Usually means: Transfers possession or ownership to.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. gives: Merriam-Webster
  2. gives: Collins English Dictionary
  3. gives: Vocabulary.com
  4. Give's, Gives, give's, gives: Wordnik
  5. gives: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. gives: Wiktionary
  7. Gives, gives: Dictionary.com
  8. gives: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Gives: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. gives: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Gives: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. gives: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. gives: FreeDictionary.org
  14. Gives: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. gives: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gives: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. GIVES: Acronym Finder
  2. gives: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gives: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See give as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (give)

verb:  (ditransitive) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.
verb:  To transfer one's possession or holding of (something) to (someone).
verb:  To make a present or gift of.
verb:  To pledge.
verb:  To provide (something) to (someone), to allow or afford.
verb:  To cause (a sensation or feeling) to exist in (the specified person, or the target, audience, etc).
verb:  (slang, transitive) To give off (a certain vibe or appearance). (Compare giving.)
verb:  To carry out (a physical interaction) with (something).
verb:  To pass (something) into (someone's hand, etc.).
verb:  To cause (a disease or condition) in, or to transmit (a disease or condition) to.
verb:  To provide or administer (a medication)
verb:  (transitive) To provide, as, a service or a broadcast.
verb:  (ditransitive) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something).
verb:  (intransitive) To yield or collapse under pressure or force.
verb:  (intransitive) To lead (onto or into).
verb:  (transitive, dated) To provide a view of.
verb:  To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to yield.
verb:  To cause; to make; used with the infinitive.
verb:  To cause (someone) to have; produce in (someone); effectuate.
verb:  To allow or admit by way of supposition; to concede.
verb:  To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.
verb:  To communicate or announce (advice, tidings, etc.); to pronounce or utter (an opinion, a judgment, a shout, etc.).
verb:  (dated or religion) To grant power, permission, destiny, etc. (especially to a person); to allot; to allow.
verb:  (reflexive) To devote or apply (oneself).
verb:  (obsolete) To become soft or moist.
verb:  (obsolete) To shed tears; to weep.
verb:  (obsolete) To have a misgiving.
noun:  The amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it; a tendency to yield under pressure; resilience.
noun:  Alternative form of gyve [(literary) A shackle or fetter, especially for the leg.]
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