Gave

GAVE may refer to:

  • Gave (Melgaço), a parish in Portugal
  • Gave (placename element), a French word meaning torrential river in the west Pyrenees
  • Gastric antral vascular ectasia (GAVE), a medical condition
  • Gabinete de Avaliação Educacional (GAVE), an institution responsible for monitoring education in Portugal

Famous quotes containing the word gave:

    “At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it; breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death.”
    —Cesare Pavese (1908–1950)

    “She gave up beauty in her tender youth,
    Gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways;
    She covered up her eyes lest they should gaze
    On vanity, and chose the bitter truth.”
    —Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894)

    “The Puritan hated bearbaiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.”
    —Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)