10. to receive as a punishment or sentence: to get a spanking; to get a year in jail. 11. to prevail on; influence or persuade: We'll get him to go with us. 12. to prepare; make ready: to get dinner. 13. (esp. of animals) to beget. 14. to affect emotionally: Her tears...
When you use do like this, you put what at the beginning of the sentence, followed by a noun or noun phrase and the auxiliary verb do. After do, you put is or was and an infinitive with or without to. For example, instead of saying 'Carolyn opened a bookshop', you can say 'What...
An old sentence … ran through her mind like a frightened mouse in a maze —Babs H. Deal The rest [words meant to remain unspoken] rolled out like string from a hidden ball of twine —Lynne Sharon Schwartz The sentence rang over and over again in his mind like a dirge —Margaret Milla...
to be right [person]→ tener razón, estar en lo ciertoyou're quite right; you're dead right→ tienes toda la razónhow right you are!→ ¡qué razón tienes!to be right about sth/sb you were right about there being none left→ tenías razón cuando decías que no quedaba ninguno...
meaning, signification, import, significance - the message that is intended or expressed or signified; "what is the meaning of this sentence"; "the significance of a red traffic light"; "the signification of Chinese characters"; "the import of his announcement was ambiguous" word meaning, word...