Give vs Now - 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.
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* 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.
Present; current.
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* 1855 , Conrad Swackhamer, The United States democratic review , Volume 5?,
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* 2010 March 17, The Telegraph'', news website, ''
(archaic, legal) At the time the will is written. Used in order to prevent any inheritance from being transferred to a person of a future marriage. Does not indicate the existence of a previous marriage.
(informal) Fashionable; popular; up to date; current.
At the present time.
* Arbuthnot
(sentence)
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Differently from the immediate past; differently from a more remote past or a possible future; differently from all other times.
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Differently from the situation before a stated event or change of circumstance.
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(obsolete) Very recently; not long ago.
* Waller
since something is true : because of the fact that something happened
: Now you mention it, I am kind of hungry.
since, because, in light of the fact.
— usually + that
: Now that you mention it, I am kind of hungry.
: Now that''' we're all here, let's start the meeting. = Let's start the meeting '''now that everyone's here.
Indicates a signal to begin.
(uncountable) The present time.
# The state of not paying attention to the future or the past.
# A particular instant in time, as perceived at that instant.
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In uncountable terms the difference between give and now
is that give is the amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it while now is the present time.As a verb give
is to move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.As an adjective now is
present; current.As an adverb now is
at the present time.As a conjunction now is
since something is true : because of the fact that something happened.As an interjection now is
indicates a signal to begin.As an acronym NOW is
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English
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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English
(wikipedia now)Adjective
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- Defects seem as necessary to our now happiness as their Opposites.
- The history of the infant colonies teaches us that the country comprised within the limits of the now United States of America was originally patented in the reign of James I., of England, into two portions:'' that in less than eighty years from that period, the same was again divided into ''twelve'' distinct provinces; a ''thirteenth being after added in the creation of the State of Georgia.
- Where in assumpsit for money lent, the defendant pleaded that in an action in which the now' defendant was plaintiff, and the ' now plaintiff was defendant,.
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- Radio 4's continuity announcer said at the end of the show: "As many of you will have noticed, that edition of The Now Show wasn't very now . It was actually last week's programme. Our apologies for that."
- Now wife.
- I think this band's sound is very now .
See also
* happeningAdverb
(-)- I have a patient now living, at an advanced age, who discharged blood from his lungs thirty years ago.
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- They that but now , for honour and for plate, / Made the sea blush with blood, resign their hate.
Derived terms
* nowadays * now and then * right now *Conjunction
(English Conjunctions)- ''We can play football now that the rain has stopped.
Interjection
(en-interj)!- ''Now! Fire all we've got while the enemy is in reach!
Noun
(en-noun)- Now is the right time.
- There is no better time than now .
- She is living in the now .
- Forever is composed of nows .