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 in".
After which, nothing seemed to be left but for the cor-oner to bring in a verdict of Death by Misadventure and for the widow to send in her claim to the Insurance Com-pany, when Dr.
At least the battalion's corpsmen, assisted by the spaceport rescue teams, had been able to bring in the wounded.
So, when you two left the room later, to bring in more cold beer and sodas, I took it over and switched it with one of those on the shelf.
Deringhouse dispatched two of his detachment to bring in the soldier they had captured first and who had given them the information about his present position.
Perhaps it had been difficult to bring in their regulars on short notice even for double pay.
It built the facility in which the hostages were ultimately held, and apparently used the 'heavy construction equipment' cover to bring in the combat equipment it required for its intended operation.
In exchange for backbreaking labor conducted without pay or proper equipment, using inferior seed, and banned from using the only effective chemicals necessary to bring in a healthy, edible crop, Populist Support Farm system workers will earn a grudging promise that they won't be jailed for their many supposed crimes against the people.
She showed me a contract authorizing her to bring in Maxine Nowicki.
Roddenberry was now able to bring in smart young writers who had grown up watching the original Star Trek and knew exactly what Roddenberry was trying to say, penning their scripts in a more intelligent manner than Roddenberry himself could ever do.
But then what did I really need to bring in an old guy with a nose that looked like a penis and a loser hot dog vendor?
We can't afford to bring in something from real voodoo, even by accident.