See getter in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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]
},
{
"form": "gettered",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "gettered",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "getter (third-person singular simple present getters, present participle gettering, simple past and past participle gettered)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"get‧ter"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"en:Sciences"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2003, John F. O'Hanlon, chapter 14, in A Users Guide to Vacuum Technology, →ISBN, page 247:",
"text": "Many reactive metals rapidly pump large quantities of active gases because they getter (react with) the gases.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To remove gas by sorption."
],
"links": [
[
"sciences",
"sciences"
],
[
"remove",
"remove"
],
[
"gas",
"gas"
],
[
"sorption",
"sorption"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(sciences) To remove gas by sorption."
],
"topics": [
"sciences"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈɡɛtə/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈɡɛtə(ɹ)/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/-ɾə(ɹ)/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛtə"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛtə(ɹ)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "get"
}
],
"word": "getter"
}
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