get vs scram what difference

what is difference between get and scram

English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɡɛt/, /ɡɪt/
Rhymes: -ɛt

Etymology 1

From Middle English geten, from Old Norse geta, from Proto-Germanic *getaną (compare Old English ġietan, Old High German pigezzan (“to uphold”), Gothic ???????????????????????????? (bigitan, “to find, discover”)), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰed- (“to seize”).

Verb

get (third-person singular simple present gets, present participle getting, simple past got or (archaic) gat, past participle gotten or (England, Australia, New Zealand) got or (Geordie) getten)

(ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire.
(transitive) To receive.
(transitive, in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes.
(transitive) To fetch, bring, take.
- Get thee out from this land.
(copulative) To become, or cause oneself to become.
- November 1, 1833, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk
  His chariot wheels get hot by driving fast.
(transitive) To cause to become; to bring about.
(transitive) To cause to do.
(transitive) To cause to come or go or move.
(intransitive, with various prepositions, such as into, over, or behind; for specific idiomatic senses see individual entries get into, get over, etc.) To adopt, assume, arrive at, or progress towards (a certain position, location, state).
(transitive) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
(intransitive) To begin (doing something or to do something).
(transitive) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
(transitive) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
(intransitive, followed by infinitive) To be able, be permitted, or have the opportunity (to do something desirable or ironically implied to be desirable).
(transitive, informal) To understand. (compare get it)
(transitive, informal) To be told; be the recipient of (a question, comparison, opinion, etc.).
(informal) To be. Used to form the passive of verbs.
(transitive) To become ill with or catch (a disease).
(transitive, informal) To catch out, trick successfully.
(transitive, informal) To perplex, stump.
(transitive) To find as an answer.
(transitive, informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
(transitive) To hear completely; catch.
(transitive) To getter.
(now rare) To beget (of a father).
- 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate 2010, page 310:
  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.
(archaic) To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out.
(imperative, informal) Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
- 1966, Dorothy Fields, If My Friends Could See Me Now (song)
  Brother, get her! Draped on a bedspread made from three kinds of fur!
- 2007, Tom Dyckhoff, 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.
(intransitive, informal, chiefly imperative) To go, to leave; to scram.
- 1991, Theodore Dreiser, T. D. Nostwich, Newspaper Days, University of Pennsylvania Press →ISBN, page 663
  Get, now — get! — before I call an officer and lay a charge against ye.
- 1952, Fredric Brown and Mack Reynolds, Me and Flapjack and the Martians
  I had a sneaking suspicion that it wasn’t no flashlight and I wasn’t too curious, just then, to find out what would happen if he did more than wave it at me, so I got. I went back about twenty feet or so and watched.
- 2010, Sarah Webb, The Loving Kind, Pan Macmillan →ISBN:
  ‘Go on, get. You look a state. We can’t let Leo see you like that.’
- 2012, Paul Zindel, Ladies at the Alamo, Graymalkin Media (→ISBN):
  Now go on, get! Get! Get! (she chases Joanne out the door with the hammer.)
- 2016, April Daniels, Dreadnought, Diversion Books (→ISBN):
  “ […] and then I’ll switch over to the police band to know when the bacon’s getting ready to stick its nose in. When I tell you to get, you get, understand?” Calamity asks as she retapes the earbud into her ear.
(euphemistic) To kill.
They’re coming to get you, Barbara.
(intransitive, obsolete) To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.
(transitive) To measure.

Usage notes

The meaning “to have” is found only in perfect tenses but has present meaning; hence “I have got” has the same meaning as “I have”. (Sometimes the form had got is used to mean “had”, as in “He said they couldn’t find the place because they’d got the wrong address”.) In speech and in all except formal writing, the word “have” is normally reduced to /v/ and spelled “-‘ve” or dropped entirely (e.g. “I got a God-fearing woman, one I can easily afford”, Slow Train, Bob Dylan), leading to nonstandard usages such as “he gots” = “he has”, “he doesn’t got” = “he doesn’t have”.
Some dialects (e.g. American English dialects) use both gotten and got as past participles, while others (e.g. dialects of Southern England) use only got. In dialects that use both, got is used for the meanings “to have” and “to have to”, while gotten is used for all other meanings. This allows for a distinction between “I’ve gotten a ticket” (I have received or obtained a ticket) vs. “I’ve got a ticket” (I currently have a ticket).
“get” is one of the most common verbs in English, and the many meanings may be confusing for language learners. The following table indicates some of the different constructions found, along with the most common meanings of each:

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
(go, leave): get out go, leave, scram
(adopt or assume (a position or state)): go, move
(begin): begin, commence, start
(catch (a means of public transport)): catch, take
(respond to (telephone, doorbell)): answer
(be able to; have the opportunity to do): be able to
(informal: understand): dig, follow, make sense of, understand
(informal: be (used to form the passive)): be
(informal: catch (a disease)): catch, come down with
(informal: trick): con, deceive, dupe, hoodwink, trick
(informal: perplex): confuse, perplex, stump
(find as an answer): obtain
(bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal)): catch, nab, nobble
(physically assault): assault, beat, beat up
(informal: hear): catch, hear
(getter): getter

Antonyms

(obtain): lose

Derived terms

Related terms

guess

Translations

Noun

get (plural gets)

(dated) Offspring.
- 1810, Thomas Hornby Morland, The genealogy of the English race horse (page 71)
  At the time when I am making these observations, one of his colts is the first favourite for the Derby; and it will be recollected, that a filly of his get won the Oaks in 1808.
- 1999, George RR Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam 2011, page 755:
  ‘You were a high lord’s get. Don’t tell me Lord Eddard Stark of Winterfell never killed a man.’
Lineage.
(sports, tennis) A difficult return or block of a shot.
(informal) Something gained; an acquisition.

Etymology 2

Variant of git.

Noun

get (plural gets)

(Britain, regional) A git.

Etymology 3

From Hebrew גֵּט‎ (gēṭ).

Noun

get (plural gets or gittim or gitten)

(Judaism) A Jewish writ of divorce.
- 2013, Dan Cohn-Sherbok, ‎George D. Chryssides, ‎Dawoud El-Alami, Love, Sex and Marriage (page 143)
  In Israel, rabbinic courts can imprison men until they acquiesce and grant gets to their wives.

Alternative forms

gett

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:get.

References

get at OneLook Dictionary Search
get in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

GTE, TGE, teg

Icelandic

Verb

get

inflection of geta:
1. first-person singular present indicative
2. singular imperative

Ladino

Etymology

From Hebrew גט‎.

Noun

get m (Latin spelling)

divorce

Limburgish

Etymology

From Middle Dutch iewet, iet. The diphthong /ie̯/ developed into /je/ word-initially, as it did in High German, and the onset was then enclitically hardened to ⟨g⟩ (/ʝ/). Cognate with Dutch iets, Central Franconian jet, northern Luxembourgish jett, gett, English aught.

Pronoun

get

something

Mauritian Creole

Verb

get

Medial form of gete

Middle English

Alternative forms

geet, gete, jet, gette, geete, jete, jeete

Etymology

From a northern form of Old French jayet, jaiet, gaiet, from Latin gagātēs, from Ancient Greek Γαγάτης (Gagátēs).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /dʒɛːt/, /dʒɛt/

Noun

get (uncountable)

jet, hardened coal
A bead made of jet.
A jet-black pigment.

Descendants

English: jet

References

“ǧē̆t, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-24.

Old Norse

Etymology

From geta.

Noun

get n

(rare) a guess

Declension

Verb

get

first-person singular present indicative of geta
second-person singular imperative of geta

References

get in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse geit, from Proto-Germanic *gaits.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʝeːt/

Noun

gēt f

goat

Declension

Descendants

Swedish: get

Romanian

Etymology

From French Gétes, Latin Getae, from Ancient Greek.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /d͡ʒet/
Rhymes: -et

Noun

get m (plural geți, feminine equivalent getă)

Get, one of the Getae, Greek name for the Dacian people

Synonyms

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish gēt, from Old Norse geit, from Proto-Germanic *gaits, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰayd- (“goat”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /jeːt/

Noun

get c

goat

Declension

Anagrams

English

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: skrăm, IPA^(key): /skɹæm/
Rhymes: -æm

Etymology 1

Probably either:

a clipping of scramble by apocope; or
from dialectal German schramm, the imperative singular form of schrammen (“to scratch, scrape”), from Late Middle High German schramm, schramme (“a graze, scratch”); further etymology unknown.

Verb

scram (third-person singular simple present scrams, present participle scramming, simple past and past participle scrammed)

(intransitive, originally US, often imperative) To leave in a hurry; to go away. [from early 20th c.]
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:go away

Derived terms

amscray

Translations

Etymology 2

Uncertain; the verb is possibly derived from etymology 1. It has been suggested that the word is an acronym for phrases like “safety control rod actuator mechanism”, “safety control rod axe man”, and “safety control rods activation mechanism”, but these are most likely backronyms.

The noun is probably derived from the verb.

Verb

scram (third-person singular simple present scrams, present participle scraming or scramming, simple past and past participle scramed or scrammed) (chiefly nuclear physics)

(transitive) To shut down (a nuclear reactor or, by extension, some other thing) for safety reasons, usually because of an emergency.
(intransitive) Of a nuclear reactor or some other thing: to shut down, usually because of an emergency.

Alternative forms

SCRAM

Derived terms

scramming (noun)

Translations

Noun

scram (plural scrams) (chiefly nuclear physics)

(also attributively) A shutdown of a nuclear reactor (or, by extension, some other thing), often done rapidly due to an emergency.
The device used to shut down a nuclear reactor; also, the button or switch used to initiate a shutdown.

Alternative forms

SCRAM

Translations

Etymology 3

The verb is a variant of dialectal English scramb (“to pull or rake together with the hands; to gather a handful of something from the ground; to scratch with the claws or nails; to pull down violently; to tear off; to maul about; a handful of something from the ground”), possibly related to Dutch schrammen (“to graze, scratch”) and German schrammen (“to scratch, scrape”); see etymology 1.

The noun is derived from the verb.

Verb

scram (third-person singular simple present scrams, present participle scramming, simple past and past participle scrammed)

(transitive, Derbyshire, Wales) To scratch (something) with claws or fingernails; to claw.
- (Also reported as “Cat wakes woman as flat fills with smoke””, The Daily Telegraph, 21 December 2013, page 17.)
(transitive, US, mining, archaic) To mine for ore on a small scale, especially from mines previously been worked on where most of the ore is believed to have been removed.

Translations

Noun

scram (plural scrams)

(Derbyshire, Wales) A scratch, especially caused by claws or fingernails.
(US, mining, archaic) A mine previously worked on where most of the ore is believed to have been removed, but which is still being mined on a small scale.

Translations

Etymology 4

Origin unknown.

Verb

scram (third-person singular simple present scrams, present participle scramming, simple past and past participle scrammed) (intransitive, Britain, dialectal, archaic)

Of one’s body or limbs: to become numb or stiff due to cold, lack of movement, etc.
To be weakened by an accident, a disease, starvation, etc.

References

Anagrams

Crams, MRCAs, crams, marcs, mrcas

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