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BRINGING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail)
Example:
his reluctant delivery of bad news
Synonyms:
bringing; delivery
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("bringing" is a kind of...):
conveyance; transfer; transferral; transport; transportation (the act of moving something from one location to another)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bringing"):
airdrop (delivery of supplies or equipment or personnel by dropping them by parachute from an aircraft)
consignment (the delivery of goods for sale or disposal)
handing over; passage (the act of passing something to another person)
post (the delivery and collection of letters and packages)
service; service of process; serving (the act of delivering a writ or summons upon someone)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb bring
Context examples:
But they hastened it by overfeeding, bringing the day nearer when underfeeding would commence.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
The Center is dedicated to bringing the finest cancer care and research to Iowa and beyond.
(Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center, NCI Thesaurus)
An activity concerned with bringing any good, commodity, or service from a foreign source.
(Import, NCI Thesaurus)
The party responsible for bringing goods into a country.
(Importer, NCI Thesaurus)
The act of bringing into being.
(Generation, NCI Thesaurus)
Gephyrin interacts with the cytoplasmic domain of GABA-A, and with microtubules, bringing receptors together in plasma microdomains.
(GABA Receptor Life Cycle Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
Urea is released from arginine by the enzyme arginase, bringing the cycle back around to ornithine.
(Feeding Amino Groups into the Urea Cycle, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
FAO's activities comprise four main areas: putting information within reach, sharing policy expertise, providing a meeting place for nations, bringing knowledge to the field.
(Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, NCI Thesaurus)
The act of bringing about something.
(Induction, NCI Thesaurus)
Bringing together multiple scientific disciplines to address specific issues.
(Multidisciplinary, NCI Thesaurus)
