Bring

Definition: Bring

Bring

Verb

1. Take something or somebody with oneself somewhere; "Bring me the box from the other room"; "Take these letters to the boss"; also metaphorical, as in "This brings me to the main point".

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".

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".

5. Bring into a different state; "this may land you in jail".

6. Be accompanied by; "Can I bring my cousin to the dinner?".

7. Of a quality, as in: "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".

8. Avance or set forth in court; "bring charges", "institute proceedings".

9. Be sold for a certain price; "The painting brought $10,000"; "The old print fetched a high price at the auction".

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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "bring" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Bring \Bring\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Brought; present participle verb or noun Bringing.]. (references)

Tips from 1870

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Bring

Transference

Verb: transfer, transmit, transport, transplace, transplant, translocate; convey, carry, bear, fetch and carry; carry over, ferry over; hand pass, forward; shift; conduct, convoy, bring, fetch, reach; tote; port, import, export.

Crosswords: Bring

Afrikaan (bring, fetch).

I'll bring everything you see here, plus, everything you don't (Batman & Robin; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman)

I need a father who's a role model, not some horny geek-boy who's gonna spray his shorts every time I bring a girlfriend home from school (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball)

If we bring a little joy into your humdrum lives, it makes us feel as if our hard work ain't been in vain for nothing (Singin' in the Rain; writing credit: Betty Comden; Adolph Green)

Only from me 007, unless you bring that car back in pristine order (Tomorrow Never Dies; writing credit: Bruce Feirstein)

Now get them out of here before she sees them! Look away, just look away, keep your eyes that way! You would think that in a fancy restaurant at these prices you could keep the snails off the food! There are so many snails there you can't even see the food! Now take those away and bring us those melted cheese sandwich appetizers you talked me out of (The Jerk; writing credit: Carl Reiner, written by Steve Martin and Carl Gottlieb.)

Oh baby, bring it all to me (Bring It All To Me; performing artist: Blaque)

This world cannot bring me down (Duck And Run; performing artist: 3 Doors Down)

How can a person like you bring me joy (The Sign; performing artist: Ace Of Base)

So come on and bring your jukebox money (Love Shack; performing artist: B-52'S)

Gonna bring the flavor (Everybody(Backstreet's Back); performing artist: BACKSTREET BOYS)

I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Don't let the littleness in others bring out the littleness in you. (references; author: unknown)

Nothing seems to bring on an emergency as quickly as putting money aside in case of one. (references; author: unknown)

This evening at 7 P.M., there will be a hymn sing in the park across from the Church. Bring a blanket and come prepared to sin. (references; author: unknown)

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)

Pearls Bring Tears (1937)

Bring on the Girls (1937)

You Bring the Ducks (1934)

Bring 'Em Back a Wife (1933)

Bring The Boys Home (performing artist: Freda Payne)

Bring It On Home To Me (performing artist: Sam Cooke and Lou Rawls)

Lady (You Bring Me Up) (performing artist: The Commodores)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Other People's Habits: How to Use Positive Reinforcement to Bring Out the Best in People Around You (reference)

• Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control (reference)

• The Family Virtues Guide: Simple Ways to Bring Out the Best in Our Children and Ourselves (reference)

• The Golfer's Book of Yoga: Bring Your Game to the Next Level (reference)

• The Plot Thickens: 8 Ways to Bring Fiction to Life (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Bring Them In (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Bring It On (reference)

• Chris Rock - Bring The Pain (reference)

• WWE - The Rock - Just Bring It! (Collector's Edition) (reference)

• Bring It On (Special Edition) (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Come Where the Aspens Quiver Bring Your Guitar (reference)

• Bring 'Em Bach Alive [LIVE] (reference)

• Bring It On (2000 Film) [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

• Bring the Family (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• WWE: Smackdown! Just Bring It! (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

This team went to homes in the area to bring patients with suspected VHF to the hospital and to remove corpses. Credit: CDC.

Viking 2 image of the region around the "Inca City". On a laterorbit (421), Viking 2 again imaged the region. This time, the Inca City isclearly visible. This image was taken through the red filter. It has beenenhanced to bring out the details (noise reduced and contrast enhanced). Theresolution of this image is 0.146 km/pixel and is centered at -81.82 degreeslatitude and 59.59 degrees longitude. Reproduced from volume 59 of theMission to Mars: Viking Orbiter Images of Mars CD-ROM set. Credit: NASA.

Using a stereoscope to bring images on adjacent photographs into coincidence. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

V-fin served as underwater kite to bring sensor close to bottom Housed bottom penetration sonar Deployed off of EXPLORER. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

The net is now on board and the operation of collecting the fish has begun. The large basket in the upper left is dipped repeatedly into the water to bring the fish on to the boat. Credit: Fisheries.

Draft horses bring woody debris to add complexity to the stream to improve spawning habitat at the Glade Bekken restoration site. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Volunteers rush to bring an injured bird to the boat that will transport the pelican to wildlife rehabilitators who will attempt to resuscitate the bird. Successful rehabilitation depends upon a number of factors including the length of entanglement and exposure to the elements. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

The lights of the camera bring out the brilliant colors of the reef. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

Plate 3. Using the Hodges shock absorber in order to bring a dredge trawl back aboard H. M. S. PORCUPINE [after Sir Wyville Thomson, 1873.]. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Lt. Col. Mark Milardo, a missile officer with the North American Aerospace Command tracks Santa's journey. The "NORAD Tracks Santa" program features a six-language live-tracking Web site designed to bring a touch of the season to eager Santa wat.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

All fines made with us unjustly and against the law of the land, and all amercements, imposed unjustly and against the law of the land, shall be entirely remitted, or else it shall be done concerning them according to the decision of the five and twenty barons whom mention is made below in the clause for securing the pease, or according to the judgment of the majority of the same, along with the aforesaid Stephen, archbishop of Canterbury, if he can be present, and such others as he may wish to bring with him for this purpose, and if he cannot be present the business shall nevertheless proceed without him, provided always that if any one or more of the aforesaid five and twenty barons are in a similar suit, they shall be removed as far as concerns this particular judgment, others being substituted in their places after having been selected by the rest of the same five and twenty for this purpose only, and after having been sworn. (reference)

But there are but few miscarriages which bring the matter to this state. (Second Treatise of Government)

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions. (reference)

It has been the first to show what man's activity can bring about. (reference)

When the whole or part of a debt is not admitted the two Clearing Offices will examine into the matter jointly and will endeavour to bring the parties to an agreement. (reference)

To reject it or ignore it or fritter it away will bring upon us all the long reproaches of the after-time. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it--and the glow from that fire can truly light the world. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

We must bring her forward

And to the speaker himself it must surely bring the danger of loss of faith

Go and buy it, and tell em to bring it here, that I may give them the direction where to take it.

Unscrupulous as it was, however, it could not bring them nearer than a circuit of several yards

Let them bring her to me now, and I will just speak to her very gently

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the Darkness bind them

Mother was sitting at the fire with Dante waiting for Brigid to bring in the tea.

Nothing but songs of death? [He strikes him] There, take thou that till thou bring better news

Bring em out.

The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiquity

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Bring a written list of symptoms to your doctor. (references)

If you use a peak flow meter, bring it to each visit. (references)

Do not bring perishable seafood back to the United States. (references)

Business

This is because importers bring new technology to the market. (references)

All of these projects will bring substantial opportunities to the machine tool industry. (references)

Plaintiffs may bring complaints before the federal labor board at no cost to themselves. (references)

Children

Ukraine

In May the Parliament passed a new Law on the Protection of the Child to bring the country into line with U.N.-mandated standards regarding children's safety and quality of life. (references)

Korea

The Prevention of Domestic Violence and Victim Prevention Act of 1998, which defines domestic violence as a serious crime, allows a child to bring charges against a parent in cases of abuse. (references)

Jamaica

The Juvenile Act addresses several areas related to the protection of children, including the prevention of cruelty, a prohibition on causing or allowing juvenile begging, the power to bring juveniles in need of care or protection before a juvenile court, the treatment of juvenile offenders, the regulation and supervision of children's homes, and restrictions on employment of juveniles. (references)

Civil Liberties

Israel and the occupied territories

Secular courts have primacy over questions of inheritance, but parties, by mutual agreement, may bring cases to religious courts. (references)

Chile

She had to bring changes on a private basis because the State Defense Council is not one of the institutions covered against libel in the Penal Code. (references)

Kuwait

The Book House Company is the only bookstore that has an import license to bring in such materials, which also must be approved by government censors. (references)

Discrimination

Swaziland

The law reportedly has been used on occasion to bring moral suasion to bear against employers. (references)

Economic History

Bolivia

Independence did not bring stability. (references)

Burkina Faso

Efforts to bring about his release, directed by Capt. (references)

Human Rights

Turkmenistan

Relatives may bring food once every 2 months. (references)

Saudi Arabia

They also bring citizens to police for detention. (references)

Brunei

Family members also may visit prisoners and bring food. (references)

Minorities

United Kingdom

Noncompliance can bring criminal penalties and the loss of government contracts. (references)

Political Economy

Israel

The Knesset can also bring down the government in a vote of no confidence. (references)

HAITI

They are making efforts to bring their plants into conformity with such codes. (references)

Political Rights

Egypt

The law empowers the Government to bring felony charges against those who form a party without a license. (references)

Swaziland

For example, chiefs have their own community police who may arrest a suspect and bring the suspect before an inner council within the chiefdom for a trial. (references)

Ethiopia

In 2000 the NEB agreed to bring charges against those suspected of the worst election abuses in the SNNPRS; however, no action had been taken by year's end. (references)

Trade

Costa Rica

Multinational companies typically bring their own financing from overseas. (references)

Qatar

Other U.S. firms are encouraged to bring their financing matters to the Exim Bank. (references)

Cote D'ivoire

Many business travelers bring laptop computers into the country without difficulty. (references)

Travel

Argentina

So, be sure to bring an ATM card. (references)

Thailand

Bring lots of your own as a general form of introduction. (references)

Ukraine

Bring adequate cash to cover hotel and incidental expenses. (references)

Women

Saint Lucia

If the victim chooses for any reason not to press charges, the Government cannot bring a case. (references)

Pakistan

In cases where a woman wishes to bring rape charges, she will have trouble bringing her attacker to justice. (references)

Monaco

Marital violence is prohibited strictly, and any wife who is a victim may bring criminal charges against her husband. (references)

Worker Rights

Iceland

The clubs are allowed to bring in as many dancers as they want. (references)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Local officials have been slow to bring charges of intimidation. (references)

Trinidad and Tobago

A union also may bring a request for enforcement to the Industrial Court. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "bring": april showers bring may flowers ♦ bring a charge ♦ bring a charge against smb. ♦ bring a doctor ♦ bring a good account of oneself ♦ bring a hornet's nest about one's ears ♦ bring a hornets' nest about one's ears ♦ bring a lawsuit ♦ bring a patient through ♦ bring a quantity ♦ bring a quantity of ♦ bring a suit against ♦ bring a wasp's nest about one's ears ♦ bring about ♦ bring about a union ♦ bring about an accident ♦ bring again ♦ bring along ♦ bring an accusation against ♦ bring an accusation against smb. ♦ bring an action ♦ bring an action against ♦ bring an action against smb. ♦ bring around ♦ bring away ♦ bring back ♦ bring back to his senses ♦ bring back to life ♦ bring back to the memory ♦ bring bad luck ♦ bring before ♦ bring before court ♦ bring birth ♦ bring by nausea ♦ bring close ♦ bring closer ♦ bring clouds ♦ bring discredit ♦ bring discredit on ♦ bring discredit on smb. ♦ bring discredit upon smb. ♦ bring disgrace on one's family ♦ bring disgrace on smb. ♦ bring dishonor on smb. ♦ bring dishonour on smb. ♦ bring down ♦ bring down on ♦ bring down the house ♦ bring down the score ♦ bring down to earth ♦ bring down upon ♦ bring electricity to ♦ bring evidence to ♦ bring for ♦ bring formal charges against ♦ bring forth ♦ bring forth shoots ♦ bring forward ♦ bring good luck ♦ bring good news ♦ bring grist to smb.'s mill ♦ bring help ♦ bring here ♦ bring home ♦ bring home the bacon ♦ bring home to ♦ bring in ♦ bring in a bill ♦ bring in a lawsuit ♦ bring in a verdict of guilty ♦ bring in head and shoulders ♦ bring in question ♦ bring in the mire ♦ bring in the open ♦ bring into ♦ bring into a focus ♦ bring into account ♦ bring into action ♦ bring into being ♦ bring into contempt ♦ bring into derision ♦ bring into disrepute ♦ bring into existence ♦ bring into fashion ♦ bring into force ♦ bring into line ♦ bring into operation ♦ bring into play ♦ bring into position ♦ bring into question ♦ bring into safety ♦ bring into the open ♦ bring into the world ♦ bring into trouble ♦ bring low ♦ bring luck ♦ bring more ♦ bring more into line ♦ bring near ♦ bring near and touch ♦ bring nearer. Additional references.

Beginning with "bring": bring-and-buy, bring-back, bring-could, bring-them-down.

Ending with "bring": better-bring, day'-bring, hiatt-bring.

Afrikaans

bring (fetch). (various references)

Albanian

bind (assure, bring over, convince, expostulate, get, get round, induce, lead, make smb. listen to reason, outrun, persuade, prevail, prevail upon, reassure, remonstrate, rub in), bie (abate, attach, attack, bang out, bite, blow over, break down, burn down, chime, come a cropper, come down, crash, crash down, crumple, cut, decline, descend, devolve, drop, fall, fall off, fall on, finger, flake off, flop, give, go, go down, hoot, pitch, play, plunge, plunk, recede, sink, strike, subside, throw down, tumble), sjell (adduce, bear, beget, carry, cause, draw, engender, fetch, induce, inflict, return), sillni, shtyj (actuate, adjourn, carry over, dare, delay, detrude, dig, dispose, drive, dub, flip, goad, hang up, hold over, hustle, impel, incite, induce, instigate, jab, jog, jolt, jostle, jumble, lead on, leave over, lengthen, motivate, motive, move, postpone, pressurize, propel, push, recess, shove, thrust, trundle, urge, waive, walk), shpie (carry, convey, drive, give a lift, keep, lead, lead up, send), shitem (go, keep, move, prostitute), parashtroj (commit, enunciate, expound, pose, posit, prefer, propound, put forward, submit), nxit (abet, actuate, arouse, begrime, dare, dispose, egg on, encourage, enkindle, exhort, fan, fillip, foment, galvanize, goad, heat, impel, incendiarism, incite, induce, inflame, instigate, motivate, move, prod, prompt, provoke, push, quicken, stimulate, stir up, urge, whet, whip, whip up, work up), nxis (abet, actuate, animate, arouse, begrime, challenge, dare, dispose, drive, egg on, encourage, enkindle, exhort, fan, fillip, foment, galvanize, goad, heat, impel, incite, induce, inflame, instigate, motivate, move, prod, prompt, provoke, push, quicken, stimulate, stir up, urge, whet, whip, whip up, work up), nis (begin, break, commence, despatch, dispatch, enter, enter on, get, get round, initiate, lead off, open, originate, rise, send, send on, start, take up), marr (accede, acquire, assume, catch, claim, collect, contract, draw, get, have, land, make, obtain, occupy, pick up, possess, realize, receive, score, take, take in, take out), çoj (conduce, deliver, drive, drop, give a lift, haul, haze, lead, lead off, lead up to, lift, pass, post, raise, rear, route, send, take off, take place, waft). (various references)

Arabic 

‏قنع (get smb. to do smth., hide, incline, induce, mask, move, persuade, push through, sell, win over), ‏واكب (bear, convoy, escort), ‏حضر (assist, attend, call in, civilize, come, elaborate, fetch, make, prepare, present, report, send around, turn up), ‏جلب (fetch, get), ‏جضر, ‏جاء (arrive, came, come, turn up), ‏إجتذب (solicit), ‏أغرى (addict, bait, beckon, entice, importune, induce, inveigle, invite, lead on, seduce, suborn, tempt, undo), ‏أحضر, ‏أحدث (breed, brew, bring forth, create, crop, effect, enact, engender, generate, give rise to, hatch, induce, inspire, make, mother, proceed, progress, provoke, send forth, supervene, wreck), ‏أجبر (coerce, compel, constrain, drive, force, impress, make, oblige, overstrain, pressure, reduce, reset), ‏أدى (bring about, conduct, do, execute, fulfil, fulfill, function, give rise to, go, perform, put on, result), ‏رافق (accompany, bully, carry, chaperon, companion, company, escort, follow, join, pursue, see, see off, string, string along with, take, take along, take out). (various references)

Aymara

apaniña (to bring). (various references)

Basque

ekarriko (will bring). (various references)

Bulgarian 

склонявам, сервирам (bring in, dish, help, serve, serve out, serve up, wait at table, wait on, wait upon), въвеждам (bring in, establish, herald, import, initiate, institute, introduce, naturalize, pioneer, prelude, premise, prologue, put in, set up, show, take in, usher in), вмъквам (bring in, inject, insert, inset, interject, interpolate, interpose, parenthesize, put in, run in, slip, throw in, weave, work, work in), нося (bear, bring forth, bring round, carry, float, give, pack, sweep along, take), завеждам (be head, conduct, induct, initiate, land, run, superintend, take, take over), предизвиквам (arouse, bring on, dare, defy, elicit, engender, fly in the face of, give birth, give rise to, give to rise, induce, instigate, invite, outbrave, pick, provoke, raise, rouse, set up, shape up, sow, stump, throw out a challenge, touch off, urge, work up), причинявам (bring about, bring forth, cause, create, do, effect, engender, generate, induce, inflict, make, procure, produce, putrefy, set off, set up, throw down, work, work up), докарвам до, докарвам (account, bring over, bring up, dress, dress up, drive, induce, land, lay, produce, reduce, return, send, set, smarten, work), довеждам (bring round, carry, fetch, immigrate, lead up to, produce), донасям (bring around, bring round, fetch, get it, inform, notify, report, return, work). (various references)

Catalan

portar (fetch). (various references)

Chinese 

帶 (and, area, band, belt, carry, consists of, girdle, lead, region, ribbon, show, wear, zone), 带来 (Bringing, Brought). (various references)

Czech

přinést (fetch, offer up, return, take in). (various references)

Danish

bringe (fetch). (various references)

Dutch

brengen (bear, carry, conduct, fetch, guide, lead, to bring, wear), bezorgen (fetch), aandragen (fetch). (various references)

Esperanto

alveturigi (convey, supply), alporti (fetch). (various references)

Estonian

tooge. (various references)

Faeroese

venja (breed, bring up, coach, educate, exercise, practise, raise, tame, train), læra (breed, bring up, educate, learn, raise, teach), hava við (bring along, comprise, contain, include, take along), ala upp (breed, bring up, coach, educate, raise, tutor). (various references)

Farsi 

موجب شدن (Afford, Entail, Evince, Inbreed, Inure), اوردن (Fetch), رساندن به . (various references)

Finnish

viedä (carry, convey, deprive, lead, require, take), tuoda (carry, deliver, fetch, introduce), pakottaa (ache, beat, compel, constrain, emboss, force, make), noutaa (call for, fetch). (various references)

French

apporter (bring along, bring round), amener (bring about, bring round). (various references)

Frisian

tatôgje (fetch), oandrage (fetch), oanbringe (accommodate, accuse, adapt, adjust, attune, denounce, fetch, fit, fix, give an account, mount, place, recruit, report, tune). (various references)

Galician

trae-la (bring the). (various references)

German

bringen (broadcast, carry, cause, drive, earn, feature, fetch, get, give, induce, introduce, make, offer, present, print, produce, publish, put, put out, reach, take, take out, to bring, to remedy, yield), mitbringen (bring along, bring with one, take along, to bring along), überbringen (deliver, fetch). (various references)

Greek 

φέρνω (fetch). (various references)

Guarani

agueraháta (I shall bring), agueraha (I bring). (various references)

Haitian Creole

pote. (various references)

Hawaiian

afroj (bring close together, bring near to). (various references)

Hebrew 

לקחת (grasp, have, receive, seize, take), להביא (fetch, including), הביא. (various references)

Hungarian

rávesz (entice, get, got, prevail upon, to bring round, to get, to get around, to induce, to persuade, to tempt), odavisz (fetch), hoz (bore, born, borne, to bear, to bring in, to land, to release, to spawn, to tree, to warm). (various references)

Icelandic

ala upp (breed, bring up, educate, raise). (various references)