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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
giving
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
giving...crap (=saying bad things)
▪ I’m tired of you giving me crap about my long hair.
giving...prod
▪ ‘Go on,’ he whispered, giving me a prod in the back.
giving...spiel
▪ A salesman started giving us a spiel about life insurance.
giving...the willies
▪ All this talk about ghosts is giving me the willies.
not giving up my day job
▪ I’d love to be a professional writer, but I’m not giving up my day job just yet.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
birth
▪ The physical expression of female sexuality is her monthly period and its triumph lies in her giving birth.
▪ Aside from giving birth to the Blessed Mary at the age of forty, little is known of her.
▪ Surprisingly, I find that all my reasons for postponing giving birth still apply: I don't particularly like children.
▪ He's much more in his element in prometheus, which heaves and sighs as though it's actually giving birth to fire.
▪ His first wife, Helena, died in 1845 giving birth to a daughter.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But it seemed to Paige now that he was doing all the giving and she was taking without returning anything.
▪ Education is not just about giving people the facts.
▪ Flesh against flesh, just giving comfort and pleasure at first.
▪ For a Liberal Democrat to argue that giving institutions the power to run their own affairs is a centralising measure is extraordinary.
▪ Manion felt comfortable with the pitch he was giving Karen.
▪ The latter involves the recipient of the memo in additional work, whereas merely giving information does not.
▪ The physical expression of female sexuality is her monthly period and its triumph lies in her giving birth.
▪ The plight of some 600 detainees acknowledged by the authorities was also giving cause for concern.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Giving

Giving \Giv"ing\, n.

  1. The act of bestowing as a gift; a conferring or imparting.

  2. A gift; a benefaction. [R.]
    --Pope.

  3. The act of softening, breaking, or yielding. ``Upon the first giving of the weather.''
    --Addison.

    Giving in, a falling inwards; a collapse.

    Giving out, anything uttered or asserted; an outgiving.

    His givings out were of an infinite distance From his true meant design.
    --Shak.

Giving

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.

Wiktionary
giving
  1. having the tendency to give; generous n. 1 The act of bestowing as a gift; a conferring or imparting. 2 A gift; a benefaction. 3 The act of softening, breaking, or yielding. v

  2. (present participle of give English)

WordNet
giving

adj. 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, liberal, openhanded]

giving
  1. n. the act of giving [syn: gift]

  2. 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"

  3. disposing of property by voluntary transfer without receiving value in return; "the alumni followed a program of annual giving"

Wikipedia
Giving

Giving may refer to:

  • Gift, the transfer of something without the expectation of receiving something in return
  • Generosity, the habit of giving freely without expecting anything in return
  • Charity (practice), the giving of help to those in need who are not related to the giver
  • Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World, a book by Bill Clinton
  • Giving (album), an album by Colm Ó Snodaigh

Usage examples of "giving".

In a second she was giving her own breakfast to Abo, who neither thanked her or acknowledged her presence.

Along the way Quisp jabbered ceaselessly, giving them an abridged story of his life.

Gross speaks of a man of thirty who was in the habit of giving exhibitions of sword-swallowing in public houses, and who injured his esophagus to such an extent as to cause abscess and death.

The enlarged flyby surveillance photograph hanging on the wall showed in grainy black and white the cabin and its grounds, including the wide, elevated back porch on which Glenn Abies could be seen standing, small but unmistakable, giving the helicopter the finger.

Indeed it is not in the public interest that straightforwardness should be extirpated root and branch, for the presence of a small modicum of sincerity acts as a wholesome irritant to the academicism of the greatest number, stimulating it to consciousness of its own happy state, and giving it something to look down upon.

In the beginning of November I sold shares for fifty thousand francs to a man named Gamier, living in the Rue du Mail, giving up to him a third part of the materials in my warehouse, and accepting a manager chosen by him and paid by the company.

The braziers began giving off a thick, resinous, overly sweet smoke with something astringent to it but I had no way of knowing if it was, in fact, the perfume the grimoire had specified for operations ruled by the planet Mercury: a mixture of mastic, frankincense, cinquefoil, achates, and the dried and powdered brains of a fox.

Giving up, she tied Acorn to the back, retrieved the offside ribbon, then climbed into the phaeton.

Of that great, tempering, benign shadow over the continent, tempering its heat, giving shelter from its cold, restraining the waters, there is left about 65 per cent in acreage and not more than one-half the merchantable timber--five hundred million acres gone in a century and a half.

The juice of the root is very acrid when sniffed up the nostrils, and causes a copious flow of water therefrom, thus giving marked relief for obstinate congestive headache of a dull, passive sort.

No man enters a Martian city without giving a very detailed and satisfactory account of himself, nor did I delude myself with the belief that I could for a moment impose upon the acumen of the officers of the guard to whom I should be taken the moment I applied at any one of the gates.

In one instance a young man had slept so close to his camp-fire that the hair from one side of his head was singed completely away, giving him an appearance so strange that he was promptly given a nickname of twenty or more consonant sounds, which, translated, meant: The Man Who is Half Old Because He Is Half Bald--an appellation acutely resented by the young person concerned, who was rather vain and something of a favourite among the girls.

Union on the 17th of November, and on the 18th appeared the first article giving the adhesion of the Union, to the Lecompton Constitution.

Union on the 17th of November, and on the 18th appeared the first article giving the adhesion of the Union to the Lecompton Constitution.

I listened patiently to all the complaints of the mother who maintained that, in giving up the character of castrato, Therese had bidden adieu to fortune, because she might have earned a thousand sequins a year in Rome.