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give
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English given, from Old Norse gefa (“to give”), from Proto-Germanic *geban? (“to give”). Merged with native Middle English yiven, ?even, from Old English ?iefan, from the same Proto-Germanic source (compare the obsolete inherited English doublet yive).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??v/
- Rhymes: -?v
Verb
give (third-person singular simple present gives, present participle giving, simple past gave, past participle given)
- (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.
- 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 transfer one's possession or holding of (something) to (someone).
- (ditransitive) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something).
- (intransitive) To yield slightly when a force is applied.
- (intransitive) To collapse under pressure or force.
- (transitive) To provide, as, a service or a broadcast.
- 2003, Iain Aitken, Value-Driven IT Management: Commercializing the IT Function, page 153
- […] who did not have a culture in which 'giving good presentation' and successfully playing the internal political game was the way up.
- 2006, Christopher Matthew Spencer The Ebay Entrepreneur, page 248
- A friendly voice on the phone welcoming prospective new clients is a must. Don't underestimate the importance of giving good "phone".
- 2003, Iain Aitken, Value-Driven IT Management: Commercializing the IT Function, page 153
- (intransitive) To lead (onto or into).
- (transitive, dated) To provide a view of.
- His window gave the park.
- To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to yield.
- The number of men, divided by the number of ships, gives four hundred to each ship.
- 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.
- He can be bad-tempered, I'll give you that, but he's a hard worker.
- 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) To grant power or permission to; to allow.
- (reflexive) To devote or apply (oneself).
- (obsolete) To become soft or moist.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)
- (obsolete) To shed tears; to weep.
- (obsolete) To have a misgiving.
- c. 1608-1634, John Webster, Appius and Virginia, page 16
- My mind gives ye're reserv'd / To rob poor market women.
- c. 1608-1634, John Webster, Appius and Virginia, page 16
- (slang) To be going on, to be occurring
Usage notes
- In older forms of English, when the pronoun thou was in active use, and verbs used -est for distinct second-person singular indicative forms, the verb give had the form givest, and had gavest for its past tense.
- Similarly, when the ending -eth was in active use for third-person singular present indicative forms, the form giveth was used.
Conjugation
Synonyms
- (transfer possession of): See Thesaurus:give
- (bend slightly when a force is applied): bend, cede, flex, move, yield, split
- (estimate or predict): estimate, guess, predict
- (provide):
Antonyms
- (transfer possession of): get, obtain, receive, take
- (bend slightly when a force is applied): not bend/cede/flex/give/move/yield, resist
Derived terms
See also given, giver and giving
Translations
Noun
give (uncountable)
- The amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it; a tendency to yield under pressure; resilence.
- This chair doesn't have much give.
- There is no give in his dogmatic religious beliefs.
Translations
Etymology 2
Noun
give (plural gives)
- Alternative form of gyve
References
- give at OneLook Dictionary Search
Danish
Alternative forms
- gi' (representing the spoken language)
Etymology
From Old Norse gefa, from Proto-Germanic *geban?, cognate with English give and German geben. The Germanic verbs goes back to Proto-Indo-European *g?eb?- (“to give”) (hence Sanskrit ?????? (gábhasti, “arm”)) rather than *g?eh?b?- (“to grab”) (hence Latin habe? (“to have”)).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [???i?], [???i], (formal) IPA(key): [???i???]
- Rhymes: -i?, -i?v?
Verb
give (imperative giv, present tense giver, past tense gav, past participle givet, c given, givne)
- to give
Conjugation
Derived terms
Swedish
Verb
give
- present subjunctive of giva
Anagrams
- evig
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inherit
English
Etymology
From Middle English enheriten, from Old French enheriter, from Late Latin inhereditare (“make heir”). Replaced native Old English irfan, compare related noun erf (“inheritance”), from Middle English erve, from Old English yrfe, ierfe (“heritage, bequest, inheritance, property, inherited property, property that passes to an heir, cattle, livestock”), from Proto-Germanic *arbij? (“heritage”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?erb?- (“to change ownership”) (from which also *h?órb?os (“orphan”)).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?n?h???t/
- Rhymes: -???t
Verb
inherit (third-person singular simple present inherits, present participle inheriting, simple past and past participle inherited)
- (transitive) To take possession of as a right (especially in Biblical translations).
- (transitive) To receive (property, a title, etc.), by legal succession or bequest after the previous owner's death.
- (transitive, biology) To receive a characteristic from one's ancestors by genetic transmission.
- (transitive) To derive from people or conditions previously in force.
- (intransitive) To come into an inheritance.
- (computing, programming, transitive) To derive (existing functionality) from a superclass.
- (computing, programming, transitive) To derive a new class from (a superclass).
- (transitive, obsolete) To put in possession of.
Usage notes
- Do not confuse with inherent.
Derived terms
Translations
inherit From the web:
- what inheritance
- what inherited traits
- what inheritance is taxable
- what inheritance pattern is blood type
- what inheritance means
- what inheritance is blood type
- what inheritance pattern is most likely and why
- what inherited assets are taxable
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