# given

Pronunciation: say "GIV-uhn" /ˈɡɪv.n̩/

## Verb

1. Past participle of give. — past participle of give
   - Simple: Past participle of give. Use this form after have, has, or had.
   - _The committee has given its approval to the new plan._
   - _All the prizes were given to the winners on Friday._

## Adjective

2. Referring to a particular, specified thing rather than an arbitrary one.
   - Simple: Pointing to one certain thing that has been chosen or named, not any random one.
   - _For a given temperature, the gas occupies a predictable volume._
   - _Any given student in the class can request extra help._
5. Inclined or tending toward a particular habit or behavior.
   - Simple: Tending to do something often, almost as a habit.
   - _He was given to long silences whenever the subject came up._
   - _She is given to wild exaggeration when telling her stories._
6. Treated as an established fact or starting assumption.
   - Simple: Taken as true so that you can work from it.
   - _In the proof, the length of the base is taken as given._
   - _The board treated continued funding as given and planned accordingly._
7. Being the particular one currently under discussion.
   - Simple: Being the one that is being talked about right now.
   - _In the given example, the author uses three metaphors._
   - _The given passage describes a storm at sea._
8. Arranged or settled in advance, before the event itself.
   - Simple: Decided or arranged before something happens.
   - _The soldiers advanced at the given signal._
   - _Everyone gathered at the given hour without delay._

## Preposition

3. Taking into account; in view of a stated fact or condition.
   - Simple: Used to show that you are thinking about a known fact before saying what follows.
   - _Given the heavy rain, the organizers canceled the picnic._
   - _Given her busy schedule, she rarely eats lunch out._

## Noun

4. A fact or condition that is accepted as true without further proof or testing.
   - Simple: A fact that everyone accepts as true without checking it.
   - _In this town, heavy winter snow is simply a given._
   - _The negotiators treated the company's support as a given._

## Origin

Formed from the verb "give" plus the suffix "-n".

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/given (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).