(v. t.) Anything given; anything voluntarily transferred by one person to another without compensation; a present; an offering.
(v. t.) The act, right, or power of giving or bestowing; as, the office is in the gift of the President.
(v. t.) A bribe; anything given to corrupt.
(v. t.) Some quality or endowment given to man by God; a preeminent and special talent or aptitude; power; faculty; as, the gift of wit; a gift for speaking.
(v. t.) A voluntary transfer of real or personal property, without any consideration. It can be perfected only by deed, or in case of personal property, by an actual delivery of possession.
(v. t.) To endow with some power or faculty.
Example Sentences:
(1) In Tirana, Francis lauded the mutual respect and trust between Muslims, Catholics and Orthodox Christians in Albania as a "precious gift" and a powerful symbol in today's world.
(2) "It will strike consumers as unfair that whilst the company is still trading, they are unable to use gift cards and vouchers," he said.
(3) When she died in 1994, Hopkins-Thomas and his mother – Jessie’s niece – were gifted the masses of drawings and poems Knight had collected over the years.
(4) When we gave her a gift of a few books in English, she burst out crying.
(5) The Yamaguchi-gumi is reportedly considering a ban on sending traditional gifts to business associates, and holds weekly meetings to discuss its response to the new ordinances.
(6) Here petrol is practically a free gift,” Arias said.
(7) The school, funded by a £75m gift from a US philanthropist, will train graduates from around the world in the "skills and responsibilities of government," the university said.
(8) The ball's lost, but Tiago gifts it back to Bale, who makes for the Atlético area with great purpose.
(9) As well as stocking second-hand items for purchase, charity shops such as Oxfam have launched Christmas gifts to provide specific help for poor communities abroad.
(10) Raindrops on Roses Photograph: Felix Clay This boutique style, high-end gift shop in St Albans is one of a new breed of charity shops.
(11) In the wake of the horrors of the second world war it was the proudest gift to a land fit for heroes, delivered at a time when the national debt made our current crisis look like an embarrassing bar tab.
(12) But the same court also just refused to hear an appeal of a Minnesota woman who's been ordered to pay more than $220,000 for downloading two-dozen songs – a testament to Congress' gift to Hollywood and its allies in the form of absurdly stiff penalties for minor infringement.
(13) It was a diplomatic gift from Rubens to Charles I, when the painter was acting as an envoy for Philip IV, but nevertheless seems to me a painting for everyone.
(14) The lack of data on the fertilizing capacity of sperm in GIFT procedures in cases of male infertility is a real disadvantage and currently precludes the management of severe male infertility with this method.
(15) Through small and large acts of deprivation and destruction we follow the process: the removal of hope, of dignity, of luxury, of necessity, of self; the reduction of a man to a hoarder of grey slabs of bread and the scrapings of a soup bowl (wonderfully told all this, with a novelist's gift for detail and sometimes very nearly comic surprise), to the confinement of a narrow bed – in which there is "not even any room to be afraid" – with a stranger who doesn't speak your language, to the cruel illogicality of hating a fellow victim of oppression more than you hate the oppressor himself – one torment following another, and even the bleak comfort of thinking you might have touched rock bottom denied you as, when the most immediate cause of a particular stress comes to an end, "you are grievously amazed to see that another one lies behind; and in reality a whole series of others".
(16) An attempt was made to correlate the intelligence level of three well-defined groups (Gifted, IQ 140; Normal, 95 IQ 105: Mentally retarded, 45 IQ 55) and the habituation rate and pattern of a GSR response to a series of light stimuli.
(17) And now Diskerud does the same, gifting Johnson a chance to cut inside from near the byline.
(18) A subset of 60 primiparous breast-feeding adolescents were enrolled in an investigator-blind, randomized, prospective study to compare the effects on breast-feeding duration of a standard hospital discharge feeding gift pack containing formula and a specially designed study pack that was free of infant formula.
(19) But others do: gift cards for Amazon.co.uk, for example, expire one year from the date of issue, while Marks & Spencer gift cards are valid for four years, although each time a customer spends on the card the expiry date is reset to four years.
(20) The embryo transfer itself still requires a pelviscopy, which is only performed once fertilization of the oocyte has been confirmed; which is in contrast to GIFT, in which pelviscopy is an inherent part of each treatment cycle.
Prize
Definition:
(n.) That which is taken from another; something captured; a thing seized by force, stratagem, or superior power.
(n.) Anything captured by a belligerent using the rights of war; esp., property captured at sea in virtue of the rights of war, as a vessel.
(n.) An honor or reward striven for in a competitive contest; anything offered to be competed for, or as an inducement to, or reward of, effort.
(n.) That which may be won by chance, as in a lottery.
(n.) Anything worth striving for; a valuable possession held or in prospect.
(n.) A contest for a reward; competition.
(n.) A lever; a pry; also, the hold of a lever.
(v. t.) To move with a lever; to force up or open; to pry.
(v. t.) To set or estimate the value of; to appraise; to price; to rate.
(v. t.) To value highly; to estimate to be of great worth; to esteem.
(n.) Estimation; valuation.
Example Sentences:
(1) In January 2011, the Nobel peace prize laureate was admitted to a Johannesburg hospital for what officials initially described as tests but what turned out to be an acute respiratory infection .
(2) The night's special award went to armed forces broadcaster, BFBS Radio, while long-standing BBC radio DJ Trevor Nelson received the top prize of the night, the gold award.
(3) The 61-year-old paid to transport prize-winning children to the fair in St Thomas and funded their accommodation.
(4) After winning his prize, Malcolm Turnbull must learn from Abbott's mistakes Read more Abbott appointed Warren Mundine to head his hand picked advisory council on Indigenous affairs.
(5) An Artist of the Floating World won the Whitbread Book of the Year award and was nominated for the Booker prize for fiction; The Remains of the Day won the Booker; and When We Were Orphans, perceived by many reviewers as a disappointment, was nominated for both the Booker and the Whitbread.
(6) Three scientists, George Wald, Ragnar Granit, and Haldan Keffer Hartline, were named last week to share the 1967 Nobel prize in medicine or physiology.
(7) The agency notes, too, that the Norwegian broadcaster NRK has form when it comes to announcing peace prize winners early, saying last year the EU had triumphed an hour before the official announcement.
(8) Concern for the future and belief in scientific progress provided the motive for the foundation of the Prize which, in our time, is one of the most coveted of honours.
(9) The launch of M-Farm followed a €10,000 (about £8,500) investment prize.
(10) The young woman is Nobel Peace Prize winner Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, then part of the new guard of dissidents and critics, now the president of Liberia.
(11) How can a prize that is supposed to be for one person be given to an amorphous supranational organisation?
(12) But there was a shock with the Jury prize, which went to Polisse, one of the four films in competition directed by a woman.
(13) For many, free movement is the price that has to be paid for the prize of single market membership.
(14) GNM accepts no responsibility for any costs associated with the prize that are not expressly included in the prize.
(15) The IPCC is charged with providing a scientific, balanced assessment about what's known and what's known about climate change There are lots of organisations ringing bells The IPCC is more like a belltower, which people can climb up to get a clear view 8.41am BST Al Gore , the former US vice-president and winner of the Nobel peace prize for his work on climate change , has responded to the IPCC report by saying it shows the need for a switch to low carbon sources of energy (note his emphasis is on mitigation, i.e.
(16) Peter Vipond, director of regulation and tax at the Association of British Insurers, said: "We are concerned that so far none of the bodies will have a statutory objective to maintain London's competitiveness as a global financial sector – this is too valuable a prize to be thrown away."
(17) Boyle, who on Sunday night received an outstanding contribution prize at the Empire awards, said he was not a fan of stereoscope on film and doubted it would survive.
(18) The possible reasons why Kitasato lost the first Nobel Prize for medicine to von Behring are presented.
(19) The Tasmanian writer said he was “stunned” to be in the running for the prestigious UK-based literary prize, which for the first time has been opened to authors of any nationality.
(20) But NS&I has announced that it is cutting the prize fund rate from 1 May, although the chances of winning a prize will remain the same at 30,000-1 as the number of £25 prizes will increase.