(sports, tennis) A difficult return or block of a shot.
Lineage.
verb
(archaic) To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out.
(copulative) To become, or cause oneself to become.
(ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire.
(euphemistic) To kill.
(imperative, informal) Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
(informal) To be. Used to form the passive of verbs.
(intransitive) To begin (doing something or to do something).
(intransitive, followed by infinitive) To be able, be permitted, or have the opportunity (to do something desirable or ironically implied to be desirable).
(intransitive, informal, chiefly imperative) To go, to leave; to scram.
(intransitive, obsolete) To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.
(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).
(now rare) To beget (of a father).
(transitive) To become ill with or catch (a disease).
(transitive) To cause to become; to bring about.
(transitive) To cause to come or go or move.
(transitive) To cause to do.
(transitive) To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
(transitive) To fetch, bring, take.
(transitive) To find as an answer.
(transitive) To getter.
(transitive) To hear completely; catch.
(transitive) To measure.
(transitive) To receive.
(transitive) To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
(transitive) To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
(transitive, in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes.
(transitive, informal) To be told; be the recipient of (a question, comparison, opinion, etc.).
(transitive, informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
(transitive, informal) To catch out, trick successfully.
(transitive, informal) To perplex, stump.
(transitive, informal) To understand. (compare get it)
gte
gte
Proper noun
General Telephone & Electric Corporation, a former American telephone company.
teg
teg
noun
(UK, dialect, dated) a doe in its second year
(UK, dialect, dated) a sheep (originally a ewe) that is one to two years old
