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gift
1[ gift ]
noun
- something given voluntarily without payment in return, as to show favor toward someone, honor an occasion, or make a gesture of assistance; present.
Synonyms: dowry, inheritance, legacy, bequest, subsidy, allowance, premium, tip, gratuity, alms, largesse, boon, bounty, endowment, benefaction, offering, contribution, donation
- the act of giving.
- something bestowed or acquired without any particular effort by the recipient or without its being earned:
Those extra points he got in the game were a total gift.
- a special ability or capacity; natural endowment; talent:
the gift of saying the right thing at the right time.
Synonyms: knack, turn, genius, forte, bent, capability, aptitude, faculty
verb (used with object)
- to present with as a gift; bestow gifts upon; endow with.
- to present (someone) with a gift:
just the thing to gift the newlyweds.
GIFT
2[ gift ]
noun
- gamete intrafallopian transfer: a laparoscopic process in which eggs are retrieved from an ovary by aspiration and inserted, along with sperm, into the fallopian tube of another woman.
GIFT
1/ ɡɪft /
acronym for
- gamete intrafallopian transfer: a technique, similar to in vitro fertilization, that enables some women who are unable to conceive to bear children. Egg cells are removed from the woman's ovary, mixed with sperm, and introduced into one of her Fallopian tubes
gift
2/ ɡɪft /
noun
- something given; a present
- a special aptitude, ability, or power; talent
- the power or right to give or bestow (esp in the phrases in the gift of, in ( someone's ) gift )
- the act or process of giving
- look a gift-horse in the mouthusually negative to find fault with a free gift or chance benefit
verb
- to present (something) as a gift to (a person)
- often foll by with to present (someone) with a gift
- rare.to endow with; bestow
Derived Forms
- ˈgiftless, adjective
Other Words From
- giftless adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of gift1
Idioms and Phrases
In addition to the idiom beginning with gift , also see look a gift horse in the mouth .Synonym Study
Example Sentences
A source familiar told me that before that trip Kushner purchased a Torah with his own money as a gift to Bahrain's King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa.
A new and improved keyboard could make a great gift for those hard-working hands of yours.
If your friend or family member has to postpone, Forrest recommends scheduling a phone date with them, offering to help contact guests, and sending them a gift on their original wedding date to make them feel special.
She recommends still sending a wedding gift and a thoughtfully written card that explains why you’re RSVP’ing no.
Additionally, the pandemic has created financial challenges with millions unemployed, so gift giving might be even more stressful.
The kids had a gift for him too, a tee shirt with ‘Baseball Spoken Here’ stenciled across the front.
While the chicken today might be the least exotic bird one can think of, it was once a gift that wowed kings.
A Christmas Carol revived and reinvented it around the gift of giving.
Then the gift card is shopped online in a gray market to collect cold currency.
Moraca pointed to another form of return fraud, involving gift cards.
The living (value £250) is in the gift of trustees, and is now held by the Rev. M. Parker, Vicar.
At the end of the first year, however, she resigned this privilege because she did not wish to accept the conditions of the gift.
This gift of rice was especially pleasing to the traveller, as no dish is held in higher honour in Korea.
It is certain that I then had a bad cough nearly always; and this I am sure was what decided the form of his parting gift to me.
His methodical mind hated the idea of disorder; administration came to him as Nature's gift.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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