have
IPA: hˈæv
noun
- (usually contrastive) A wealthy or privileged person.
- (uncommon) One who has some (contextually specified) thing.
- (Australia, New Zealand, informal) A fraud or deception; something misleading.
verb
- (transitive) To possess, own.
- (transitive) To hold, as something at someone's disposal.
- (transitive) To include as a part, ingredient, or feature.
- (transitive) Used to state the existence or presence of someone in a specified relationship with the subject.
- (transitive) To consume or use up (a particular substance or resource, especially food or drink).
- (transitive) To undertake or perform (an action or activity).
- (transitive) To be scheduled to attend, undertake or participate in.
- To experience, go through, undergo.
- To be afflicted with, suffer from.
- (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) Used in forming the perfect aspect.
- Used as an interrogative verb before a pronoun to form a tag question, echoing a previous use of 'have' as an auxiliary verb or, in certain cases, main verb. (For further discussion, see the appendix English tag questions.)
- (auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) See have to.
- (transitive) To give birth to.
- (informal, usually passive) To obtain.
- (transitive) To engage in sexual intercourse with.
- (transitive) To accept as a romantic partner.
- (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
- (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be.
- (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.)
- (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being.
- (Britain, slang) To defeat in a fight; take.
- (Britain, slang) To inflict punishment or retribution on.
- (dated outside Ireland) To be able to speak (a language).
- To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
- (informal, often passive) To trick, to deceive.
- (transitive, in the negative, often in continuous tenses) To allow; to tolerate.
- (transitive, often used in the negative) To believe, buy, be taken in by.
- (transitive) To host someone; to take in as a guest.
- (transitive) To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation.
- (transitive, of a jury) To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case.
- (transitive, birdwatching) To make an observation of (a bird species).
- (transitive) To capture or actively hold someone's attention or interest.
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Examples of "have" in Sentences
- Do people have their own verity
- People have their own subjectivity.
- The pygmy have their own ways of life.
- Women have their own ways of reducing.
- Most of the residents have their own conveyances.
- Most letters are angular and have graceless features.
- It is the first swivel phone to have the Walkman features.
- He is the youngest instrumentalist to have received this award.
- The tale teaches chidlren to requite to what they have received.
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