Give

Verb

 * 1)  To transfer the possession or holding of (something to someone or something else).
 * 2)  To bend slightly when a force is applied.
 * 3)  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.''
 * 1)  To provide, as, a service or a broadcast.
 * They're giving my favorite show!
 * 1) * 2003, Iain Aitken, Value-Driven IT Management: Commercializing the IT Function, page 153
 * [...] who did not have a culture in which 'giving good presentation' and successfully playing the internal political game was the way up.
 * 1) * 2006, Christopher Matthew Spencer The Ebay Entrepreneur, page 248
 * A friendly voice on the phone welcoming prospective new clients is a must. Don't underestimate the importance of giving good "phone".

Synonyms

 * donate, pass, transfer
 * bend, cede, flex, move, yield
 * estimate, guess, predict

Antonyms

 * get, obtain, receive, take
 * not bend/cede/flex/give/move/yield, resist

Derived terms
See also given, giver and giving


 * forgive
 * give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime
 * give away
 * give away the store
 * give back
 * give birth
 * give forth
 * give head
 * give in
 * give it one's all


 * give it one's best shot
 * give it up for
 * given
 * give off
 * give on to
 * give someone grief
 * give out
 * give over
 * give pause
 * give someone a break
 * give someone a chance
 * give someone the time of day


 * give something a miss
 * give something a shot
 * give something a try
 * give thanks
 * give to understand
 * give up
 * give way
 * it is better to give than to receive
 * something's got to give

Noun

 * 1)  The amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it.
 * This chair doesn't have much give.

Derived terms

 * give and take

Adverbs for Give
exclusively; grudgingly; charitably; benevolently; abundantly; grumblingly; discrim-inately; spontaneously; magnificently; methodically; unsparingly; discreetly; conscientiously; periodically; impartially; infallibly; subsequently; wantonly; invariably; ultimately; intentionally; substantially; prodigally; legitimately.

Thesaurus
abalienate, abandon, abstain from, accommodate, accord, act, adaptability, administer, afford, agreeability, aid, air, alien, alienate, allocate, allot, allow, amenability, amortize, announce, apply, apportion, appropriate, articulate, ascribe, assign, assist, attach, attribute, award, back off, barter, be, befall, bend, bendability, bequeath, bestow, bestow on, betide, betray, bounce, bounciness, break, break down, breathe, broadcast, buckle, buckle down, buoyance, buoyancy, capitulate, cause, cave, cave in, cease, cede, chance, chime, chorus, chuck, clothe, collapse, come, come apart, come off, come out with, commit, communicate, concede, confer, consign, contribute, convey, crumple, cut out, deal, deal out, dedicate, deed, deed over, deliver, demise, desist from, despair, devolve upon, devote, direct, disburse, discharge, disclose, dish out, dispense, disperse, dispose, disseminate, distribute, divide, divulge, dole, dole out, donate, dose, dose with, ductibility, ductility, elasticity, emit, endow, enfeoff, enforce upon, entrust, enunciate, equal, excess, exchange, exhale, expend, expose, express, extend, extendibility, extensibility, exude, facility, fail, fall out, feed, fetch, fictility, fill, fill up, find, flexibility, flexility, flexuousness, fling off, fold up, force, force upon, forgo, fork out, formativeness, formulate, forsake, freeload, fund, furnish, get across, get over, gift, gift with, give, give away, give expression, give freely, give ground, give in, give off, give out, give out with, give over, give title to, give tongue, give up, give utterance, give voice, give way, give word, go, grant, hand, hand down, hand on, hand out, hand over, hap, heap, help, help to, hold out, impart, impressionability, impute, induce, inflict, inform on, introduce, invest, issue, keep, lavish, lay on, lay out, lead, leak, leave off, leave word, leeway, lend, let have, let out, let slip, limberness, lip, litheness, liveliness, lot, maintain, make, make available, make known, make over, make provision for, make public, malleability, market, mete, mete out, mete out to, moldability, move, negotiate, occasion, offer, out with, outlay, over, pass, pass along, pass around, pass on, pass out, pass over, pay, perform, persuade, phonate, phrase, place, plasticity, play, pliability, pliancy, pose, pour, pour forth, prepare, prescribe for, present, produce, proffer, prompt, pronounce, provide, provide for, publish, put, put forth, put in words, put on, put upon, quit, rain, raise, read, rebound, receptiveness, recite, recruit, refer, reject, relax, release, relent, relinquish, render, renounce, replenish, report, resign, resilience, resiliency, responsiveness, reveal, run out, sacrifice, say, sell, send, send out, send word, sensibility, sensitiveness, sequacity, serve, set forth, settle, settle on, share, share with, shell out, shower, sign away, sign over, signal, sing, slack, slacken, slip, smell of, snap, snow, sound, sponge, spring, spring back, springiness, state, stock, stop, store, stretch, stretchability, stretchiness, strike, submissiveness, submit, subsidize, suppleness, supply, support, surrender, susceptibility, swap, swear off, tell, tender, tensileness, tensility, throw, throw off, throw out, tone, tonicity, tonus, tractability, tractility, trade, transfer, transmit, turn, turn over, unbend, uncover, utter, vend, vent, ventilate, verbalize, vocalize, voice, vouchsafe, weaken, whisper, willowiness, word, yield

Etymology
given:, from gefa: 'to give' (compare  give:,  giva:), from  (compare West Frisian jaan:, Dutch geven:, German geben:), from  (compare Old Irish gaibim 'I hold', Latin habēre 'to have', Lithuanian gabenti 'to take away', gabana 'armful', Polish gabać 'to seize', Sanskrit gabhasti 'hand'). This verb displaced native yiven:, yeven:, from  giefan:, gifan. More at gift:.

Verb

 * Albanian:
 * Amharic:
 * Arabic: أعطى
 * Armenian: տալ (tal)
 * Aromanian: dau
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: даваць, даць
 * Bosnian: ,
 * Breton: rei, roi
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan: donar
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Crimean Tatar: bermek
 * Croatian:
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Filipino: magbigáy
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient Greek: δίδωμι (didomi)
 * Guaraní: me'ẽ
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hebrew: לתת
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido: donar
 * Indonesian:, ,
 * Interlingua: dar
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ,  ,


 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish: ,
 * Lao: (mööb)
 * Latin: ,
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Norwegian: gi, overrekke, overlate, skjenke
 * Occitan:
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Old English: ,
 * Old French:
 * Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: a da
 * Romansch:
 * Russian:,  ; , подарить
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: дати, давати
 * Latin: dati, davati
 * Sindhi:
 * Slovak: dať
 * Slovene: dati, podariti
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili: kupa
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: bigay
 * Tajik:
 * Thai:
 * Tupinambá: me'eng
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: ,
 * Urdu:
 * Vietnamese:
 * West Frisian:
 * Yiddish:


 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Greek:


 * Norwegian: gi etter
 * Russian: податься (podát’sja)
 * Swedish: ge efter


 * : לתת (latet)

Alternative forms

 * gi' (representing the spoken language)

Etymology
From gefa:.

Verb

 * 1) give