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Princeton University - WordNet - a lexical database for the English language Category: General Date & country: 27/01/2008, USA Words: 85192

get on
verb appear in a show, on T.V. or radio; `The news won`t be on tonight`

get out
get around verb be released or become known; of news; `News of her death broke in the morning`

get over
verb to bring (a necessary but unpleasant task) to an end; `Let`s get this job over with`; `It`s a question of getting over an unpleasant task`

get over
subdue verb get on top of; deal with successfully; `He overcame his shyness`

get rid of
verb dispose of; `Get rid of these old shoes!`; `The company got rid of all the dead wood`

get the better of
overcome 3 defeat verb win a victory over; `You must overcome all difficulties`; `defeat your enemies`; `He overcame his shyness`; `She conquered here fear of mice`; `He overcame his infirmity`; `Her anger got the better of her and she blew up`

get the goods
verb discover some bad or hidden information about; `She got the goods on her co-worker after reading his e-mail`

get the hang
verb be or become completely proficient or skilled in; `She mastered Japanese in less than two years`

get the jump
verb be there first; `They had gotten the jump on their competitors`

get through
wrap up 4 finish off verb finish a task completely; `I finally got through this homework assignment`

get through
dawn d come home d get across verb become clear or enter one`s consciousness or emotions; `It dawned on him that she had betrayed him`; `she was penetrated with sorrow`

get to
verb arrive at the point of; `She gets to fretting if I stay away from home too long`

get to
verb reach a goal, e.g., `make the first team`; `We made it!`; `She may not make the grade`

get together
noun a small informal social gathering; `there was an informal meeting in my living room`

get up
turn out verb get up and out of bed; `I get up at 7 A.M. every day`; `They rose early`; `He uprose at night`

get well
get over verb improve in health; `He got well fast`

get worse
relapse verb deteriorate in health; `he relapsed`

get-well card
noun a card expressing get-well wishes

geta
patten noun footwear usually with wooden soles

getaway
lam noun a rapid escape (as by criminals); `the thieves made a clean getaway`; `after the expose he had to take it on the lam`

gettable
getable adjective capable of being obtained; `savings of up to 50 percent are obtainable`

Gettysburg
Battle of Gettysburg noun a battle of the American Civil War (1863); the defeat of Robert E. Lee`s invading Confederate army was a major victory for the Union

Gettysburg Address
noun a three-minute address by Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War at the dedication of a national cemetery on the site of the Battle of Gettysburg (November 19, 1863)

getup
noun a set of clothing (with accessories); `his getup was exceedingly elegant`

Geum alleppicum strictum
Geum strictum noun erect subshrub with deep yellow flowers; Europe and Asia and North America

Geum canadense
noun North American white-flowered avens

Geum macrophyllum
noun hairy yellow-flowered plant of eastern Asia and North America

Geum virginianum
noun avens of Virginia having pale or greenish yellow flowers

geyser
verb to overflow like a geyser

Ghanaian
Ghanese adjective of or relating to or characteristic of Ghana or its people or language; `Ghanaian cocoa production`

gharry
noun a horse-drawn carriage in India

ghastliness
grimness 2 gruesomeness noun the quality of being ghastly

ghastly
grim adjective shockingly repellent; inspiring horror; `ghastly wounds`; `the grim aftermath of the bombing`; `the grim task of burying the victims`; `a grisly murder`; `gruesome evidence of human sacrifice`; `macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages`; `macabre tortures conceived by madmen`

ghat
noun stairway in India leading down to a landing on the water

ghee
noun clarified butter used in Indian cookery

Gheg
Gheg dialect noun the dialect of Albanian spoken in northern Albania and Yugoslavia

ghetto
noun formerly the restricted quarter of many European cities in which Jews were required to live; `the Warsaw ghetto`

ghetto blaster
boom box noun a portable stereo

ghettoize
ghettoise verb put in a ghetto; `The Jews in Eastern Europe were ghettoized`

ghillie
gillie noun a shoe without a tongue and with decorative lacing up the instep

ghost
shade 1 spook noun a mental representation of some haunting experience; `he looked like he had seen a ghost`; `it aroused specters from his past`

ghost
noun a suggestion of some quality; `there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone`; `he detected a ghost of a smile on her face`

ghost dance
noun a religious dance of native Americans looking for communication with the dead

ghost town
noun a deserted settlement (especially in Western United States)

ghost word
noun a word form that has entered the language through the perpetuation of an error

ghoulish
morbid adjective suggesting the horror of death and decay; `morbid details`

ghrelin
noun a hormone produced by stomach cells; `ghrelin is thought to increase feelings of hunger`

GI series
noun diagnostic tests of the alimentary canal; usually involves inserting a contrast medium (such as barium sulfate) and taking an X-ray

giant
noun any creature of exceptional size

giant
heavyweight 3 whale noun a very large person; impressive in size or qualities

giant anteater
great anteater noun large shaggy-haired toothless anteater with long tongue and powerful claws; of South America

giant armadillo
tatou noun about three feet long exclusive of tail

giant clam
Tridacna gigas noun a large clam inhabiting reefs in the southern Pacific and weighing up to 500 pounds

giant cockroach
noun large tropical American cockroaches

giant conch
Strombus gigas noun a large variety of conch

giant crab
Macrocheira kaempferi noun very large deep-water Japanese crab

giant eland
Taurotragus derbianus noun large dark striped eland of western equatorial Africa

giant hornet
Vespa crabro noun European hornet introduced into the United States

giant kangaroo
great grey kangaroo noun very large greyish-brown Australian kangaroo formerly abundant in open wooded areas

giant moa
Dinornis giganteus noun the largest moa; about 12 feet high

giant northwest shipworm
Bankia setaceae noun giant shipworm of the Pacific coast of North America

giant panda
panda 1 panda bear noun large black-and-white herbivorous mammal of bamboo forests of China and Tibet; in some classifications considered a member of the bear family or of a separate family Ailuropodidae

giant petrel
giant fulmar noun large brownish petrel chiefly of Antarctic seas

giant pigfish
Achoerodus gouldii noun found around the Great Barrier Reef

giant potato creeper
Solanum wendlandii noun vine of Costa Rica sparsely armed with hooklike spines and having large lilac-blue flowers

giant salamander
Megalobatrachus maximus noun large (up to more than three feet) edible salamander of Asia

giant schnauzer
noun a large schnauzer

giant silkworm moth
noun any silkworm moth of the family Saturniidae

giant silkworm
wild wilkworm noun larva of a saturniid moth; spins a large amount of strong silk in constructing its cocoon

giant tortoise
noun very large tortoises of the Galapagos and Seychelles islands

giant water bug
noun large water bug with piercing and sucking mouthparts; feeds on young fishes

giant willowherb
rosebay willowherb noun tall North American perennial with creeping rootstocks and narrow leaves and spikes of pinkish-purple flowers occurring in great abundance in burned-over areas or recent clearings; an important honey plant

giardia
noun a suspected cause of diarrhea in humans

gib
noun a castrated tomcat

gibberish
gibber noun unintelligible talking

gibbet
verb hang on an execution instrument

gibbon
Hylobates lar noun smallest and most perfectly anthropoid arboreal ape having long arms and no tail; of southern Asia and East Indies

gibbous
gibbose adjective (used of the moon) more than half full

giblet
giblets noun edible viscera of a fowl

Gibraltarian
adjective of or relating to Gibraltar or its inhabitants; `Gibraltarian customs office`

Gibson
Charles Dana Gibson noun United States illustrator remembered for his creation of the `Gibson girl` (1867-1944)

Gidar
noun a Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad

giddiness
noun an impulsive scatterbrained manner

gift
present verb give as a present; make a gift of; `What will you give her for her birthday?`

gift shop
novelty shop noun a shop that sells miscellaneous articles appropriate as gifts

gift wrapping
noun ornamental wrapping for gifts

gift-wrap
verb wrap (a gift) attractively

gig
noun a booking for musicians; `they played a gig in New Jersey`

gig
noun an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish

gigantism
giantism noun excessive largeness of stature

Gigartinaceae
family Gigartinaceae noun a family of protoctist

giggle
noun a foolish or nervous laugh

GIGO
noun (computer science) a rule stating that the quality of the output is a function of the quality of the input; put garbage in and you get garbage out

Gikuyu
noun a Bantu language spoken in western Kenya

Gila monster
Heloderma suspectum noun large orange and black lizard of southwestern United States; not dangerous unless molested

Gilbert and Sullivan
noun the music of Gilbert and Sullivan; `he could sing all of Gilbert and Sullivan`

Gilbertian
adjective wildly comic and improbable as in Gilbert and Sullivan operas; `a Gilbertian world people with foundlings and changelings`- T.C.Worsley

gild
begild verb decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold

gild the lily
paint the lily verb make unnecessary additions to what is already complete

gilded
meretricious adjective based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; `the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility`; `meretricious praise`; `a meretricious argument`