What is give?

More definitions of "give":

• (verb): Give as a present; make a gift of.
  Example: "What will you give her for her birthday?"
  Synonyms: gift, present

• (verb): Bestow, especially officially.
  Example: "Give a divorce"
  Synonyms: grant

• (verb): Leave with; give temporarily.
  Example: "Can I give you my keys while I go in the pool?"; "Can I give you the children for the weekend?"

• (verb): Be the cause or source of.
  Synonyms: yield, afford

• (verb): Be flexible under stress of physical force.
  Example: "This material doesn't give"
  Synonyms: yield

• (verb): Endure the loss of.
  Synonyms: sacrifice

• (verb): Present to view.
  Example: "He gave the sign to start"

• (verb): Dedicate.
  Example: "Give thought to"; "give priority to"
  Synonyms: pay, devote

• (verb): Bring about.
  Synonyms: establish

• (verb): Guide or direct, as by behavior of persuasion.
  Example: "You gave me to think that you agreed with me"

• (verb): Perform for an audience.
  Example: "Pollini is giving another concert in New York"

• (verb): Deliver in exchange or recompense.
  Example: "I'll give you three books for four CDs"

• (verb): Manifest or show.
  Example: "This student gives promise of real creativity"; "The office gave evidence of tampering"

• (verb): Allow to have or take.
  Example: "I give you two minutes to respond"

• (verb): Estimate the duration or outcome of something.
  Example: "He gave the patient three months to live"; "I gave him a very good chance at success"

• (verb): Bestow.
  Example: "Give hommage"
  Synonyms: render

• (verb): Proffer (a body part).
  Example: "She gave her hand to her little sister"

• (verb): Give or supply.
  Synonyms: render, yield, return, generate

• (verb): Place into the hands or custody of.
  Synonyms: pass, hand, reach, pass on, turn over

• (verb): Inflict as a punishment.
  Example: "She gave the boy a good spanking"; "The judge gave me 10 years"

• (verb): Emit or utter.
  Example: "Give a gulp"; "give a yelp"

• (verb): Consent to engage in sexual intercourse with a man.
  Example: "She gave herself to many men"

• (verb): Propose.
  Example: "He gave the first of many toasts at the birthday party"

• (verb): Move in order to make room for someone for something.
  Synonyms: move over, give way, ease up, yield

• (verb): Tell or deposit (information) knowledge.
  Example: "Give a secret to the Russians"
  Synonyms: impart, leave, pass on

• (verb): Give or convey physically.
  Synonyms: apply

• (verb): Transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody.
  Example: "I gave her my money"; "can you give me lessons?"; "She gave the children lots of love and tender loving care"

• (verb): Offer in good faith.
  Example: "He gave her his word"

• (verb): Submit for consideration, judgment, or use.
  Example: "Give one's opinion"; "give an excuse"

• (verb): Cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sense.
  Example: "She gave him a black eye"; "The draft gave me a cold"

• (verb): Convey or reveal information.
  Example: "Give one's name"

• (verb): Occur.
  Example: "What gives?"

• (verb): Bring about.
  Synonyms: bring about, yield

• (noun): The elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length.
  Synonyms: spring, springiness

• (verb): Give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause.
  Example: "Give one's talents to a good cause"
  Synonyms: dedicate, consecrate, commit, devote

• (verb): Afford access to.
  Example: "The French doors give onto a terrace"
  Synonyms: afford, open

• (verb): Give food to.
  Example: "Don't give the child this tough meat"
  Synonyms: feed

• (verb): Contribute to some cause.
  Synonyms: contribute, chip in, kick in

• (verb): Legal use: accord by verdict.
  Example: "Give a decision for the plaintiff"

• (verb): Convey, as of a compliment, regards, attention, etc.; bestow.
  Example: "Give the orders"; "Give him my best regards"
  Synonyms: pay

• (verb): Give (as medicine).
  Example: "I gave him the drug"

• (verb): Organize or be responsible for.
  Example: "Give a course"
  Synonyms: hold, throw, have, make

• (verb): Break down, literally or metaphorically.
  Synonyms: collapse, fall in, cave in, give way, break, founder

• (verb): Execute and deliver.
  Example: "Give bond"

Famous quotes containing the word give:

“Tom Mix: Wyatt, is that really the way it was?
Wyatt Earp: Absolutely. Well, give or take a lie or two.”
—Blake Edwards (b. 1922)

“The body, what is it, Father, but a sign
To love the force that grows us, to give back
What in Thy palm is senselessness and mud?”
—Karl Shapiro (b. 1913)

“At thirty years a woman asks her lover to give her back the esteem she has forfeited for his sake; she lives only for him, her thoughts are full of his future, he must have a great career, she bids him make it glorious; she can obey, entreat, command, humble herself, or rise in pride; times without number she brings comfort when a young girl can only make moan.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)