Sekirov Dictionary

have

/ˈhæv/

verb 33
noun 4
forms 10
phrases 20

verb33

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to own something
- I have a house and a car.
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To hold, as something at someone's disposal.
- Look what I have here—a frog I found on the street!
- Do you have the key?
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Used in forming the perfect aspect.
- I have already eaten today.
- Mom's gone real mad, she has.
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To undertake or perform (an action or activity).
- Can I have a look at that?
- He's having a tantrum about it.
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To consume or use up (a particular substance or resource, especially food or drink).
- I have breakfast at six o'clock.
- You've already had five drinks!
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Used to state the existence or presence of someone in a specified relationship with the subject.
- I have two sisters.
- She doesn’t have any friends.
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To experience, go through, undergo.
- We had a hard year last year, with the locust swarms and all that.
- He had surgery on his hip yesterday.
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To be afflicted with, suffer from.
- He had a cold last week.
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To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is a small clause.)
- The hospital had several patients contract pneumonia last week.
- I’ve had three people today tell me my hair looks nice.
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To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
- Dan certainly has arms today, probably from scraping paint off four columns the day before.
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To include as a part, ingredient, or feature.
- The stove has a handle. The shirt has sleeves.
- The words cow and dog have three letters.
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To be scheduled to attend, undertake or participate in.
- What class do you have right now? I have English.
- Fred won’t be able to come to the party; he has a meeting that day.
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To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
- They had me feed their dog while they were out of town.
- Her very boyfriend is the person the criminal has do most of her dirty deeds.
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To cause to be.
- He had him arrested for trespassing.
- I'd better have my watch repaired today: tomorrow I have to have my hair cut before having pictures taken for my passport.
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To give birth to.
- The couple always wanted to have children.
- My wife is having the baby right now!
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Used as an interrogative verb before a pronoun to form a tag question, echoing a previous use of 'have' as an auxiliary verb or, in certain cases, main verb. (For further discussion, see the appendix English tag questions.)
- They haven’t eaten dinner yet, have they?
- Your wife hasn’t been reading that nonsense, has she?
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To host someone; to take in as a guest.
- Thank you for having me!
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To allow; to tolerate.
- The child screamed incessantly for his mother to buy him a toy, but she wasn't having any of it.
- I asked my dad if I could go to the concert this Thursday, but he wouldn't have it since it's a school night.
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To grasp the meaning of; comprehend.
- Ah! Now I have it!
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To believe, buy, be taken in by.
- I made up an excuse as to why I was out so late, but my wife wasn't having any of it.
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(informal) To trick, to deceive.
- I bought a laptop online but it never arrived. I think I've been had!
- You had me alright! I never would have thought that was just a joke.
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To obtain.
- The substance you describe can't be had at any price.
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(informal) To engage in sexual intercourse with.
- He’s always bragging about how many women he’s had.
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To depict as being.
- Their stories differed; he said he’d been at work when the incident occurred, but her statement had him at home that entire evening.
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To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation.
- What do you have for problem two?
- I have two contacts on my scope.
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To make an observation of (a bird species).
- For some reason, "I had a Freckled Duck today" never seems to work as a pick-up line. — 2005
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To capture or actively hold someone's attention or interest.
- Thurs nite I went to see Lou Reed […] and Lou, oh God, he completely had me. I was lost at the foot of a god. — 1977
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To accept as a romantic partner.
- Despite my protestations of love, she would not have me.
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(UK, slang) To inflict punishment or retribution on.
- You broke the window! Teacher’ll have you for that!
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(UK, slang) To defeat in a fight; take.
- I could have him!
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To be able to speak (a language).
- I have no German.
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To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case.
- We’ll schedule closing arguments for Thursday, and the jury will have the case by that afternoon.
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(nonstandard) To be (an age).
- My name is Helene de Pontis and I search penpals from all over the world, but not only. I have 20 years and I am a single. — 2002

noun4

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A wealthy or privileged person.
- A good credit rating can mean the difference between being a have or a have not. — 1981
One who has some (contextually specified) thing.
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(Australia, informal) A fraud or deception; something misleading.
- They advertise it as a great deal, but I think it's a bit of a have.
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(dialect) A hawthorn.
- "Why, thin, what was it but the green laves o' the ould bush, an' the rid bunches o' the haves that war wavin' and shakin' in the moonlight." — 1850

forms

had · hadst · yhad · haeing · haveing · having · has · hath · hast · haves

Phrases with have

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