Gift (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

noun
  1. something given voluntarily without payment in return, as to show favor toward someone, honor an occasion, or make a gesture of assistance; present.
  2. the act of giving.
  3. 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.
  4. a special ability or capacity; natural endowment; talent: the gift of saying the right thing at the right time.
verb (used with object)
  1. to present with as a gift; bestow gifts upon; endow with.
  2. to present (someone) with a gift: just the thing to gift the newlyweds.
noun
  1. a laparoscopic process in which eggs are retrieved from an ovary by aspiration and inserted, along with sperm, into the fallopian tube of another woman.
noun
  1. something given; a present
  2. a special aptitude, ability, or power; talent
  3. the power or right to give or bestow (esp in the phrases in the gift of, in (someone's) gift)
  4. the act or process of giving
  5. to find fault with a free gift or chance benefit
verb (tr)
  1. to present (something) as a gift to (a person)
  2. to present (someone) with a gift
  3. to endow with; bestow
n acronym for
  1. 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
Gift (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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