Difference between Set About and Get

SET ABOUT vs GET: VERB

Reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot
Overcome or destroy
Evoke an emotional response
Irritate
Reach and board
Suffer from the receipt of
Perceive by hearing
Receive a specified treatment (abstract)
Succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase
Cause to move; cause to be in a certain position or condition
Communicate with a place or person; establish communication with, as if by telephone
Reach by calculation
Acquire as a result of some effort or action
Come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
Purchase
Receive as a retribution or punishment
Achieve a point or goal
Cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner
Leave immediately; used usually in the imperative form
Come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)
Undergo (as of injuries and illnesses)
Be a mystery or bewildering to
Of mental or physical states or experiences
Attract and fix
Enter or assume a certain state or condition
Be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness
Take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
Reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress
Apprehend and reproduce accurately
In baseball: earn or achieve a base by being walked by the pitcher
Go or come after and bring or take back
Give certain properties to something
Move into a desired direction of discourse
Make children
Grasp with the mind or develop an undersatnding of
Take vengeance on or get even

To reach and board; catch.
To find or reach by calculating.
To gain or have understanding of.
To perceive or become aware of by one of the senses.
To sustain a specified injury to.
To receive as retribution or punishment.
To be subjected to; undergo.
To become affected with (an illness, for example) by infection or exposure; catch.
To succeed in communicating with, as by telephone.
To arrive at; reach.
To obtain by concession or request.
To accomplish or attain as a result of military action.
To earn.
To acquire as a result of action or effort.
To purchase; buy.
To go after and obtain.
To meet with or incur.
To come into possession or use of; receive.
To learn (a poem, for example) by heart; memorize.
To become or grow to be.
To have as an obligation. Used in the past tense with the meaning of the present.
To have current possession of. Used in the present perfect form with the meaning of the present.
To go after and bring.
To begin or start. Used with the present participle.
To put out or strike out.
To hit or strike.
To take revenge on, especially to kill in revenge for a wrong.
To present a difficult problem to; puzzle.
To annoy or irritate.
To evoke an emotional response or reaction in.
To overcome or destroy.
To take, especially by force; seize.
To cause to undertake or perform; prevail on.
To cause to move or leave.
To cause to come or go.
To make ready; prepare.
To cause to become or be in a specified state or condition.
To procreate; beget.

A return on a shot that seemed impossible to reach and would normally have resulted in a point for the opponent
Make (offspring) by reproduction
Cause to move
Reach a destination
Arrive by movement or progress
Cause to do
Cause to act in a specified manner
Communicate with a place or person
Leave immediately

Bring about, Set in motion, Bring forward, Embark on, Collide with, Start out, Go about, Set out, Undertake, Commence, Attempt, Approach, Get, Begin, Start

Draw, Produce, Arrive, Let, Generate, Catch, Have, Take, Obtain, Make, Receive, Find, Bring, Come, Go

Fall upon, Get across, Bring about, Set in motion, Bring forward, Embark on, Collide with, Go about, Set out, Undertake, Commence, Approach, Get, Begin, Start

Can, Fix, Draw, Arrive, Let, Generate, Catch, Have, Take, Obtain, Make, Receive, Find, Bring, Come

So he set about offering the service himself.
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But Mike, who heard about the idea, set about writing the virtual panto script and came up with a story instead.
And after I asked him what he was talking about, I set about working on it.
After a year in Italy, in 1954 he moved to Roxbury, Connecticut, and set about completing his second novel, "Set This House on Fire.".
About time somebody set about mending the underlying system and holding people to account.
They set up a school for their children and quickly set about the reestablishment of their daily routines.
Set the snowplow up with shoes set about half an inch above the ground.
So Tim set set about building us some new database servers.
They do not set about helping, instead they set about calculating what will best promote their own standing.

Angel and EZ get to their bikes, that Angel fires warning shots from his gun and they get away.
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But I would still get him to fill out an application to get his SSN and background info.
If you get up early, you are more productive and can get a lot of things done.
Maybe we can get Dayton and Franken to head legislation to get this done.
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What documentation do you need so I can get an emission test to get my Arizona license plates?
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