have

Definitions


[hav], (Verb)

Definitions:
- possess, own, or hold
(e.g: he had a new car and a boat)

- experience; undergo
(e.g: I went to a few parties and had a good time)

- be obliged or find it necessary to do the specified thing
(e.g: you don't have to accept this situation)

- perform the action indicated by the noun specified (used especially in spoken English as an alternative to a more specific verb)
(e.g: he had a look round)

- show (a personal attribute or quality) by one's actions or attitude
(e.g: he had little patience with technological gadgetry)

- place or keep (something) in a particular position
(e.g: Mary had her back to me)

- be the recipient of (something sent, given, or done)
(e.g: she had a letter from Mark)

- used with a past participle to form the perfect, pluperfect, and future perfect tenses, and the conditional mood
(e.g: I have finished)


Phrases:
- have a nice day
- have got it bad
- have had it
- have had it up to here
- have it
- have it away on one's toes
- have it in for
- have it in one
- have it off
- have it out
- have nothing on
- have something to oneself

Origin:
Old English habban, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch hebben and German haben, also probably to heave
Old English habban, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch hebben and German haben, also probably to heave


[hav], (Noun)

Definitions:
- people with plenty of money and possessions
(e.g: an increasing gap between the haves and have-nots)

- a swindle


Phrases:
- have a nice day
- have got it bad
- have had it
- have had it up to here
- have it
- have it away on one's toes
- have it in for
- have it in one
- have it off
- have it out
- have nothing on
- have something to oneself

Origin:
Old English habban, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch hebben and German haben, also probably to heave




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