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Definition of Give
Pronunciation: gĭv | v. t. | 1. | To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up or allow. | | 2. | To yield possesion of; to deliver over, as property, in exchange for something; to pay; as, we give the value of what we buy. | | 3. | To yield; to furnish; to produce; to emit; as, flint and steel give sparks. | | 4. | To communicate or announce, as advice, tidings, etc.; to pronounce; to render or utter, as an opinion, a judgment, a sentence, a shout, etc. | | 5. | To grant power or license to; to permit; to allow; to license; to commission. | | 6. | To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to show; as, the number of men, divided by the number of ships, gives four hundred to each ship. | | 7. | To devote; to apply; used reflexively, to devote or apply one's self; as, the soldiers give themselves to plunder; also in this sense used very frequently in the past participle; as, the people are given to luxury and pleasure; the youth is given to study. | | 8. | (Logic & Math.) To set forth as a known quantity or a known relation, or as a premise from which to reason; - used principally in the passive form given. | | 9. | To allow or admit by way of supposition. | | 10. | To attribute; to assign; to adjudge. | | 11. | To excite or cause to exist, as a sensation; as, to give offense; to give pleasure or pain. | | 12. | To pledge; as, to give one's word. | | 13. | To cause; to make; - with the infinitive; as, to give one to understand, to know, etc. | | 14. | To afford a view of; as, his window gave the park. | | v. i. | 1. | To give a gift or gifts. | | 2. | To yield to force or pressure; to relax; to become less rigid; as, the earth gives under the feet. | | 3. | To become soft or moist. | | 4. | To move; to recede. | | 5. | To shed tears; to weep. | | 6. | To have a misgiving. | | 7. | To open; to lead. |
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