Word: give Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English given, yeven, yiven, ȝiven, from merger of Old English ġefan, ġeofan, ġiefan, ġifan, ġiofan, ġyfan (“to give”) and Old Norse gefa (“to give”), from Proto-Germanic *gebaną (“to give”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰebʰ- (“to give; to take”). Displaced yive, from Middle English yiven, of the same origin, from influence of Old Norse gefa. Cognates Cognate with Yola gee, ye, yie, yive (“to give”), Scots gie (“to give”), North Frisian gjiuwe, iiv, jiiw, jiw, jeewe (“to give”), West Frisian jaan (“to give”), Alemannic German gë (“to give”), Bavarian gebn (“to give”), Central Franconian jevve (“to give”), Cimbrian gem, ghèban (“to give”), Dutch geven (“to give”), German geben (“to give”), Luxembourgish ginn (“to give”), Vilamovian gaon (“to give”), Yiddish געבן (gebn, “to give”), Danish give (“to give”), Elfdalian djävå (“to give”), Faroese geva (“to give”), Icelandic gefa (“to give”), Norwegian Bokmål gi (“to give”), Norwegian Nynorsk gi, giva, gje, gjeva, gjeve (“to give”), Swedish ge, gifva, giva (“to give”), Gothic 𐌲𐌹𐌱𐌰𐌽 (giban, “to give”); also Greek κεφάλι (kefáli), κεφαλή (kefalí, “head”), Lithuanian gobti (“cover up; to grab, snatch”), Polish gabać (“to touch; to tap; to accost”), Serbo-Croatian ха̏бати, hȁbati (“to abrade, wear out”), Sanskrit गभस्ति (gabhasti, “shining”). Pronunciation: /ˈɡɪv/, [ˈɡɪv] 1. To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere. Labels: ditransitive Example: I gave him my coat. Example: I gave my coat to the beggar. 2. To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere. Labels: ditransitive Example: I'm going to give my wife a necklace for her birthday. Example: She gave a pair of shoes to her husband for their anniversary. 3. To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere. Labels: ditransitive Example: I gave him my word that I'd protect his children. 4. To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere. Labels: ditransitive Example: I gave them permission to miss tomorrow's class. Example: Please give me some more time. 5. To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere. Labels: ditransitive Example: It gives me a lot of pleasure to be here tonight. Example: The fence gave me an electric shock. 6. To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere. Labels: ditransitive, slang, transitive Example: it's giving old Hollywood (vibes) Example: Stop texting me! It's giving "desperate", honestly. 7. To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere. Labels: ditransitive Example: I want to give you a kiss and a hug. Example: As mom gave us a long look, I gave a sigh and my sister gave a laugh. 8. To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere. Labels: ditransitive Example: Give me your hand. Example: On entering the house, he gave his coat to the doorman. 9. To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere. Labels: ditransitive Example: My boyfriend gave me chlamydia. Example: He was convinced that it was his alcoholism that gave him cancer. 10. To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere. Labels: ditransitive Example: The doctors gave me morphine for the pain. 11. To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere. Labels: ditransitive Example: Playing for us tonight, I give you The Beatles! Example: Ladies and gentlemen of Rotary, I give you our president, Bill Robbins. 12. To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere. Labels: ditransitive Example: On this happy evening, I give you the bride and groom! Example: "I give you the bride: the new Baroness of Kilshane. May her life with her bold new baron be long and happy and fruitful." He lifted his cup. "To the bride!" 13. To provide, as, a service or a broadcast. Labels: transitive Example: They're giving my favorite show! Example: We hope that the need to "give good e-mail" in response to questions from clients and potential clients will in fact induce firms to get serious about storing and reusing their expertise – and even become open to tailoring […] 14. To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something). Labels: ditransitive Example: I give it ten minutes before he gives up. Example: I'd give it a 95% chance of success. 15. To yield or collapse under pressure or force. Labels: intransitive Example: One pillar gave, then more, and suddenly the whole floor pancaked onto the floor below. Example: A soldier noticed how earth "gave" as he walked over the shallow trenches. 16. To lead (onto or into). Labels: intransitive Example: The master bedroom gives onto a spacious balcony. Example: Beyond the stile stands an attractive row of riverside trees – alder, hazel, beech, hawthorn and ash. Go across to the far corner of a field, where a through-stile gives onto a small, lightly wooded hill,[…] 17. To provide a view of. Labels: dated, transitive Example: His window gave the park. Example: Columbus dwellers of Woodland Meadow Apts may not find themselves in a perfectly bucolic setting, as the residential complex gives onto a military defense logistics ground. 18. To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to yield. Example: The number of men, divided by the number of ships, gives four hundred to each ship. 19. To cause; to make; used with the infinitive. Example: But there the duke was given to understand / That in a gondola were seen together / Lorenzo and his amorous Jessica. 20. To cause (someone) to have; produce in (someone); effectuate. Example: "Can do" gives me a choice, while "should do" gives me a complex. 21. To allow or admit by way of supposition; to concede. Example: He can be bad-tempered, I'll give you that, but he's a hard worker. Example: I give not heaven for lost. 22. To attribute; to assign; to adjudge. Example: I don't wonder at people giving him to me for a lover. 23. To communicate or announce (advice, tidings, etc.); to pronounce or utter (an opinion, a judgment, a shout, etc.). Example: The umpire finally gave his decision: the ball was out. 24. To grant power, permission, destiny, etc. (especially to a person); to allot; to allow. Labels: dated Example: These are the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe to do in the land, which the Lord God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth. Example: once again 'Tis given me to behold my friend. 25. To devote or apply (oneself). Labels: reflexive Example: The soldiers give themselves to plunder. Example: That boy is given to fits of bad temper. 26. To become soft or moist. Labels: obsolete Example: Some moyst weather hath‥caused the powder to give and danke. 27. To shed tears; to weep. Labels: obsolete Example: Whose eyes do never give / But through lust and laughter. 28. To have a misgiving. Labels: obsolete Example: My mind gives ye're reserv'd / To rob poor market women.