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:

    Einstein is loved because he is gentle, respected because he is wise. Relativity being not for most of us, we elevate its author to a position somewhere between Edison, who gave us a tangible gleam, and God, who gave us the difficult dark and the hope of penetrating it.
    —E.B. (Elwyn Brooks)

    Queen Jane was in labor
    Six weeks and some more;
    The women grew wearied,
    And the midwife gave o’er.
    —Unknown. The Death of Queen Jane (l. 1–4)

    When the villagers were lighting their fires beyond the horizon, I too gave notice to the various wild inhabitants of Walden vale, by a smoky streamer from my chimney, that I was awake.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)