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Verb: get onto
  1. Understand, usually after some initial difficulty
    - catch on, get wise, tumble, latch on, cotton on, twig, get it

Derived forms: gets onto, getting onto, got onto

Type of: apprehend, compass, comprehend, dig, get the picture, grasp, grok [N. Amer], savvy

Nearest

get knotted
get laid
get lost
get married
get moving
get off
get off the ground
get on
get on with
get one's lumps
get onto
get out
get over
get rid of
get rolling
get started
get stuck
get the best
get the better of
get the chop
get the goods