get on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets on
form: getting on
form: got on
form: got on
form: gotten on
Senses: examples: text: Please get on the bus as quickly as possible.
text: She has no trouble getting off a bus but has difficulty getting on.
text: I had to get on a chair to change the light bulb.
glosses: To board or mount (something), especially a vehicle.
examples: text: John is really getting on at work.
text: I hear John has a new job. How's he getting on?
text: She's getting on very well at school.
glosses: To cope or manage (over time); to handle a situation; to perform or make progress.
examples: text: It's time to get on with improving quality.
text: We've wasted enough time now. Can we get on, please?
glosses: To progress (with); to move forward.
raw_tags: with "with"
examples: text: Time is getting on. We need to hurry up or we'll miss our flight.
text: The hour is getting on. It'll be dark soon.
glosses: To progress (with); to move forward.
To move forward so as to approach a deadline or become late in the day.
raw_tags: of time
with "with"
examples: text: The cost was getting on for a thousand pounds.
text: She must be getting on for 65 years of age.
text: There were getting on for 40 people last night.
text: It was getting on for midnight before I went to bed.
qualifier: usually in continuous tenses
glosses: To approach (a value, level, point in time, etc.)
raw_tags: with "for"
examples: text: My parents are visibly getting on (in years) these days.
qualifier: usually in continuous tenses
glosses: To become old.
examples: text: “I don't know how you and the ‘head,’ as you call him, will get on, but I do know that if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble. It's bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand that 'cause I'm paid for it. […]”
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
text: John doesn't get on with Jack. They're always arguing.
text: I wish you and I could learn to get on.
glosses: To have a good relationship; to get along.
raw_tags: with 'with'
examples: text: I can't get on with prunes. They give me indigestion.
glosses: To cope or deal (with).
raw_tags: with 'with'
examples: text: The dishes need washing, the floor needs vacuuming, the laundry needs folding. Get on it!
glosses: To commence (an action).
examples: text: to get on a horse or a man
topics: gambling
games
glosses: To place a bet on.
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Synonym of have on.
synonyms: word: have on
glosses: To have sex; to be sexually promiscuous.
glosses: To do drugs; to get drunk; to buy drugs; to regularly use drugs.
examples: text: Get on that guy!
glosses: To observe or notice.
Synonyms: sense: to board a vehicle
word: board
sense: to board a vehicle
word: climb on
sense: to board a vehicle
word: embark
sense: to board a vehicle
word: get on board
sense: to board a vehicle
word: get onto
sense: to board a vehicle
word: mount
sense: to enter a vehicle
word: board
sense: to enter a vehicle
word: embark
sense: to enter a vehicle
word: get onboard
sense: to handle
word: handle
sense: to handle
word: cope
sense: to handle
word: manage
sense: to handle
word: get by
sense: to handle
word: fare
sense: to handle
word: perform
sense: to handle
word: progress
sense: to become late
word: get late
sense: to become old
word: age
word: become old
word: get old
word: to age
sense: to have a good relationship
word: get along
sense: to have a good relationship
word: understand each other
sense: to have a good relationship
word: understand one another
Derived terms: get on like a house on fire
getting on for