give vs impart what difference
what is difference between give and impart
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English given, from Old Norse gefa (“to give”), from Proto-Germanic *gebaną (“to give”). Merged with native Middle English yiven, ȝeven, from Old English ġiefan, from the same Proto-Germanic source (compare the obsolete inherited English doublet yive).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡɪv/
- Rhymes: -ɪv
Verb
give (third-person singular simple present gives, present participle giving, simple past gave, past participle given)
- (ditransitive) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.
- To transfer one’s possession or holding of (something) to (someone).
- To make a present or gift of.
- To pledge.
- To provide (something) to (someone), to allow or afford.
- To cause (a sensation or feeling) to exist in.
- To carry out (a physical interaction) with (something).
- To pass (something) into (someone’s hand, etc.).
- To cause (a disease or condition) in, or to transmit (a disease or condition) to.
- To transfer one’s possession or holding of (something) to (someone).
- (ditransitive) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something).
- (intransitive) To yield slightly when a force is applied.
- (intransitive) To collapse under pressure or force.
- (transitive) To provide, as, a service or a broadcast.
- 2003, Iain Aitken, Value-Driven IT Management: Commercializing the IT Function, page 153
- […] who did not have a culture in which ‘giving good presentation’ and successfully playing the internal political game was the way up.
- 2006, Christopher Matthew Spencer The Ebay Entrepreneur, page 248
- A friendly voice on the phone welcoming prospective new clients is a must. Don’t underestimate the importance of giving good “phone”.
- 2003, Iain Aitken, Value-Driven IT Management: Commercializing the IT Function, page 153
- (intransitive) To lead (onto or into).
- (transitive, dated) To provide a view of.
- His window gave the park.
- To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to yield.
- The number of men, divided by the number of ships, gives four hundred to each ship.
- To cause; to make; used with the infinitive.
- To cause (someone) to have; produce in (someone); effectuate.
- To allow or admit by way of supposition; to concede.
- He can be bad-tempered, I’ll give you that, but he’s a hard worker.
- To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.
- To communicate or announce (advice, tidings, etc.); to pronounce or utter (an opinion, a judgment, a shout, etc.).
- (dated or religion) To grant power, permission, destiny, etc. (especially to a person); to allot; to allow.
- (reflexive) To devote or apply (oneself).
- (obsolete) To become soft or moist.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)
- (obsolete) To shed tears; to weep.
- (obsolete) To have a misgiving.
- c. 1608-1634, John Webster, Appius and Virginia, page 16
- My mind gives ye’re reserv’d / To rob poor market women.
- c. 1608-1634, John Webster, Appius and Virginia, page 16
- (slang) To be going on, to be occurring
Usage notes
- In older forms of English, when the pronoun thou was in active use, and verbs used -est for distinct second-person singular indicative forms, the verb give had the form givest, and had gavest for its past tense.
- Similarly, when the ending -eth was in active use for third-person singular present indicative forms, the form giveth was used.
Conjugation
Synonyms
- (transfer possession of): See Thesaurus:give
- (bend slightly when a force is applied): bend, cede, flex, move, yield, split
- (estimate or predict): estimate, guess, predict
- (provide):
Antonyms
- (transfer possession of): get, obtain, receive, take
- (bend slightly when a force is applied): not bend/cede/flex/give/move/yield, resist
Derived terms
See also given, giver and giving
Translations
Noun
give (uncountable)
- The amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it; a tendency to yield under pressure; resilence.
- This chair doesn’t have much give.
- There is no give in his dogmatic religious beliefs.
Translations
Etymology 2
Noun
give (plural gives)
- Alternative form of gyve
References
- give at OneLook Dictionary Search
Danish
Alternative forms
- gi’ (representing the spoken language)
Etymology
From Old Norse gefa, from Proto-Germanic *gebaną, cognate with English give and German geben. The Germanic verbs goes back to Proto-Indo-European *gʰebʰ- (“to give”) (hence Sanskrit गभस्ति (gábhasti, “arm”)) rather than *gʰeh₁bʰ- (“to grab”) (hence Latin habeō (“to have”)).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈɡ̊iˀ], [ˈɡ̊i], (formal) IPA(key): [ˈɡ̊iːʋə]
- Rhymes: -iː, -iːvɐ
Verb
give (imperative giv, present tense giver, past tense gav, past participle givet, c given, givne)
- to give
Conjugation
Derived terms
Swedish
Verb
give
- present subjunctive of giva
Anagrams
- evig
English
Etymology
From Middle English imparten, borrowed from Middle French impartir, empartir, from Late Latin impartiō, impertiō, from im- (“in”) + Latin partiō (“divide”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪmˈpɑːt/
- (US) IPA(key): /ɪmˈpɑːɹt/
- Rhymes: -ɑː(r)t
Verb
impart (third-person singular simple present imparts, present participle imparting, simple past and past participle imparted)
- (transitive) To give or bestow (e.g. a quality or property).
- (transitive) To give a part or to share.
- Synonyms: bequeath, bestow, give; see also Thesaurus:give
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book VIII, line 440
- Expressing well the spirit within thee [Adam] free, / My [God’s] image, not imparted to the brute.
- (transitive) To make known; to show (by speech, writing etc.).
- Synonyms: disclose, tell; see also Thesaurus:announce, Thesaurus:inform
- 1662, John Dryden, letter to Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon
- Well may he then to you his cares impart.
- (intransitive) To hold a conference or consultation.
- (transitive) To obtain a share of; to partake of.
- c. 1587 Anthony Munday, John a Kent and John a Cumber
- Sweet Cossen, what we may not now impart, heere let vs bury it, closely in our hart
- c. 1587 Anthony Munday, John a Kent and John a Cumber
Translations
References
- impart at OneLook Dictionary Search
- impart in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Primat, arm pit, armpit