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What does get mean?

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Verb
  1. (ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire.
  2. (transitive) To receive.
  3. To have. See usage notes.
  4. (copular verb) To become.
  5. (transitive) To cause to become; to bring about.
  6. (transitive) To fetch, bring, take.
  7. (transitive) To cause to do.
  8. (into) To adopt, assume, arrive at, or progress towards (a certain position, location, state).
  9. (transitive) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
  10. (transitive) To cause to come or go or move.
  11. (transitive) To cause to be in a certain status or position.
  12. (intransitive) To begin (doing something).
  13. (transitive) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
  14. (transitive) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
  15. (intransitive, followed by infinitive) To be able, permitted (to do something); to have the opportunity (to do something).
  16. (transitive, informal) To understand. (compare get it)
  17. (transitive, informal) To be told; be the recipient of (a question, comparison, opinion, etc.).
  18. (informal) To be. Used to form the passive of verbs.
  19. (transitive) To become ill with or catch (a disease).
  20. (transitive, informal) To catch out, trick successfully.
  21. (transitive, informal) To perplex, stump.
  22. (transitive) To find as an answer.
  23. (transitive, informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
  24. (transitive) To hear completely; catch.
  25. (transitive) To getter.
  26. (now rare) To beget (of a father).
  27. (archaic) To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out.
  28. (imperative, informal) Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
  29. (informal, chiefly imperative) Go away; get lost.
  30. (euphemistic) To kill.
  31. (intransitive, obsolete) To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.
Noun
  1. (dated) Offspring.
  2. Lineage.
  3. (sports) A difficult return or block of a shot.
  4. Something gained.
Noun
  1. (Britain, regional) A git.
Noun
  1. (Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.
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