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Etymology 1

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Middle Englishgiven, from merger ofOld Englishgiefan(“to give”) andOld Norsegefa(“to give”), fromProto-Germanic*gebaną(“to give”).Displacedyive, from Middle Englishyiven, of the same origin, from influence of Old Norsegefa.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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give (third-person singular simple presentgives,present participlegiving,simple pastgave,past participlegiven)

  1. (ditransitive) Tomove,shift,provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.
    1. Totransfer one's possession or holding of (something) to (someone).
      Synonyms:seeThesaurus:give
      Antonyms:get,obtain,receive,take
      Igave him my coat.
      Igave my coat to the beggar.
      When they asked, Igave my coat.
    2. To make apresent orgift of.
      I'm going togive my wife a necklace for her birthday.
      Shegave a pair of shoes to her husband for their anniversary.
    3. Topledge.
      Igave him my word that I'd protect his children.
    4. Toprovide (something) to (someone), toallow orafford.
      Igave them permission to miss tomorrow's class.
      Pleasegive me some more time.
    5. To cause (a sensation or feeling) to exist in (the specified person, or the target, audience, etc).
      Itgives me a lot of pleasure to be here tonight.
      The fencegave me an electric shock.
      My mother-in-lawgives me nothing but grief.
      it'sgiving me bad vibes — It'sgiving me old Hollywood (vibes)
      • 2023 February 21, Lakita Wilson,Last Chance Dance, Penguin,→ISBN, page81:
        "The outfit isgiving me eighties fitness video vibes, but you wear it well."
    6. (slang, transitive) Togive off (a certainvibe orappearance).[2019?–](Comparegiving.)
      it'sgiving old Hollywood (vibes)
      • 2022 October 25, Medina Azaldin, ELLE Beauty Team, “30 Halloween Nail Art Trends To Get You In The Mood For Trick Or Treat”, in(Please provide the book title or journal name):
        [subtitle:] It'sgiving Wednesday Addams at the salon...
      • 2023 May 30, Sophie Williams, “Kylie Jenner is giving Marilyn Monroe vibes in her latest Instagram post”, inCosmopolitan‎[1], New York, N.Y.:Hearst Communications,→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe original on10 September 2023:
        It'sgiving old Hollywood
      • 2023 June 12, Wilson Wong, “Gov Ball Raves on in Pink, Amid Rain and Smoke”, inThe New York Times‎[2], New York, N.Y.:The New York Times Company,→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe original on12 June 2023:
        Your outfit isgiving more romance than bloodshed. Are you currently in love?
      • 2023 July 20, Rachel Krause, quoting Gabby Ragsdale, “4 Students On The Back-To-School Outfits They're Shopping Their Closets For”, inRefinery29‎[3], archived fromthe original on10 September 2023:
        This outfitgives 'college girl that knows what she's doing' and even though I am the furthest from that, I'll take it.
    7. Tocarry out (a physical interaction) with (something).
      I want togive you a kiss and a hug.
      As momgave us a long look, Igave a sigh and my sistergave a laugh.
      I'd like togive the tire a kick.
      Igave the boy apush on the swing.
      Shegave me a wink afterwards, so I knew she was joking.
    8. To pass (something) into (someone's hand, etc.).
      Give me your hand.
      On entering the house, hegave his coat to the doorman.
    9. To cause (a disease or condition) in, or to transmit (a disease or condition) to.
      My boyfriendgave me chlamydia.
      He was convinced that it was his alcoholism thatgave him cancer.
      • a.1700 (date written),William Temple, “Heads, Designed for an Essay on Conversation”, inMiscellanea. The Third Part. […], London: […] Jonathan Swift, […] Benjamin Tooke, […], published1701,→OCLC,page331:
        Studygives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt togive stiffness, the other suppleness: onegives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
    10. To provide oradminister (amedication)
      The doctorsgave me morphine for the pain.
    11. To present someone to anaudience.
      Playing for us tonight, Igive you The Beatles!
      • 1975, I.W. Parrish,Sixty-Sixth Annual Convention of Rotary International, Rotary International, page54:
        Ladies and gentlemen of Rotary, Igive you our president, Bill Robbins.
      • 2008 September 8, Stuart P. Coates,Norma Jeane's Wishes in Time: (A Four Part Adventure), iUniverse,→ISBN, page30:
        "Ladies and gentlemen... Igive you... 'The Beatles'!..." announced Ed Sullivan above the screaming fans.
    12. To propose someone for atoast,used in standard formulations fortoasts.
      On this happy evening, Igive you the bride and groom!
      • 2001 July 1, Katherine Kurtz,King Kelson's Bride, Penguin,→ISBN, page19:
        "Igive you the bride: the new Baroness of Kilshane. May her life with her bold new baron be long and happy and fruitful." He lifted his cup. "To the bride!"
      • 2008, Chris Dickerson,Deadline, Original Works Publishing,→ISBN, page22:
        CORTEZ (raising whiskey glass) Igive you President Lyndon Johnson.
        ONO: You can keep him.
        (They all knock back the whiskey, slam down the glasses. SAM pours again.)
      • 2014 June 13, Gordon Randall Garrett,Supermind, Simon and Schuster,→ISBN:
        "Sir Thomas," Malone said, "Igive you Her Majesty, the Queen!"
        "To the Queen!" Boyd echoed. They downed their drinks and turned, as one man, to hurl the glasses into the wastebasket.
  2. (transitive) Toprovide, as, aservice or abroadcast.
    They'regiving my favorite show!
    • 1993,Business Law Today:
      We hope that the need to "give good e-mail" in response to questions from clients and potential clients will in fact induce firms to get serious about storing and reusing their expertise – and even become open to tailoring […]
    • 2003, Iain Aitken,Value-Driven IT Management: Commercializing the IT Function, page153:
      […]who did not have a culture in which 'giving good presentation' and successfully playing the internal political game was the way up.
    • 2006, Christopher Matthew Spencer,The Ebay Entrepreneur, page248:
      A friendly voice on the phone welcoming prospective new clients is a must. Don't underestimate the importance ofgiving good "phone".
    • 2012 January 1, George Zinkan,Advertising Research: The Internet, Consumer Behavior, and Strategy, Marketing Classics Press,→ISBN, page28:
      Social skills are required to meet new people in a chat room and maintain contact over time (“Do yougive good e-mail?”). The Internet provides people with an opportunity to reinvent or misrepresent themselves.
    • 2016 November 25, Gabrielle Jamela Hosein, Lisa Outar,Indo-Caribbean Feminist Thought: Genealogies, Theories, Enactments, Springer,→ISBN, page54:
      Hegives good face too, posing for the camera with hands on waist, eyes forward, legs crossed (Fig. 4.1).
  3. (ditransitive) Toestimate orpredict (a duration or probability) for (something).
    Igive it ten minutes before he gives up.
    I'dgive it a 95% chance of success.
    I'llgive their marriage six months.
  4. (intransitive) Toyield orcollapse under pressure or force.
    Synonyms:give way,bend,cede,flex,move,yield
    Antonym:resist
    One pillargave, then more, and suddenly the whole floor pancaked onto the floor below.
    • 1992,Garry Wills, “prologue”, inLincoln at Gettysburg, page21:
      A soldier noticed how earth "gave" as he walked over the shallow trenches.
  5. (intransitive) Tolead (onto or into).
    The master bedroomgives onto a spacious balcony.
    • 2022 February 3, Terry Marsh,Walking the Dales Way: Ilkley to Bowness-on-Windermere through the Yorkshire Dales, Cicerone Press Limited,→ISBN:
      Beyond the stile stands an attractive row of riverside trees – alder, hazel, beech, hawthorn and ash. Go across to the far corner of a field, where a through-stilegives onto a small, lightly wooded hill, […]
  6. (transitive, dated) To provide aview of.
    His windowgave the park.
    • 2006, Pierre Lagayette,Nature et progrès: interactions, exclusions, mutations, Presses Paris Sorbonne,→ISBN, page61:
      Columbus dwellers of Woodland Meadow Apts may not find themselves in a perfectly bucolic setting, as the residential complexgives onto a military defense logistics ground.
  7. Toexhibit as a product or result; to produce; toyield.
    The number of men, divided by the number of ships,gives four hundred to each ship.
  8. To cause; to make; used with the infinitive.
  9. To cause (someone) to have; produce in (someone);effectuate.
    • 1997, Jim Smoke,How a Man Measures Success, page82:
      "Can do" gives me a choice, while "should do"gives me a complex.
  11. To allow or admit by way of supposition; toconcede.
    Synonyms:allow,concede,grant
    He can be bad-tempered, I'llgive you that, but he's a hard worker.
  12. To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.
  13. To communicate or announce (advice, tidings, etc.); to pronounce or utter (an opinion, a judgment, a shout, etc.).
    The umpire finallygave his decision: the ball was out.
  14. (dated or religion) To grant power, permission, destiny, etc. (especially to a person); to allot; to allow.
  15. (reflexive) To devote or apply (oneself).
    The soldiersgive themselves to plunder.
    That boy isgiven to fits of bad temper.
  16. (obsolete) To become soft or moist.
    • 1590, John Smyth,A Discourse […] concerning […] weapons:
      Some moyst weather hath‥caused the powder togive and danke.
  17. (obsolete) To shed tears; to weep.
  18. (obsolete) To have amisgiving.
Conjugation
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Conjugation ofgive
infinitive(to)give
present tensepast tense
1st-personsingulargivegave
2nd-personsingulargive,givest†gave,gavest†
3rd-personsingulargives,giveth†gave
pluralgive
subjunctivegivegave
imperativegive—
participlesgivinggiven
Derived terms
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See alsogiven,giverandgiving

Translations
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transfer the possession of something to someone else
bend slightly when a force is applied
to allow or admit by way of supposition; to concede—seeadmit,‎concede,‎grant
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Noun

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give (uncountable)

  1. Theamount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it; a tendency to yield underpressure;resilience.
    This chair doesn't have muchgive.
    There is nogive in his dogmatic religious beliefs.
    • 1945 January and February, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—III”, inRailway Magazine, page13:
      The striker's job was onerous, too, because there was so little "give" in the metal, and the perpetual jarring was indeed trying to the muscles.
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give (noun)

Etymology 2

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Noun

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give (pluralgives)

  1. Alternative form ofgyve.

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Chinese

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Etymology

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Probably from clipping ofEnglishgive a shit.

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give

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, neologism, chiefly in the negative) togive a shit; tocare about; topay attention to someone

Danish

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Alternative forms

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  • gi'(representing the spoken language)

Etymology

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Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European*gʰebʰ-
Proto-Germanic*gebaną
Old Norsegefa
Danishgive

    Inherited fromOld Norsegefa, fromProto-Germanic*gebaną, fromProto-Indo-European*gʰebʰ-.

    Pronunciation

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    Verb

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    give (imperativegiv,presentgiver,pastgav,past participlegivet,cgiven,definite or pluralgivne)

    1. togive

    Conjugation

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    Conjugation ofgive
    activepassive
    presentgivergives
    pastgavgaves
    infinitivegivegives
    imperativegiv—
    participle
    presentgivende
    pastgivet
    (auxiliary verbhave)
    gerund—

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    Swedish

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    Verb

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    give

    1. (archaic)presentsubjunctive ofgiva

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