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GRANT

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of providing a subsidy

Synonyms:

grant; subsidisation; subsidization

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("grant" is a kind of...):

allocation; allotment; apportioning; apportionment; assignation; parceling; parcelling (the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "grant"):

award; awarding (a grant made by a law court)

block grant (a grant of federal money to state and local governments to support social welfare programs)

grant-in-aid (a grant from a central government to a local government)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A right or privilege that has been granted

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("grant" is a kind of...):

right (an abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature)

Derivation:

grant (allow to have)

grant (let have)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A contract granting the right to operate a subsidiary business

Example:

he got the beer concession at the ball park

Synonyms:

concession; grant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("grant" is a kind of...):

contract (a binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "grant"):

franchise (an authorization to sell a company's goods or services in a particular place)

Sense 4

Meaning:

18th President of the United States; commander of the Union armies in the American Civil War (1822-1885)

Synonyms:

Grant; Hiram Ulysses Grant; President Grant; Ulysses Grant; Ulysses S. Grant; Ulysses Simpson Grant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

full general; general (a general officer of the highest rank)

Chief Executive; President; President of the United States; United States President (the person who holds the office of head of state of the United States government)

Sense 5

Meaning:

United States actor (born in England) who was the elegant leading man in many films (1904-1986)

Synonyms:

Cary Grant; Grant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

actor; histrion; player; role player; thespian (a theatrical performer)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Scottish painter; cousin of Lytton Strachey and member of the Bloomsbury Group (1885-1978)

Synonyms:

Duncan Grant; Duncan James Corrow Grant; Grant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

painter (an artist who paints)

Holonyms ("Grant" is a member of...):

Bloomsbury Group (an inner circle of writers and artists and philosophers who lived in or around Bloomsbury early in the 20th century and were noted for their unconventional lifestyles)

Sense 7

Meaning:

(law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance

Synonyms:

assignment; grant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("grant" is a kind of...):

transferred possession; transferred property (a possession whose ownership changes or lapses)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "grant"):

apanage; appanage (a grant (by a sovereign or a legislative body) of resources to maintain a dependent member of a ruling family)

land grant (a grant of public land (as to a railway or college))

Derivation:

grant (transfer by deed)

Sense 8

Meaning:

Any monetary aid

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("grant" is a kind of...):

aid; assistance; economic aid; economic assistance; financial aid; financial assistance (gift of money or other material help to support a person or cause)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "grant"):

subsidy (a grant paid by a government to an enterprise that benefits the public)

grant-in-aid (a grant to a person or school for some educational project)

Derivation:

grant (give as judged due or on the basis of merit)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be willing to concede

Example:

I grant you this much

Synonyms:

concede; grant; yield

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "grant" is one way to...):

agree; concord; concur; hold (be in accord; be in agreement)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "grant"):

forgive (stop blaming or grant forgiveness)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
Somebody ----s to somebody

Sense 2

Meaning:

Allow to have

Example:

grant a privilege

Synonyms:

accord; allot; grant

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "grant" is one way to...):

give (transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "grant"):

give (accord by verdict)

enfranchise (grant voting rights)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody something
Somebody ----s something to somebody

Derivation:

grant (a right or privilege that has been granted)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Let have

Example:

Mandela was allowed few visitors in prison

Synonyms:

allow; grant

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "grant" is one way to...):

give (transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody)

Verb group:

allow; countenance; let; permit (consent to, give permission)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "grant"):

vouchsafe (grant in a condescending manner)

allowance (put on a fixed allowance, as of food)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody something

Derivation:

grant (a right or privilege that has been granted)

granter (a person who grants or gives something)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Transfer by deed

Example:

grant land

Synonyms:

deed over; grant

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "grant" is one way to...):

gift; give; present (give as a present; make a gift of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody

Derivation:

grant ((law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance)

grantee (a recipient of a grant)

grantor (a person who makes a grant in legal form)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Give as judged due or on the basis of merit

Example:

Funds are granted to qualified researchers

Synonyms:

award; grant

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "grant" is one way to...):

give (cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sense)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "grant"):

pension; pension off (grant a pension to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody something
Somebody ----s something to somebody

Sentence examples:

They grant the money to them

They grant them the money

Derivation:

grant (any monetary aid)

grantee (a recipient of a grant)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another

Synonyms:

cede; concede; grant; yield

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "grant" is one way to...):

give (transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody

Sense 7

Meaning:

Bestow, especially officially

Example:

This bill grants us new rights

Synonyms:

give; grant

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody something
Somebody ----s something to somebody

Derivation:

grantee (a recipient of a grant)

granter (a person who grants or gives something)

Credits

 Context examples: 

God grant it may be so!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

A grant that uses materials from some other clinical trial.

(Adjunct Clinical Trial, NCI Thesaurus)

He said he will grant you an audience, if you so desire; but each one of you must enter his presence alone, and he will admit but one each day.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

It was a long ten minutes before Grant Munro broke the silence, and when his answer came it was one of which I love to think.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The honour was readily granted, and he then departed, to make himself still more interesting, in the midst of a heavy rain.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

A baby is a miracle gift. Pregnancy can’t be taken for granted.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

I shall take nothing for granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into it.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Granting that his whole journey was occupied in drawing up the will, then the train was an express, only stopping once between Norwood and London Bridge.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A center within the National Institutes of Health that acts as a portal for grant applications and their review for scientific merit.

(Center for Scientific Review, NCI Thesaurus)

The PI also analyzes the data and reports the results of the trial or grant research.

(PI, NCI Dictionary)