Effort vs Get - What's the difference?
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The work involved in performing an activity; exertion.
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(uncommon) To make an effort.
(obsolete) To stimulate.
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(label) To obtain; to acquire.
(label) To receive.
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, title= To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
(label) To become.
* (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (1772-1834)
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, title= (label) To cause to become; to bring about.
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, title= (label) To fetch, bring, take.
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* (Richard Knolles) (1545-1610)
(label) To cause to do.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
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, chapter=5, title= To adopt, assume, arrive at, or progress towards (a certain position, location, state).
* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
(label) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
(label) To cause to come or go or move.
(label) To cause to be in a certain status or position.
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(label) To begin (doing something).
(label) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
(label) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
To be able, permitted (to do something); to have the opportunity (to do something).
To be subjected to.
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(label) To be.
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(label) To become ill with or catch (a disease).
To catch out, trick successfully.
To perplex, stump.
(label) To find as an answer.
To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
(label) To hear completely; catch.
(label) To .
To beget (of a father).
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(label) To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out .
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Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
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Lineage.
(sports, tennis) A difficult return or block of a shot.
Something gained.
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(Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.
As nouns the difference between effort and get
is that effort is the work involved in performing an activity; exertion while get is offspring or get can be (british|regional) a git or get can be (judaism) a jewish writ of divorce.As verbs the difference between effort and get
is that effort is (uncommon|intransitive) to make an effort while get is (label) to obtain; to acquire.effort
English
Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking.}}
Manchester United offer Park Ji-sung a new two-year contract, passage=The 30-year-old South Korean, who joined United in 2005, retired from international duty after last season's Asian Cup in an effort to prolong his club}}
Geothermal Energy, volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame.}}
The British Longitude Act Reconsidered, passage=But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea.}}
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Usage notes
* Adjectives often used with "effort": conscious, good, poor, etc.Synonyms
*Derived terms
* best efforts * centre of effort * effort distance * effortless * make an effortVerb
(en verb)- He efforted his spirits.
Statistics
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English
(wikipedia get)Etymology 1
From (etyl) geten, from (etyl) 'to seize'. Cognate with Latin prehendo.Verb
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Afore we got to the shanty Colonel Applegate stuck his head out of the door. His temper had been getting raggeder all the time, and the sousing he got when he fell overboard had just about ripped what was left of it to ravellings.}}
- We mourn, France smiles; we lose, they daily get .
- His chariot wheels get hot by driving fast.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Afore we got to the shanty Colonel Applegate stuck his head out of the door. His temper had been getting raggeder all the time, and the sousing he got when he fell overboard had just about ripped what was left of it to ravellings.}}
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.}}
- Get thee out from this land.
- Heto the strong town of Mega.
- Get him to say his prayers.
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Pulling the Strings, passage=Anstruther laughed good-naturedly. “[…] I shall take out half a dozen intelligent maistries from our Press and get them to give our villagers instruction when they begin work and when they are in the fields.”}}
- to get rid of fools and scoundrels
- to get a mile
- Get thee behind me.
- Do you mind? Excuse me / I saw you over there / Can I just tell you ¶ Although there are millions of / Cephalophores that wander through this world / You've got something extra going on / I think you probably know ¶ You probably get that a lot / I'll bet that people say that a lot to you, girl
- I had rather to adopt a child than get it.
- Walter had said, dear God, Thomas, it was St fucking Felicity if I'm not mistaken, and her face was to the wall for sure the night I got you.
- it being harder with him to get one sermon by heart, than to pen twenty
Let's move to ..., The Guardian :
- Money's pouring in somewhere, because Churchgate's got lovely new stone setts, and a cultural quarter (ooh, get her) is promised.
Usage notes
In dialects featuring the past participle gotten, the form "gotten" is not used universally as the past participle. Rather, inchoative and concessive uses (with meanings such as "obtain" or "become", or "am permitted to") use "gotten" as their past participle, whereas stative uses (with meanings like "have") use "got" as their past participlehttp://www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/aue/gotten.html] and [http://www.miketodd.net/encyc/gotten.htm http://www.miketodd.net/encyc/gotten.htm, thus enabling users of "gotten"-enabled dialects to make distinctions such as "I've gotten (received) my marks" vs. "I've got (possess) my marks"; a subtle distinction, to be sure, but a useful one. The first example probably means that the person has received them, and has them somewhere, whereas the second probably means that they have them in their hand right now.
Synonyms
* (obtain) acquire, come by, have * (receive) receive, be given * (fetch) bring, fetch, retrieve * (become) become * (cause to become) cause to be, cause to become, make * (cause to do) make * (arrive) arrive at, reach * come, go, travel * : go, move * (begin) begin, commence, start * : catch, take * : answer * be able to * dig, follow, make sense of, understand * : be * : catch, come down with * con, deceive, dupe, hoodwink, trick * confuse, perplex, stump * (find as an answer) obtain * : catch, nab, nobble * (physically assault) assault, beat, beat up * catch, hear * (getter) getterAntonyms
* (obtain) loseDerived terms
* beget * forget * from the get-go * get about * get a charge out of * get across * get across to * get action * get after * get ahead of oneself * get a look in * get along * get along with * get around * get around to * get at * get away * get away from * get away with * get back * get back to * get behind * get better * get beyond * get by * get carried away * get done * get down * get going * get in * get in with * get into * get into trouble * get it * get it across one's head * get it into one's head * get it on * get it over with * get knotted * get lost * get moving * get off * get off easy * get off lightly * get off with * get on * get one over on * get one's end away * get one's rocks off * get on in years * get on to * get on with * get out * get out of * get over * get-rich-quick * get round * get round to * get some air * get someone's goat * get stuffed * get the goods on * get there * get the time to * get through * get through to * get to * get to be * get together * get under * get up * get up in * get up to * get well soon * get with the program, get with the programme * go-getter * go-getting * got * have gotNoun
(en noun)- ‘You were a high lord's get . Don't tell me Lord Eddard Stark of Winterfell never killed a man.’
- I had reconnected with the lust of my life while landing a big get for the magazine.