bring

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To carry, convey, lead, or cause to go along to another place: brought enough money with me.
2. v. To carry as an attribute or contribution: You bring many years of experience to your new post.
3. v. To lead or force into a specified state, situation, or location: bring the water to a boil; brought the meeting to a close.
4. v. To persuade; induce: The defendant's testimony brought others to confess.
5. v. To get the attention of; attract: Smoke and flames brought the neighbors.
6. v. To cause to occur as a consequence or concomitant: Floods brought destruction to the valley. For many, the fall brings hayfever.
7. v. To cause to become apparent to the mind; recall: This music brings back memories.
8. v. Law To advance or set forth (charges) in a court.
9. v. To sell for: a portrait that brought a million dollars.
10. around To cause to adopt an opinion or take a certain course of action.
11. around To cause to recover consciousness.
12. bring down To cause to fall or collapse.
13. bring down To kill.
14. bring forth To give rise to; produce: plants bringing forth fruit.
15. bring forth To give birth to (young).
16. bring forward To present; produce: bring forward proof.
17. bring forward Accounting To carry (a sum) from one page or column to another.
18. bring in Law To give or submit (a verdict) to a court.
19. bring in To produce, yield, or earn (profits or income).
20. bring off To accomplish: bring off a successful advertising campaign.
21. bring on To cause to appear: brought on the dessert.
22. bring out To reveal or expose: brought out the facts.
23. bring out To introduce (a debutante) to society.
24. bring out To produce or publish: bring out a new book.
25. bring out To nurture and develop (a quality, for example) to best advantage: You bring out the best in me.
26. bring to To cause to recover consciousness.
27. bring to Nautical To cause (a ship) to turn into the wind or come to a stop.
28. bring up To take care of and educate (a child); rear.
29. bring up To introduce into discussion; mention.
30. bring up To vomit.
31. bring up To cause to come to a sudden stop.
32. idiom. bring down the house To win overwhelming approval from an audience.
33. idiom. bring home To make perfectly clear: a lecture that brought home several important points.
34. idiom. bring home the bacon To earn a living, especially for a family.
35. idiom. bring home the bacon To achieve desired results; have success.
36. idiom. bring to bear To exert; apply: bring pressure to bear on the student's parents.
37. idiom. bring to bear To put (something) to good use: "All of one's faculties are brought to bear in an effort to become fully incorporated into the landscape” ( Barry Lopez).
38. idiom. bring to light To reveal or disclose: brought the real facts to light.
39. idiom. bring to mind To cause to be remembered: Thoughts of fishing brought to mind our youth.
40. idiom. bring to (one's) knees To reduce to a position of subservience or submission.
41. idiom. bring to terms To force (another) to agree.
42. idiom. bring up the rear To be the last in a line or sequence.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To bear, convey, or take along in coming; take to the place where the receiver is, or where the bearer stays or abides; fetch: as, bring it hither, or to me; to bring a book home.
2. To cause to come or accrue; be the means of conveying possession of; impart; devolve upon: as, the transaction brought great profit; his wife brought him a large dowry.
3. To cause to come or pass, as to a new place, state, or condition; impel; draw on; lead: as, to bring one to a better mind.
4. To aid in coming or passing, as to one's home or destination; conduct; attend; accompany.
5. To convey or put forth as a product; bear or be the bearer of; yield: as, the land brings good harvests.
6. To convey to the mind or knowledge; make known on coming, or coming before one; bear or impart a declaration of.
7. To fetch or put forward before a tribunal; make a presentation of; institute; declare in or as if in court: as, to bring an action or an indictment against one; the jury brought the prisoner in guilty.
8. To cause to become; make to be.
9. To cause to fall; hence, of game, to kill.
10. To bring to light; disclose; reveal.
11. To adduce: as, to bring forward arguments in support of a scheme.
12. To impress upon the feeling; cause to be felt: as, he brought it home to them very vividly; in preaching, strive to bring the truth home to the hearers.
13. To supply; furnish; yield: especially used in speaking of a revenue, rent, or income produced from a certain source.
14. To introduce; especially, to introduce to the notice of a legislature: as, to bring in a bill.
15. To place in a particular condition or station.
16. (et) To reduce within the limits of law and government.
17. To procure to be acquitted; clear from condemnation; cause to escape. To dissuade; change, as from an opinion or purpose; cause to abandon.
18. To cause to begin: as, to bring on a battle.
19. To originate or cause to exist: as, to bring on a disease.
20. To induce; lead on.
21. To find by calculation or argument; deduce; infer.
22. To publish: as, to bring out a new edition of a book.
23. To convert by persuasion or other means; draw to a new party; cause to change sides or an opinion.
24. The Protestant clergy will find it perhaps no difficult matter to bring great numbers over to the church.
25. To lead up to in an indirect manner: as, he brought round the conversation to his favorite topic.
26. To recover, as from a swoon.
27. Nautical: To heave to; force (another ship) to heave to or stop. To bend (a sail) to its yard or gaff.
28. To bring into range, or the range of: as, to bring a gun to bear upon a target.
29. In printing, to give the proper light and shade to, as a print of an engraving, by means of a suitable distribution of pressure in the press, produced by overlays; also, to equalize the pressure upon, as any part of a form on a press, by underlaying it with cardboard or paper
30. In lithography, to make apparent; make visible, as a drawing or a greasy spot upon the stone
31. To rear; nurture; care for during adolescence: used with reference to the needs of both the body and the mind.
32. To introduce to notice or consideration: as, to bring up a subject in conversation. To cause to advance near: as, to bring up forces, or the reserves.
33. Nautical, to stop (a ship's headway) by letting go an anchor or by running her ashore. To pull up (a horse); cause to stop: often with short; as, he brought up his horse short (that is, caused it to stop suddenly); hence, figuratively, to stop suddenly in any career or course of action; bring before a magistrate; pull up.

Wiktionary

1. v. transitive To transport toward somebody/somewhere.
2. v. transitive, figuratively To supply or contribute.
3. v. transitive To raise (a lawsuit, charges, etc.) against somebody.
4. v. baseball To pitch, often referring to a particularly hard thrown fastball.
5. interj. The sound of a telephone ringing.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To convey to the place where the speaker is or is to be; to bear from a more distant to a nearer place; to fetch.
2. v. To cause the accession or obtaining of; to procure; to make to come; to produce; to draw to.
3. v. To convey; to move; to carry or conduct.
4. v. To persuade; to induce; to draw; to lead; to guide.
5. v. To produce in exchange; to sell for; to fetch; as, what does coal bring per ton?

WordNet 3.0

1. v. attract the attention of
2. v. take something or somebody with oneself somewhere
3. v. cause to happen or to occur as a consequence
4. v. cause to come into a particular state or condition
5. v. be accompanied by
6. v. advance or set forth in court
7. v. go or come after and bring or take back
8. v. bring into a different state
9. v. be sold for a certain price
10. v. induce or persuade
11. v. bestow a quality on