different between bring vs displace

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b???/
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

From Middle English bryngen, from Old English bringan (“to bring, lead, bring forth, carry, adduce, produce, present, offer”), from Proto-Germanic *bringan? (“to bring”) (compare West Frisian bringe, Low German bringen, Dutch brengen, German bringen), from Proto-Indo-European *b?renk- (compare Welsh hebrwng (“to bring, lead”), Tocharian B pränk- (“to take away; restrain oneself, hold back”), Latvian brankti (“lying close”), Lithuanian branktas (“whiffletree”)).

Verb

bring (third-person singular simple present brings, present participle bringing, simple past and past participle brought)

1. (transitive, ditransitive) To transport toward somebody/somewhere.
   • At twilight in the summer […] the mice come out. They […] eat the luncheon crumbs. Mr. Checkly, for instance, always brought his dinner in a paper parcel in his coat-tail pocket, and ate it when so disposed, sprinkling crumbs lavishly […] on the floor.
2. (transitive, figuratively) To supply or contribute.

   • “ […] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”

3. (transitive) To occasion or bring about.

   The controversial TV broadcast brought a storm of complaints.

4. (transitive) To raise (a lawsuit, charges, etc.) against somebody.
5. To persuade; to induce; to draw; to lead; to guide.

   • It seems so preposterous a thing […] that they do not easily bring themselves to it.

6. To produce in exchange; to sell for; to fetch.

7. (baseball) To pitch, often referring to a particularly hard thrown fastball.

Conjugation

Usage notes

• Past brang and past participle brung and broughten forms are sometimes used in some dialects, especially in informal speech.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Onomatopeia.

Interjection

bring

1. The sound of a telephone ringing.

Afrikaans

Alternative forms

• breng (archaic)

Etymology

From Dutch bringen, a dialectal variant of standard brengen (“to bring”). Both forms were originally distinct, though related, verbs, but were early on conflated.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /br??/

Verb

bring (present bring, present participle bringende, past participle gebring)

1. (transitive) to bring; to deliver
2. (transitive) to take; to lead (to another place)

   Bring asseblief hierdie borde kombuis toe.

   Please, take these dishes to the kitchen.

Derived terms

• uitbring
• wegbring

Danish

Verb

bring

1. imperative of bringe

Garo

Etymology

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Noun

bring

1. jungle, forest

German

Pronunciation

Verb

bring

1. imperative singular of bringen

Middle English

Verb

bring

1. Alternative form of bryngen

North Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian bringa, which derives from Proto-Germanic *bringan?. Cognates include West Frisian bringe.

Verb

bring

1. (Föhr-Amrum), (Heligoland) to bring

Conjugation

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

bring

1. imperative of bringe

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English bryngen, from Old English bringan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /br??/

Verb

bring (third-person singular present brings, present participle bringin, past brocht, past participle brocht)

1. To bring.

English

Etymology

From Middle French desplacer (French: déplacer).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d?s?ple?s/, /d?z?ple?s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /d?s?ple?s/
• Rhymes: -e?s

Verb

displace (third-person singular simple present displaces, present participle displacing, simple past and past participle displaced)

1. To put out of place; to disarrange.
2. To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.
3. To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute.
4. To replace, on account of being superior to or more suitable than that which is being replaced.

   Electronic calculators soon displaced the older mechanical kind.

5. (of a floating ship) To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.
6. (psychology) to repress
   • Megan Garber (2017) , “The Case for Shyness”, in The Atlantic?^[1]: “Freud considered shyness to be evidence of displaced narcissism.”

Derived terms

• displacement
• displacive
• displaceable

Translations