The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bring \Bring\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Brought; p. pr. & vb. n. Bringing.] [OE. bringen, AS. bringan; akin to OS. brengian, D. brengen, Fries. brenga, OHG. bringan, G. bringen, Goth. briggan.]
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To convey to the place where the speaker is or is to be; to bear from a more distant to a nearer place; to fetch.
And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread.
--1 Kings xvii. 11.To France shall we convey you safe, And bring you back.
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To cause the accession or obtaining of; to procure; to make to come; to produce; to draw to.
There is nothing will bring you more honor . . . than to do what right in justice you may.
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To convey; to move; to carry or conduct.
In distillation, the water . . . brings over with it some part of the oil of vitriol.
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To persuade; to induce; to draw; to lead; to guide.
It seems so preposterous a thing . . . that they do not easily bring themselves to it.
--Locke.The nature of the things . . . would not suffer him to think otherwise, how, or whensoever, he is brought to reflect on them.
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To produce in exchange; to sell for; to fetch; as, what does coal bring per ton? To bring about, to bring to pass; to effect; to accomplish. To bring back.
To recall.
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To restore, as something borrowed, to its owner. To bring by the lee (Naut.), to incline so rapidly to leeward of the course, when a ship sails large, as to bring the lee side suddenly to the windward, any by laying the sails aback, expose her to danger of upsetting. To bring down.
To cause to come down.
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To humble or abase; as, to bring down high looks. To bring down the house, to cause tremendous applause. To bring forth.
To produce, as young fruit.
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To bring to light; to make manifest. To bring forward
To exhibit; to introduce; to produce to view.
To hasten; to promote; to forward.
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To propose; to adduce; as, to bring forward arguments. To bring home.
To bring to one's house.
To prove conclusively; as, to bring home a charge of treason.
To cause one to feel or appreciate by personal experience.
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(Naut.) To lift of its place, as an anchor. To bring in.
To fetch from without; to import.
To introduce, as a bill in a deliberative assembly.
To return or repot to, or lay before, a court or other body; to render; as, to bring in a verdict or a report.
To take to an appointed place of deposit or collection; as, to bring in provisions or money for a specified object.
To produce, as income.
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To induce to join. To bring off, to bear or convey away; to clear from condemnation; to cause to escape. To bring on.
To cause to begin.
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To originate or cause to exist; as, to bring on a disease. To bring one on one's way, to accompany, guide, or attend one. To bring out, to expose; to detect; to bring to light from concealment. To bring over.
To fetch or bear across.
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To convert by persuasion or other means; to cause to change sides or an opinion. To bring to.
To resuscitate; to bring back to consciousness or life, as a fainting person.
(Naut.) To check the course of, as of a ship, by dropping the anchor, or by counterbracing the sails so as to keep her nearly stationary (she is then said to lie to).
To cause (a vessel) to lie to, as by firing across her course.
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To apply a rope to the capstan. To bring to light, to disclose; to discover; to make clear; to reveal. To bring a sail to (Naut.), to bend it to the yard. To bring to pass, to accomplish to effect. ``Trust also in Him; and He shall bring it to pass.'' --Ps. xxxvii. 5. To bring under, to subdue; to restrain; to reduce to obedience. To bring up.
To carry upward; to nurse; to rear; to educate.
To cause to stop suddenly.
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Note: [v. i. by dropping the reflexive pronoun] To stop suddenly; to come to a standstill. [Colloq.]
To bring up (any one) with a round turn, to cause (any one) to stop abruptly. [Colloq.]
To be brought to bed. See under Bed.
Syn: To fetch; bear; carry; convey; transport; import; procure; produce; cause; adduce; induce.
Usage examples of "to bring out".
Dell Mir was a wizard with contraptions, but the war against the Boman had seemed to bring out the genius in him.
And the great point that I most want to bring out is that this early Bronze Age concept of a socially manifest cosmic order, to which every individual must uncritically submit if he is to be anything at all, is fundamental in the Orient &mdash.
And the great point that I most want to bring out is that this early Bronze Age concept of a socially manifest cosmic order, to which every individual must uncritically submit if he is to be anything at all, is fundamental in the Orient -- one way or another -- to this day.
Light leaked over the horizon to the southeast and began to bring out the sand's dull ochre, flecked with dark red.
I sat in his front passenger seat while he re-started the engine and twiddled knobs to bring out hot air, and I found myself unexpectedly shuddering from the physical relief.
The secrets of such mighty magics are long lost to us, I fear, but there is one paltry modern equivalent: the Sash of spells, which I have managed to bring out of Halruaa where so many others have failed!
No matter where they passed, the sun always seemed to bring out hidden patterns in the ice ocean's surface.
I submit that we must withdraw until we have devised a more effective means for dealing with the particular difficulties they pose, while we are still in a strategic position to bring out the majority of our surviving forces.
And it seems to bring out the best in us, so no one wanted to tamper.
Surely these influences he had defied were just the ones to bring out in him the Indian he had sensed but had never known.
Knowing about Patty Sue, about him seducing a young girl again, made her decide to confront him, made her threaten to bring out the letters after all these years.
His smarting hands had gone to his belt pouch to bring out some wilted ill-bane, near crushed into a wet mess.