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Definitions: Get It |
Get ItVerb1. 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 ItSynonyms: catch on (v), cotton on (v), get onto (v), latch on (v), tumble (v), twig (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: Get It |
| English words defined with "get it": aboveboard, American football, Armillariella, arrive ♦ by-and-by ♦ effective, efficient ♦ For my heart ♦ genus Armillariella, get in, get it on, go far ♦ honestly ♦ labyrinth, Lancashire style wrestling ♦ make it, maze, Mine ♦ no ♦ overtaking ♦ passing, Puss in the corner ♦ reveille ♦ Span counter ♦ To gain the wind, To get beyond, To help up, To tone down ♦ waste. (references) |
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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) | |
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![]() | 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. |
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| Author | Quotation |
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. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
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. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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 |
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| Speaker | Phrase(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. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | There is work to do, and they sent us here to get it done. |
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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. | |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency 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. | |||
| 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 o cãpãta (get it hot), da-l la reparat (get it mended), adu-o aici (get it here). (various references) получить нагоняй (get it in the neck). (various references) razumeti (apprehend, catch on, cognize, comprehend, see, understand). (various references) 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) få en tillrättavisning (get it in the neck). (various references) 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) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Date | Source | Romans Chapter 9, Verse 31 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Israhl de diwkwn nomon dikaiosunhV eiV nomon dikaiosunhV ouk efqasen |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Israhel vero sectans legem iustitiae in legem iustitiae non pervenit |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Ac þæt Israel þe ane æ þære rihtwisnes sohte, hire næbbeð? |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | But Israel suynge the lawe of riytwisnesse, cam not parfitli in to the lawe of riytwisnesse. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | But Israel which folowed the lawe of rightewesnes coulde not attayne vnto ye lawe of rightewesnes. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | But Israel, who followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | But Israel, going after a law of righteousness, did not get it. |
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| Language | Romans Chapter 9, Verse 31 |
| Cebuano | apan ang Israel nga nag-agpas sa pagkamatarung nga pinasikad sa kasugoan wala makakab-ot sa pagtuman sa kasugoan. |
| Croatian | Izrael pak koji je tražio neki zakon pravednosti, nije do zakona dopro. |
| Danish | men Israel, som jagede efter en Retfærdigheds Lov, nåede ikke til en sådan Lov. |
| Dutch | Maar Israel, die de wet der rechtvaardigheid zocht, is tot de wet der rechtvaardigheid niet gekomen. |
| Finnish | mutta Israel, joka tavoitteli vanhurskauden lakia, ei ole sitä lakia saavuttanut. |
| French | tandis qu`Israël, qui cherchait une loi de justice, n`est pas parvenu cette loi. |
| German | Israel aber hat dem Gesetz der Gerechtigkeit nachgetrachtet, und hat das Gesetz der Gerechtigkeit nicht erreicht. |
| Haitian Creole | Men, 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. |
| Hungarian | Izráel ellenben, mely az igazság törvényét követte, nem jutott el az igazság törvényére. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Sebaliknya, orang-orang Yahudi selalu berusaha mentaati hukum supaya hubungan mereka dengan Allah menjadi baik kembali. Tetapi mereka justru tidak berhasil. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Tetapi bani Israel yang menuntut hukum kebenaran, tiada sampai kepada hukum itu. |
| Italian | mentre Israele, che ricercava una legge che gli desse la giustizia, non è giunto alla pratica della legge. |
| Latvian | Turpretî Izraçlis, kas dzinâs pçc attaisnoðanas likuma, attaisnoðanu likumâ nesasniedza. |
| Maori | Ko Iharaira ia, whai ana i tetahi ture o te tika, kihai ratou i tae ki taua ture. |
| Norwegian | Israel derimot, som søkte rettferdighetens lov, de vant ikke frem til denne lov. |
| Portuguese | Mas Israel, buscando a lei da justiça, não atingiu esta lei. |
| Rumanian | pe cknd Israel, care umbla dupq o Lege, care sq dea neprihqnirea, n`a ajuns la Legea aceasta. |
| Shuar | Antsu Israer-shuarka pénker akupkamun umiktinian wakeruiniayatan tujintiainiakui nujai pénker ajastinian tujinkiarmiayi. |
| Swahili | hali watu wa Israeli waliokuwa wakitafuta Sheria iletayo kukubaliwa kuwa waadilifu, hawakuipata. |
| Swedish | under det att Israel, som for efter en rättfärdighetslag, icke har kommit till någon sådan lag. |
| Uma | To 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. |
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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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 65 74      49 74 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01100101 01110100 00100000 01001001 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G e t   I t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0065 0074      0049 0074 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)41718624386 |
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