give

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or…

   To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.

   • I gave him my coat.
   • I gave my coat to the beggar.
   • When they asked, I gave my coat.
2. 2

   To provide, as, a service or a broadcast.

   • 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.
3. 3

   To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something).

   • 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.
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   1. 4

      To yield or collapse under pressure or force.

      • 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.
   2. 5

      To lead (onto or into).

      • 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,[…]
   3. 6

      To provide a view of.

      • 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.
   4. 7

      To exhibit as a product or result

      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.
   5. 8

      To cause

      To cause; to make; used with the infinitive.

      • But there the duke was given to understand / That in a gondola were seen together / Lorenzo and his amorous Jessica.
   6. 9

      To cause (someone) to have

      To cause (someone) to have; produce in (someone); effectuate.

      • "Can do" gives me a choice, while "should do" gives me a complex.
   7. 10

      To allow or admit by way of supposition

      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.
      • I give not heaven for lost.
   8. 11

      To attribute

      To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.

      • I don't wonder at people giving him to me for a lover.
   9. 12

      To communicate or announce (advice, tidings, etc.)

      To communicate or announce (advice, tidings, etc.); to pronounce or utter (an opinion, a judgment, a shout, etc.).

      • The umpire finally gave his decision: the ball was out.
   10. 13

       To grant power, permission, destiny, etc. (especially to a person)

       To grant power, permission, destiny, etc. (especially to a person); to allot; to allow.

       • 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.
   11. 14

       To devote or apply (oneself).

       • The soldiers give themselves to plunder.
       • That boy is given to fits of bad temper.
   12. 15

       To become soft or moist.

       • Some moyst weather hath‥caused the powder to give and danke.
   13. 16

       To shed tears

       To shed tears; to weep.

       • Whose eyes do never give / But through lust and laughter.
   14. 17

       To have a misgiving.

       • My mind gives ye're reserv'd / To rob poor market women.
   15. 18

       The amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it

       The amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it; a tendency to yield under pressure; resilience.

       • 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.
   16. 19

       Alternative form of gyve.

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