s, to have the floor (in debate); to have the deal (in card-playing); to have authority.
- To hold in exercise or consideration; entertain; maintain: as, to have a wish, opinion, or objection; to have a discussion.
- To possess knowledge of; be acquainted with; take the meaning of; understand.
- To experience; enjoy or suffer; be affected with: as, to have hospitable entertainment; to have a headache; to have one's wish.
- To hold in estimation; maintain; regard: followed by in or a clause.
- To hold in one's power or at a disadvantage.
- To move or remove; cause or compel to move: often reflexive, with the subject or object, or both, unexpressed: as, have it out of sight.
- To hold or acknowledge as a duty or necessary thing to do; be under physical or moral compulsion, constraint, necessity, or obligation to do; be obliged: followed by an infinitive with to, with or without a noun or pronoun as object: as, I have a great deal to do; I have to go; he has to refund the money.
- To bring into possession or use; procure; provide; take.
- To procure or permit to be or to be done; cause, let, allow, etc.: as, to have one's horse shod; I will not have such conduct.
- To be: used indefinitely in certain idiomatic expressions and phrases, mentioned below.
- An auxiliary forming, with the past participle of the principal verb, the compound tenses of verbs (including have), both transitive and intransitive, sometimes with another auxiliary: as, I have or had done it; he will have departed by that time; you should not have gone.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- v. have a personal or business relationship with someone
- v. receive willingly something given or offered
- v. serve oneself to, or consume regularly
- v. have ownership or possession of
- v. have left
- v. undergo (as of injuries and illnesses)
- v. cause to move; cause to be in a certain position or condition
- v. have or possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense
- v. undergo
- v. suffer from; be ill with
- v. have sex with; archaic use
- v. have as a feature
- v. get something; come into possession of
- n. a person who possesses great material wealth
- v. go through (mental or physical states or experiences)
- v. be confronted with
- v. achieve a point or goal
- v. cause to be born
- v. cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner
- v. organize or be responsible for
I know I have a personal interest in this being an editor but I *have* to take issue with the title here.
Homer: Uh, Lisa, the whole reason we have elected officials is so we don't _have_ to think all the time.
We have already discarded (I hope) It's (fill in a name) 's fault and Why the hell don't we have________!?
You just have to wonder about the Anne Arundel KIPP school... after all, why would a charter *have* to close because it couldn't get more space?
Truly you have to read the books as it is impossible to write in a few words what it took me to write in three books about the coming 2012 cataclysm. 2012 is complex; only one-third of the worlds population will survive and it is the end of the world, the original creation in this universe…..have to read the books to understand.
I have to add that I don't *have* to completely get a story, as long as I get most of it by the end, and as long as it's well-written.
I have a bad case of Dawn Phenomenon and *have* to eat breakfast or my blood glucose keeps rising.
But as someone who loved reading both _How the Irish Saved Civilization_ and _Fahrenheit 451,_ I have to say, you _have_ to go on teaching this stuff --- tell them it's up to them to preserve it! life_of_a_fool commented at 11:55 PM~
If you have an issue with a view thats expressed and *have* to comment then thats different because presumably you will at least do the author the opportunity of entering into a debate.
I'm also sort of grumpy that I'm going to have to see Knocked Up, because it's gotten to the point where it's enough of a Cultural Moment that I feel like I *have* to have some kind of opinion on it, and preferably not one based o