Meaning of Having | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Have.
2. The act of possessing; ownership.
   countable, uncountable
3. Something owned; possession; goods; estate.
   countable, uncountable
4. Used with a past participle to form the present perfect, past perfect, and future perfect tenses indicating completed action: The troublemaker has gone for good. I regretted that I had lost my temper. They will have finished by the time we arrive.
5. A person's behaviour.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
6. One enjoying especially material wealth: "The gulf widens between the feast of the haves and the famine of the have-nots" (Salman Rushdie).
7. Good manners.
   Scotland, countable, in-plural, obsolete, uncountable
8. To attack.
9. To be inclined to (do something).
10. To be wise or obliged to; should or must: He had better do what he is told. You had best bring a raincoat in this weather.
11. To stop; cease: Have done with your quibbling!
12. To be much better than (someone) at a particular endeavor.
13. To act in a hostile manner toward or intend to harm (someone), especially because of a grudge.
14. To have the capacity or disposition to (to do something).
15. To settle decisively, especially by means of an argument or a discussion.

Equivalents

Examples

“He thus came to think of perceiving as a complex of 'havings,' not a complex of 'havings' and 'doings.'”

“Out of my lean and low ability I’ll lend you something: my having is not much; I’ll make division of my present with you: Hold, there’s half my coffer.”

“Your havings wasted by the scythe and spade— Your rights and charters hobnail’d into slush—”

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