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GET ON
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Grow old or older
Example:
Young men senesce
Synonyms:
age; get on; maturate; mature; senesce
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "get on" is one way to...):
develop (grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "get on"):
turn (become officially one year older)
fossilise; fossilize (become mentally inflexible)
dote (be foolish or senile due to old age)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Sense 2
Meaning:
Develop in a positive way
Example:
Plans are shaping up
Synonyms:
advance; come along; come on; get along; get on; progress; shape up
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "get on" is one way to...):
develop (grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "get on"):
climb (improve one's social status)
leapfrog (progress by large jumps instead of small increments)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Sense 3
Meaning:
Appear in a show, on T.V. or radio
Example:
The news won't be on tonight
Synonyms:
be on; get on
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "get on" is one way to...):
air (be broadcast)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
Sense 4
Meaning:
Grow late or (of time) elapse
Example:
It is getting on midnight--let's all go to bed!
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "get on" is one way to...):
approach; come near (come near in time)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Sense 5
Meaning:
Get up on the back of
Example:
mount a horse
Synonyms:
bestride; climb on; get on; hop on; jump on; mount; mount up
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "get on" is one way to...):
move (move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "get on"):
remount (mount again)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 6
Meaning:
Get on board of (trains, buses, ships, aircraft, etc.)
Synonyms:
board; get on
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "get on" is one way to...):
come in; enter; get in; get into; go in; go into; move into (to come or go into)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "get on"):
entrain (board a train)
catch (reach in time)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Antonym:
get off (leave a vehicle, aircraft, etc.)
Sense 7
Meaning:
Have smooth relations
Example:
My boss and I get along very well
Synonyms:
get along; get along with; get on; get on with
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "get on" is one way to...):
relate (have or establish a relationship to)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s Adjective/Noun
Somebody ----s somebody
Context examples:
You and me should get on well, Hawkins, for I'll take my davy I should be rated ship's boy.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
I must get on to Kingston as fast as I can.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
You are best off, I can tell you: but if nobody did more than you, we should not get on very fast.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Once out of the harness and down, he did not get on his feet again till harness-up time in the morning.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Health Assessment Questionnaire Disability Index (HAQ-DI) Hygiene: are you able to get on and off the toilet?
(HAQ-DI - Able to Get On and Off Toilet, NCI Thesaurus)
The robbers, therefore, made him get on the horse, and handed him the stick and the cloak, and when he had put this round him he was no longer visible.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Babies who get on this special diet soon after they are born develop normally.
(Phenylketonuria, NIH: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development)
We want to have a good look at our neighbors before we get on visitin' terms.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“You’d better get on your course, then,” I chided.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
"I am terribly afraid of falling, myself," said the Cowardly Lion, "but I suppose there is nothing to do but try it. So get on my back and we will make the attempt."
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
