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get ahead
(encz) | get ahead,uspět v: Zdeněk Brož |
get ahead
(wn) | get ahead
v 1: obtain advantages, such as points, etc.; "The home team was
gaining ground"; "After defeating the Knicks, the Blazers
pulled ahead of the Lakers in the battle for the number-one
playoff berth in the Western Conference" [syn: gain,
advance, win, pull ahead, make headway, {get
ahead}, gain ground] [ant: drop off, fall back, {fall
behind}, lose, recede] |
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get ahead of
(mass) | get ahead of
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get ahead of
(encz) | get ahead of,dostat se před (někoho) v: IvČaget ahead of,před adv: koho |
To get ahead
(gcide) | Get \Get\ (g[e^]t), v. i.
1. To make acquisition; to gain; to profit; to receive
accessions; to be increased.
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We mourn, France smiles; we lose, they daily get.
--Shak.
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2. To arrive at, or bring one's self into, a state,
condition, or position; to come to be; to become; -- with
a following adjective or past participle belonging to the
subject of the verb; as, to get sober; to get awake; to
get beaten; to get elected.
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To get rid of fools and scoundrels. --Pope.
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His chariot wheels get hot by driving fast.
--Coleridge.
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Note: It [get] gives to the English language a middle voice,
or a power of verbal expression which is neither active
nor passive. Thus we say to get acquitted, beaten,
confused, dressed.
--Earle.
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Note: Get, as an intransitive verb, is used with a following
preposition, or adverb of motion, to indicate, on the
part of the subject of the act, movement or action of
the kind signified by the preposition or adverb; or, in
the general sense, to move, to stir, to make one's way,
to advance, to arrive, etc.; as, to get away, to leave,
to escape; to disengage one's self from; to get down,
to descend, esp. with effort, as from a literal or
figurative elevation; to get along, to make progress;
hence, to prosper, succeed, or fare; to get in, to
enter; to get out, to extricate one's self, to escape;
to get through, to traverse; also, to finish, to be
done; to get to, to arrive at, to reach; to get off, to
alight, to descend from, to dismount; also, to escape,
to come off clear; to get together, to assemble, to
convene.
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To get ahead, to advance; to prosper.
To get along, to proceed; to advance; to prosper.
To get a mile (or other distance), to pass over it in
traveling.
To get among, to go or come into the company of; to become
one of a number.
To get asleep, to fall asleep.
To get astray, to wander out of the right way.
To get at, to reach; to make way to.
To get away with, to carry off; to capture; hence, to get
the better of; to defeat.
To get back, to arrive at the place from which one
departed; to return.
To get before, to arrive in front, or more forward.
To get behind, to fall in the rear; to lag.
To get between, to arrive between.
To get beyond, to pass or go further than; to exceed; to
surpass. "Three score and ten is the age of man, a few get
beyond it." --Thackeray.
To get clear, to disengage one's self; to be released, as
from confinement, obligation, or burden; also, to be freed
from danger or embarrassment.
To get drunk, to become intoxicated.
To get forward, to proceed; to advance; also, to prosper;
to advance in wealth.
To get home, to arrive at one's dwelling, goal, or aim.
To get into.
(a) To enter, as, "she prepared to get into the coach."
--Dickens.
(b) To pass into, or reach; as, " a language has got into
the inflated state." --Keary.
To get loose or To get free, to disengage one's self; to
be released from confinement.
To get near, to approach within a small distance.
To get on, to proceed; to advance; to prosper.
To get over.
(a) To pass over, surmount, or overcome, as an obstacle or
difficulty.
(b) To recover from, as an injury, a calamity.
To get through.
(a) To pass through something.
(b) To finish what one was doing.
To get up.
(a) To rise; to arise, as from a bed, chair, etc.
(b) To ascend; to climb, as a hill, a tree, a flight of
stairs, etc.
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To get ahead of
(gcide) | Ahead \A*head"\, adv. [Pref. a- + head.]
1. In or to the front; in advance; onward.
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The island bore but a little ahead of us.
--Fielding.
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2. Headlong; without restraint. [Obs.] --L'Estrange.
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To go ahead.
(a) To go in advance.
(b) To go on onward.
(c) To push on in an enterprise. [Colloq]
To get ahead of.
(a) To get in advance of.
(b) To surpass; to get the better of. [Colloq.]
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