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oblige
English
Etymology
From Middle English obligen, from Old French obligier, obliger, from Latin obligo, obligare, from ob- + ligo. Doublet of obligate, taken straight from Latin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??bla?d?/
- Rhymes: -a?d?
Verb
oblige (third-person singular simple present obliges, present participle obliging, simple past and past participle obliged)
- (transitive) To constrain someone by force or by social, moral or legal means.
- I am obliged to report to the police station every week.
- (transitive, intransitive) To do (someone) a service or favour (hence, originally, creating an obligation).
- He obliged me by not parking his car in the drive.
- The singer obliged with another song.
- (intransitive) To be indebted to someone.
- I am obliged to you for your recent help.
Usage notes
Aside from in American English and Scottish, "obliged" has largely replaced "obligate" by the 20th century, the latter being more common in the 17th through 19th centuries.
Derived terms
- disoblige
Related terms
- much obliged
- noblesse oblige
- obligate
- obligation
- obligatory
- obligee
- obligor
Translations
References
Anagrams
- big ole, biogel, globie
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?.bli?/
Verb
oblige
- first-person singular present indicative of obliger
- third-person singular present indicative of obliger
- first-person singular present subjunctive of obliger
- third-person singular present subjunctive of obliger
- second-person singular imperative of obliger
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [o?blid??e]
Verb
oblige
- third-person singular present subjunctive of obliga
- third-person plural present subjunctive of obliga
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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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