Bring \Bring\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Brought}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bringing}.] [OE. bringen, AS. bringan; akin to OS. brengian, D. brengen, Fries. brenga, OHG. bringan, G. bringen, Goth. briggan.] 1. To convey to the place where the speaker is or is to be; to bear from a more distant to a nearer place; to fetch.
And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread. --1 Kings xvii. 11.
To France shall we convey you safe, And bring you back. --Shak.
2. To cause the accession or obtaining of; to procure; to make to come; to produce; to draw to.
There is nothing will bring you more honor . . . than to do what right in justice you may. --Bacon.
3. To convey; to move; to carry or conduct.
In distillation, the water . . . brings over with it some part of the oil of vitriol. --Sir I. Newton.
4. To persuade; to induce; to draw; to lead; to guide.
It seems so preposterous a thing . . . that they do not easily bring themselves to it. --Locke.
The nature of the things . . . would not suffer him to think otherwise, how, or whensoever, he is brought to reflect on them. --Locke.
5. To produce in exchange; to sell for; to fetch; as, what does coal bring per ton?
{To bring about}, to bring to pass; to effect; to accomplish.
{To bring back}. (a) To recall. (b) To restore, as something borrowed, to its owner.
{To bring by the lee} (Naut.), to incline so rapidly to leeward of the course, when a ship sails large, as to bring the lee side suddenly to the windward, any by laying the sails aback, expose her to danger of upsetting.
{To bring down}. (a) To cause to come down. (b) To humble or abase; as, to bring down high looks.
{To bring down the house}, to cause tremendous applause. [Colloq.]
{To bring forth}. (a) To produce, as young fruit. (b) To bring to light; to make manifest.
{To bring forward} (a) To exhibit; to introduce; to produce to view. (b) To hasten; to promote; to forward. (c) To propose; to adduce; as, to bring forward arguments.
{To bring home}. (a) To bring to one's house. (b) To prove conclusively; as, to bring home a charge of treason. (c) To cause one to feel or appreciate by personal experience. (d) (Naut.) To lift of its place, as an anchor.
{To bring in}. (a) To fetch from without; to import. (b) To introduce, as a bill in a deliberative assembly. (c) To return or repot to, or lay before, a court or other body; to render; as, to bring in a verdict or a report. (d) To take to an appointed place of deposit or collection; as, to bring in provisions or money for a specified object. (e) To produce, as income. (f) To induce to join.
{To bring off}, to bear or convey away; to clear from condemnation; to cause to escape.
{To bring on}. (a) To cause to begin. (b) To originate or cause to exist; as, to bring on a disease.
{To bring one on one's way}, to accompany, guide, or attend one.
{To bring out}, to expose; to detect; to bring to light from concealment.
{To bring over}. (a) To fetch or bear across. (b) To convert by persuasion or other means; to cause to change sides or an opinion.
{To bring to}. (a) To resuscitate; to bring back to consciousness or life, as a fainting person. (b) (Naut.) To check the course of, as of a ship, by dropping the anchor, or by counterbracing the sails so as to keep her nearly stationary (she is then said to lie to). (c) To cause (a vessel) to lie to, as by firing across her course. (d) To apply a rope to the capstan.
{To bring to light}, to disclose; to discover; to make clear; to reveal.
{To bring a sail to} (Naut.), to bend it to the yard.
{To bring to pass}, to accomplish to effect. ``Trust also in Him; and He shall bring it to pass.'' --Ps. xxxvii. 5.
{To bring under}, to subdue; to restrain; to reduce to obedience.
{To bring up}. (a) To carry upward; to nurse; to rear; to educate. (b) To cause to stop suddenly. (c)
Note: [v. i. by dropping the reflexive pronoun] To stop suddenly; to come to a standstill. [Colloq.]
{To bring up (any one) with a round turn}, to cause (any one) to stop abruptly. [Colloq.]
Asked if he might bring the world leaders to Texas, possibly to San Antonio, the president remarked, "That's a distinct possibility.
If more U.S. companies do get back into D-rams, say critics of the consortium idea, Japanese companies will just bring their advantages to bear on other chip products and markets, making a more wide-ranging industrial policy necessary.
The United States and France, Haiti's two main donors, helped bring about Avril's ouster and have said financial aid will be restored under a democratic government.
The debate is designed to allow the government to bring back next month the legislation to ratify the treaty. No one at Westminster doubts that the prime minister feels strongly about the issue.
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The Kremlin's television statement accused the Lithuanian leadership of planning to turn over national factories to private owners, bring in a separate currency and put up customs posts on the borders of the republic.
"If they bring large formations, air defense systems are part of these formations," he said, and Israel would fear that Syrian missiles could interfere with its aerial surveillance.
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He says he reassured Reagan administration officials two years ago that the declining dollar would eventually bring the trade deficit under control.
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The couple love reminiscing about the festival with visitors, but they know enough not to bring up the name "Woodstock" to longtime Bethel residents.
Seven lifeboats, some from other ferries, were used to bring the passengers ashore.
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The consent decree filed in federal district court in Cleveland and made public yesterday requires LTV to bring the two plants into compliance with the Clean Water Act within 30 days after the decree is finalized, probably within a month.
In the run-up to the decision, there had been widespread apprehension that the red-robed judges in Karlsruhe might tie the treaty in so many legal knots as to bring it crashing to the ground.
While some people say the airport will not attract enough business to be viable, others say it is essential to attract foreign investment and bring more tourists to the territory.
Feb. 1 The Flint (Mich.) Journal on the State of the Union: East Europe's great Freedom Revolution of 1989 has shredded the Iron Curtain and continues to bring down walls of communist repression.
Christian sources said the embassy siege was designed by Aoun to whip up anti-American sentiment among Christians inside and outside Lebanon, to bring pressure on the United States.
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Still, many schools, despite shrinking budgets, appear increasingly eager to bring multimedia into classrooms.
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"This action underscores the need for a dialogue between the government and the black opposition to bring about a fully functioning non-racial democracy," said White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater.
"Sometimes hard times bring people together," said Sen. David Pryor, D-Ark., a member of the ethics panel.
The question is whether Midland can deliver. The merger will certainly help bring new business in areas such as trade finance and treasury.
He also said Wednesday that if members of the full Senate bring up questions about Tower's personal life the lawmakers may be forced to meet behind closed doors.
The additional sites bring to 1,194 the waste dumps scheduled to be decontaminated under the Superfund program, which is aimed at dealing with the nation's most hazardous waste problems.
Svend Jakobsen, the neutral mediator charged with sounding out eight parties on a national program, said he could not bring enough parties together to form a stable government and was giving up his task.