gift
n
1 something given; a present
2 a special aptitude, ability, or power; talent
3 the power or right to give or bestow (esp. in the phrases in the gift of, in (someone's) gift)
4 the act or process of giving
5 ♦
look a gift-horse in the mouth usually negative to find fault with a free gift or chance benefit
vb tr
6 to present (something) as a gift to (a person)
7 Rare to endow with; bestow (Old English gift payment for a wife, dowry; related to Old Norse gipt, Old High German gift, Gothic fragifts endowment, engagement; see give) ♦
giftless adj
free gift
n something given away, esp. as an incentive to a purchaser
GIFT
n acronym for gamete intrafallopian transfer: a technique, similar to in vitro fertilization, that enables some women who are unable to conceive to bear children. Egg cells are removed from the woman's ovary, mixed with sperm, and introduced into one of her Fallopian tubes
gift of tongues
n an utterance, partly or wholly unintelligible, produced under the influence of ecstatic religious emotion and conceived to be a manifestation of the Holy Ghost: practised in certain Christian churches, usually called Pentecostal, (Also called)
glossolalia
gift tax
n another name for →
capital transfer tax
Greek gift
n a gift given with the intention of tricking and causing harm to the recipient
(C19: in allusion to Virgil's Aeneid ii 49; see also Trojan Horse)