Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A material added in small amounts during a chemical or metallurgical process to absorb impurities.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who gets, gains, obtains, or acquires.
- noun One who begets or procreates.
- noun One employed in digging, or in getting out by digging: as, a coal-getter.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who gets, gains, obtains, acquires, begets, or procreates.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
gets . - noun computing, programming A
function used toretrieve the value of someproperty of anobject , contrasted with thesetter . - noun sciences A material which is included in a
vacuum system or device forremoving gas bysorption . - verb sciences To
remove gas bysorption .
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Examples
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The "Dancing with the Stars" results show kicks things off Tuesday with the surprise announcement that Teen Abstinence Advocate Bristol Palin, the previous night's lowest vote-getter, is safe ... despite fluffing a good chunk of her jive dance number -- part of which was performed in a gorilla costume -- the night before, and after which, when asked what she'd been thinking, she answered, "Uh, I hate the jive," followed by an awkward silence.
Florence Henderson is out, Bristol survives on 'Dancing with the Stars' Lisa de Moraes 2010
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State election officials say they won't even count names on write-in ballots unless they make up the most votes in the race or the difference in their number and the highest voter getter is less than half a percent.
Midterm elections live blog - Tuesday 26 October Richard Adams 2010
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Despite his legal situation and upcoming trial weighing on him and his diminished statistics, Bryant was the second-leading vote-getter from the West.
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Luke Gladue knows the name is an attention-getter, which is why it's what he calls his newly launched business.
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Note, this method would work even if the object stored was a wrapper, whereas calling the getter would unwrap the value, and thus, wouldn't work.
AutoHotkey Community 2009
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A getter is a method that gets the value of a specific property.
eWeek - RSS Feeds 2009
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A getter is a function with a return value depending on what we return.
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Once a year, in late July or early August, everything must be in readiness for the "getter," who witnesses the picking of the competition berries, their careful placement in boxes padded with cotton wool, and who seals the box so that no cheating with some kind of ersatz substituted berry can occur.
About Gooseberries 2008
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Once a year, in late July or early August, everything must be in readiness for the "getter," who witnesses the picking of the competition berries, their careful placement in boxes padded with cotton wool, and who seals the box so that no cheating with some kind of ersatz substituted berry can occur.
About Gooseberries 2008
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As near as I was able to size up the situation, there's a sentiment among the members of the national House that every Representative is entitled to have one pet hobby along the line of disinterested statesmanship, so long as he does not allow it to interfere with his regular duties as a "getter" for his own particular constituency.
mollusque commented on the word getter
(n.) A substance that removes residual gas from an evacuated enclosure by chemical or other action; (v.) to use a getter to remove gas.
March 8, 2008