Give vs Example - What's the difference?
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(may take two objects) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.
# To transfer one's possession or holding of (something) to (someone).
# To make a present or gift of.
# To pledge.
# To provide (something) to (someone), to allow or afford.
# To cause (a sensation or feeling) to exist in.
# To carry out (a physical interaction) with (something).
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# To pass (something) into (someone's) hand or the like.
# To cause (a disease or condition) in, or to transmit (a disease or condition) to.
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(may take two objects) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something).
To yield slightly when a force is applied.
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To collapse under pressure or force.
To provide, as, a service or a broadcast.
* 2003 , Iain Aitken, Value-Driven IT Management: Commercializing the IT Function , page 153
* 2006 , Christopher Matthew Spencer The Ebay Entrepreneur , page 248
To lead (onto or into).
To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to yield.
To cause; to make; used with the infinitive.
* Shakespeare
To allow or admit by way of supposition.
* Milton
To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.
* Sheridan
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.
* Rowe
* Alexander Pope
(reflexive) To devote or apply (oneself).
To become soft or moist.
To shed tears; to weep.
* Shakespeare
To have a misgiving.
* J. Webster
To be going on, to be occurring
(uncountable) The amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it.
Something that is representative of all such things in a group.
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, title= Something that serves to illustrate or explain a rule.
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, title= Something that serves as a pattern of behaviour to be imitated (a good example) or not to be imitated (a bad example).
* Bible, (w) xiii, 15
* (John Milton)
* 1818 , (Mary Shelley), :
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A person punished as a warning to others.
* (William Shakespeare)
* Bible, x, 6
A parallel or closely similar case, especially when serving as a precedent or model.
* (William Shakespeare)
An instance (as a problem to be solved) serving to illustrate the rule or precept or to act as an exercise in the application of the rule.
To be illustrated or exemplified (by).
As verbs the difference between give and example
is that give is (may take two objects) to move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere while example is to be illustrated or exemplified (by).As nouns the difference between give and example
is that give is (uncountable) the amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it while example is something that is representative of all such things in a group.give
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Verb
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- Study gives' strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to '''give''' stiffness, the other suppleness: one ' gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
- who did not have a culture in which 'giving good presentation' and successfully playing the internal political game was the way up.
- A friendly voice on the phone welcoming prospective new clients is a must. Don't underestimate the importance of giving good "phone".
- The number of men, divided by the number of ships, gives four hundred to each ship.
- But there the duke was given to understand / That in a gondola were seen together / Lorenzo and his amorous Jessica.
- I give not heaven for lost.
- I don't wonder at people's giving him to me as a lover.
- It is given me once again to behold my friend.
- Then give thy friend to shed the sacred wine.
- The soldiers give themselves to plunder.
- That boy is given to fits of bad temper.
- (Francis Bacon)
- Whose eyes do never give / But through lust and laughter.
- My mind gives ye're reserved / To rob poor market women.
Synonyms
* (transfer possession of) donate, pass, transfer * (bend slightly when a force is applied) bend, cede, flex, move, yield * (estimate or predict) estimate, guess, predict * (provide)Antonyms
* (transfer possession of) get, obtain, receive, take * (bend slightly when a force is applied) not bend/cede/flex/give/move/yield, resistDerived terms
See also'' given''', '''giver''' ''and'' ' giving * forgive * * give and take * 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 one's all * give one's daughter away * give on to * give or take * give out * give over * give pause * give someone a break * give someone a chance * give someone a kiss * give someone grief * give someone the business * 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 * what gives? * you only get what you giveNoun
(-)- This chair doesn't have much give .
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Noun
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- For I have given you an example , that ye should do as I have done to you.
- I gave, thou sayest, the example ; I led the way.
- Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge,
- Hang him; he'll be made an example .
- Now these things were our examples , to the intent that we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
- Such temperate order in so fierce a cause / Doth want example .