Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To present as a gift to a fund or cause; contribute.
- v. Medicine To provide (blood, tissue, or an organ) for transfusion, implantation, or transplant.
- v. Chemistry To provide (an electron or atom, for example) for combination with an acceptor.
- v. To make a contribution to a fund or cause.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To give; present as a gift; contribute.
Wiktionary
- v. To make a donation; to give away something of value to support or contribute towards a cause or for the benefit of another.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To give; to bestow; to present.
WordNet 3.0
- v. give to a charity or good cause
Etymologies
- Circa 1845, back-formation from donation, chiefly in American English. Ultimately from Latin donare (to give). (Wiktionary)
- Back-formation from donation. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Will Palin donate a measley $1000 to his campaign or merely ignore him? jack”
“Become the CEO of some massively large company and then force that company to never again donate money to political campaigns.”
Think Progress » Chuck Todd: ‘The Tea Party gets a big benefit’ from Fox News’ promotion.
“The true charity is not in donate some money, but in we donate, donate our time.”
“How much you donate is up to you - I personally think a minimum of AUS$5. 00 is reasonable.”
“My offer of signed books for people who donate is still open.”
“Strikingly, however, the proportion of those earning between £12,000 and £20,000 who donate is much greater: 72 per cent.”
“Details: Every time you buy one of Tevolution's delicious teas you can enter the text code behind the label to donate $0.25 to one of four causes.”
The Huffington Post: Joe Waters: The Best Local Cause Marketing of 2011 (and 3 that Really Stunk)
“Mayor-elect Emanuel kept his word to donate $5,000 to charity if the @MayorEmanuel author came forward and met Sinker earlier this month on the set of a Chicago radio show.”
USA Today: Writer of Rahm Emanuel's fake tweets lands book deal
“If it is a large charity with high street shops, such as Oxfam or Barnardo's, the easiest way to donate is to drop off your foreign cash at the store.”
The Guardian: How charity can use your unused foreign currency
“The video news segment states that egg donors must be a certain age, usually 21 to 34 with a limit on the number of times a woman can donate, which is about six times.”
George Spyros: Human Egg Donors Make Cash in Economic Hard Times VIDEO
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘donate’.
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WF - list of EN back-formations
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_back-formations
aborigine, accrete, acculturate, admix, admixture, adolesce, adsorb, adulate, advect, aesthete, air-condition, anticline and 212 more...
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POL - elections
announcement of c..., campaign headquar..., campaign season, campaign staff, campaign strategy, campaign tactic, campaign team, campaign trail, campaigning, candidate, candidate registr..., caucus and 930 more...
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On with their heads!
Words that make other words with the addition of one letter at the beginning. The resulting words are tagged "behead".
men, his, yes, any, iota, limb, aged, laid, land, lead, read, word and 327 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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Baby Got Back-Formations
"A new word created by removing an affix from an already existing word, as vacuum clean from vacuum cleaner, or by removing what is mistakenly thought to be an affix, as pea from the earlier Englis...
resurrect, enthuse, couth, donate, emote, greed, isolate, manipulate, orate, prequel, spectate, upholster and 94 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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"letting go" words
words from the IE root orbh- and others words that change allegiance
orphan, robot, let, liege, allegiance, late, later, last, lassitude, alas, lenient, lenis and 41 more...
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backformations
Inspired by the hilarious discussion of the word bant at around the five-minute mark of this video.
bant, maffick, surveil, ablute, pea, burgle, couth, liaise, reminisce, fluoresce, emote, enthuse and 31 more...
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The O.U.P. Junior Dictionary Neophytes
Counterpart to the Death Row list.
blog, broadband, mp3 player, voicemail, attachment, database, export, chatroom, bullet point, cut and paste, analogue, celebrity and 40 more...
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