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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
given
I.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
at a given moment (=at any particular time)
▪ There was no variety at all - you knew exactly what you would be doing at any given moment of the week.
be given/awarded custody (=be legally allowed to have it)
▪ The court will decide who will be given custody.
be granted/given bail
▪ Magistrates adjourned the case until June 9 and Smith was granted bail.
get/be given a hero’s welcome (=be treated as a hero when you arrive somewhere)
▪ The team were given a hero’s welcome when they returned to the city.
get/be given an airing
▪ an issue that wasn’t given an airing during the campaign
given a fair crack of the whip
▪ They feel they haven’t been given a fair crack of the whip.
given carte blanche
▪ The new manager will be given carte blanche as long as she can increase the company’s profits.
given first aid
▪ Being given first aid at the scene of the accident probably saved his life.
given half a chance
▪ Many kids would sleep till noon given half a chance.
given name
given precedence
▪ Safety must be given precedence.
given the chance/given half a chance (=if there is an opportunity to do something)
▪ Goats will eat anything, given half a chance.
given the chance/given half a chance (=if there is an opportunity to do something)
▪ Goats will eat anything, given half a chance.
given the choice (=if you had a choice)
▪ Given the choice, I probably wouldn’t work.
given the constraints on sth (=because there are particular constraints on something)
▪ Given the constraints on space in the city, most people live in tiny apartments.
given the thumbs up
▪ The project was finally given the thumbs up.
given...a jolt
▪ The oil crisis has given the government quite a jolt.
given...black eye
▪ Jack looked like someone had given him a black eye.
given...facelift
▪ The new owner had given the pub a facelift.
given...seal of approval
▪ A number of employers have already given their seal of approval to the scheme.
given...the sack
▪ They’ve never actually given anyone the sack.
has given...blessing to
▪ The Defense Department has given its blessing to the scheme.
receive/be given/get recognition
▪ Younger women artists are now getting wider recognition.
take it as read/given (=assume that something is correct or certain, because you are sure that this is the case)
▪ It isn’t official yet, but you can take it as read that you’ve got the contract.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be given over to sth
▪ The upstairs bedroom is given over to her collection of antique dolls.
▪ Afternoons were given over to village leave, organised games, set walks, leisure periods and detention.
▪ He feared that within a decade it would be given over to factories.
▪ Less than 1 percent of classroom time is given over to questions that require complex student thought or responses.
▪ On the second floor, half the space was given over to a dormitory.
▪ Returning from music, the twenty minutes left before lunch are given over to review for a spelling test.
▪ The greater part is given over to the well in which the ice was deposited.
▪ The rest was given over to a bowling green and a large expanse of lawn; the potential for change was enormous.
▪ The surrounding countryside is lush and fertile and much is given over to agricultural use.
be given/get your marching orders
get/be given a bad press
get/be given short shrift
get/be given your cards
take a hammering/be given a hammering
under/given the circumstances
▪ Besides, under the circumstances, the risk had to be taken.
▪ Especially under the circumstances and all.
▪ He made some measure of pass at me. Given the circumstances of a cheese dip, it was cheering.
▪ He said that he felt that its terms were the best obtainable under the circumstances.
▪ Perhaps under the circumstances it made sense to remain in the one place.
▪ Their disciplined behavior under the circumstances impressed my father.
▪ Well given the circumstances who can blame them.
with time/given time
II.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
already
▪ Witnesses have already given descriptions of the pair who were seen having what appeared to be a heated argument.
▪ Mr. Ashdown I think that I have already given way a reasonable number of times.
▪ As the examples already given illustrate, most of the protests concerned what the conservatives saw as government weakness.
▪ But it seems he had already given reward enough with his charming behaviour.
▪ But Descartes had already given answers to objections such as these.
▪ But this has already given rise to concern about hidden or back-door sponsorship.
▪ You've already given notice to the work-force, though you haven't paid them their dues.
▪ I have already given examples of different characteristics evolving for different reasons.
also
▪ We were also given presentations outlining progress to date since the merger and plans for the future.
▪ The distinction between the intermediate and the aggravated offence has also given rise to adverse comment.
▪ The 1986 Act and the 1988 Education Act have also given governors more power over schools than previously.
▪ The teacher was also given time to prepare for the interview.
▪ Garden tour operators are also given tours.
▪ In both the causal task and the temporal task the children were also given items using so instead of because.
▪ Skinner was also given responsibility for liaising closely with the troika at the apex of Bush's re-election campaign.
▪ He was also given concurrent youth custody sentences of five years, three years and one year.
■ NOUN
access
▪ Shortlisted parties will also be given access to the vendors' various professional advisers to obtain information and to discuss specific areas.
▪ Users should not be given access to this account.
▪ Where possible the public are given access to enjoy the land for recreation.
▪ The Purchaser can be given access to the documents and take its own view.
▪ Each user is given access rights to the server's files.
▪ We are not given access to her private emotional struggles, but we are clear that she can not reject social values.
▪ The most severely-handicapped may be able to benefit from pictures and music, if they are given access to them.
area
▪ Unlike the Magistrates' Court, the Crown Court's jurisdiction is not limited to a given area.
▪ In practice, for a given area to remain in isostatic equilibrium, there would always be a limiting factor.
▪ This is particularly so within a given area.
▪ We could possibly arrange sub-contractors if anyone was interested in taking up the job in a given area.
▪ Of course, they dealt with a given area, and quite successfully.
birth
▪ A woman who had just given birth was being lifted off a stretcher.
▪ This horse has just given birth to a foal. b. This mare has just given birth to a foal.
▪ To think that the selfsame parents could have given birth to the two of us, she says.
▪ What good was this love that she should never have given birth to?
▪ Meg had just given birth to a baby.
▪ The degree of glucose intolerance for any given birth weight was influenced independently by body mass index in adulthood.
▪ She's just given birth to daughter Rosie.
case
▪ Although this is complex to analyse, the average times are easily checked in any given case.
▪ The Commission can also be given cases where two or more distinct firms by implicit collusion operate to restrict competition.
▪ However, Poulantzas would presumably argue that in any given case the course of events is determined by antecedent factors.
▪ Nevertheless, there does seem to be ample latitude in determining how many tests will be conclusive in a given case.
▪ It is not always easy to identify the ratio decidendi of a given case.
context
▪ Latent inhibition will show context-specificity when the only training given has been non-reinforced presentations of the stimulus in a given context.
▪ This may partly explain why a speaker or writer opts for a marked theme in a given context.
information
▪ Are managers of nurses given information about annual leave arrangements of other staff?
▪ Is it one at which they will simply be given information by the teacher in role?
▪ Presuppositions contribute to that given information.
▪ You have always said that you think it important that this House should be given information first.
▪ Those questioned were also concerned that they were not given information on exactly how their tax liability was worked out.
▪ You will be given information about the charges.
▪ Mr Reynolds was also given information about the operation and what would happen to him afterwards so that he knew what to expect.
level
▪ They could expect to receive a given level of real resources and plan accordingly for the medium term.
▪ They will of course be subject to a number of conditions such as inter alia a given level of profits and due diligence.
▪ Where there are definite intuitions about which elements belong at a given level, we may speak of substantive levels.
▪ One way of calculating this figure is to compare the dose from given levels of contamination of polonium-210 and iodine-131.
life
▪ The girls in question are Michelle and Lisa Taylor, two sisters who were given life sentences for murder earlier this year.
▪ The crudest joke against the human race lies in that sweaty farce by which we are first formed and given life.
▪ I know now that there is every reason for joy at the thought of the day on which I was given life.
▪ He starts with the idea of a hard, cold seed being woken by the sun and given life by the sun.
moment
▪ At any given moment most such bands can be expected to contain no incestuous members.
▪ At a given moment finite time came into existence out of infinite time.
▪ I would have needed an air traffic control centre to keep track of where everyone was at any given moment.
▪ To find out which position line, to or from the beacon, the aircraft is on at any given moment.
▪ There was no variety at all - you knew exactly what you would be doing at any given moment of the week.
▪ Whatever Jenny was involved in at any given moment took up the whole of her.
▪ She is whatever the majority of men regard as sexy at any given moment.
▪ Babergh starkly illustrates the brittleness of its prosperity at any given moment.
name
▪ Feds all used their given names, whatever their rank.
▪ The Director was the only one who was called by anything but his given name.
▪ He developed what psychologists might describe as a reluctance to address members of his family by their given names or titles.
notice
▪ Tenants who refuse to accept leases are given notice to quit and find themselves on the streets after years of loyal service.
▪ We also sometimes wish that we were given notice about the arrangements being made for us, and were consulted.
▪ You've already given notice to the work-force, though you haven't paid them their dues.
▪ He was given notice that when his employment at Hendon terminated, he could be re-employed at Ruislip as a tester.
▪ Any respondent to the proposed application is likely to be given notice of hearing of any request for leave.
▪ Where neither attend despite being given notice of the appointment, the court may refuse to make directions.
number
▪ In either application, the device is intended to provide a means of systematically ordering the subdivisions of a given number.
▪ An auxiliary listed under a given number may be applied to any subdivision of that number.
▪ Note that Table 7.5 only applies to the given number of records per track while Fig. 7.18 is more general.
▪ Numerical Documents or files are given numbers and are filed in number order.
▪ Excited, she rang the given number.
▪ For a given number of information arrivals, there is zero correlation between volatility and volume.
▪ She knew what results in work a given number of them would produce in a given space of time.
▪ The wrapping machine was pre-set to wrap a given number of biscuits.
period
▪ At any given period, their art will be on show somewhere across the world.
▪ We will pay you £5.00 if we fail to respond within the given periods. 3.
▪ The materials manager does not purchase all the material he could possibly need in a given period.
▪ None the less, certain collectivities acquire a certain salience or pertinence in relation to the dominant political issues of a given period.
▪ You can then go through the filing cabinets to locate the files that have not been stamped within a given period.
▪ Sole Agency One agent has exclusive selling rights for a given period.
▪ Again, files that have not been worked on in a given period can be selected.
▪ During the given period of time, exposure to the decisions of others communicates some of the information these decision-makers originally lacked.
permission
▪ Only VIPs and foreign diplomatic missions are given permission to utilise such dishes.
▪ In one concession by the government on Dec. 28, it was given permission to publish its own newspaper, Rilindja Demokratika.
▪ David Ashford, who's a teacher, had even been given permission to take twelve weeks off work.
▪ It's the first time students have been given permission to broadcast outside a campus.
▪ He said the management at the site hadn't given permission for welding on the oil tank.
▪ Russell Ferrante has been given permission by the High Court to ask for a second inquest into his son's death.
▪ In 1947 he was given permission by the Fourth International to form an independent Labour Party entry group.
point
▪ Yet pragmatics tends only to examine how meaning develops at a given point.
▪ Set size the width of the type body of a given point size.
▪ The three colour laser Doppler Anemometer measures in three dimensions how fast a fluid is travelling past a given point.
▪ At any given point in time, however, such sites may offer latent potential to the developer.
▪ Spaces with more than two dimensions require more than a single parameter to describe the Gaussian curvature at a given point.
▪ This convention requires careful interpretation for local vectors, i.e. vectors measured at a given point in space.
priority
▪ Applications for younger scientists will be given priority, as will projects in the humanities.
▪ On the other hand, 32 percent felt that economic growth should be given priority even if the environment suffered to some extent.
▪ The saving of the party newspapers at this time was given priority over matters related to broadcasting and other information services.
▪ Child abuse cases to be given priority to avoid delays and enable therapeutic help to be offered at the earliest opportunity.
▪ If they are, these words are given priority over the other alternatives available for each word position.
▪ Proposals likely to lead to the development of ideas or resources of use to others will be given priority.
▪ Demand management had been given priority in preference to profitable or productive work.
▪ A number of attractive prospects that have been identified will be given priority for early drilling.
responsibility
▪ A single Minister will be given responsibility for coordinating London's transport services.
▪ Blanche was given responsibility for the enquiry.
▪ The new administration was given responsibility for preparing for the forthcoming general election and drafting a new constitution.
▪ Some one in the occupational health department or specific tutors should be given responsibility for student welfare and be trained as counsellors.
▪ Skinner was also given responsibility for liaising closely with the troika at the apex of Bush's re-election campaign.
▪ It was Major Volpi who had been given responsibility for putting up road-blocks and carrying out house-to-house searches.
▪ Chevenement was actually given responsibility for industry as well as research just under a year ago.
rise
▪ Secondly, that transfer must have given rise to rights in the individual who makes it.
▪ The distinction between the intermediate and the aggravated offence has also given rise to adverse comment.
▪ The bad news is that a given rise in output therefore generates fewer new jobs.
▪ But this has already given rise to concern about hidden or back-door sponsorship.
▪ And so one species will have given rise to another.
▪ The remaining techniques have not given rise to general-purpose instruments but have proved useful in particular experiments.
▪ This embraces all overseas companies, but in practice this has not given rise to difficulties.
▪ Thus there must have been initial configurations that would not have given rise to a universe like the one we see today.
set
▪ Expectations are what we consider to be reasonable behaviour, performance or decisions under a given set of circumstances.
▪ In a gate, the output is always the same for any given set of input conditions.
▪ This meant performing a given set of rituals at the appropriate times.
▪ Then they know that the item conforms to a given set of environmental standards.
▪ He makes vast series of variations on given sets of conditions.
▪ That is in a system with a given set of factors of production and a fixed technology.
situation
▪ Overlap in a given situation is more or less tolerated in some societies than in others.
▪ We owe it to clarity to disentangle the varieties of suffering possible in a given situation.
▪ Try to see a given situation as it truly is when not enhanced by the torture inflicted by your imagination.
▪ Everybody from the politburo downwards should know what slogans to repeat in any given situation.
▪ The theory states that individuals possess certain characteristics so that they are predisposed to act in a certain way within a given situation.
▪ The difficulty is not so much in defining the content for a given situation as stating the level of performance required.
▪ What I lose is my full ability to monitor and assess correctly a given situation.
▪ She was not a woman who would see both sides of a question, or want to analyse a given situation.
support
▪ Staff need to be given support ... especially in the more sensitive areas.
▪ Those most immediately affected given support.
▪ So advanced gas-cooled reactors are given support.
task
▪ Learners are always given tasks to do whilst listening which encourages motivation and gives them a reason to listen.
▪ An example of the tactic would be a project aimed at establishing the suitability of a material for a given task.
▪ No discussion or analysis - except in terms of efficient achievement of the given task - can enter into such a process.
time
▪ Only 7 lines can be displayed at any given time.
▪ It is only fair to Magnus Magnusson and the new structures that they be given time to prove themselves.
▪ They are, no doubt, conditioned by the environment in which they live, they act in a given time and place.
▪ Be able to calculate the interval between two given times, and the finishing time given the starting time and duration.
▪ Well, those of his extended family that he's on speaking terms with at any given time.
▪ On arrival at Hillsborough she was given a boisterous welcome by 150 children given time off school to greet her.
▪ The listeners are always in control because their counterparts will run out of things to say given time.
way
▪ Mr. Ashdown I think that I have already given way a reasonable number of times.
▪ But all had remained silent, even the rain and the wind given way to the calm after the storm.
▪ Had she not taken her weight off them they would simply have given way.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be given over to sth
▪ The upstairs bedroom is given over to her collection of antique dolls.
▪ Afternoons were given over to village leave, organised games, set walks, leisure periods and detention.
▪ He feared that within a decade it would be given over to factories.
▪ Less than 1 percent of classroom time is given over to questions that require complex student thought or responses.
▪ On the second floor, half the space was given over to a dormitory.
▪ Returning from music, the twenty minutes left before lunch are given over to review for a spelling test.
▪ The greater part is given over to the well in which the ice was deposited.
▪ The rest was given over to a bowling green and a large expanse of lawn; the potential for change was enormous.
▪ The surrounding countryside is lush and fertile and much is given over to agricultural use.
be given/get your marching orders
get/be given a bad press
get/be given your cards
take a hammering/be given a hammering
under/given the circumstances
▪ Besides, under the circumstances, the risk had to be taken.
▪ Especially under the circumstances and all.
▪ He made some measure of pass at me. Given the circumstances of a cheese dip, it was cheering.
▪ He said that he felt that its terms were the best obtainable under the circumstances.
▪ Perhaps under the circumstances it made sense to remain in the one place.
▪ Their disciplined behavior under the circumstances impressed my father.
▪ Well given the circumstances who can blame them.
with time/given time
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ They didn't meet me at the given time.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Set size the width of the type body of a given point size.
▪ These were to identify, but not describe or interpret, the stylistic devices present in a given text.
III.preposition
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Given the number of people we invited, I'm surprised so few came.
IV.noun
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be given over to sth
▪ The upstairs bedroom is given over to her collection of antique dolls.
▪ Afternoons were given over to village leave, organised games, set walks, leisure periods and detention.
▪ He feared that within a decade it would be given over to factories.
▪ Less than 1 percent of classroom time is given over to questions that require complex student thought or responses.
▪ On the second floor, half the space was given over to a dormitory.
▪ Returning from music, the twenty minutes left before lunch are given over to review for a spelling test.
▪ The greater part is given over to the well in which the ice was deposited.
▪ The rest was given over to a bowling green and a large expanse of lawn; the potential for change was enormous.
▪ The surrounding countryside is lush and fertile and much is given over to agricultural use.
be given/get your marching orders
get/be given short shrift
with time/given time
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Indeed many other art-historical givens have been rendered obsolete by pluralism and cultural diversity.
▪ It enters into the work as one of the givens with which the artist begins.
▪ National identities are not constant and unchanging givens.
▪ The so-called laws of nature are regarded as inexorable givens.
▪ They were, like this new body she was growing into, givens.
▪ We might say roughly that there are two sorts of givens which we could call duties and wishes.
Related phrases:
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Given

Given \Giv"en\, p. p. & a. from Give, v.

  1. (Math. & Logic) Granted; assumed; supposed to be known; set forth as a known quantity, relation, or premise.

  2. Disposed; inclined; -- used with an adv.; as, virtuously given.
    --Shak.

  3. Stated; fixed; as, in a given time.

    Given name, the Christian name, or name given by one's parents or guardians, as distinguished from the surname, which is inherited. [Colloq.]

Given

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.

    For generous lords had rather give than pay.
    --Young.

  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.

    What shall a man give in exchange for his soul ?
    --Matt. xvi. 26.

  3. To yield; to furnish; to produce; to emit; as, flint and steel give sparks.

  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.

  5. To grant power or license to; to permit; to allow; to license; to commission.

    It is given me once again to behold my friend.
    --Rowe.

    Then give thy friend to shed the sacred wine.
    --Pope.

  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.

  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.

  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.

  9. To allow or admit by way of supposition.

    I give not heaven for lost.
    --Mlton.

  10. To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.

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

  11. To excite or cause to exist, as a sensation; as, to give offense; to give pleasure or pain.

  12. To pledge; as, to give one's word.

  13. To cause; to make; -- with the infinitive; as, to give one to understand, to know, etc.

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

  14. To afford a view of; as, his window gave the park. To give away, to make over to another; to transfer. 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.] I fear our ears have given us the bag. --J. Webster. To give birth to.

    1. To bear or bring forth, as a child.

    2. 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.

      1. To abate; to deduct.

      2. 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.

        1. To utter publicly; to report; to announce or declare.

          One that gives out himself Prince Florizel.
          --Shak.

          Give out you are of Epidamnum.
          --Shak.

        2. To send out; to emit; to distribute; as, a substance gives out steam or odors. To give over.

          1. To yield completely; to quit; to abandon.

          2. To despair of.

    3. To addict, resign, or apply (one's self). 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.

      1. In games of skill, to equalize chances by conceding a certain advantage; to allow a handicap.

      2. 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.

        1. To average gains and losses.

        2. 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.

          1. To abandon; to surrender. ``Don't give up the ship.''

            He has . . . given up For certain drops of salt, your city Rome.
            --Shak.

          2. To make public; to reveal.

            I'll not state them By giving up their characters.
            --Beau. & Fl.

      3. (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.

        1. To withdraw; to give place.

        2. To yield to force or pressure; as, the scaffolding gave way.

        3. (Naut.) To begin to row; or to row with increased energy.

    4. (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.

Related phrases:
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
given

late 14c., "allotted, predestined," past participle adjective from give (v.); also with a noun sense of "fate," reflecting an important concept in pagan Germanic ideology (Old English had giefeðe in this sense). The modern noun sense of "what is given, known facts" is from 1879. Given name (1827) so called because given at baptism.

Wiktionary
given

  1. 1 Already arranged. (rfex) 2 currently discussed. (rfex) 3 particular, specific. 4 assumed as fact or hypothesis. 5 (senseid en prone, disposed)(context with ''to'' English) prone, disposed. alt. (past participle of give English) n. A condition that is assumed to be true without further evaluation. prep. considering; taking into account. v

  2. (past participle of give English)

Related phrases:
WordNet
given

See give

given

  1. adj. specified in advance; "a given number"; "we will meet at a given time and location" [syn: fixed, given(a)]

  2. acknowledged as a supposition; "given the engine's condition, it is a wonder that it started" [syn: granted]

  3. having possession delivered or transferred without compensation [ant: taken]

  4. (usually followed by `to') naturally disposed toward; "he is apt to ignore matters he considers unimportant"; "I am not minded to answer any questions" [syn: apt(p), disposed(p), given(p), minded(p), tending(p)]

given

n. an assumption that is taken for granted [syn: presumption, precondition]

give

  1. n. the elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length [syn: spring, springiness]

  2. [also: given, gave]

give

  1. v. cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sense; "She gave him a black eye"; "The draft gave me a cold"

  2. be the cause or source of; "He gave me a lot of trouble"; "Our meeting afforded much interesting information" [syn: yield, afford]

  3. transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody; "I gave her my money"; "can you give me lessons?"; "She gave the children lots of love and tender loving care" [ant: take]

  4. convey or reveal information; "Give one's name"

  5. convey, as of a compliment, regards, attention, etc.; bestow; "Don't pay him any mind"; "give the orders"; "Give him my best regards"; "pay attention" [syn: pay]

  6. organize or be responsible for; "hold a reception"; "have, throw, or make a party"; "give a course" [syn: hold, throw, have, make]

  7. convey or communicate; of a smile, a look, a physical gesture; "Throw a glance"; "She gave me a dirty look" [syn: throw]

  8. give as a present; make a gift of; "What will you give her for her birthday?" [syn: gift, present]

  9. bring about; "His two singles gave the team the victory" [syn: bring about, yield]

  10. dedicate; "give thought to"; "give priority to"; "pay attention to" [syn: pay, devote]

  11. give or supply; "The cow brings in 5 liters of milk"; "This year's crop yielded 1,000 bushels of corn"; "The estate renders some revenue for the family" [syn: render, yield, return, generate]

  12. tell or deposit (information) knowledge; "give a secret to the Russians"; "leave your name and address here" [syn: impart, leave, pass on]

  13. bring about; "The trompe l'oeil-illusion establishes depth" [syn: establish]

  14. leave with; give temporarily; "Can I give you my keys while I go in the pool?"; "Can I give you the children for the weekend?"

  15. emit or utter; "Give a gulp"; "give a yelp"

  16. endure the loss of; "He gave his life for his children"; "I gave two sons to the war" [syn: sacrifice]

  17. place into the hands or custody of; "hand me the spoon, please"; "Turn the files over to me, please"; "He turned over the prisoner to his lawyers" [syn: pass, hand, reach, pass on, turn over]

  18. give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause; "She committed herself to the work of God"; "give one's talents to a good cause"; "consecrate your life to the church" [syn: dedicate, consecrate, commit, devote]

  19. give (as medicine); "I gave him the drug"

  20. give or convey physically; "She gave him First Aid"; "I gave him a punch in the nose" [syn: apply]

  21. bestow; "give hommage"; "render thanks" [syn: render]

  22. bestow, especially officially; "grant a degree"; "give a divorce"; "This bill grants us new rights" [syn: grant]

  23. move in order to make room for someone for something; "The park gave way to a supermarket"; "`Move over,' he told the crowd" [syn: move over, give way, ease up, yield]

  24. give food to; "Feed the starving children in India"; "don't give the child this tough meat" [syn: feed] [ant: starve]

  25. contribute to some cause; "I gave at the office" [syn: contribute, chip in, kick in]

  26. break down, literally or metaphorically; "The wall collapsed"; "The business collapsed"; "The dam broke"; "The roof collapsed"; "The wall gave in"; "The roof finally gave under the weight of the ice" [syn: collapse, fall in, cave in, give way, break, founder]

  27. estimate the duration or outcome of something; "He gave the patient three months to live"; "I gave him a very good chance at success"

  28. execute and deliver; "Give bond"

  29. deliver in exchange or recompense; "I'll give you three books for four CDs"

  30. afford access to; "the door opens to the patio"; "The French doors give onto a terrace" [syn: afford, open]

  31. present to view; "He gave the sign to start"

  32. perform for an audience; "Pollini is giving another concert in New York"

  33. be flexible under stress of physical force; "This material doesn't give" [syn: yield]

  34. propose; "He gave the first of many toasts at the birthday party"

  35. legal use: accord by verdict; "give a decision for the plaintiff"

  36. manifest or show; "This student gives promise of real creativity"; "The office gave evidence of tampering"

  37. offer in good faith; "He gave her his word"

  38. submit for consideration, judgment, or use; "give one's opinion"; "give an excuse"

  39. guide or direct, as by behavior of persuasion; "You gave me to think that you agreed with me"

  40. allow to have or take; "I give you two minutes to respond"

  41. inflict as a punishment; "She gave the boy a good spanking"; "The judge gave me 10 years"

  42. occur; "what gives?"

  43. consent to engage in sexual intercourse with a man; "She gave herself to many men"

  44. proffer (a body part); "She gave her hand to her little sister"

  45. [also: given, gave]

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Given

Given may refer to:

  • Givan, West Azerbaijan, a village in Iran
  • Given, West Virginia, United States
  • Given Imaging, an Israeli medical technology company
  • "Given", a song by Seether from Karma and Effect
  • A Given (mathematics), a presumption, assumed hypothesis, or definition in mathematics, statistics, or logic
  • More specifically, a term used in probability theory to express a conditional probability
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Usage examples of "given".

If given the chance, she would have rejoined the Order, but for those who abjure their vows, there is never a second chance.

He had given the name of Stanley Adams, and had had such a queerly thick droning voice, that it made the clerk abnormally dizzy and sleepy to listen to him.

I remember thinking that the abo who had given McIlroy the directions must have been a hell of a tireless walker.

But this is not your fight, and if things do not go well aboard Persephone I rather fear there will be little quarter, given or taken.

They appeal with confidence to the Persian history of Sherefeddin Ali, which has been given to our curiosity in a French version, and from which I shall collect and abridge a more specious narrative of this memorable transaction.

Of the first, containing 8246 lines, an abridgement, with a prose connecting outline of the story, is given in this volume.

What has such an adhesive to act upon if there is absolutely no given magnitude of real earth to which it may bind particle after particle in its business of producing the continuous mass?

The experiments proving that the leaves are capable of true digestion, and that the glands absorb the digested matter, are given in detail in the sixth chapter.

The reason given for this change of form was that it more conveniently allowed the lower road to pass between the springings and ensured the transmission of the wind stresses to the abutments without interrupting the cross-bracing.

To the painter I wrote that I felt that I had deserved the shameful insult he had given me by my great mistake in acceding to his request to honour him by staying in his house.

She replied that she was debarred from accepting any money by her vow of poverty and obedience, and that she had given up to the abbess what remained of the alms the bishop had procured her.

The fumes given off by acetone, benzine, xylene, and formaldehyde are toxic and may cause sickness.

If an activity has achieved its goal, it should either be terminated or given new goals.

Boil the fish in acidulated water according to directions previously given.

She had just stepped into the Acme Florists and given an order to the clerk.