Givest vs Rivest - What's the difference?

givest | rivest |

As verbs the difference between givest and rivest

is that givest is (give) while rivest is (archaic) (rive).

givest

English

Verb

(head)

(give)

give

English

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.

#* 1699 , , 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.

(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

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

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, resist

Derived 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 give

Noun

(-)

(uncountable) The amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it.

This chair doesn't have much give .

Statistics

* 1000 English basic words 200 English basic words English irregular verbs English verbs with two objects ----

rivest

English

Verb

(head)

(archaic) (rive)

rive

English

Verb

To tear apart by force; to split; to cleave.

* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

I have seen tempests, when the scolding winds / Have rived the knotty oaks

To pierce or cleave with a weapon.

* :

And therwith she toke the swerd from her loue that lay ded and fylle to the ground in a swowne / And whan she aroos she made grete dole out of mesure / the whiche sorowe greued Balyn passyngly sore / and he wente vnto her for to haue taken the swerd oute of her h?d butsodenly she sette the pomell to the ground / and rofe her self thorow the body

(label) To break apart; to split.

* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queen) , II.vi:

The varlet at his plaint was grieu'd so sore, / That his deepe wounded hart in two did riue .

* (1665-1728)

Freestone rives , splits, and breaks in any direction.

In woodworking, to use a technique of splitting or sawing wood radially from a log (e.g. clapboards).

Synonyms

* (to rend asunder) cleave, rend, split

Noun

(en noun)

A place torn; a rent; a rift.

Synonyms

* (a place torn) rent, rift ----