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Bring about   /brɪŋ əbˈaʊt/   Listen
verb
Bring  v. t.  (past & past part. brought; pres. part. bringing)  
1.
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. "And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread." "To France shall we convey you safe, And bring you back."
2.
To cause the accession or obtaining of; to procure; to make to come; to produce; to draw to. "There is nothing will bring you more honor... than to do what right in justice you may."
3.
To convey; to move; to carry or conduct. "In distillation, the water... brings over with it some part of the oil of vitriol."
4.
To persuade; to induce; to draw; to lead; to guide. "It seems so preposterous a thing... that they do not easily bring themselves to it." "The nature of the things... would not suffer him to think otherwise, how, or whensoever, he is brought to reflect on them."
5.
To produce in exchange; to sell for; to fetch; as, what does coal bring per ton?
To bring about, to bring to pass; to effect; to accomplish.
To bring back.
(a)
To recall.
(b)
To restore, as something borrowed, to its owner.
To bring by the lee (Naut.), to incline so rapidly to leeward of the course, when a ship sails large, as to bring the lee side suddenly to the windward, any by laying the sails aback, expose her to danger of upsetting.
To bring down.
(a)
To cause to come down.
(b)
To humble or abase; as, to bring down high looks.
To bring down the house, to cause tremendous applause. (Colloq.)
To bring forth.
(a)
To produce, as young fruit.
(b)
To bring to light; to make manifest.
To bring forward
(a)
To exhibit; to introduce; to produce to view.
(b)
To hasten; to promote; to forward.
(c)
To propose; to adduce; as, to bring forward arguments.
To bring home.
(a)
To bring to one's house.
(b)
To prove conclusively; as, to bring home a charge of treason.
(c)
To cause one to feel or appreciate by personal experience.
(d)
(Naut.) To lift of its place, as an anchor.
To bring in.
(a)
To fetch from without; to import.
(b)
To introduce, as a bill in a deliberative assembly.
(c)
To return or repot to, or lay before, a court or other body; to render; as, to bring in a verdict or a report.
(d)
To take to an appointed place of deposit or collection; as, to bring in provisions or money for a specified object.
(e)
To produce, as income.
(f)
To induce to join.
To bring off, to bear or convey away; to clear from condemnation; to cause to escape.
To bring on.
(a)
To cause to begin.
(b)
To originate or cause to exist; as, to bring on a disease.
To bring one on one's way, to accompany, guide, or attend one.
To bring out, to expose; to detect; to bring to light from concealment.
To bring over.
(a)
To fetch or bear across.
(b)
To convert by persuasion or other means; to cause to change sides or an opinion.
To bring to.
(a)
To resuscitate; to bring back to consciousness or life, as a fainting person.
(b)
(Naut.) To check the course of, as of a ship, by dropping the anchor, or by counterbracing the sails so as to keep her nearly stationary (she is then said to lie to).
(c)
To cause (a vessel) to lie to, as by firing across her course.
(d)
To apply a rope to the capstan.
To bring to light, to disclose; to discover; to make clear; to reveal.
To bring a sail to (Naut.), to bend it to the yard.
To bring to pass, to accomplish to effect. "Trust also in Him; and He shall bring it to pass."
To bring under, to subdue; to restrain; to reduce to obedience.
To bring up.
(a)
To carry upward; to nurse; to rear; to educate.
(b)
To cause to stop suddenly.
(c)
Note: (v. i. by dropping the reflexive pronoun) To stop suddenly; to come to a standstill. (Colloq.)
To bring up (any one) with a round turn, to cause (any one) to stop abruptly. (Colloq.)
To be brought to bed. See under Bed.
Synonyms: To fetch; bear; carry; convey; transport; import; procure; produce; cause; adduce; induce.


adverb
About  adv.  
1.
On all sides; around. "'Tis time to look about."
2.
In circuit; circularly; by a circuitous way; around the outside; as, a mile about, and a third of a mile across.
3.
Here and there; around; in one place and another. "Wandering about from house to house."
4.
Nearly; approximately; with close correspondence, in quality, manner, degree, etc.; as, about as cold; about as high; also of quantity, number, time. "There fell... about three thousand men."
5.
To a reserved position; half round; in the opposite direction; on the opposite tack; as, to face about; to turn one's self about.
To bring about, to cause to take place; to accomplish.
To come about, to occur; to take place. See under Come.
To go about, To set about, to undertake; to arrange; to prepare. "Shall we set about some revels?"
Round about, in every direction around.





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"Bring about" Quotes from Famous Books



... be able to bring about that Utopian form of government which we all desire, but we can at least make an effort. Under our form of government the ballot is our right; it is just and proper. When you debate about the expediency of any matter you have ...
— Debate On Woman Suffrage In The Senate Of The United States, - 2d Session, 49th Congress, December 8, 1886, And January 25, 1887 • Henry W. Blair, J.E. Brown, J.N. Dolph, G.G. Vest, Geo. F. Hoar.
... overwhelming pity. He felt no resentment towards his friend Standish, who had bought out the perfectly respectable business which Mr. Starkweather might so easily have left to Henry. Mr. Starkweather had schemed to bring about a certain reaction, and he had overplayed his hand. Instead of firing Henry with a new ardour for success, he had convinced him of the futility of endeavour. He had set a standard so high, and chosen a medium so low, that he ...
— Rope • Holworthy Hall
... this embassy the night before I came out of town, and I had not time nor opportunity to make any inquiry about it. Indeed, I am persuaded it is all a fable, some political nonsense of Richcourt. How should his brother know any thing of it? or, to speak plainly, what can we bring about by a sudden negotiation with the Genoese? Do but put these two things together, that we can do nothing, and the Richcourts can know nothing, and you will laugh at this pretended communication of a secret that relates to yourself' from one who is ignorant ...
— The Letters of Horace Walpole, Volume 2 • Horace Walpole
... George Bertram that he would go down to Hadley and claim his wife if he did not receive a favourable message from his wife's grandfather; and he now determined to take some such step. He felt himself driven to do something; to bring about some arrangement; to make some use of the few remaining grains of sand which were still to run through the glass that was measuring out the lees of life for that ...
— The Bertrams • Anthony Trollope
... to extend to any other center whatsoever. In the relatively unripe brain of the child, the association fibers have not yet set up most of their connections. The age at which memory begins is determined chiefly by the development of a sufficient number of association fibers to bring about recall. The more complex reasoning, which requires many different associative connections, is impossible prior to the existence of adequate neural development. It is this fact that makes it futile to attempt to teach young children the more complicated processes of arithmetic, grammar, ...
— The Mind and Its Education • George Herbert Betts


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