give
IPA: gˈɪv
noun
- The amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it; a tendency to yield under pressure; resilience.
- Alternative form of gyve [(literary) A shackle or fetter, especially for the leg.]
verb
- (ditransitive) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.
- To transfer one's possession or holding of (something) to (someone).
- To make a present or gift of.
- To pledge.
- To provide (something) to (someone), to allow or afford.
- To cause (a sensation or feeling) to exist in (the specified person, or the target, audience, etc).
- To carry out (a physical interaction) with (something).
- To pass (something) into (someone's hand, etc.).
- To cause (a disease or condition) in, or to transmit (a disease or condition) to.
- To provide or administer (a medication)
- (transitive) To provide, as, a service or a broadcast.
- (ditransitive) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something).
- (intransitive) To yield or collapse under pressure or force.
- (intransitive) To lead (onto or into).
- (transitive, dated) To provide a view of.
- To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to yield.
- To cause; to make; used with the infinitive.
- To cause (someone) to have; produce in (someone); effectuate.
- To allow or admit by way of supposition; to concede.
- To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.
- To communicate or announce (advice, tidings, etc.); to pronounce or utter (an opinion, a judgment, a shout, etc.).
- (dated or religion) To grant power, permission, destiny, etc. (especially to a person); to allot; to allow.
- (reflexive) To devote or apply (oneself).
- (obsolete) To become soft or moist.
- (obsolete) To shed tears; to weep.
- (obsolete) To have a misgiving.
- (slang, transitive) To give off (a certain vibe or appearance).
- (slang, intransitive) To exceed expectations.
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Examples of "give" in Sentences
- I give you back your faith -- I _give_ you back your promises -- you have _taken_ back your heart.
- QUOTATION: To one that promised to give him hardy cocks that would die fighting, Prithee, said Cleomenes, give me cocks that will kill fighting.
- He now sent a letter, offering to give Halonnesus to Athens, but not to _give it back_ (since this would concede their right to it); or else to submit the dispute to arbitration.
- You give me the impression -- I do not say you mean it, I say you _give_ it -- of suddenly and without due cause or just im -- just opportunity, trying to _bounce_ me into taking you into partnership.
- Yet if those to whom it is, or might be, would take it, -- if those who might give it, in many forms, _would give_, -- who knows what relief and loosening would come to others in the hard jostle and press?
- _ Speech of Autolycus: — “Let me have no lying; it becomes none but tradesmen, and they often give us soldiers the lie; but we pay them for it with stamped coin, not stabbing steel; — therefore they do not _give_ us the lie.”
- No one living has any claim upon me: I can leave or give my own just as I please; and you and yours are, of course, my first objects -- and for the how, and the what, and the when, I must consult you; and only beg you to keep it in mind, that I would as soon _give_ as
- As I feel exonerated from the last charge, and being in a certain degree called on to give my evidence relative to 21st February last; and as the rank I hold in society will _give weight_ to my _testimony, with the witnesses_ I shall bring forward on the occasion, I feel justified in the steps I am about to take, nor can your
- Putting the animal out to grass for a couple of months will generally renovate the constitution and remove the tendency to hove; and after being taken up from grass, with a man in charge who knows what to give and _what not to give_, the animal may go on for a few months longer, and with great attention may at last prove a winner.
- For not only do all the radioactive substances give off particles of helium gas positively electrified, but _all bodies, no matter what their composition_, can by suitable treatment, such as exposing them to ultra-violet light, or raising them to incandescence, be made to _give off electrons_ or negatively charged particles, and _these electrons are always the same no matter from what kind of substance they come_.
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