Verb

(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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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.

(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

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 , page 248

A friendly voice on the phone welcoming prospective new clients is a must. Don't underestimate the importance of giving good "phone".

To lead (onto or into).

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.

* Shakespeare

But there the duke was given to understand / That in a gondola were seen together / Lorenzo and his amorous Jessica.

To allow or admit by way of supposition.

* Milton

I give not heaven for lost.

To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.

* Sheridan

I don't wonder at people's giving him to me as a lover.

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

It is given me once again to behold my friend.

* Alexander Pope

Then give thy friend to shed the sacred wine.

(reflexive) To devote or apply (oneself).

The soldiers give themselves to plunder.

That boy is given to fits of bad temper.

To become soft or moist.

(Francis Bacon)

To shed tears; to weep.

* Shakespeare

Whose eyes do never give / But through lust and laughter.

To have a misgiving.

* J. Webster

My mind gives ye're reserved / To rob poor market women.

To be going on, to be occurring

Verb

To encounter or discover by accident; to happen upon.

* Shakespeare

Searching the window for a flint, I found / This paper, thus sealed up.

* Cowley

In woods and forests thou art found .

To encounter or discover something being searched for; to locate.

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To point out.

To decide that, to discover that, to form the opinion that.

* Shakespeare

I find you passing gentle.

* Cowley

The torrid zone is now found habitable.

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To determine or judge.

To arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to establish.

to find''' a verdict; to '''find a true bill (of indictment) against an accused person

* Shakespeare

to find his title with some shows of truth

To discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end.

Water is found to be a compound substance.

To gain, as the object of desire or effort.

to find''' leisure; to '''find means

To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire.

Looks like he found himself a new vehicle!

After a long flight, I now find myself in San Francisco.

(archaic) To provide for; to supply; to furnish.

to find food for workmen

He finds his nephew in money.

* London Times

Wages £14 and all found .

* Charles Dickens

Nothing a day and find yourself.