Causing somebody or something to have or receive

Definition

give / gÇv/ v ( pt gave /geÇv /; pp given /'gÇvn /) ● Causing somebody or something to have or receive ၁။ ~ sth to sb ေပးသည္။ I gave each of the boys an apple. ❍ I gave an apple to each of the boys. ❍ Each of the boys was given an apple. ❍ An apple was given to each of the boys. She gave her mother the tickets/ gave the tickets to her mother to look after. ❍ Can I give you (ie Would you like) another slice of cake? ❍ She was given a new heart in an eight-hour operation. ❍ He gave the old lady his arm (ie allowed her to lean on his arm) as they crossed the road. ❍ I've just been given a £2000 pay rise. ၂။ (က) ~ sth to sb လက္ေဆာင္ေပးသည္။ What are you giving (to) your brother for his birthday? ❍ I'm giving all my friends books for Christmas. ❍ Have you given the waiter a tip? (ခ) ~ (sth) to sth ေပးလႉသည္။ Handicapped children need your help — please give generously. ❍ Many people regularly give (donations) to charity. ၃။ (အခ်ိန္၊ အခြင့္အလမ္း စသည္) ေပးသည္။ ခြင့္ျပဳသည္။ They gave me a week to make up my mind. ❍ ( infml ) I give their marriage six months at most (ie I think that it will last only six months). ❍ She wishes that she'd been given the chance to go to college. ❍ I'm sure he'll be successful, given (ie if he is given) half a chance. ❍ She wants a job that gives her more responsibility. ❍ What gives you the right to tell me what to do? ၄။ ~ (sb) sth for sth (တစ္စံုတစ္ရာအတြက္ ေငြစသည္) ေပးသည္၊ ေပးရသည္။ Do you mean to tell me you gave £1500 for that pile of scrap metal! ❍ How much will you give me for my old car? ❍ I'd give anything/ a lot for the chance to visit India. ၅။ ~ sth (to sb) (စိတ္ကူး၊ အႀကံဉာဏ္၊ ပညာ၊ သက္ေသခံခ်က္ စသည္) ေပးသည္။ You may be called to give evidence at the trial. ❍ He gives the impression of not caring a damn. ❍ She gives private lessons to supplement her income. ❍ She gave me a ride as far as the station. ❍ The sun gives us warmth and light. ❍ Could you give me your honest opinion of the book? ❍ What gave you the idea that I didn't like you? ငါ မင္းကို မလိုလားဘူးလို႔ ဘာေၾကာင့္ ထင္ရတာလဲ။ ❍ They gave the name Roland to their first child. ၆။ ~ sth to sb/sth အာ႐ံုစိုက္သည္။ အေလးထားသည္။ ဦးစားေပးသည္။ I've given the matter a lot of thought/ given a lot of thought to the matter. ❍ The government should give top priority to rebuilding the inner cities. ● Causing somebody to suffer ၇။ ~ sth to sb (အျပစ္၊ ဩဇာ) ေပးသည္။ The judge gave him a nine-month suspended sentence. ❍ The old woman gave the boys a real scolding. ၈။ ~ sth to sb ေရာဂါေပးသည္။ ကူးစက္ေစသည္။ You've given me your cold/ given your cold to me. ● Communicating ၉။ ဆင္ေျခေပးသည္။ Don't give me that rubbish about having a headache —I know you don't want to go to the party. ၁၀။ (တယ္လီဖုန္း) ဆက္သည္။ I'll give you a ring tomorrow. ၁၁။ ထားပါေတာ့။ The government has a good record on inflation, I give you that, but what is it doing about unemployment? ဒါေတာ့ ဟုတ္ပါၿပီ။ ဒါေပမဲ့…။ ● Performing or providing sth ၁၂။ (ျပဇာတ္ စသည္) ကျပသည္၊ တင္ဆက္သည္။ (အခမ္းအနား) က်င္းပသည္။ give a poetry reading/ a song recital ❍ The President will be giving a press conference tomorrow morning. ❍ How many performances of the play are you giving? ❍ The play was given its first performance in June 1923. ၁၃။ (ညစာစားပြဲ၊ ဧည့္ခံပြဲစသည္) တည္ခင္းသည္၊ ေပးသည္။ I'm giving a dinner party next Friday evening—would you like to come? ၁၄။ အမူအရာ ျပသည္။ She gave a shrug of her shoulders. ❍ He gave a start and woke up suddenly. ၁၅။ ပိတ္၊ ပစ္ (ကန္၊ တြန္း၊ ထိုး) သည္။ (ေမႊးေမႊး) ေပးသည္။ (တိုက္) ေပးသည္။ give sb a kick/ push/ shove ❍ give sb a punch on the nose ❍ She gave him a kiss. ❍ Do give your shoes a polish before you go out. ● Expressing or declaring sth ၁၆။ (ညည္းသံ၊ ရယ္သံ စသည္) ေပးသည္၊ ျပဳသည္။ give a groan/ laugh/ sigh/ yell ❍ He gave a strangled cry and fell to the floor. ၁၇။ …က်န္းမာေစေၾကာင္း“ကမ္ေပ့” ၾကပါစို႔။ Ladies and gentlemen, I give you his Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales. ၁၈။ (ေဘာလံုးပြဲတြင္ လူကြၽံေဘာ၊ ေဘးထြက္ေဘာ၊ ျပစ္ဒဏ္ ေဘာ စသည္) ေပးသည္။ He was given offside by the referee. ● Other meanings ၁၉။ ျဖစ္ေပၚေစသည္။ All that heavy lifting has given me a pain in the back. ❍ I must go to the dentist __ my teeth are giving me hell. ❍ Why don't you go for a walk? It'll give you an appetite for your lunch. ၂၀။ ၫြတ္သည္၊ ေကြးသည္ (သို႔) (အေလွ်ာ့) ေပးသည္။ The branch began to give under his weight. ❍ ( fig ) The situation can't continue like this much longer __ something's got to give. ၂၁။ ေပးသည္။ … ျဖစ္ေစသည္။ … ရိွေစ သည္။ Let me give you a piece of advice (ie advise you). ❍ Her acting has given pleasure to (ie pleased) millions (of people). ❍ The news gave us a shock (ie shocked us). ❍ I trust that you can give an explanation for (ie explain) your extraordinary behaviour? ❍ We will give you all the help (ie help you in every way) we can. n [U] က်ံဳ႕ႏိုင္စန္႔ႏိုင္ျခင္း။ There is no give in a stone floor. ❍ Don't worry if the shoes seem a bit tight at first; the leather has plenty of give in it. ❏ sb doesn't/ couldn't give a damn, a hoot, etc (about sb/ sth) [ IDM ] ( infml ) မမႈ။ အမႈမထား။ ဂ႐ုမစိုက္။ He couldn't give a damn whether he passes the exam or not. ❏ give and take [ IDM ] ၁။ အေပးအယူ (ရိွသည္)။ For a marriage to succeed, both partners must learn to give and take. ❍ If the dispute is to be resolved there must be some give and take. ❍ Marriage is a give-and-take affair. ၂။ စကားခ်င္း၊ စိတ္ကူးခ်င္း စသည္ ဖလွယ္မႈ။ encourage a lively give and take of ideas. ❏ give as good as one gets [ IDM ] အလားတူ တံု႔ျပန္သည္။ ပါးကိုက္လို႔ နားကိုက္သည္။ ❏ give-away n ( infml ) ၁။ အေရာင္းပစၥည္းႏွင့္ တြဲ၍ေပးေသာ အခမဲ့ပစၥည္း။ ေမတၱာလက္ေဆာင္။ There's a give-away cassette with each issue of the magazine. ၂။ လွ်ဳိ႕ဝွက္ခ်က္ ကို သိသာေစသည့္ အသြင္အျပင္မ်ဳိး၊ စကားမ်ဳိး စသည္။ The expression on her face was a (dead) give-away. သူ႕ မ်က္ႏွာထားက ဖံုးထားသမွ် ေဖာ္လိုက္သလို ျဖစ္ေနတယ္။ adj အလကားနီးပါး။ bargains at give-away prices. ❏ give sb away [ PHRV ] (သတို႔သမီး) ႏွင္းအပ္သည္။ The bride was given away by her father. ❏ give sth away [ PHRV ] ၁။ အလကားေပးသည္။ ေပးပစ္ သည္။ He gave away most of his money to charity. ❍ ( infml ) These watches are only a pound each; we're virtually giving them away! ၂။ ခ်ီးျမႇင့္သည္။ The mayor gave away the prizes at the school sports day. ၃။ လက္လႊတ္လိုက္သည္။ They've given away their last chance of winning the match. ❏ give sth/sb away [ PHRV ] ထုတ္ေဖာ္သည္။ ေဖာ္ေကာင္ လုပ္သည္။ She gave away state secrets to the enemy. ❍ His accent gave him away (ie revealed who he really was). ❏ give sb back sth; give sth back (to sb) [ PHRV ] ၁။ ျပန္ေပးသည္။ Could you give me back my pen/ give me my pen back? ၂။ ျပန္ေကာင္းေစသည္။ The operation gave him back the use of his legs. ❏ give sth in [ PHRV ] ေပးအပ္သည္။ ေပးသြင္းသည္။ Please give your examination papers in (to the teacher) when you've finished. ❏ give in (to sb/sth) [ PHRV ] အညံ့ခံသည္။ အ႐ံႈး ေပး သည္။ အေလွ်ာ့ေပးသည္။ The rebels were forced to give in. ❍ She's a plucky player: she never gives in. ❍ The authorities have shown no signs of giving in to the kidnappers' demands. ❏ give it to sb [ IDM ] ( infml ) ျပစ္တင္ကဲ့ရဲ႕သည္။ ဆူပူ ႀကိမ္းေမာင္းသည္။ The boss will really give it to you if you miss the deadline for the job. ❏ give me sth/ sb [ IDM ] ( infml ) (အႀကိဳက္ကို ေဖာ္ျပသည့္ စကား)။ I can't stand modern music; give me Bach and Mozart every time! ေခတ္ေပၚေတးေတာ့ နားၿငီးတယ္။ ဗတ္နဲ႔မိုးဇတ္ေတာ့ အၿမဲ နားေထာင္တယ္။ ❏ give sth off [ PHRV ] ထုတ္သည္။ ထြက္သည္။ The oven is giving off a funny smell. ❍ The fire doesn't seem to be giving off much heat. ဒီမီးက သိပ္ပူပံုမရဘူး။ ❏ give on to/ onto sth [ PHRV ] ( Brit ) မ်က္ႏွာ မူသည္။ The bedroom windows give on to the street. ❍ This door gives onto the hall. ❏ give or take (sth) [ IDM ] အတိုးအေလွ်ာ့၊ အပို အလို ထားေပါ့။ ‘How long will it take us to get there?’ ‘About an hour and a half, give or take (a few minutes)’. တစ္နာရီခြဲမရိွတရိွ၊ ဒါမွမဟုတ္ သာသာေလာက္ေတာ့ ၾကာမွာေပါ့။ ❏ give out [ PHRV ] ၁။ (သည္းခံစိတ္) ကုန္သည္။ (ရိကၡာ စသည္) ျပတ္သည္။ After a month their food supplies gave out. ❍ Her patience finally gave out. ၂။ (စက္စသည္) ရပ္သည္၊ ပ်က္သည္။ One of the plane's engines gave out in mid-Atlantic. ❏ give sth out [ PHRV ] ၁။ ေဝသည္။ ေဝငွသည္။ The teacher gave out the examination papers. ၂။ ထုတ္သည္။ The radiator gives out a lot of heat. ၃။ ေၾကညာသည္။ ထုတ္လႊင့္သည္။ The news of the President's death was given out on national radio. ❍ It was given out that the President had been shot. ❏ give over (doing sth) [ PHRV ] ( Brit infml ) ရပ္သည္။ တိတ္သည္။ Give over, can't you? I can't work with you chattering away like that. ❍ Give over complaining! ❏ give oneself over to sth [ PHRV ] (တစ္စံုတစ္ရာတြင္ မိမိကိုယ္ကို) ျမႇဳပ္ႏွံသည္။ After his wife's death, he seemed to give himself over to despair. ❍ In her later years she gave herself over to writing full-time. ❏ give sth over to sth [ PHRV ] (usu passive) လႊဲအပ္သည္။ လႊဲေျပာင္းသည္။ The village hall is given over to civic functions and meetings. ❍ The period after supper was given over to games. ညစာစားၿပီးခ်ိန္ ေနာက္ပိုင္းကို ကစားခ်ိန္အျဖစ္ သံုးလိုက္ၾကသည္။ ❏ give sb to believe / understand (that)… [ IDM ] ( fml ) (often passive) သိလိုက္သည္။ နားလည္ လိုက္သည္။ သေဘာေပါက္သည္။ I was given to understand that she was ill. ❏ give up [ PHRV ] အ႐ံႈးေပးသည္။ အေလွ်ာ့ေပးသည္။ ပန္း ေပးသည္။ They gave up without a fight. ❍ She doesn't give up easily. ❍ I give up __ tell me what the answer is. ❏ give sb up [ PHRV ] ၁။ ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ခ်က္ မထားေတာ့။ မေမွ်ာ္လင့္ေတာ့။ There you are at last! We'd given you up. ❍ The doctors had given her up but she made a remarkable recovery. ၂။ အဆက္ျဖတ္သည္။ Why don't you give him up? ❏ give sth up [ PHRV ] စြန္႔သည္။ ျဖတ္သည္။ You ought to give up smoking. ❍ She didn't give up her job when she got married. ❏ give oneself/ sb up (to sb) [ PHRV ] အဖမ္းခံသည္။ အညံ့ခံသည္။ After a week on the run he gave himself up (to the police). ❏ give sth up (to sb) [ PHRV ] ေပးသည္။ We had to give our passports up to the authorities. ❍ He gave up his seat to a pregnant woman (ie stood up to allow her to sit down). ❏ give up on sb [ PHRV ] ( infml ) ေပယ်ာလကန္ ထား လိုက္သည္။ သူ႕ထိုက္ႏွင့္ သူ႕ကံ ထားလိုက္သည္။ ❏ what gives? [ IDM ] ( infml ) ဘာပါလိမ့္။ မွန္း။

Examples

1. [give someone something] : Could you give me that pen?
2. [give something to someone] : She gave the flowers to me to hold.
3. [give someone something] : We don’t know what to give Dad for Christmas.
4. A relationship where one partner gives more than the other
5. Aid will be given to areas hardest hit by the flooding.
6. [give someone help/support/encouragement] : Thanks for all the support you’ve given us.
7. [give someone something] : Will the royal family be asked to give the state more of its property?
8. [give something to someone] : There are tax advantages if you give the house to your children before you die.
9. Can’t you give her anything for the pain?
10. The drug is normally given by injection.
11. The motor oil gives good performance in all weather conditions.
12. The removal of trade restrictions could give the economy a substantial boost.
13. [give someone something] : These stories have given people enormous pleasure over the years.
14. The results gave us quite a shock.
15. [give someone trouble/problems] : Since we replaced the clutch
16. the car has given us no trouble at all.
17. Some washing powders give cotton a softer feel.
18. [give someone the idea/impression (that)] : She gave us the distinct impression that the work was nearly finished.
19. [be given to understand/believe something] : Formal The hotel isn’t as luxurious as we were given to understand in the brochure.
20. If you see him
21. will you give him a message from me?
22. They gave me all the instructions over the phone.
23. The answers are given on page 100.
24. [give someone something] : I gave him a hug before I left.
25. We need to give the dog a bath this weekend.
26. [give someone a call/ring] : I’ll give you a ring on Sunday.
27. Someone from the university will give a talk on the future of education.
28. [give something a try/shot/go] : I’d never ridden a horse before
29. but I was prepared to give it a go.
30. [give something thought/attention/consideration] : We’ll give your suggestions some thought and let you know what we decide.
31. Permission to build on the site had to be given by the council.
32. [give preference/priority to someone] : When selecting candidates
33. priority is usually given to those with experience.
34. [give someone something] : They have given us six months to develop a new billing system.
35. [give someone something] : She gave the whole office the flu.
36. [give something to someone] : You could easily give the disease to your partner.
37. How much did they give you for your old car?
38. [give someone something] : Martin gave me £300 for my computer.
39. We always give to charity at Christmas.
40. [give something to someone] : We prefer to give our money to local causes.
41. [give something to someone] : The Small Business Association gives loans to new businesses.
42. The bridge has to be able to give a little in the wind.
43. The floor of the platform might give if too many people walk on it.
44. I tried to get my husband to come with me
45. but he wouldn’t give.
46. They expect you to give yourself to the job completely.