Having

Word HAVING
Character 6
Hyphenation hav ing
Pronunciations /ˈhævɪŋ/

Definitions and meanings of "Having"

What do we mean by having?

To possess, own.

To hold, as something at someone's disposal.

Used to state the existence or presence of someone in a specified relationship with the subject.

To partake of (a particular substance, especially food or drink, or action or activity).

To be scheduled to attend, undertake or participate in.

To experience, go through, undergo.

To be afflicted with, suffer from.

(auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) Used in forming the perfect aspect.

Used as an interrogative verb before a pronoun to form a tag question, echoing a previous use of 'have' as an auxiliary verb or, in certain cases, main verb. (For further discussion, see the appendix English tag questions.)

(auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) See have to.

To give birth to.

To engage in sexual intercourse with.

To accept as a romantic partner.

(transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.

(transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be.

(transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.)

(transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being.

To defeat in a fight; take.

(obsolete outside Ireland) To be able to speak (a language).

To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.

To trick, to deceive.

(often with present participle) To allow; to tolerate.

(often used in the negative) To believe, buy, be taken in by.

To host someone; to take in as a guest.

To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation.

(of a jury) To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case.

To make an observation of (a bird species).

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The word "having" in example sentences

All of these things -- having been a soldier, a student, a civil servant, a petty bourgeois vendor, an admirer of the monarchy, or having been related to someone with such characteristics -- was called “having a tendency” or a “trend. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It is formed by placing _having_ before the perfect participle; as, _having ruled, having been ruled: "Having written_ the letter, he mailed it." ❋ Samuel Kirkham (N/A)

The forms in question -- _seeing, having seen, being seen, having been seen_, and _having been seeing_, for instance -- are now made from the verb in precisely the same way when partaking the nature of the noun as when partaking the nature of the adjective. ❋ Brainerd Kellogg (N/A)

PER SPECT 'IVE, (PER, _through_; SPECT, _to see_; IVE, _having the power_,) having the power to see through; a view through. ❋ Charles W. Sanders (N/A)

For isn't it _having_ a thing to understand it -- more than it's having it to really have it and not understand? ❋ Susan Glaspell (1915)

But having found a thing or things essential for his subject, and well computed the for and against, he will in very deed set down such thing or things, nothing doubting, —having, we may say, the fear of God before his eyes, and no other fear whatever. ❋ Unknown (1909)

Who has not experienced the consciousness of having _felt the thing before_ -- _having thought it some time in the dim past? ❋ William Walker Atkinson (1897)

Not in having 'no business' with men, but in having no unjust business with them, and in _having_ all manner of true and just business, can either his or their blessedness be found possible, and this waste world become, for both parties, a home and peopled garden. ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)

I was told of a man who, having stolen from a church the silver box containing the consecrated wafers, returned the wafers next day in a letter to the Curé of the Parish, _having used one of them to seal his envelop_. ❋ Unknown (1827)

On the other hand we have a generous, high-spirited race of our own blood, and migrating from our own soil, who having been unfairly treated, and _having just grounds_ of complaint against the mother-country, have nevertheless forgotten their own wrongs, and, to a mail, flown to arms, willing to shed their blood in defence of the mother-country. ❋ Frederick Marryat (1820)

Track what you eat by prefixing a message with @having, or direct messaging having. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It to shit by having every kid look look like a miniature version of him..having micheal run and adding shit tons of blood is a shitty way of getting scares and the psychie of how mike myers became was cool but did he also have to have metal hair. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Constitution_ of the kingdom, by breaking the _original contract_ between king and people, and, by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated the _fundamental_ laws, and _having withdrawn himself out of the kingdom_, hath _abdicated_ the government, and the throne is thereby _vacant_. " ❋ Edmund Burke (1763)

I do not recall ever having an imaginary friend, but I did used to imagine actually * having* friends, and I very much wanted a 12 "- tall human of my very own to carry around and show to other people. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A son said he was attending a wedding, but Lam showed up shortly thereafter, the word having spread quickly about the appearance of the bearded American Kyle and some other strangers with big noses. ❋ DAVID MARANISS (2010)

All of which suggests that the phrase having sex gets the order wrong: sex has us. ❋ ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH (2010)

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