'Giving' definitions:
Definition of 'giving'
From: WordNet
adjective
Given or giving freely; "was a big tipper"; "the bounteous goodness of God"; "bountiful compliments"; "a freehanded host"; "a handsome allowance"; "Saturday's child is loving and giving"; "a liberal backer of the arts"; "a munificent gift"; "her fond and openhanded grandfather" [syn: big, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, handsome, giving, liberal, openhanded]
noun
The act of giving [syn: giving, gift]
noun
The imparting of news or promises etc.; "he gave us the news and made a great show of the giving"; "giving his word of honor seemed to come too easily"
noun
Disposing of property by voluntary transfer without receiving value in return; "the alumni followed a program of annual giving"
Definition of 'Giving'
From: GCIDE
- Give \Give\ (g[i^]v), v. t. [imp. Gave (g[=a]v); p. p. Given (g[i^]v"'n); p. pr. & vb. n. Giving.] [OE. given, yiven, yeven, AS. gifan, giefan; akin to D. geven, OS. ge[eth]an, OHG. geban, G. geben, Icel. gefa, Sw. gifva, Dan. give, Goth. giban. Cf. Gift, n.]
- 1. To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up or allow. [1913 Webster]
- For generous lords had rather give than pay. --Young. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To yield possesion of; to deliver over, as property, in exchange for something; to pay; as, we give the value of what we buy. [1913 Webster]
- What shall a man give in exchange for his soul ? --Matt. xvi. 26. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To yield; to furnish; to produce; to emit; as, flint and steel give sparks. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To communicate or announce, as advice, tidings, etc.; to pronounce; to render or utter, as an opinion, a judgment, a sentence, a shout, etc. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To grant power or license to; to permit; to allow; to license; to commission. [1913 Webster]
- It is given me once again to behold my friend. --Rowe. [1913 Webster]
- Then give thy friend to shed the sacred wine. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 6. To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to show; as, the number of men, divided by the number of ships, gives four hundred to each ship. [1913 Webster]
- 7. To devote; to apply; used reflexively, to devote or apply one's self; as, the soldiers give themselves to plunder; also in this sense used very frequently in the past participle; as, the people are given to luxury and pleasure; the youth is given to study. [1913 Webster]
- 8. (Logic & Math.) To set forth as a known quantity or a known relation, or as a premise from which to reason; -- used principally in the passive form given. [1913 Webster]
- 9. To allow or admit by way of supposition. [1913 Webster]
- I give not heaven for lost. --Mlton. [1913 Webster]
- 10. To attribute; to assign; to adjudge. [1913 Webster]
- I don't wonder at people's giving him to me as a lover. --Sheridan. [1913 Webster]
- 11. To excite or cause to exist, as a sensation; as, to give offense; to give pleasure or pain. [1913 Webster]
- 12. To pledge; as, to give one's word. [1913 Webster]
- 13. To cause; to make; -- with the infinitive; as, to give one to understand, to know, etc. [1913 Webster]
- But there the duke was given to understand That in a gondola were seen together Lorenzo and his amorous Jessica. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 14. To afford a view of; as, his window gave the park. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- To give away, to make over to another; to transfer. [1913 Webster]
- Whatsoever we employ in charitable uses during our lives, is given away from ourselves. --Atterbury.
- To give back, to return; to restore. --Atterbury.
- To give the bag, to cheat. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- I fear our ears have given us the bag. --J. Webster.
- To give birth to. (a) To bear or bring forth, as a child. (b) To originate; to give existence to, as an enterprise, idea.
- To give chase, to pursue.
- To give ear to. See under Ear.
- To give forth, to give out; to publish; to tell. --Hayward.
- To give ground. See under Ground, n.
- To give the hand, to pledge friendship or faith.
- To give the hand of, to espouse; to bestow in marriage.
- To give the head. See under Head, n.
- To give in. (a) To abate; to deduct. (b) To declare; to make known; to announce; to tender; as, to give in one's adhesion to a party.
- To give the lie to (a person), to tell (him) that he lies.
- To give line. See under Line.
- To give off, to emit, as steam, vapor, odor, etc.
- To give one's self away, to make an inconsiderate surrender of one's cause, an unintentional disclosure of one's purposes, or the like. [Colloq.]
- To give out. (a) To utter publicly; to report; to announce or declare. [1913 Webster]
- One that gives out himself Prince Florizel. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Give out you are of Epidamnum. --Shak. (b) To send out; to emit; to distribute; as, a substance gives out steam or odors.
- To give over. (a) To yield completely; to quit; to abandon. (b) To despair of. (c) To addict, resign, or apply (one's self). [1913 Webster]
- The Babylonians had given themselves over to all manner of vice. --Grew.
- To give place, to withdraw; to yield one's claim.
- To give points. (a) In games of skill, to equalize chances by conceding a certain advantage; to allow a handicap. (b) To give useful suggestions. [Colloq.]
- To give rein. See under Rein, n.
- To give the sack. Same as To give the bag.
- To give and take. (a) To average gains and losses. (b) To exchange freely, as blows, sarcasms, etc.
- To give time (Law), to accord extension or forbearance to a debtor. --Abbott.
- To give the time of day, to salute one with the compliment appropriate to the hour, as "good morning." "good evening", etc.
- To give tongue, in hunter's phrase, to bark; -- said of dogs.
- To give up. (a) To abandon; to surrender. "Don't give up the ship." [1913 Webster]
- He has . . . given up For certain drops of salt, your city Rome. --Shak. (b) To make public; to reveal. [1913 Webster]
- I'll not state them By giving up their characters. --Beau. & Fl. (c) (Used also reflexively.)
- To give up the ghost. See under Ghost.
- To give one's self up, to abandon hope; to despair; to surrender one's self.
- To give way. (a) To withdraw; to give place. (b) To yield to force or pressure; as, the scaffolding gave way. (c) (Naut.) To begin to row; or to row with increased energy. (d) (Stock Exchange). To depreciate or decline in value; as, railroad securities gave way two per cent.
- To give way together, to row in time; to keep stroke.
- Syn: To Give, Confer, Grant.
- Usage: To give is the generic word, embracing all the rest. To confer was originally used of persons in power, who gave permanent grants or privileges; as, to confer the order of knighthood; and hence it still denotes the giving of something which might have been withheld; as, to confer a favor. To grant is to give in answer to a petition or request, or to one who is in some way dependent or inferior. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Giving'
From: GCIDE
- Giving \Giv"ing\, n.
- 1. The act of bestowing as a gift; a conferring or imparting. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A gift; a benefaction. [R.] --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The act of softening, breaking, or yielding. "Upon the first giving of the weather." --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- Giving in, a falling inwards; a collapse.
- Giving out, anything uttered or asserted; an outgiving. [1913 Webster]
- His givings out were of an infinite distance From his true meant design. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'giving'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abalienation,
- adaptable,
- administration,
- agape,
- alienation,
- altruism,
- amortization,
- amortizement,
- announcement,
- application,
- applying,
- assignation,
- assignment,
- bargain and sale,
- barter,
- bendable,
- bending,
- beneficence,
- benevolence,
- benevolent disposition,
- benevolentness,
- Benthamism,
- bequeathal,
- bestowal,
- bighearted,
- bigheartedness,
- BOMFOG,
- bounteous,
- bountiful,
- brotherly love,
- caritas,
- cession,
- charitableness,
- charity,
- Christian charity,
- Christian love,
- compliant,
- conferment,
- conferral,
- consignation,
- consignment,
- conveyance,
- conveyancing,
- deeding,
- deliverance,
- delivery,
- demise,
- disclosure,
- disposal,
- disposition,
- do-goodism,
- dosage,
- dosing,
- ductile,
- elastic,
- enfeoffment,
- enforcing,
- exchange,
- extensible,
- extensile,
- fabricable,
- facile,
- fictile,
- flexible,
- flexile,
- flexuous,
- flower power,
- forcing,
- forcing on,
- formable,
- formative,
- free,
- freehanded,
- freehearted,
- generosity,
- generous,
- goodwill,
- grace,
- gracious,
- greathearted,
- greatheartedness,
- handsome,
- hospitable,
- humanitarianism,
- impartation,
- imparting,
- impartment,
- impressible,
- impressionable,
- large,
- largehearted,
- largeheartedness,
- lavish,
- lease and release,
- liberal,
- like putty,
- limber,
- lissome,
- lithe,
- lithesome,
- love,
- love of mankind,
- magnanimous,
- malleable,
- meting out,
- moldable,
- munificent,
- notification,
- open,
- openhanded,
- openhearted,
- philanthropism,
- philanthropy,
- plastic,
- pliable,
- pliant,
- prescribing,
- princely,
- profuse,
- publication,
- receptive,
- responsive,
- sale,
- sensitive,
- sequacious,
- settlement,
- settling,
- shapable,
- sharing,
- springy,
- stintless,
- submissive,
- supple,
- surrender,
- susceptible,
- telling,
- tractable,
- tractile,
- trading,
- transfer,
- transference,
- transmission,
- transmittal,
- ungrudging,
- unselfish,
- unsparing,
- unstinted,
- unstinting,
- utilitarianism,
- vesting,
- welfarism,
- well-disposedness,
- whippy,
- willowy,
- yielding
Words containing 'Giving'
- Give,
- Gives,
- Giving in,
- Giving out,
- To give,
- To give in,
- To give off,
- To give on,
- To give out,
- To give over,
- To give up,
- give in,
- give off,
- give out,
- give over,
- give the once over,
- give up,
- giving up,
- To give a handle,
- To give a loose,
- To give a say at,
- To give and take,
- To give away,
- To give back,
- To give battle,
- To give birth to,
- To give chase,
- To give ear to,
- To give effect to,
- To give forth,
- To give ground,
- To give head,
- To give large,
- To give line,
- To give place,
- To give points,
- To give possession,
- To give quarter,
- To give rein,
- To give room,
- To give the bag,
- To give the hand,
- To give the hand of,
- To give the head,
- To give the lie to,
- To give the mitten to,
- To give the rein to,
- To give the sack,
- To give the sack to,
- To give the whetstone,
- To give time,
- To give to the dogs,
- To give to wife,
- To give tongue,
- To give up the ghost,
- To give upon,
- To give vent to,
- To give way,
- give a damn,
- give a hand,
- give a hang,
- give a hoot,
- give a lift,
- give and take,
- give away,
- give back,
- give birth,
- give birth to,
- give care,
- give chase,
- give diligence,
- give ear,
- give forth,
- give ground,
- give it a try,
- give it a whirl,
- give notice,
- give or take,
- give rise,
- give suck,
- give thanks,
- give the axe,
- give the bounce,
- give the eye,
- give the gate,
- give the sack,
- give the word,
- give tongue to,
- give vent,
- give voice,
- give way,
- give way to,
- giving birth,
- giving medication,
- not give a hoot,
- To give a person line,
- To give one rope,
- To give one the bag,
- To give one the dor,
- To give one the head,
- To give one the slip,
- To give one to understand,
- To give one's self up,
- To give the time of day,
- To give way together,
- alms-giving,
- give full measure,
- give it the deep six,
- give one's best,
- give the glad eye,
- give-and-go,
- give-and-take,
- give-up the ghost,
- life-giving,
- self-giving,
- To give a piece of one's mind to,
- To give one the cold shoulder,
- To give one the lie in his throat,
- To give one's self away