bring
Part of speech: verb
intj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
baseball
board-games
chess
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From Middle English bryngen, from Old English bringan, from Proto-West Germanic *bringan, from Proto-Germanic *bringaną (“to bring”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrenk-, possibly based on *bʰer-.
Compare Scots bring, West Frisian bringe, Low German brengen, Dutch brengen, Afrikaans bring, German bringen; also Welsh hebrwng (“to bring, lead”), Tocharian B pränk- (“to take away; restrain oneself, hold back”), Latvian brankti (“lying close”), Lithuanian branktas (“whiffletree”).
Inflected forms:
form: brings
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bringing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: brought
pos: verb
tags: past
form: brought
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: broughten
pos: verb
tags: dialectal
participle
past
rare
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: bring
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: bring
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: brought
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: brang
pos: verb
tags: dialectal
first-person
past
singular
form: brung
pos: verb
tags: first-person
nonstandard
past
singular
form: bringed
pos: verb
tags: first-person
nonstandard
past
singular
form: bring
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: bringest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: brought
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: brang
pos: verb
tags: dialectal
past
second-person
singular
form: brung
pos: verb
tags: nonstandard
past
second-person
singular
form: bringed
pos: verb
tags: nonstandard
past
second-person
singular
form: broughtest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: brings
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bringeth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: brought
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: brang
pos: verb
tags: dialectal
past
singular
third-person
form: brung
pos: verb
tags: nonstandard
past
singular
third-person
form: bringed
pos: verb
tags: nonstandard
past
singular
third-person
form: bring
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: brought
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: brang
pos: verb
tags: dialectal
past
plural
form: brung
pos: verb
tags: nonstandard
past
plural
form: bringed
pos: verb
tags: nonstandard
past
plural
form: bring
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: brought
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: brang
pos: verb
tags: dialectal
past
subjunctive
form: brung
pos: verb
tags: nonstandard
past
subjunctive
form: bringed
pos: verb
tags: nonstandard
past
subjunctive
form: bring
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: bringing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: brought
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: brung
pos: verb
tags: dialectal
participle
past
form: broughten
pos: verb
tags: dialectal
participle
past
form: bringed
pos: verb
tags: nonstandard
participle
past
Senses:
gloss: To transport toward somebody/somewhere.
pos: verb
tags: ditransitive
transitive
examples: Waiter, please bring me a single malt whiskey.
Ne take noon hede to brynge togidere þe parties of þe boon þat is to-broken or dislocate, til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge; & þanne brynge togidere þe brynkis eiþer þe disiuncture after þe techynge þat schal be seid in þe chapitle of algebra.
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.
A waiter brought his aperitif, which was a small scotch and soda, and as he sipped it gratefully he sighed. ¶ ‘Civilized,’ he said to Mr. Campion. ‘Humanizing.’[…]‘Cigars and summer days and women in big hats with swansdown face-powder, that's what it reminds me of.’
Next month, Clemons will be brought before a court presided over by a "special master", who will review the case one last time.
gloss: To supply or contribute.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: The new company director brought a fresh perspective on sales and marketing.
“[…]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.”
gloss: To occasion or bring about.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Let's bring our differences to an issue.
The controversial TV broadcast brought a storm of complaints.
Seeing her brought the memories flooding back and tears to my eyes.
gloss: To raise (a lawsuit, charges, etc.) against somebody.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: It has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.
gloss: To persuade; to induce; to draw; to lead; to guide.
pos: verb
examples: It seems so preposterous a thing[…]that they do not easily bring themselves to it.
gloss: To produce in exchange; to sell for; to fetch.
pos: verb
examples: What does coal bring per ton?
gloss: To pitch, often referring to a particularly hard thrown fastball.
pos: verb
examples: The closer Jones can really bring it.
gloss: To move a piece into a more active position, esp. to initially develop it.
pos: verb
examples: You want to bring the rook and then start pushing your pawns.
gloss: The sound of a telephone ringing.
pos: intj
examples: Near-synonyms: ring-a-ding, ding-a-ling
Having a telephone was a novelty; the cat certainly thought so as Charlie would yowl every time it rang, just in case the “bring bring” sound was not sufficient enough to bring to your attention that someone was attempting to contact you telephonically.
A shrill bring bring sounded down the hall. The doorbell? Nope, the phone. I hesitated, drawn by the bath’s enticing promise. Bring bring. Let the phone ring.
I get up from the bed and walk to the wardrobe and all the while the phone keeps on ringing. It’s one of the basic ringtones that you get on every mobile, a bring-bring sound.
A gentle bring-bring sounded with interruption. A phone on a side table next to Victor Zarruq.
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