Dictionary Definition
bring
Verb
1 take something or somebody with oneself
somewhere; "Bring me the box from the other room"; "Take these
letters to the boss"; "This brings me to the main point" [syn:
convey, take]
2 cause to come into a particular state or
condition; "Long hard years of on the job training had brought them
to their competence"; "bring water to the boiling point"
3 cause to happen or to occur as a consequence;
"I cannot work a miracle"; "wreak havoc"; "bring comments"; "play a
joke"; "The rain brought relief to the drought-stricken area" [syn:
work, play, wreak, make for]
4 go or come after and bring or take back; "Get
me those books over there, please"; "Could you bring the wine?";
"The dog fetched the hat" [syn: get, convey, fetch] [ant: take
away]
5 bring into a different state; "this may land
you in jail" [syn: land]
6 be accompanied by; "Can I bring my cousin to
the dinner?"
7 bestow a quality on; "Her presence lends a
certain cachet to the company"; "The music added a lot to the
play"; "She brings a special atmosphere to our meetings"; "This
adds a light note to the program" [syn: lend, impart, bestow, contribute, add]
8 avance or set forth in court; "bring charges",
"institute proceedings" [syn: institute]
9 be sold for a certain price; "The painting
brought $10,000"; "The old print fetched a high price at the
auction" [syn: fetch,
bring
in]
10 attract the attention of; "The noise and the
screaming brought the curious"
11 induce or persuade; "The confession of one of
the accused brought the others to admit to the crime as well"
[also: brought]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
bringan.Pronunciation
- /ˈbɹɪŋ/, /"brIN/
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- Rhymes with: -ɪŋ
Verb
Usage notes
Nonstandard past brang and past participle brung and broughten forms are sometimes used.Derived terms
- bring about
- bring back
- bring down
- bring forth
- bring it
- bring off
- bring on
- bring out
- bring round
- bring to light
- bring up
Translations
to transport toward somebody/somewhere
- Czech: přinést, přivést, přivézt
- Finnish: tuoda
- French: apporter, amener
- German: bringen, holen
- Hungarian: hoz
- Russian: приносить , принести to carry a thing; приводить , привести to accompany a person;
baseball: to pitch
- Finnish: syöttää
- ttbc Arabic: يحضر
- ttbc Dutch: brengen
- ttbc Filipino: dalhín
- Greek, Ancient: ἄγω
- ttbc Hebrew: להביא (le'havy)
- ttbc Icelandic: koma með (+ accusative case), færa (bring to a person)
- ttbc Ido: portar, adportar
- ttbc Indonesian: membawa
- ttbc Italian: portare
- ttbc Japanese: もっていく (motte-iku), もってくる (motte-kuru)
- ttbc Kurdish: anîn, înan, hênan
- ttbc Latin: ferre
- ttbc Latvian: atnest
- ttbc Portuguese: trazer
- ttbc Sicilian: purtari, carruzziari
- ttbc Slovene: prinesti
- ttbc Spanish: traer
- ttbc Telugu: తెచ్చు (tecchu)
- ttbc Turkish: getirmek
German
Verb
Scots
Etymology
bringan.Pronunciation
- /brɪŋ/
Verb
- To bring.
Extensive Definition
Bring may refer to:
- Dark Bring, an evil magic stone in the manga series Rave Master
- Erland Samuel Bring (1736-1798), Swedish mathematician
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
accompany, accomplish, achieve, advance, affect, afford, allure, amount to, assume, attend, attract, be sold, bear, breed, bring about, bring around,
bring back, bring down, bring forth, bring in, bring off, bring on,
bring out, bring round, bring to, bring up, bring upon, broach, call for, call forth,
care for, carry, carry
off, carry out, cause,
chaperon, chase after,
come to, come up to, companion, comprise, conduct, consort with, contain, contribute to, contrive, convey, convince, convoy, cost, create, cut back, cut down,
decide, deliver, depose, determine, dethrone, develop, diminish, discuss, disgorge, display, dispose, do, do to, draw, draw down, draw on, earn, educate, effect, elevate, elicit, emphasize, engage, engender, enlist, entail, escort, evoke, feature, fetch, fetch and carry, focus on,
get, get to do, give birth
to, give rise to, go after, go and get, go fetch, go for, go get,
go to get, illuminate, implicate, imply, incline, induce, inflict, influence, inspire, instigate, institute, interest in,
introduce, invite, invoke, involve, issue, lead, lead to, lessen, look after, lure, make known, make public,
mention, motivate, mount up to, move, nurture, obtain, occasion, offer, oust, overthrow, overturn, pen up, perform, persuade, pick up, present, presume, presuppose, procure, produce, prompt, provoke, publish, pull off, put on, put
out, put over, raise,
realize, rear, recall, reduce, regurgitate, release, report, require, restore, resuscitate, retrieve, return, revive, run after, run into, run
to, secure, sell, sell for, set forth, set off,
set one back, shag,
stage, submit, subsume, succeed, succeed in, superinduce, sway, take, take in, talk about, teach, tempt, throw up, topple, total up to, touch on,
train, tutor, unseat, visit upon, vomit, win over, wreak, yield