getter
/ˈɡɛtə(ɹ)/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.82 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who, or that which, gets.
Example Sentences
- "Many times things would open in him to admiration, showing to rich men and the eager getters of this world, the danger they were in of hurting themselves, by hindering their growth in the truth."
- "Laird won a four-year city council term and was the top vote-getter in the 1981 election, which for the first time seated a progressive city council and a socialist mayor."
- "In any case, now we have defined the identities and established the unique characteristics of all types of gift givers and gift getters."
- "A proper getter must return the type of its attribute."
- "Titanium has become the preferred getter for general vacuum-pumping applications because of its relatively high vapor pressure characteristic and its broad spectrum chemical reactivity."
- "Many reactive metals rapidly pump large quantities of active gases because they getter (react with) the gases."
Etymology
Etymology tree English get Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English getter From get + -er.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Götter
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɡɛtə(ɹ)/
- British English: /ˈɡɛtə/