What's the difference between give and shower?

Give


Definition:

  • (n.) To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up or allow.
  • (n.) To yield possesion of; to deliver over, as property, in exchange for something; to pay; as, we give the value of what we buy.
  • (n.) To yield; to furnish; to produce; to emit; as, flint and steel give sparks.
  • (n.) To communicate or announce, as advice, tidings, etc.; to pronounce; to render or utter, as an opinion, a judgment, a sentence, a shout, etc.
  • (n.) To grant power or license to; to permit; to allow; to license; to commission.
  • (n.) To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to show; as, the number of men, divided by the number of ships, gives four hundred to each ship.
  • (n.) To devote; to apply; used reflexively, to devote or apply one's self; as, the soldiers give themselves to plunder; also in this sense used very frequently in the past participle; as, the people are given to luxury and pleasure; the youth is given to study.
  • (n.) To set forth as a known quantity or a known relation, or as a premise from which to reason; -- used principally in the passive form given.
  • (n.) To allow or admit by way of supposition.
  • (n.) To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.
  • (n.) To excite or cause to exist, as a sensation; as, to give offense; to give pleasure or pain.
  • (n.) To pledge; as, to give one's word.
  • (n.) To cause; to make; -- with the infinitive; as, to give one to understand, to know, etc.
  • (v. i.) To give a gift or gifts.
  • (v. i.) To yield to force or pressure; to relax; to become less rigid; as, the earth gives under the feet.
  • (v. i.) To become soft or moist.
  • (v. i.) To move; to recede.
  • (v. i.) To shed tears; to weep.
  • (v. i.) To have a misgiving.
  • (v. i.) To open; to lead.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He still denied it and said he was giving the girl a lift.
  • (2) Which means Seattle can't give Jones room to make 13-yard catches as they just did.
  • (3) We have amended and added to Fabian's tables giving a functional assessment of individual masticatory muscles.
  • (4) We will never give up our hope for peace,” added Netanyahu.
  • (5) Not only do they give employers no reason to turn them into proper jobs, but mini-jobs offer workers little incentive to work more because then they would have to pay tax.
  • (6) Q In radioactive decay, different materials decay at different rates, giving different half lives.
  • (7) In all, 207 cases of liver cancer were seen during this period, giving an incidence of rupture of 14.5%.
  • (8) A man named Moreno Facebook Twitter Pinterest Italy's players give chase to an inscrutable Byron Moreno, whose relationship with the country was only just beginning.
  • (9) From us you learn the state of your nation, and especially its management by the people you elected to give your children a better future.
  • (10) Although, it did give me the confidence to believe that my voice was valid and important.
  • (11) The Labour MP urged David Cameron to guarantee that officers who give evidence over the alleged paedophile ring in Westminster will not be prosecuted.
  • (12) Lin Homer's CV Lin Homer left local for national government in 2005, giving up a £170,000 post as chief executive of Birmingham city council after just three years in post, to head the Immigration Service.
  • (13) Combined hypertension treatment with inhibitors of the converting enzyme (ICE) and diuretocs gives manifold advantages, the most important of them is a synergistic action of both drugs resulting in blood pressure decrease and prevention of hypokaliaemia.
  • (14) "But this is not all Bulgarians and gives a totally wrong picture of what the country is about," she sighed.
  • (15) The DDE also undergoes photocyclization to give dichlorofluorene derivatives.
  • (16) Similar results were obtained giving 1.2 g sodium valproate.
  • (17) Of the N-acetyl cysteamine derivatives tested, S-acetyl-N-acetyl cysteamine (at 10 mM) gives almost complete protection against inactivation whereas S-acetoacetyl-, S-beta-hydroxybutyryl-, and S-crotonyl-N-acetyl cysteamine thioesters exhibit either slight or no protection.
  • (18) Sinus lining cells give rise to a well defined entity of neoplasia which is proposed to be termed sinus lining cell reticulosarcoma.
  • (19) Tests were chosen to assess various aspects of monocyte function that give some insight into the host defense status and the degree of "activation" of the monocyte.
  • (20) The data show that as much as a 9% difference from the correct activity can be observed for these radionuclides, even when the ampoule reference source gives the appropriate reading.

Shower


Definition:

  • (n.) One who shows or exhibits.
  • (n.) That which shows; a mirror.
  • (n.) A fall or rain or hail of short duration; sometimes, but rarely, a like fall of snow.
  • (n.) That which resembles a shower in falling or passing through the air copiously and rapidly.
  • (n.) A copious supply bestowed.
  • (v. t.) To water with a shower; to //t copiously with rain.
  • (v. t.) To bestow liberally; to destribute or scatter in /undance; to rain.
  • (v. i.) To rain in showers; to fall, as in a hower or showers.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Guzmán was sent to Altiplano high-security prison, 56 miles outside Mexico City, but in July 2015, he absconded again, squeezing through a hole in his shower floor then fleeing on a modified motorbike through a mile-long tunnel fitted with lights and a ventilation system.
  • (2) The weather forecast in Warsaw is for some showers on Wednesday, though Roy Hodgson has expressed concern over the time it will take to repair the surface, which was relaid only last week at a cost of £115,000 and was criticised after last Friday's friendly against South Africa.
  • (3) As the separate facilities provision is permissive, states that authorise schools to define sex to include gender identity for purposes of providing separate restroom, locker room, showers, and other intimate facilities will not be impacted by it,” said Judge O’Connor.
  • (4) Anatomical results have been gratifying in that most patients are totally rehabilitated and may swim or shower without restrictions.
  • (5) Isotopes (153Sm, 186Re, and 166Ho) were assumed to assimilate as surface agents and the dose profiles were calculated on a microscopic scale using the Electron-Gamma Shower (EGS4) computer program.
  • (6) One of the biggest surprises was learning how small direct use of water for drinking, cooking and showering is by comparison.
  • (7) He would shower his fans with red roses at his concerts, he told the court, and give them jackets, T-shirts and other gifts.
  • (8) In the Russian gallery, for example, the courageous Vadim Zakharov presents a pointed version of the Danaë myth in which an insouciant dictator (of whom it is hard not to think: Putin) sits on a high beam on a saddle, shelling nuts all day while gold coins rain down from a vast shower-head only to be hoisted in buckets by faceless thuggish men in suits.
  • (9) Every single one of life's daily routines takes twice, if not four times, as long as it used to, from getting through the shower to putting on shoes.
  • (10) Aware of the thousands of homeless individuals in the city without sufficient access to shower facilities, Doniece Sandoval decided to transform a donated bus into shower suites for people who don’t have their own .
  • (11) It is dirty and it is cold, he can’t even have a shower.
  • (12) At Conquest hospital in East Sussex, call bells were out of the reach of patients and nurses said they did not always have time to shower patients or wash their hair.
  • (13) If I’d known the way United were going to treat me at the end I would have gone abroad when I had the opportunity.” Keane offered another insight into his personality when he reflected on a 7-1 defeat at Everton during his time in charge at Sunderland , a result that left him unable to leave his house for four days, staying in his bed for 48 hours and not even showering.
  • (14) Will described how patients who receive a negative test result after recovering from Ebola are showered, given a fresh set of clothes, a certificate declaring they are Ebola-free and a small amount of money for the ride home.
  • (15) In any case, the Brits are a notoriously lily-livered shower when it comes to workplace politics, too craven to strike – [note to non-British readers: we're a sorry servile bunch, we don't like it up us] - and as a result, poor John's failed coup has led to him becoming the most reviled union leader in British history, ahead of the excellent Bob Crow, the much misunderstood Arthur Scargill, and Gary Neville.
  • (16) The radical mastoid cavity can be troublesome and odoriferous, may require frequent visits to an otologist, and may interfere with swimming and showering.
  • (17) The former first lady’s relationship with Williams is also an important because prosecutors have said Williams was not so much a personal friend but a businessman who showered the McDonnells with cash and gifts because he wanted their help in establishing legitimacy for his tobacco-based supplement, Anatabloc.
  • (18) Former Lindt employee Jarrod Morton-Hoffman has described how hostages were fired at and showered in glass as they fled in the final minutes of the December 2014 siege of the Lindt cafe.
  • (19) Her teenage sons, who haven't read the book, tease her often, which is jolly; her mother, though distressed to find that Christian and Anastasia never seem to shower after sex, is delighted; even her father-in-law likes the book.
  • (20) While he was acquitted of rape, his remark that he took a shower after having sex with an HIV-positive woman to minimise the risk of infection caused fury.