Definitions for giving
giv·ing

Princeton's WordNet(4.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. giving, gift(noun)

   the act of giving

2. giving(noun)

   the imparting of news or promises etc.

   "he gave us the news and made a great show of the giving"; "giving his word of honor seemed to come too easily"

3. giving(adj)

   disposing of property by voluntary transfer without receiving value in return

   "the alumni followed a program of annual giving"

4. big, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, handsome, giving, liberal, openhanded(adj)

   given or giving freely

   "was a big tipper"; "the bounteous goodness of God"; "bountiful compliments"; "a freehanded host"; "a handsome allowance"; "Saturday's child is loving and giving"; "a liberal backer of the arts"; "a munificent gift"; "her fond and openhanded grandfather"

Wiktionary(2.50 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. giving(Adjective)

   having the tendency to give; generous

   To become like Christ involves everything else: becoming a loving and giving person, having confidence enabling you to be vulnerable (psychologically and physically; Jesus did both), having the wisdom to see people's needs and the desire to meet them. - net.flame - 26 Mar 1984 by Jeff Sargent

Webster Dictionary(2.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Giving

   of Give

2. Giving(noun)

   the act of bestowing as a gift; a conferring or imparting

3. Giving(noun)

   a gift; a benefaction

4. Giving(noun)

   the act of softening, breaking, or yielding

Dictionary of Nautical Terms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. giving

   The surging of a seizing; new rope stretching to the strain.

Editors Contribution(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. giving

   Verb form of the word give.

   They were giving their love and affection to each other freely and easily.

   Submitted by MaryC on March 14, 2020  

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'giving' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #817

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'giving' in Written Corpus Frequency: #730

How to pronounce giving?

1. 

   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

How to say giving in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of giving in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of giving in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of giving in a Sentence

1. Viktor Orban:

   Considering that we are facing a rebellion by illegal migrants, police have done their job in a remarkable way, without using force, they seized railway stations, rejected giving fingerprints, failed to cooperate and are unwilling to go to places where they would get food, water, accommodation and medical care ... They rebelled against Hungary's legal order.

2. Mike Holland:

   It was a nice U.S. opening to new highs and then you ended up with consumer confidence giving people an excuse to take profits. That said, you do have continuing support for the bulls from the ECB's Draghi and China, which are both following the BOJ's lead which is following the U.S.'s lead for the last six years.

3. Bruce Banerdt:

   Although I have personally been working toward making these measurements on Mars for 25 years, the actual InSight Mission Project has only been underway since about 2009, the whole project team has been giving it everything they've got for many months to try to make this launch opportunity, so we are understandably disappointed.

4. H.L. Mencken:

   Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

5. Dionne Mack:

   The thing for me that was most disheartening is to sort of see the children just completely labeled and to see them just sort of be discarded, these are our children, this is our community and I am not giving up on those children.

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