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The amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to itThe amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it; a tendency to yield under pressure; resilience.
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» This gives me hope for the future.
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Examples
9246 sentencesThis gives me hope for the future.
This gives me an idea.
It's a dead give-away.
Meaning
1 senses(uncountable)The amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it; a tendency to yield under pressure; resilience.
This chair doesn't have much give.
There is no give in his dogmatic religious beliefs.
Dehnbarkeit
- the elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length
Origin
From Middle English given, yeven, yiven, ȝiven, from merger of Old English ġefan, ġeofan,From Middle English given, yeven, yiven, ȝiven, from merger of Old English ġefan, ġeofan, ġiefan, ġifan, ġiofan, ġyfan (“to give”) and Old Norse gefa (“to give”), from Proto-Germanic *gebaną (“to give”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰebʰ- (“to give; to take”). Displaced yive, from Middle English yiven, of the same origin, from influence of Old Norse gefa.
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Synonyms
2 synonyms- the elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length:springspringiness
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
Collocations
3 patterns- one who gave
- given up hope
- never give up
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.