something given to another freely and without payment in return, as to honor a person or an occasion or to provide assistance; a present:birthday gifts.
something received without being earned:This wonderful weather has been a gift.
a special ability; natural talent:a gift for music.
something given voluntarily without payment in return, as to show favor toward someone, honor an occasion, or make a gesture of assistance; present.
the act of giving.
something bestowed or acquired without any particular effort by the recipient or without its being earned:Those extra points he got in the game were a total gift.
a special ability or capacity; natural endowment; talent:the gift of saying the right thing at the right time.
v.t.
to present with as a gift; bestow gifts upon; endow with.
to present (someone) with a gift:just the thing to gift the newlyweds.
Old Norse gift; cognate with Old English gift (Middle English yift) marriage gift; akin to give
the power or right to give or bestow (esp in the phrases in the gift of, in (someone's) gift)
the act or process of giving
look a gift-horse in the mouth ⇒ (usually negative)to find fault with a free gift or chance benefit
(transitive)
to present (something) as a gift to (a person)
Etymology: Old English gift payment for a wife, dowry; related to Old Norse gipt, Old High German gift, Gothic fragifts endowment, engagement; see give
gamete intrafallopian transfer: a technique, similar to in vitro fertilization, that enables some women who are unable to conceive to bear children. Egg cells are removed from the woman's ovary, mixed with sperm, and introduced into one of her Fallopian tubes
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