give

English Online Dictionary. What means give‎? What does give mean?

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English given, from Old Norse gefa (“to give”), from Proto-Germanic *gebaną (“to give”). Merged with native Middle English yiven, ȝeven, from Old English ġiefan, from the same Proto-Germanic source (compare the obsolete inherited English doublet yive).

Pronunciation

• enPR: gĭv, IPA^(key): /ɡɪv/
• Rhymes: -ɪv

Verb

give (third-person singular simple present gives, present participle giving, simple past gave, past participle given)

1. (ditransitive) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.
   1. To transfer one's possession or holding of (something) to (someone).

      Synonyms: see Thesaurus:give

      Antonyms: get, obtain, receive, take

   2. To make a present or gift of.

   3. To pledge.

   4. To provide (something) to (someone), to allow or afford.

   5. To cause (a sensation or feeling) to exist in (the specified person, or the target, audience, etc).
   6. (slang, transitive) To give off (a certain vibe or appearance). [2019?–] (Compare giving.)
   7. To carry out (a physical interaction) with (something).
   8. To pass (something) into (someone's hand, etc.).

   9. To cause (a disease or condition) in, or to transmit (a disease or condition) to.
   10. To provide or administer (a medication)

2. (transitive) To provide, as, a service or a broadcast.
3. (ditransitive) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something).

4. (intransitive) To yield or collapse under pressure or force.

   Synonyms: give way, bend, cede, flex, move, yield

   Antonym: resist

5. (intransitive) To lead (onto or into).
6. (transitive, dated) To provide a view of.
7. To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to yield.

8. To cause; to make; used with the infinitive.
9. To cause (someone) to have; produce in (someone); effectuate.
11. To allow or admit by way of supposition; to concede.

    Synonyms: allow, concede, grant
12. To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.
13. To communicate or announce (advice, tidings, etc.); to pronounce or utter (an opinion, a judgment, a shout, etc.).

14. (dated or religion) To grant power, permission, destiny, etc. (especially to a person); to allot; to allow.
15. (reflexive) To devote or apply (oneself).

16. (obsolete) To become soft or moist.
17. (obsolete) To shed tears; to weep.
18. (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.

Conjugation

Derived terms

See also given, giver and giving

Translations

Noun

give (uncountable)

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

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

give (plural gives)

1. Alternative form of gyve

References

• “give”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• Isaac Livingstone Asamoah (2016 June 23) Digestive Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs, Partridge Africa, →ISBN: “Give onto: If a window, door, or building gives onto a particular place, it leads to that place or you can see that place from it.”

Chinese

Etymology

Probably from clipping of English give a shit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɪf⁵⁵/

Verb

give

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, neologism, chiefly in the negative) to give a shit; to care about; to pay attention to someone

Danish

Alternative forms

• gi' (representing the spoken language)

Etymology

From Old Norse gefa, from Proto-Germanic *gebaną, cognate with English give and German geben. The Germanic verbs go back to Proto-Indo-European *gʰebʰ- (“to give”) (hence Sanskrit गभस्ति (gábhasti, “arm”)); rather than *gʰeh₁bʰ- (“to grab”) (whence Latin habeō (“to have”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡ̊iˀ], [ˈɡ̊i], (formal) IPA^(key): [ˈɡ̊iːʋə]
• Rhymes: -iː, -iːvɐ

Verb

give (imperative giv, present tense giver, past tense gav, past participle givet, c given, givne)

1. to give

Conjugation

Derived terms

Swedish

Verb

give

1. (archaic) present subjunctive of giva

Anagrams

• evig