grant

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• WordNet 3.6
  • v grant be willing to concede "I grant you this much"
  • v grant allow to have "grant a privilege"
  • v grant let have "grant permission","Mandela was allowed few visitors in prison"
  • v grant transfer by deed "grant land"
  • v grant give as judged due or on the basis of merit "the referee awarded a free kick to the team","the jury awarded a million dollars to the plaintiff","Funds are granted to qualified researchers"
  • v grant give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another
  • v grant bestow, especially officially "grant a degree","give a divorce","This bill grants us new rights"
  • n grant the act of providing a subsidy
  • n grant a right or privilege that has been granted
  • n grant a contract granting the right to operate a subsidiary business "he got the beer concession at the ball park"
  • n Grant 18th President of the United States; commander of the Union armies in the American Civil War (1822-1885)
  • n Grant United States actor (born in England) who was the elegant leading man in many films (1904-1986)
  • n Grant Scottish painter; cousin of Lytton Strachey and member of the Bloomsbury Group (1885-1978)
  • n grant (law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance
  • n grant any monetary aid
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Additional illustrations & photos:

Steam Skidder at Work. Grant County, Arkansas

Baron Grant

Ulysses S. Grant

THE MEETING OF GENERALS GRANT AND LEE AT APPOMATTOX

• Interesting fact: George Washington's favorite horse was named Lexington. Napoleon's favorite was Marengo. U.S. Grant had three favorite horses: Egypt, Cincinnati, and Jeff Davis.
• • Grant (Law) A transfer of property by deed or writing; especially, an appropriation or conveyance made by the government; as, a grant of land or of money; also, the deed or writing by which the transfer is made.
  • Grant The act of granting; a bestowing or conferring; concession; allowance; permission.
  • Grant The thing or property granted; a gift; a boon.
  • Grant The yielding or admission of something in dispute.
  • Grant To admit as true what is not yet satisfactorily proved; to yield belief to; to allow; to yield; to concede. "Grant that the Fates have firmed by their decree."
  • v. i Grant To assent; to consent.
  • Grant To bestow or confer, with or without compensation, particularly in answer to prayer or request; to give. "Wherefore did God grant me my request."
  • Grant To give over; to make conveyance of; to give the possession or title of; to convey; -- usually in answer to petition. "Grant me the place of this threshing floor."
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• Interesting fact: In 1670, Dorothy Jones of Boston was granted a license to sell coffee, and so became the first American coffee trader.
• • grant To transfer the title or possession of in any formal way, specifically for a sufficient or valuable consideration; give or make over; especially, to convey by deed or writing.
  • grant To bestow or confer, particularly in answer to prayer or request.
  • grant To allow; permit.
  • grant To assent to; answer in the affirmative.
  • grant To admit to be true; concede, as something obvious or not required to be proved; accept or concede without proof.
  • grant Synonyms and
  • grant Confer, Bestow, etc. See give.
  • grant To consent; assent; give permission or countenance.
  • n grant A promise; a thing promised.
  • n grant The act of granting; a conferring or conceding.
  • n grant A thing granted or conferred; a boon; especially, something conveyed by deed or patent: often used of tracts of land granted to colonists, railroad companies, etc.
  • n grant In law: Originally, a creating or transferring by deed: used in reference to mere rights, estates in expectancy, and incorporeal property, which could not be delivered. Thus, easements, franchises, etc., were said to lie in grant, because they could not be created or transferred by livery or seizin.
  • n grant In modern use, a conveyance in writing of such things as cannot pass or be transferred by word only, as land, rents, reversions, tithes, etc.
  • n grant An admission of something as true.
  • n grant In brewing, a copper or iron vessel into which the wort flows from the clarifying battery, and from which it is lifted into the wort-pan.
  • grant A Middle English form of grand.
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• Interesting fact: US Presidents who owned slaves : George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Andrew Jackson, John Tyler, James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Andrew Johnson, and Ulysses S. Grant.
• • v.t Grant grant to bestow or give over: to give possession of: to admit as true what is not yet proved: to concede
  • v.i Grant (Shak.) to consent
  • n Grant a bestowing: something bestowed, an allowance: a gift:
  • n Grant (Eng. law) conveyance of property by deed
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• Aldous Huxley

  

  “Most human beings have an infinite capacity for taking things for granted.”
• Ludwig Wittgenstein

  

  “If you do know that here is one hand, we'll grant you all the rest.”
• Michelangelo

  

  “Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.”
• John Ruskin

  

  “Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.”
• St. Francis of Assisi

  

  “Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.”
• Lord Chesterfield

  

  “Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.”

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