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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: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
- 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: , , , , , , ,
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/ ɡɪڳ /
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/ ɡɪڳ /
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
- ˈڳٱ, adjective
Other Word Forms
- ڳl 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
"She would blow me away with her paintings and she certainly had a gift," he said.
"For more than 70 years, China has always relied on self-reliance and hard work for development… it has never relied on anyone's gifts and is unafraid of any unreasonable suppression," he said this month.
“Grateful for the gift of life and being able to enjoy all of the people and music that I love.”
In 1971, Alvin Ailey choreographed “Cry!” as a birthday gift for his mother.
Cox said he believed they were gifts to his wife – a newspaper advertising manager – from Brown's partner who she had become friends with.
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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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