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get

Informal (in tennis) a successful return of a shot that was difficult to reach
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get

[get]
(computer science)
An instruction in a computer program to read data from a file.
(industrial engineering)
A combination of two or more of the elemental motions of search, select, grasp, transport empty, and transport loaded; applied to time-motion studies.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

get

(1) In programming, a request for the next record in an input file. Contrast with put.

(2) An FTP command used to download a file from a server or to display the contents of a text file. See ftp commands.

(3) (GET) An HTTP command used to retrieve data from a Web server. See HTTP GET.
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"In the third round I came out knowing that it was a gettable golf course.
Cook added: "Credit to MS, at the end he hits it very well, he's a very hard person to bowl at and he single-handedly got them up to 270, which was probably gettable the way we started.
Three wickets for both Mike Walkden (3-42) and Danny Barlow (3-29) gave Willows a gettable target, as Hightown were dismissed for just 142.
"The fielding was spot on, we held our catches and restricted them to a score that was obviously very gettable on that surface.
With Suresh Raina and Mahendra Singh Dhoni, the two highest run-getters in Chennai's line-up, batting together a competitive total was gettable.
"GJs are now at a point in their lives when they have unusually weak brand loyalty, and so they are very reachable, sellable, gettable and switchable."
But there's a gettable guy just waiting to be gotten by you!
Someone may come across this piece at any time within its duration and to be successful, it must be 'gettable' very quickly, it must provide that moment of recognition which tells you why it was made."
Kings XI Punjab delivered a combined performance from their top-order batsmen and bowling department to win fourth-straight game in Mohali with eight wickets to spare.According to ESPNcricinfo report, the Kings XI bowlers recovered from a position of distress to restrict Mumbai Indians to a gettable total of 176.
He chipped in twice and afterwards said the course was "as gettable as it can possibly be right now."
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