Polysemy is fairly common in languages. In my French-English dictionary, working out how to translate the simple word &quot;get&quot; takes up over two pages--and most of that is not dealing with the English proclivity for coining idiomatic verb phrases (e.g., &quot;to put up&quot; is completely different from any connotation of &quot;to put&quot; with the preposition &quot;up&quot;). The verbs &quot;go&quot;, &quot;set&quot;, and &quot;put&quot; also have impressively long definition lists if you consider these derivative verb phrases.