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bringing

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in 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.] To convey to the place where the speaker is or is to be; to bear ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail); "his reluctant delivery of bad news" [syn: delivery ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The act by which something is brought. vb. (present participle of bring English)

Usage examples of bringing.

Only Doris and I arrived here, though I believe he meant to come, bringing another whore.

This freed the spunk from them all, bringing a great increase of intensity, but still not enough to destroy my independence.

With a parting smile, he stepped forward, grasped the doorknob, and thrust himself through to Earth, bringing up his right hand to brake against the wall.

Another reason for bringing you here was to prepare you for weightlessness.

In short order all of the party had entered the white, Astoria bringing up the rear.

If we deny the peerage, they are quite capable of bringing pressure upon us.

Suddenly without a sound the opening in the yellow wall slid seamlessly closed, bringing gasps to many lips.

Right and left of us they towered, with the afternoon sun falling full upon them and bringing out all the glorious colours of this beautiful range, deep blue and purple in the shadows of the peaks, green and brown where grass and rock mingled, and an endless perspective of jagged rock and pointed crags, till these were themselves lost in the distance, where the snowy peaks rose grandly.

It is not only that he feels sorrow, deep sorrow, for the dear, good man who has befriended him all his life, and now at the end has treated him like his own son and left him a fortune which to people of our modest bringing up is wealth beyond the dream of avarice, but Jonathan feels it on another account.

We closed the outer door and barred and locked it, and bringing the dogs with us, began our search of the house.

More than all do I rejoice that this, our first, and perhaps our most difficult and dangerous, step has been accomplished without the bringing thereinto our most sweet Madam Mina or troubling her waking or sleeping thoughts with sights and sounds and smells of horror which she might never forget.

For an instant his eyes closed, not with pain or sleep but voluntarily, as though he were bringing all his faculties to bear.

We are bringing a good deal of ready money, as we are to buy a carriage and horses.

Had it not been for the superior strength of the hull of the Moravian, she would have been broken by the shock and gone down with the 237 passengers she was bringing home from Canada.

We were then about eighteen hundred miles from our starting-point, and the course of the Nautilus, a little changed, was bringing it back towards the southeast.