The difference between Get and Have

When used as nouns, get means offspring, whereas have means a wealthy or privileged person.

When used as verbs, get means to obtain, whereas have means to possess, own, hold.

check bellow for the other definitions of Get and Have

  1. Get as a verb (ditransitive):

    To obtain; to acquire.

    Examples:

    "I'm going to get a computer tomorrow from the discount store."

    "Lance is going to get Mary a ring."

  2. Get as a verb (transitive):

    To receive.

    Examples:

    "I got a computer from my parents for my birthday."

    "You need to get permission to leave early."

    "He got a severe reprimand for that."

  3. Get as a verb (transitive, in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning):

    To have.

    Examples:

    "I've got a concert ticket for you."

  4. Get as a verb (copulative):

    To become.

    Examples:

    "I'm getting hungry; how about you?"

    "Don't get drunk tonight."

  5. Get as a verb (transitive):

    To cause to become; to bring about.

    Examples:

    "That song gets me so depressed every time I hear it."

    "I'll get this finished by lunchtime."

    "I can't get these boots off upright (or on'upright )."

  6. Get as a verb (transitive):

    To fetch, bring, take.

    Examples:

    "Can you get my bag from the living-room, please?"

    "I need to get this to the office."

  7. Get as a verb (transitive):

    To cause to do.

    Examples:

    "Somehow she got him to agree to it."

    "I can't get it to work."

  8. Get as a verb (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).

    Examples:

    "The actors are getting into position."

    "When are we going to get to London?"

    "I'm getting into a muddle."

    "We got behind the wall."

  9. Get as a verb (transitive):

    To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.

    Examples:

    "to get a mile"

  10. Get as a verb (transitive):

    To cause to come or go or move.

  11. Get as a verb (transitive):

    To cause to be in a certain status or position.

  12. Get as a verb (intransitive):

    To begin (doing something).

    Examples:

    "We ought to get moving or we'll be late."

    "After lunch we got chatting."

  13. Get as a verb (transitive):

    To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).

    Examples:

    "I normally get the 7:45 train."

    "I'll get the 9 a.m. [flight] to Boston."

  14. Get as a verb (transitive):

    To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).

    Examples:

    "Can you get that call, please? I'm busy."

  15. Get as a verb (intransitive, followed by infinitive):

    To be able, permitted (to do something); to have the opportunity (to do something).

    Examples:

    "I'm so jealous that you got to see them perform live!"

    "The finders get to keep 80 percent of the treasure."

  16. Get as a verb (transitive, informal):

    To understand. }}

    Examples:

    "Yeah, I get it, it's just not funny."

    "I don't get what you mean by "fun". This place sucks!"

    "I mentioned that I was feeling sad, so she mailed me a box of chocolates. She gets me."

  17. Get as a verb (transitive, informal):

    To be told; be the recipient of (a question, comparison, opinion, etc.).

    Examples:

    "You look just like Helen Mirren." / "I get that a lot."

  18. Get as a verb (informal):

    To be.

    Examples:

    "He got bitten by a dog."

  19. Get as a verb (transitive):

    To become ill with or catch (a disease).

    Examples:

    "I went on holiday and got malaria."

  20. Get as a verb (transitive, informal):

    To catch out, trick successfully.

    Examples:

    "He keeps calling pretending to be my boss—it gets me every time."

  21. Get as a verb (transitive, informal):

    To perplex, stump.

    Examples:

    "That question's really got me."

  22. Get as a verb (transitive):

    To find as an answer.

    Examples:

    "What did you get for question four?"

  23. Get as a verb (transitive, informal):

    To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.

    Examples:

    "The cops finally got me."

    "I'm gonna get him for that."

  24. Get as a verb (transitive):

    To hear completely; catch.

    Examples:

    "Sorry, I didn't get that. Could you repeat it?"

  25. Get as a verb (transitive):

    To getter.

    Examples:

    "I put the getter into the container to get the gases."

  26. Get as a verb (now, rare):

    To beget (of a father).

  27. Get as a verb (archaic):

    To learn; to commit to memory; to memorize; sometimes with out.

    Examples:

    "to get a lesson;  to get out one's Greek lesson"

  28. Get as a verb (imperative, informal):

    Examples:

    "'Get her with her new hairdo."

  29. Get as a verb (informal, mostly, imperative):

    Go away; get lost.

  30. Get as a verb (euphemism):

    To kill.

    Examples:

    "They’re coming to get you, Barbara."

  31. Get as a verb (intransitive, obsolete):

    To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.

  1. Get as a noun (dated):

    Offspring.

  2. Get as a noun:

    Lineage.

  3. Get as a noun (sports, tennis):

    A difficult return or block of a shot.

  4. Get as a noun:

    Something gained.

  1. Get as a noun (British, regional):

    A git.

  1. Get as a noun (Judaism):

    A Jewish writ of divorce.

  1. Have as a verb (transitive):

    To possess, own, hold.

    Examples:

    "I have a house and a car."

    "Look what I have here — a frog I found on the street!"

  2. Have as a verb (transitive):

    To be related in some way to (with the object identifying the relationship).

    Examples:

    "I have two sisters."

    "I have a lot of work to do."

  3. Have as a verb (transitive):

    To partake of a particular substance (especially a food or drink) or action.

    Examples:

    "I have breakfast at six o'clock."

    "Can I have a look at that?"

    "I'm going to have some pizza and a beer right now."

  4. Have as a verb (transitive):

    To be scheduled to attend or participate in.

    Examples:

    "What class do you have right now? I have English."

    "Fred won't be able to come to the party; he has a meeting that day."

  5. Have as a verb (auxiliary verb, taking a [[past participle]]):

    Examples:

    "I have already eaten today."

    "I had already eaten."

  6. Have as a verb (auxiliary verb, taking a [[w:Infinitive, to-infinitive]]):

    See have to.

    Examples:

    "I have to go."

  7. Have as a verb (transitive):

    To give birth to.

    Examples:

    "The couple always wanted to have children."

    "My wife is having the baby right now!"

    "My mother had me when she was 25."

  8. Have as a verb (transitive):

    To engage in sexual intercourse with.

    Examples:

    "He's always bragging about how many women he's had."

  9. Have as a verb (transitive):

    To accept as a romantic partner.

    Examples:

    "Despite my protestations of love, she would not have me."

  10. Have as a verb:

    To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.

    Examples:

    "They had me feed their dog while they were out of town."

  11. Have as a verb:

    To cause to be.

    Examples:

    "He had him arrested for trespassing."

    "The lecture's ending had the entire audience in tears."

  12. Have as a verb:

    To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.)

    Examples:

    "The hospital had several patients contract pneumonia last week."

    "I've had three people today tell me my hair looks nice."

  13. Have as a verb:

    To depict as being.

    Examples:

    "Their stories differed; he said he'd been at work when the incident occurred, but her statement had him at home that entire evening."

  14. Have as a verb:

    Examples:

    "We haven't eaten dinner yet, have we?"

    "Your wife hasn't been reading that nonsense, has she?"

    "lb UK usage ''He has some money, hasn't he?"

  15. Have as a verb (British, slang):

    To defeat in a fight; take.

    Examples:

    "I could have him!"

    "I'm gonna have you!"

  16. Have as a verb (dated):

    To be able to speak a language.

    Examples:

    "I have no German''."

  17. Have as a verb:

    To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.

    Examples:

    "Dan certainly has arms today, probably from scraping paint off four columns the day before."

  18. Have as a verb:

    To be afflicted with, suffer from.

    Examples:

    "He had a cold last week."

  19. Have as a verb:

    To experience, go through, undergo.

    Examples:

    "We had a hard year last year, with the locust swarms and all that."

    "He had surgery on his hip yesterday."

    "I'm having the time of my life!"

  20. Have as a verb:

    To trick, to deceive.

    Examples:

    "You had me alright! I never would have thought that was just a joke."

  21. Have as a verb (transitive, often with present participle):

    To allow; to tolerate.

    Examples:

    "The child screamed incessantly for his mother to buy him a toy, but she wasn't having any of it."

    "I asked my dad if I could go to the concert this Thursday, but he wouldn't have it since it's a school night."

  22. Have as a verb (transitive, often used in the negative):

    To believe, buy, be taken in by.

    Examples:

    "I made up an excuse as to why I was out so late, but my wife wasn't having any of it."

  23. Have as a verb (transitive):

    To host someone; to take in as a guest.

    Examples:

    "Thank you for having me!"

  24. Have as a verb (transitive):

    To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation.

    Examples:

    "What do you have for problem two?"

    "I have two contacts on my scope."

  25. Have as a verb (transitive, of a jury):

    To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case.

    Examples:

    "We'll schedule closing arguments for Thursday, and the jury will have the case by that afternoon."

  1. Have as a noun:

    A wealthy or privileged person.

  2. Have as a noun (uncommon):

    One who has some (contextually specified) thing.

  1. Have as a noun (AU, NZ, informal):

    A fraud or deception; something misleading.

    Examples:

    "They advertise it as a great deal, but I think it's a bit of a have."

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