give
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: lifestyle
religion
Etymology: Middle English given, from merger of Old English giefan (“to give”) and Old Norse gefa (“to give”), from Proto-Germanic *gebaną (“to give”). Displaced yive, from Middle English yiven, of the same origin, from influence of Old Norse gefa.
Inflected forms:
form: gives
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: giving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gave
pos: verb
tags: past
form: given
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: give
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: give
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: gave
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: give
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: givest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: gave
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: gavest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: gives
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: giveth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: gave
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: give
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: gave
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: give
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: gave
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: give
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: giving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: given
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: giv
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: gie
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: giv
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: gie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.
pos: verb
tags: ditransitive
examples: I gave him my coat.
I gave my coat to the beggar.
When they asked, I gave my coat.
gloss: To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.
pos: verb
tags: ditransitive
examples: I'm going to give my wife a necklace for her birthday.
She gave a pair of shoes to her husband for their anniversary.
gloss: To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.
pos: verb
tags: ditransitive
examples: I gave him my word that I'd protect his children.
gloss: To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.
pos: verb
tags: ditransitive
examples: I gave them permission to miss tomorrow's class.
Please give me some more time.
gloss: To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.
pos: verb
tags: ditransitive
examples: It gives me a lot of pleasure to be here tonight.
The fence gave me an electric shock.
My mother-in-law gives me nothing but grief.
it's giving me bad vibes — It's giving me old Hollywood (vibes)
"The outfit is giving me eighties fitness video vibes, but you wear it well."
gloss: To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.
pos: verb
tags: ditransitive
slang
transitive
examples: it's giving old Hollywood (vibes)
Stop texting me! It's giving "desperate", honestly.
[subtitle:] It's giving Wednesday Addams at the salon...
It's giving old Hollywood
Your outfit is giving more romance than bloodshed. Are you currently in love?
This outfit gives 'college girl that knows what she's doing' and even though I am the furthest from that, I'll take it.
gloss: To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.
pos: verb
tags: ditransitive
examples: I want to give you a kiss and a hug.
As mom gave us a long look, I gave a sigh and my sister gave a laugh.
I'd like to give the tire a kick.
I gave the boy a push on the swing.
She gave me a wink afterwards, so I knew she was joking.
Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps, with something of the stately pose which Richter has given his Queen Louise on the stairway,[…].
gloss: To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.
pos: verb
tags: ditransitive
examples: Give me your hand.
On entering the house, he gave his coat to the doorman.
gloss: To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.
pos: verb
tags: ditransitive
examples: My boyfriend gave me chlamydia.
He was convinced that it was his alcoholism that gave him cancer.
Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
gloss: To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.
pos: verb
tags: ditransitive
examples: The doctors gave me morphine for the pain.
gloss: To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.
pos: verb
tags: ditransitive
examples: Playing for us tonight, I give you The Beatles!
Ladies and gentlemen of Rotary, I give you our president, Bill Robbins.
"Ladies and gentlemen... I give you... 'The Beatles'!..." announced Ed Sullivan above the screaming fans.
gloss: To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.
pos: verb
tags: ditransitive
examples: On this happy evening, I give you the bride and groom!
"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!"
CORTEZ (raising whiskey glass) I give you President Lyndon Johnson.
ONO: You can keep him.
(They all knock back the whiskey, slam down the glasses. SAM pours again.)
"Sir Thomas," Malone said, "I give you Her Majesty, the Queen!"
"To the Queen!" Boyd echoed. They downed their drinks and turned, as one man, to hurl the glasses into the wastebasket.
gloss: To provide, as, a service or a broadcast.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: They're giving my favorite show!
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 […]
[…]who did not have a culture in which 'giving good presentation' and successfully playing the internal political game was the way up.
A friendly voice on the phone welcoming prospective new clients is a must. Don't underestimate the importance of giving good "phone".
Social skills are required to meet new people in a chat room and maintain contact over time (“Do you give good e-mail?”). The Internet provides people with an opportunity to reinvent or misrepresent themselves.
He gives good face too, posing for the camera with hands on waist, eyes forward, legs crossed (Fig. 4.1).
gloss: To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something).
pos: verb
tags: ditransitive
examples: I give it ten minutes before he gives up.
I'd give it a 95% chance of success.
I'll give their marriage six months.
gloss: To yield or collapse under pressure or force.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: One pillar gave, then more, and suddenly the whole floor pancaked onto the floor below.
A soldier noticed how earth "gave" as he walked over the shallow trenches.
gloss: To lead (onto or into).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The master bedroom gives onto a spacious balcony.
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,[…]
gloss: To provide a view of.
pos: verb
tags: dated
transitive
examples: His window gave the park.
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.
gloss: To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to yield.
pos: verb
examples: The number of men, divided by the number of ships, gives four hundred to each ship.
gloss: To cause; to make; used with the infinitive.
pos: verb
examples: But there the duke was given to understand / That in a gondola were seen together / Lorenzo and his amorous Jessica.
gloss: To cause (someone) to have; produce in (someone); effectuate.
pos: verb
examples: "Can do" gives me a choice, while "should do" gives me a complex.
gloss: To allow or admit by way of supposition; to concede.
pos: verb
examples: He can be bad-tempered, I'll give you that, but he's a hard worker.
I give not heaven for lost.
gloss: To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.
pos: verb
examples: I don't wonder at people giving him to me for a lover.
gloss: To communicate or announce (advice, tidings, etc.); to pronounce or utter (an opinion, a judgment, a shout, etc.).
pos: verb
examples: The umpire finally gave his decision: the ball was out.
gloss: To grant power, permission, destiny, etc. (especially to a person); to allot; to allow.
pos: verb
tags: dated
examples: 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.
once again
'Tis given me to behold my friend.
Then give thy friend to shed the sacred wine.
gloss: To devote or apply (oneself).
pos: verb
tags: reflexive
examples: The soldiers give themselves to plunder.
That boy is given to fits of bad temper.
gloss: To become soft or moist.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: Some moyst weather hath‥caused the powder to give and danke.
gloss: To shed tears; to weep.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: Whose eyes do never give / But through lust and laughter.
gloss: To have a misgiving.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: My mind gives ye're reserv'd / To rob poor market women.
gloss: The amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it; a tendency to yield under pressure; resilience.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: This chair doesn't have much give.
There is no give in his dogmatic religious beliefs.
The striker's job was onerous, too, because there was so little "give" in the metal, and the perpetual jarring was indeed trying to the muscles.
Synonyms: accord
add
assign
award
bestow
bequeath
confer
contribute
deliver
do
donate
furnish
give
give away
grant
hand
hand in
hand over
make over
minister
pass
present
provide
render
supply
turn in
turn over
Antonyms: receive
take
Related words: giver
bestowal
Derived words: begive
don't give me that
don't give up the day job
don't give up your day job
foregive
fore-give
forgive
forthgive
gavel
givable
give 110%
give a bad name
give about
give a bugger
give a crap
give a damn
give a darn
give a dog a bad name and hang him
give a fig
give a flying fuck
give a flying shit
give a fuck
give against
give a goddamn
give a good account of oneself
give a good damn
give a good goddamn
give a gun
give a hang
give a hoot
give a hundred percent
give a jackstraw
give a knee
give ale
give a light
give a loose
give a man a fish
give a man a fish and you feed him for a day
teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime
give a monkey's
give-and-go
give-and-take
give and take
give an eye-tooth
give an inch
give a rats
give a rat's arse
give a rat's ass
give a rip
give as good as one gets
give a shit
give a shite
give a sneck posset
give a stuff
give a tinker's cuss
give a tinker's damn
give a tin shit
give a toss
give away
give-away
give-away shop
give away the farm
give away the store
give back
give battle
give birth
give blood
give brain
give by
give chance to
give chase
give credit
give credit where credit is due
give cry
give curry
give dap
give dome
givee
give ear
give face
give forth
give gray hair to
give grey hair to
give ground
give hat
give head
give heed
give in
give into
give it a break
give it a rest
give it large
give it mouth
give it one's all
give it one's best shot
give it socks
give it some welly
give it the big one
give it the gun
give it to someone
give it up
give it up for
give lie to
give life to
give lip
give me
give me a break
give me strength
given
give name to
give neck
giveness
give notice
give off
give of oneself
give one a yell
give one enough rope
give one's all
give one's best
give one's daughter away
give oneself airs
give one's eye-teeth
give one's head a shake
give one's left nut
give one's notice
give one's right arm
give one's word
give one the lie in one's throat
give on to
give or take
give out
give out stink
give over
give pause
give paw
give place
give pursuit
give rise to
give somebody time
give someone a bell
give someone a bloody nose
give someone a break
give someone a buzz
give someone a chance
give someone a hand
give someone a hard time
give someone a jingle
give someone a kiss
give someone a lift
give someone an earful
give someone an inch and someone will take a mile
give someone a piece of one's mind
give someone a ring
give someone a shout
give someone a speaking to
give someone ass cancer
give someone beans
give someone butt cancer
give someone enough rope
give someone enough rope and they'll hang themself
give someone five
give someone goss
give someone gray hair
give someone grey hair
give someone grief
give someone Hail Columbia
give someone hell
give someone his cards
give someone his gruel
give someone his hat
give someone his head
give someone his head on a plate
give someone his head on a platter
give someone Jesse
give someone Jessie
give someone line
give someone one
give someone something to think about
give someone the air
give someone the arm
give someone the bag
give someone the boot
give someone the brush-off
give someone the business
give someone the chair
give someone the cold shoulder
give someone the creeps
give someone the eye
give someone the gears
give someone the heave-ho
give someone their cards
give someone their flowers
give someone their head
give someone the lie in their throat
give someone the mitten
give someone the old heave-ho
give someone the runaround
give someone the shits
give someone the slip
give someone the time
give someone the time of day
give someone time
give someone to understand
give someone what for
give someone what-for
give someone wood
give some skin
give something a go
give something a lash
give something a miss
give something a shot
give something a try
give something a whirl
give something up as a bad job
give stick
give suck
give thanks
give the axe
give the bird
give the devil his due
give the dirts
give the elbow
give the finger
give the floor
give the game away
give the go-by
give the lie
give the lie to
give them an inch and they'll take a mile
give them an inch and they'll take an ell
give the mitten to
give the royal treatment
give the sack
give the stem
give the store away
give the time of day
give the word
give thought
give toco
give tongue
give to understand
give two fucks
give two hoots
give two shits
give two squirts
give two squirts of piss
give up
give up the ghost
give vent to
give voice
give way
give way sign
give weight
give what for
give with one hand and take away with the other
givey
give your head a wobble
give zero fucks
giving
God doesn't give with both hands
it is better to give than to receive
misgive
not give much for someone's chances
one must give to get
outgive
overgive
refer someone to the reply given in Arkell v Pressdram
regive
something's got to give
stand up and give it to him
thanksgive
ungive
upgive
what gives?
would give a Jew's eye
you only get what you give
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: подда́вам
roman: poddávam
lang: Danish
word: give efter
lang: Dutch
word: meegeven
lang: Finnish
word: antaa periksi
lang: German
word: nachgeben
lang: Greek
word: υποχωρώ
roman: ypochoró
lang: Macedonian
word: попушта
roman: popušta
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: gi etter
lang: Portuguese
word: ceder
lang: Russian
word: поддава́ться
roman: poddavátʹsja
lang: Russian
word: подда́ться
roman: poddátʹsja
lang: Spanish
word: ceder
lang: Spanish
word: hundirse
lang: Spanish
word: dar de sí
lang: Swedish
word: ge efter