give meaning
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[ɡɪv] [-ɪv] 
US UK WGive
- Give may refer to:
- NounSUF-ive
- VerbSGgivesPRgivingPTgavePPgiven
- VT (may take two objects) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.
- I gave him my coat.
- I gave my coat to the beggar.
- When they asked, I gave my coat.
- I'm going to give my wife a necklace for her birthday.
- She gave a pair of shoes to her husband for their anniversary.
- He gives of his energies to the organization.
- I gave him my word that I'd protect his children.
- I gave them permission to miss tomorrow's class.
- Please give me some more time.
- It gives me a lot of pleasure to be here tonight.
- The fence gave me an electric shock.
- My mother-in-law gives me nothing but grief.
- I want to give you a kiss.
- She gave him a hug.
- I'd like to give the tire a kick.
- I gave the boy a push on the swing.
- She gave me a wink afterwards, so I knew she was joking.
- Give me your hand.
- On entering the house, he gave his coat to the doorman.
- My boyfriend gave me chlamydia.
- He was convinced that it was his alcoholism that gave him cancer.
- VT (may take two objects) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something).
- I give it ten minutes before he gives up.
- I give it a 95% chance of success.
- I'll give their marriage six months.
- VI To yield slightly when a force is applied.
- A soldier noticed how earth "gave" as he walked over the shallow trenches.
- VI To collapse under pressure or force.
- One pillar gave, then more, and suddenly the whole floor pancaked onto the floor below.
- VT To provide, as, a service or a broadcast.
- They're giving my favorite show!
- VI To lead (onto or into).
- The master bedroom gives onto a spacious balcony.
- VT (dated) To provide a view of.
- His window gave the park.
- To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to yield.
- The number of men, divided by the number of ships, gives four hundred to each ship.
- To cause; to make; used with the infinitive.
- To allow or admit by way of supposition.
- To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.
- To communicate or announce (advice, tidings, etc.); to pronounce or utter (an opinion, a judgment, a shout, etc.).
- (dated) To grant power or permission to; to allow.
- (reflexive) To devote or apply (oneself).
- The soldiers give themselves to plunder.
- That boy is given to fits of bad temper.
- OBS To become soft or moist.
- OBS To shed tears; to weep.
- OBS To have a misgiving.
- To be going on, to be occurring.
- What gives?
- VT (may take two objects) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Burčák is a name protected by national legislation of which use is reserved for partially fermented grape must made from grapevine harvested and processed in the Czech Republic in the given year.
- We give a combinatorial proof of this theorem and prove several additional statements on three-codimensional faces of parallelohedral tiling.
- I must have zoned while he was giving us the directions.
- Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- Give the front steps a quick sweep to get rid of those fallen leaves.
- Given that suitability of patients for peritonectomy was discussed during weekly meetings and only selected patients were offered this combined therapy, there was selection bias in this study.
- Given the superstring "cathode", we can extract the substrings "cat", "hod", and "ode".
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- He may be your brother but he botches every job he's given.
- A new semisymmetrization functor, which maps the category of quasigroups with homotopies to the category of semisymmetric quasigroups with homomorphisms is given.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of give in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Singularia tantum
- Uncountable nouns
- Uncountable nouns
- Singularia tantum
- Verbs
- Verbs with two objects
- Intransitive verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Verbs by inflection type
- Irregular verbs
- Irregular verbs
- Verbs with two objects
- Nouns
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "give" is a noun, more specifically, a singularia tantum. It's also a verb, more specifically, a verbs with two object, an intransitive verb, a transitive verb and a verbs by inflection type.