Word Finder - brings

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(ditransitive) To transport toward somebody/somewhere.

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Waiter, please bring me a single malt whiskey.

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To supply or contribute.

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The new company director brought a fresh perspective on sales and marketing.

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To occasion or bring about.

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The controversial TV broadcast brought a storm of complaints.

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To raise (a lawsuit, charges, etc.) against somebody.

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To persuade; to induce; to draw; to lead; to guide.

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To produce in exchange; to sell for; to fetch.

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What does coal bring per ton?

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To pitch, often referring to a particularly hard thrown fastball.

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The closer Jones can really bring it.

You can watch the woman who brings sunshine into every room fade away like the sunset.

I chose a color that brings out your eyes.

The bond brings you together.

It brings back a lot of memories — some of them not so good.

Morning brings back the heroic ages.

What brings you all to my neighborhood?

What brings los federales out of the woods?

This brings back childhood memories.

What brings you here?

Technology brings about economic wealth through improved production, facilitation of trade, and promoting the division of labor.

Miss Sullivan's second report brings the account down to October 1st, 1888.

He brings foe men to their knees,... etc.

Dean said, "What brings you out so late?"

A few miles below Valenza it is joined by the Tanaro, a large stream, which brings with it the united waters of the Stura, the Bormida and several minor rivers.

The force which brings the atoms together in the forms of objects is inherent in the elements, and all their motions are necessary.

Jerome's work was continued successively by Gennadius of Marseilles, Isidore of Seville, and Ildefonsus of Toledo; the last-named writer brings the list down to the middle of the 7th century.

Figured it'd keep me busy 'til Jule brings in someone else.

The Arno is navigable for barges as far as Florence; but it is liable to sudden floods, and brings down with it large quantities of earth and stones, so that it requires careful regulation.

The reduction of the tentacles in all these forms may be correlated with their mode of life, and especially with living in a constant current of water, which brings foodparticles always from one direction and renders a complete whorl or circle of tentacles unnecessary.

King and queen fly, carrying the child with them, and while the wife is tending her husband, who dies of a broken heart on his flight, the infant is carried off by a friendly water-fairy, the Lady of the Lake, who brings the boy up in her mysterious kingdom.

Again, the appeal to " God's judgment " in the trial by battle in Lohengrin is a subject of which no earlier librettist could have made more than a plausible mess - which is the best that can be said for the music as music. But as dramatist Wagner compels our respect for the power that without gloss or apology brings before us the king, a model of royal fair-mindedness and good-nature, acquiescing in Telramund's monstrous claim to accuse Elsa without evidence, simply because it is a hard and self-evident fact that the persons of the drama live in an age in which such claims seemed reasonable.

The drug is not a true specific, as quinine is for malaria, since it rarely, if ever, prevents the cardiac damage usually done by rheumatic fever; but it entirely removes the agonizing pain, shortly after its administration, and, an hour or two later, brings down the temperature to normal.

He is the Reason that prevades the universe, that brings out all goodness, that guides all good men.

Whatever that brings, you.ve been my only brother and friend, Rhyn replied in the same tone.

It brings the authorities into the picture in case Shipton does show up and causes trouble.

What if you do succeed in forcing Death's hand and she brings Katie back from the dead?  You'd tear the fabric of the universe and invite the demons to take control.  She's all that stands between us and them.

This brings us to the latest radical change effected in instrumentation, the change from symphonic to dramatic principles.

The ship now returns to the position of original attack, and by similar operations brings on board the end which secures communication with the other shore.

But immediately east of that inlet (a remarkable instance of a deep landlocked gulf with no river flowing into it) the Magra, which descends from Pontremoli down the valley known as the Lunigiana, is a large stream, and brings with it the waters of another considerable stream, the Vara.

The Nera, which rises in the lofty group of the Monte della Sibilla, is a considerable stream, and brings with it the waters of the Velino (with its tributaries the Turano and the Salto), which joins it a few miles below its celebrated waterfall at Terni.

The Teverone or Anio, which enters the Tiber a few miles above Rome, is an inferior stream to the Nera, but brings down a considerable body of water from the mountains above Subiaco.

Descartes's preliminary statement of the argument in somewhat popular form brings it very near the lines of the cosmological proof.

When Otto Ritschl interprets values hedonistically - recoiling from Hegel's idealism the whole way to empiricism - he brings again to our minds the doubt whether hedonist ethics can serve as a foundation for any religious belief.

More importance attaches to Duns Scotus, who brings prominently forward the idea of a progressive development in nature by means of a process of determination.

This false position was remedied by the act of 1908, which brings companies into line with individuals.

This subject brings the domain of pathology, however, into touch with that of variation, and we are profoundly ignorant as to the complex of external conditions which would decide in any given case how far a variation in form would be prejudicial or otherwise to the continued existence of a species.

The Sino river rises in the Niete mountains and brings down a great volume of water to the sea, though it is not a river of considerable length.

This different treatment shows the feeling of the poet - the feeling for which he seeks to evoke our inmost sympathy - to oscillate between the belief that an awful crime brings with it its awful punishment (and it is sickening to observe how the argument by which the Friar persuades Annabella to forsake her evil courses mainly appeals to the physical terrors of retribution), and the notion that there is something fatal, something irresistible, and therefore in a sense self-justified, in so dominant a passion.

This latter idea was the more likely to arise, as the gift theory of sacrifice is closely associated with that of the god as the ruler or king to whom man brings a tribute, just as he had to appear before his earthly king bearing gifts in his hands.

Of this tradition the Naboth incident in the time of Ahab furnishes a clear example which brings to light the contrast between the Tyrian Baal-cult, which was scarcely ethical, and of which Jezebel and Ahab were devotees, and the moral requirements of the religion of Yahweh of which Elijah was the prophet and impassioned exponent.

All the evidence in Barclay's own work goes to prove that he was sincere in his reproof of contemporary follies and vice, and the gross accusations which John Bale 1 brings against his moral character may be put down to his hatred of Barclay's cloth.

Heracles is the hero who brings back the golden apples to mankind again.

The mention of Arthur and the Round Table at once brings him to mind as the most valiant member of that brotherhood and the secret lover of the Queen.

But every genuine attempt to overcome its difficulties brings us into closer touch with the period we are examining; and though we may not be able to throw our conclusions into the form of large generalizations, we shall get to know something of the operation of the forces which determined the economic future of England; understand more clearly than our forefathers did, for we have more information than they could command, and a fuller appreciation of the issues, the broad features of English development, and be in a position to judge fairly well of the measures they adopted in their time.

It brings out into clear consciousness certain potentialities in the realization of which man's true good must consist.

The addition of a narthex before the main front and a vestibule on the northern side brings the whole western arm of the cross to a square on plan.

The ferry-man of Ut-Napishtim brings him safely through these waters, despite the difficulties and dangers of the voyage, and at last the hero finds himself face to face with Ut-Napishtim.

Their function of snatching away mortals to the other world brings them into connexion with the Erinyes, with whom they are often confounded.

The female brings forth one young in the end of May or beginning of June, after a gestation of nine months.

In the Stromateis, while attempting to show that the Jewish Scriptures were older than any writings of the Greeks, he invariably brings down his dates to the death of Commodus, a circumstance which at once suggests that he wrote in the reign of the emperor Severus, from 193 to 211 A.D.