Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Get \Get\ (g[e^]t), v. t. [imp. {Got} (g[o^]t) (Obs. {Gat}
   (g[a^]t)); p. p. {Got} (Obsolescent {Gotten} (g[o^]t"t'n));
   p. pr. & vb. n. {Getting}.] [OE. geten, AS. gitan, gietan (in
   comp.); akin to Icel. geta, Goth. bigitan to find, L.
   prehendere to seize, take, Gr. chanda`nein to hold, contain.
   Cf. {Comprehend}, {Enterprise}, {Forget}, {Impregnable},
   {Prehensile}.]
   1. To procure; to obtain; to gain possession of; to acquire;
      to earn; to obtain as a price or reward; to come by; to
      win, by almost any means; as, to get favor by kindness; to
      get wealth by industry and economy; to get land by
      purchase, etc.

   2. Hence, with have and had, to come into or be in possession
      of; to have. --Johnson.

            Thou hast got the face of man.        --Herbert.

   3. To beget; to procreate; to generate.

            I had rather to adopt a child than get it. --Shak.

   4. To obtain mental possession of; to learn; to commit to
      memory; to memorize; as to get a lesson; also with out;
      as, to get out one's Greek lesson.

            It being harder with him to get one sermon by heart,
            than to pen twenty.                   --Bp. Fell.

   5. To prevail on; to induce; to persuade.

            Get him to say his prayers.           --Shak.

   6. To procure to be, or to cause to be in any state or
      condition; -- with a following participle.

            Those things I bid you do; get them dispatched.
                                                  --Shak.

   7. To betake; to remove; -- in a reflexive use.

            Get thee out from this land.          --Gen. xxxi.
                                                  13.

            He . . . got himself . . . to the strong town of
            Mega.                                 --Knolles.

   Note: Get, as a transitive verb, is combined with adverbs
         implying motion, to express the causing to, or the
         effecting in, the object of the verb, of the kind of
         motion indicated by the preposition; thus, to get in,
         to cause to enter, to bring under shelter; as, to get
         in the hay; to get out, to make come forth, to extract;
         to get off, to take off, to remove; to get together, to
         cause to come together, to collect.

   {To get by heart}, to commit to memory.

   {To get the better of}, {To get the best of}, to obtain an
      advantage over; to surpass; to subdue.

   {To get up}, to cause to be established or to exit; to
      prepare; to arrange; to construct; to invent; as, to get
      up a celebration, a machine, a book, an agitation.

   Syn: To obtain; gain; win; acquire. See {Obtain}.

Getting \Get"ting\, n.
   1. The act of obtaining or acquiring; acquisition.

            With all thy getting, get understanding. --Prov. iv.
                                                  7.

   2. That which is got or obtained; gain; profit.

Source : WordNet®

getting
     See {get}

getting
     n : the act of acquiring something; "I envied his talent for
         acquiring"; "he's much more interested in the getting
         than in the giving" [syn: {acquiring}]

get
     v 1: come into the possession of something concrete or abstract;
          "She got a lot of paintings from her uncle"; "They
          acquired a new pet"; "Get your results the next day";
          "Get permission to take a few days off from work" [syn:
          {acquire}]
     2: enter or assume a certain state or condition; "He became
        annoyed when he heard the bad news"; "It must be getting
        more serious"; "her face went red with anger"; "She went
        into ecstasy"; "Get going!" [syn: {become}, {go}]
     3: cause to move; cause to be in a certain position or
        condition; "He got his squad on the ball"; "This let me in
        for a big surprise"; "He got a girl into trouble" [syn: {let},
         {have}]
     4: receive a specified treatment (abstract); "These aspects of
        civilization do not find expression or receive an
        interpretation"; "His movie received a good review"; "I
        got nothing but trouble for my good intentions" [syn: {receive},
         {find}, {obtain}, {incur}]
     5: reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress; "She
        arrived home at 7 o'clock"; "She didn't get to Chicago
        until after midnight" [syn: {arrive}, {come}] [ant: {leave}]
     6: go or come after and bring or take back; "Get me those books
        over there, please"; "Could you bring the wine?"; "The dog
        fetched the hat" [syn: {bring}, {convey}, {fetch}] [ant: {take
        away}]
     7: of mental or physical states or experiences; "get an idea";
        "experience vertigo"; "get nauseous"; "undergo a strange
        sensation"; "The chemical undergoes a sudden change"; "The
        fluid undergoes shear"; "receive injuries"; "have a
        feeling" [syn: {experience}, {receive}, {have}, {undergo}]
     8: take vengeance on or get even; "We'll get them!"; "That'll
        fix him good!"; "This time I got him" [syn: {pay back}, {pay
        off}, {fix}]
     9: achieve a point or goal; "Nicklaus had a 70"; "The Brazilian
        team got 4 goals"; "She made 29 points that day" [syn: {have},
         {make}]
     10: cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner; "The ads
         induced me to buy a VCR"; "My children finally got me to
         buy a computer"; "My wife made me buy a new sofa" [syn: {induce},
          {stimulate}, {cause}, {have}, {make}]
     11: succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase;
         "We finally got the suspect"; "Did you catch the thief?"
         [syn: {catch}, {capture}]
     12: come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and
         attributes); "He grew a beard"; "The patient developed
         abdominal pains"; "I got funny spots all over my body";
         "Well-developed breasts" [syn: {grow}, {develop}, {produce},
          {acquire}]
     13: be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness; "He
         got AIDS"; "She came down with pneumonia"; "She took a
         chill" [syn: {contract}, {take}]
     14: communicate with a place or person; establish communication
         with, as if by telephone; "Bill called this number and he
         got Mary"; "The operator couldn't get Kobe because of the
         earthquake"
     15: give certain properties to something; "get someone mad";
         "She made us look silly"; "He made a fool of himself at
         the meeting"; "Don't make this into a big deal"; "This
         invention will make you a millionaire"; "Make yourself
         clear" [syn: {make}]
     16: move into a desired direction of discourse; "What are you
         driving at?" [syn: {drive}, {aim}]
     17: grasp with the mind or develop an undersatnding of; "did you
         catch that allusion?"; "We caught something of his theory
         in the lecture"; "don't catch your meaning"; "did you get
         it?"; "She didn't get the joke"; "I just don't get him"
         [syn: {catch}]
     18: attract and fix; "His look caught her"; "She caught his
         eye"; "Catch the attention of the waiter" [syn: {catch},
         {arrest}]
     19: reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot; "the rock
         caught her in the back of the head"; "The blow got him in
         the back"; "The punch caught him in the stomach" [syn: {catch}]
     20: reach by calculation; "What do you get when you add up these
         numbers?"
     21: acquire as a result of some effort or action; "You cannot
         get water out of a stone"; "Where did she get these
         news?"
     22: purchase; "What did you get at the toy store?"
     23: perceive by hearing; "I didn't catch your name"; "She didn't
         get his name when they met the first time" [syn: {catch}]
     24: suffer from the receipt of; "She will catch hell for this
         behavior!" [syn: {catch}]
     25: receive as a retribution or punishment; "He got 5 years in
         prison" [syn: {receive}]
     26: leave immediately; used usually in the imperative form;
         "Scram!" [syn: {scram}, {buzz off}, {fuck off}, {bugger
         off}]
     27: reach and board; "She got the bus just as it was leaving"
     28: irritate; "Her childish behavior really get to me"; "His
         lying really gets me" [syn: {get under one's skin}]
     29: evoke an emotional response; "Brahms's `Requiem' gets me
         every time"
     30: apprehend and reproduce accurately; "She really caught the
         spirit of the place in her drawings"; "She got the mood
         just right in her photographs" [syn: {catch}]
     31: in baseball: earn or achieve a base by being walked by the
         pitcher; "He drew a base on balls" [syn: {draw}]
     32: overcome or destroy; "The ice storm got my hibiscus"; "the
         cat got the goldfish"
     33: be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me--I
         don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This
         question really stuck me" [syn: {perplex}, {vex}, {stick},
          {puzzle}, {mystify}, {baffle}, {beat}, {pose}, {bewilder},
          {flummox}, {stupefy}, {nonplus}, {gravel}, {amaze}, {dumbfound}]
     34: take the first step or steps in carrying out an action; "We
         began working at dawn"; "Who will start?"; "Get working
         as soon as the sun rises!"; "The first tourists began to
         arrive in Cambodia"; "He began early in the day"; "Let's
         get down to work now" [syn: {get down}, {begin}, {start
         out}, {start}, {set about}, {set out}, {commence}] [ant:
         {end}]
     35: undergo (as of injuries and illnesses); "She suffered a
         fracture in the accident"; "He had an insulin shock after
         eating three candy bars"; "She got a bruise on her leg";
         "He got his arm broken in the scuffle" [syn: {suffer}, {sustain},
          {have}]
     36: make children; "Abraham begot Isaac"; "Men often father
         children but don't recognize them" [syn: {beget}, {engender},
          {father}, {mother}, {sire}, {generate}, {bring forth}]
     [also: {gotten}, {got}, {getting}]