`Israël, qui cherchait une loi de justice, n`est pas parvenu cette loi.
GermanIsrael aber hat dem Gesetz der Gerechtigkeit nachgetrachtet, und hat das Gesetz der Gerechtigkeit nicht erreicht.
Haitian CreoleMen, moun pèp Izrayèl yo ki t'ap chache yon lalwa ki pou ta fè Bondye fè yo gras, yo pa jwenn sa yo t'ap chache a.
HungarianIzráel ellenben, mely az igazság törvényét követte, nem jutott el az igazság törvényére.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariSebaliknya, orang-orang Yahudi selalu berusaha mentaati hukum supaya hubungan mereka dengan Allah menjadi baik kembali. Tetapi mereka justru tidak berhasil.
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaTetapi bani Israel yang menuntut hukum kebenaran, tiada sampai kepada hukum itu.
Italianmentre Israele, che ricercava una legge che gli desse la giustizia, non è giunto alla pratica della legge.
LatvianTurpretî Izraçlis, kas dzinâs pçc attaisnoðanas likuma, attaisnoðanu likumâ nesasniedza.
MaoriKo Iharaira ia, whai ana i tetahi ture o te tika, kihai ratou i tae ki taua ture.
NorwegianIsrael derimot, som søkte rettferdighetens lov, de vant ikke frem til denne lov.
PortugueseMas Israel, buscando a lei da justiça, não atingiu esta lei.   
Rumanianpe cknd Israel, care umbla dupq o Lege, care sq dea neprihqnirea, n`a ajuns la Legea aceasta.
ShuarAntsu Israer-shuarka pénker akupkamun umiktinian wakeruiniayatan tujintiainiakui nujai pénker ajastinian tujinkiarmiayi.
Swahilihali watu wa Israeli waliokuwa wakitafuta Sheria iletayo kukubaliwa kuwa waadilifu, hawakuipata.
Swedishunder det att Israel, som for efter en rättfärdighetslag, icke har kommit till någon sådan lag.
UmaTo Israel, mahae-ramo doko' jadi' monoa' hi poncilo Alata'ala hi petuku' -ra hi Atura Pue' to naparata Musa, tapi' uma oa' raratai to rapali' toe.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Get It

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-g-i-t-t"

-2 letters: get, gie, git, teg, tet, tie, tit.

-3 letters: et, it, ti.

 Words containing the letters "e-g-i-t-t"
 

+2 letters: agitate, betting, egotist, fetting, getting, gittern, glitter, gothite, gritted, guttier, jetting, letting, netting, petting, retting, setting, tenting, tergite, testing, tighten, tighter, turgite, vetting, wetting.

 

+3 letters: abetting, agitated, agitates, aglitter, aigrette, cogitate, digitate, duetting, egotists, emitting, estating, fettling, fretting, gitterns, glitters, glittery, gnathite, gnattier, goethite, gothites, goutiest, grisette, grittier, grottier, gustiest, gutsiest, guttiest, jettying, liftgate, lightest, litigate, mitigate, nettings, nettling, pettifog, pettings, pettling, rightest, settings, settling, stagiest, stetting, tailgate, tangiest, teething, tempting, tergites, tightens, tightest, treating, triggest, turgites, tweeting, uttering, vegetist, vignette, wettings, whetting.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Get It


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

47 65 74      49 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000111 01100101 01110100 00100000 01001001 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#101 &#116 &#32 &#73 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0065 0074      0049 0074

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

41718624386

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Familiar
9. Quotations: Fiction
10. Quotations: Non-fiction
11. Quotations: Spoken
12. Quotations: Speeches
13. Expressions
14. Expressions: Internet
15. Translations: Modern
16. Bible Trace
17. Anagrams
18. Orthography
19. Bibliography


  

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