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given

EN[ˈɡɪvən] [-ɪvən]
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  • Given may refer to:
  • Given, Iran, a village in West Azerbaijan Province
  • Given, West Virginia, United States
  • Shay Given (born 1976), Irish footballer
  • Given Imaging, an Israeli medical technology company
  • "Given", a song by Seether from Karma and Effect
  • A Given (mathematics), a presumption, assumed hypothesis, or definition in mathematics, statistics, or logic
  • More specifically, a term used in probability theory to express a conditional probability

    Definition of given in English Dictionary

  • NounPLgivens
    1. A condition that is assumed to be true without further evaluation.
    2. Verb
      1. past participle of give.
      2. AdjectiveCOMmore givenSUPmost given
        1. Already arranged.
          1. Currently discussed.
            1. Particular, specific.
              1. No more than three people can be in that space at a given time.
            2. Assumed as fact or hypothesis.
              1. Given that we will get the resources, what do we want to achieve?
            3. (with to) Prone, disposed.
              1. He was given to taking a couple of glasses of port at his club.
          2. Preposition
            1. Considering; taking into account.
              1. Given the current situation, I don't think that's possible.
          3. More Examples
            1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
              • Pardew made five changes to the side that thrashed West Ham 5-0 on Wednesday - with players such as James Perch and Alan Smith given the chance to underline their case for a regular starting berth.
              • He was made one of the guardians of the young king James IV. but soon lost influence, being superseded by the Homes and Hepburns, and the wardenship of the marches was given to Alexander Home.
              • This algorithm will produce a state machine for parsing a given context-free grammar.
            2. Used in the Beginning of Sentence
              • Given that the expression of this gene is not restricted to neoblasts, its role can also be important in committed cells.
              • Given the power under a certain significance level, we can also calculate the noncentrality parameter τ 2 , which indicates the amount of difference that a test could detect.
              • Given the superstring "cathode", we can extract the substrings "cat", "hod", and "ode".
            3. Used in the Ending of Sentence
              • A new semisymmetrization functor, which maps the category of quasigroups with homotopies to the category of semisymmetric quasigroups with homomorphisms is given.
              • He may be your brother but he botches every job he's given.
          • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
            1. Adjectives
              • Adjectives ending in -en
              • Morphemes
                • Suffixes
                  • Words by suffix
                    • Words suffixed with -en
                      • Adjectives ending in -en
                • Nouns
                  • Countable nouns
                  • Prepositions
                    • Verbs
                      • Verb forms
                        • Irregular verb forms
                          • Irregular past participles
                          • Participles
                            • Past participles
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                      1. en givens
                      2. en giveness
                      3. en given in
                      4. en given up
                      5. en given out
                      Source: Wiktionary
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                      Meaning of given for the defined word.

                      Grammatically, this word "given" is an adjective, more specifically, an adjectives ending in -en. It's also a morpheme, more specifically, a suffixe. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a preposition. It's also a verb, more specifically, a verb form.
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