Crossword clues for bringing
bringing
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.
Wiktionary
n. The act by which something is brought. vb. (present participle of bring English)
WordNet
n. the act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail); "his reluctant delivery of bad news" [syn: delivery]
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.