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Definitions: Get Around |
Get AroundVerb1. Be released or become known; of news; "News of her death broke in the morning". 2. Avoid something unpleasant or laborious; "You cannot bypass these rules!". 3. Be a social swinger; socialize a lot. 4. Move around; move from place to place; "How does she get around without a car?". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Get AroundSynonyms: break (v), bypass (v), get about (v), get out (v), go around (v), short-circuit (v), swing (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Get Around |
| English words defined with "get around": Be-, by-and-by ♦ get about, get around to ♦ Lancashire style wrestling ♦ turn around. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "get around": 6502 ♦ Ada 95 ♦ demoscene ♦ Global Positioning System ♦ IBM 1620 ♦ link farm ♦ Microsoft ♦ ORPHEUS ♦ ravs, Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal ♦ story ♦ tenured graduate student, Troll-O-Meter, Turing tar-pit. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | When men get around me, they get allergic to wedding rings. (Mildred Pierce; writing credit: James M. Cain; Ranald MacDougall) Yeah, well, by the time you get around to winning, there will be no forest. (In a Heartbeat; writing credit: Melissa R. Byer) I was wondering when you would get around to that. (Rehearsal for Murder; writing credit: Richard Levinson; William Link) | |
Lyrics | You're not shy, you get around (Urgent; performing artist: Foreigner) Live a little, get around (Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey; performing artist: Paul McCartney) If we can get around it (Big Me; performing artist: The Foo Fighters) | |
Song Titles | I Get Around (performing artist: The Beach Boys) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Son of Walter Gaylord putting on snowshoes before going to gather sap from sugar maple trees. The snow was so deep that snowshoes were necessary to get around on. Mad River Valley, Waitsfield, Vermont. He averages about 150 gallons of syrup annually, this.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Aristophanes | These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can't live with them, or without them! |
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Business | However, in this case, the government's requirement is that 50% should be sold to the CBU at the government low rate, not the new commercial rate. The latter requirement seriously discourages export companies from their activities fostering them to find some ways (not always legal) to get around the government regulations. (references) | |
Trade | China | In mid-1998, however, SAFE cracked down on many of the loopholes used to get around the controls on capital account transactions. (references) |
Costa Rica | Foreign-owned banks in Costa Rica often include participation in credits by their parent banks to get around credit limitations dictated by the small size of the Costa Rican operation. (references) | |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Paul Harvey | Well, maybe I wasn't reading the clock as accurately as you do and I'd wait for the secondhand to get around to where it belonged and finished with good day. |
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Expression using "get around": get around to. 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 |
don t get around much anymore | 8 |
beach boy i get around | 7 |
don t get around much anymore lyrics | 5 |
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| Language | Translations for "get around"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | shërohem (be on the mend, cure, do well, get abroad, get better, get round, heal, mend, recover, recuperate, resume one's health), arrij (achieve, aggregate, amount, appear, arrive, attain, catch, catch up, come, come at, come off, develop, end up, exact, gain, gain on, get, get along, get at, get down, get on, get through, go in for, grow up, hit, make, obtain, overreach, overtake, reach, run up, seek for, steal, succeed, take, take care, top, total, touch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | إستوعب (absorb, assimilate, compass, digest, imbibe, ingest, realize, stomach, suck, swallow, take in), أصبح ذو تجربة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | поразчувам се. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | tourner, contourner. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | unter die leute kommen, sich verbreiten (expatiate, expound, hold forth, open out, propagate, sound off, spread, spread oneself out), herumkommen (come round, get round), herumgehen (go about, go around, go round, run about, skirt, walk around, wander around). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κυκλοφορώ (circulate, get about, get round, pass, release), μετακινώ (move, move remove, redeploy, remove, shift, shuffle, to move, to transfer, transfer), αποφεύγω με επιδεξιότητα. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ל"יות בקי ב- (be familiar with, know one's stuff, know the ropes), ל"יות בעל סיון, לטיל (go on trip, hike, promenade, ride, stretch one's legs, take an outing, walk), ל וע (get about, move, range, rove, stir, tremble, wander). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | megkerül (be found, bypass, compass, outflank, put by, to by-pass, to circle, to circumvent, to compass, to get around, to get round, to pass round, to round), hozzáfog valamihez. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | andare in giro (gallivant, rove). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 広がる (to extend, to get around, to reach to, to spread, to stretch), 拡がる (to extend, to get around, to reach to, to spread, to stretch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ひろがる (to extend, to get around, to reach to, to spread, to stretch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | etgay arounday propagar-se (travel), persuadir (advise, bring, cajole, coax, cog, convince, counsel, dispose of, induce, insinuate, lead, move, persuade, post, seduce, talk into, urge, woo), espalhar-se (effuse, permeation, pullulate, spread), difundir-se, deslocar-se (lob, travel, travelling), dar-se bem com (friendness), começar (begin, come on, commence, go, handsel, inchoate, initiate, kick out, lead off, open, originate, set in, set off, set to, start, strike up, tee off), chegar (achieve, arrive, climax, come, get, get into, land, measure up to, set in, suffice, to arrive, turn up), atingir (accomplish, achieve, arrive, attain, catch, culminate, gain, get, get home early, hit, import business, measure up to, overtake, reach, run, run across, run to, smite, strike, touch), alcançar (accomplish, achieve, acquire, arrive, attain, catch up, come, compass, comprehend, earn a living, fetch, gain, get, go, grasp, have, obtain, overtake, reach, reach for, run down, touch, understand). (various references) становиться известным (boom, get about), распространиться (get about). (various references) kretati se (budge, get going, move, move about). (various references) viajar mucho (gad about, get about), viajar (come off, drive, go, journey, live, ride, to travel, tour, travel, traveling, wander), tener experiencia, salir mucho (gad about, get about), llegar (arrive, blow in, break through, bring up, catch, come, come across, come in, come of, come over, come round, come through, dock, draw in, end up, get, get in, immigrate, infiltrate, invade, jockey, land, last out, pass, pull in, reach, ride up, roll along, roll in, roll up, spend, throw out, to arrive, top off, touch down, travel, turn up, vaporize), levantarse y salir (get about), ir a muchos sitios (get about), ir a muchos lugares (get about), empezar a estudiar (get down). (various references) vara uppe (be up, get about), fara omkring (get about, travel about). (various references) gezinmek (bat around, go for a stroll, go for a walk, hang about, hang around, mosey, perambulate, promenade, roam, rove, rove about, stray, stroll, take a stroll, take a walk, walk about, walk around, wander, wander about), yolunu bulmak (conjure, find one's bearings, get one's bearings, manage, unthread), yayılmak (be out at grass, be rife, branch, circulate, diffuse, disperse, effuse, emanate, expand, fan, fan out, get about, get round, go, grow rife, loll, lounge, mushroom, outstretch, overspread, permeate, pervade, ramble, ramp, resound, scatter, splay, sprawl, spread, spread oneself, spread out, stretch, unfold), yasal boşluktan faydalanmak. (various references) ставати відомим (divulge, get about), пересуватися (get about, locomote). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: outranged. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-g-n-o-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: dragonet, outraged, outrange, ragouted, trudgeon. | |
-2 letters: aground, daunter, dragnet, garoted, gaunter, granted, groaned, grouted, grunted, guerdon, natured, negator, outdare, outdrag, outearn, outrage, outrang, outread, readout, rondeau, rotunda, tangoed, tongued, trudgen, undergo, unrated, untread. | |
-3 letters: aerugo, ardent, argent, argued, around, atoned, atoner, augend, autoed, danger, detour, dogear, donate, dotage, dragon, drogue, enduro, gander, garden. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-g-n-o-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: outreading. | |
+2 letters: beardtongue, dreadnought, groundwater, nongraduate, outdreaming. | |
+3 letters: battleground, beardtongues, deregulation, dreadnoughts, edulcorating, groundwaters, nongraduates, nonregulated, outbargained, outgeneraled, outorganized, outspreading, undercoating. | |
+4 letters: battlegrounds, coastguardmen, congratulated, counterargued, degranulation, deregulations, deuteragonist, grandiloquent, overeducating, ruggedization, undercoatings. | |
+5 letters: coastguardsmen, counterchanged, countercharged, countermanding, counterraiding, countershading, degranulations, deuteragonists, discouragement, gastroduodenal, pseudopregnant, ruggedizations. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 65 74      41 72 6F 75 6E 64 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01100101 01110100 00100000 01000001 01110010 01101111 01110101 01101110 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G e t   A r o u n d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0065 0074      0041 0072 006F 0075 006E 0064 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4171862358481878070 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Quotations: Spoken 10. Expressions 11. Expressions: Internet 12. Translations: Modern | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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