How to pronounce “have”

Meaning

• [Verb]
• (transitive) To possess, own.[6]
• (transitive) To hold, as something at someone's disposal.
• (transitive) To include as a part, ingredient, or feature.
• (transitive) Used to state the existence or presence of someone in a specified relationship with the subject.
• (transitive) To consume or use up (a particular substance or resource, especially food or drink).
• (transitive) To undertake or perform (an action or activity).
• (transitive) To be scheduled to attend, undertake or participate in.
• (transitive) To experience, go through, undergo.
• (transitive) To be afflicted with, suffer from.
• (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) Used in forming the perfect aspect.
• 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.)
• (auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) See have to.
• (transitive) To give birth to.
• (informal, usually passive) To obtain.
• (transitive) To engage in sexual intercourse with.
• (transitive) To accept as a romantic partner.
• (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
• (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be.
• (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is a small clause.)
• (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being.
• (British, slang, transitive) To defeat in a fight; take.
• (British, slang, transitive) To inflict punishment or retribution on.
• (dated outside Ireland, transitive) To be able to speak (a language).
• (transitive) To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
• (informal, often passive, transitive) To trick, to deceive.
• (transitive, in the negative, often in continuous tenses) To allow; to tolerate.
• (transitive, often used in the negative) To believe, buy, be taken in by.
• (transitive) To host someone; to take in as a guest.
• (transitive) To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation.
• (transitive, of a jury) To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case.
• (transitive, birdwatching) To make an observation of (a bird species).
• (transitive) To capture or actively hold someone's attention or interest.
• (transitive) To grasp the meaning of; comprehend.
• [Noun]
• (idiomatic, usually contrastive) A wealthy or privileged person.
• (idiomatic, uncommon) One who has some (contextually specified) thing.

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