What is "imparting"

Usage examples of "imparting".

Her voice held no inflection as she uttered these quick sentences, but her dislike of imparting the gossip was obvious to her listener.

She had halted by Debera's chair and her hands, shapely with long strong fingers, patted Debera's shoulders lightly as if imparting a special message to her along with that pressure.

As for T'kul of the High Reaches Weyr imparting any information, particularly news that might show him in a bad light, that one wouldn't give coordinates to save a rider's life.

Materials to construct the transistors required were obtainable in quantity on Pern Master Oldive was not as fortunate, facing such rebellion from older healers that he concentrated on imparting the Aivas' techniques and methods to new and unprejudiced apprentice minds.

Once he realized that, Tieran had thrown himself with enthusiasm and creativity into the job of imparting the new codes to them.

It was certainly a doubtful charm, imparting a hard, metallic lustre to the child’s character.

Madeleine and Desmond simply kept Erick in the middle of the corridor, imparting the odd gentle nudge to prevent him touching the walls as inertia slid him along.

If only I had some way of imparting Erick’s intensity, his devotion, to them.

He had some distant memory of it, but certainly not one indexed by his neural nanonics, nor a didactic memory—although they were notoriously inaccurate when it came to imparting smells.

Matron Baenre assured her daughter, though Methil was silently doing the same thing, imparting a sense of undeniable confidence.

Crenshinibon, resting in a locker at the foot of the dwarf's bed, sensed Stumpet's dismay and realized that it had to be careful in imparting such dreams.

After the goddess knows how many years breathing the rarefied and dispassionate air of scholarship, imparting knowledge to eager young minds, advancing the frontiers of the mystic arts—"

Fearful, however, of losing this first and only opportunity of relieving my grief by imparting it, I, after a disturbed pause, contrived to frame a meagre, though, as far as it went, true response.

So he told her in his calmest, most convincing voice with his arm around her imparting warmth and comfort.

He looked around the room, from formidable face to formidable face, making eye contact with each in turn, giving them the impression that he was speaking intimately to each one alone, imparting a well-kept secret.