Receiving

verb

1. To gain possession of

   "got a new bicycle"

2. To receive as a return earn

   "he got a bad reputation for carelessness"

3. To obtain by concession or entreaty

   "get your mother's permission to go"

4. To become affected by (a disease or bodily condition) catch

   "got measles from his sister"

5. To seek out and obtain

   "hoped to get dinner at the inn"

6. To obtain and bring where wanted or needed

   "get a pencil from the desk"

7. Beget
8. To cause to come or go

   "quickly got his luggage through customs"

9. To cause to move

   "get it out of the house"

10. To cause to be in a certain position or condition

    "got his feet wet"

11. To make ready prepare

    "get breakfast"

12. To be subjected to

    "got a bad fall"

13. To receive by way of punishment
14. To suffer a specified injury to

    "got my nose broken"

15. To achieve as a result of military activity
16. To obtain or receive by way of benefit or advantage

    "he got little for his trouble"

17. Seize

    "The dog got the thief by the leg."

18. Overcome

    "Such practices will surely get you in the end."

19. To have an emotional effect on

    "the final scene always gets me"

20. Irritate

    "the delays were starting to get her"

21. Puzzle

    "This problem really gets me."

22. To take vengeance on
23. Hit
24. To prevail on cause

    "finally got them to tidy up their room"

25. Have
26. To have as an obligation or necessity
27. To find out by calculation

    "get the answer to a problem"

28. Memorize

    "got the verse by heart"

29. Hear

    "Sorry, but I didn't get your name."

30. Understand

    "he got the joke"

31. To establish communication with
32. To put out in baseball
33. Deliver

    "the car gets 20 miles to the gallon"

34. To succeed in coming or going to bring or move oneself

    "get away to the country"

35. To reach or enter into a certain condition

    "got to sleep after midnight"

36. To make progress

    "hasn't gotten far with the essay"

37. To acquire wealth
38. To be able

    "never got to go to college"

39. To come to be
40. To succeed in becoming become

    "how to get clear of all the debts I owe"

41. To become involved

    "people who get into trouble with the law"

42. To leave immediately

    "told them to get"

43. Used with the past participle of transitive verbs as a passive voice auxiliary

idiom

1. Getting old

idiom

1. Becoming acquainted with

   "We just bought a house here last month, and we're still getting to know our neighbors."

idiom

1. Used to say that time is passing and especially that evening or late evening is coming

idiom

1. Used to say that someone is getting older and may not have much more time to do something

idiom

1. To require that one become familiar with something so that it seems normal or usual

   "The new color is nice, but it'll take some getting used to."

adjective

1. Having personal knowledge of something having seen or experienced something
2. Having met being known to and having knowledge of someone

   "two people who are not yet acquainted"

noun

1. A cutting tool that consists of a heavy edged head fixed to a handle with the edge parallel to the handle and that is used especially for felling trees and chopping and splitting wood
2. A hammer with a sharp edge for dressing see dress or spalling stone
3. Removal from office or release from employment dismissal
4. Abrupt elimination or severe reduction of something

   "Unlimited expense accounts, signing bonuses, and office plants—all are getting the ax =being cut or eliminated thanks to corporate cost-cutting measures."

5. Any of several musical instruments (such as a guitar or a saxophone)

noun

1. A hollow metallic device that gives off a reverberating sound when struck
2. Doorbell
3. The sounding of a bell as a signal
4. A stroke of a bell (as on shipboard) to indicate the time
5. A half hour period of a watch on shipboard indicated by the strokes of a bell see Ship's Bells Table
6. The corolla of a flower
7. A bell-shaped organ or part (such as the dewlap of a moose)
8. The part of the capital of a column between the abacus and neck molding
9. The flared end of a wind instrument
10. The open mouth of a nozzle (such as of the exhaust of a jet engine)

    "The heating was so intense … that the gas went rushing out the tail of the engine at 30,000 feet per second, or twice the speed at which exhaust leaves the bell of a conventional engine."

11. A percussion instrument consisting of metal bars or tubes that when struck give out tones resembling bells
12. Glockenspiel

adjective

1. Changed by bending out of an originally straight or even condition

   "bent twigs"

2. Strongly inclined determined
3. Different from the normal or usual

   "… she was so bent that she's probably a woman who ought to be locked up somewhere …"

4. Dishonest, corrupt

   "a bent cop"

5. Intoxicated, drunk

   "Like to get bent? This hangover beater will help you get back on track."