Give vs Withsay - What's the difference?
give | withsay |
(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).
#*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5
, passage=Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps, with something of the stately pose which Richter has given his Queen Louise on the stairway,
# 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.
#* 1699 , ,
(may take two objects) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something).
To yield slightly when a force is applied.
*
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.
To speak against someone or something.
# (label) To renounce, to give up.
#* Rituale Ecclesiæ Dunelmensis (1840), 34:
#* (Geoffrey Chaucer), (The Seconde Nonnes Tale) in the (tales of Caunterbury) , 447:
# To contradict or deny.
#* (Ancrene Riwle) (Cleopatra C vi), 68:
#* in W. P. Baildon, Select cases in Chancery, A.D. 1364 to 1471 (1896), 136:
#* 1530 , (John Palsgrave), Lesclarcissement , 783/2:
# To gainsay, to oppose in speech (and by extension writing).
#* (w), 139:
#* 1922 , (James Joyce), :
# To forbid, to refuse to allow, give, or permit.
#* Merlin (1899), XIV 204:
#* St. German's Dyaloge Doctoure & Student , VI f xiii:
# To decline, to refuse to do or accept.
#* (Ancrene Riwle) (Cleopatra C vi), 175:
#* 1402 , (Thomas Hoccleve), Letters of Cupid , 108:
#* , Bk.XIII, Ch.iij:
#* ordinance in Collection of Ordinances of the Royal Household - 1327–1694 (1790), 372:
#* 2000 , , Morte D'Urban :
As verbs the difference between give and withsay
is that give is (may take two objects) to move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere while withsay is to speak against someone or something.As a noun give
is (uncountable) the amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it.give
English
Verb
Heads designed for an essay on conversations
- 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 .
withsay
English
Verb
- Terrena desideria respuentes, eardlico lvsto wiðsæcgende .
- Euery]] cristen wight shal han penaunce
But if that he his [[Christendom, cristendom withseye .
- ?ef an mon...deð swa muche mis. þet hit beo se open sunne. þet he hit ne ma?e nanesweis allunge wið seggen .
- He withseieth not the matier]] conteigned in the [[said, seid bille of complainte.
- Sythe]] I have sayd it, I [[will, wyll never withsay it.
- Bi þo da?es luuede herod]]es...his wif, and binam hire him, and Seint [[John the Baptist, Iohan hit wið seide .
- Let the lewd with faith and fervour worship. With will will we withstand, withsay .
- I will in no wise with-sey that ye requere.
- I wyll]] not withsaye thy [[desire, desyre.
- Þeo...wið seggeð þe grant þer of wið an wille heorte.
- She...So lyberal]] ys, she wol no [[wight, wyght with-sey .
- ‘Sir,’ he seyde]], ‘I myght nat withsey myne unclis [[will, wyll.’
- This is in noe wise to bee withsaid , for it is the King's honour.
- He was mild to good men of God and stark beyond all bounds to those who withsaid his will.