{
  "id": "gift.present",
  "term": "gift",
  "sense": "present",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 18,
  "arena": "human",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a thing that is transferred to someone without an exchange of payment",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "give.transfer",
      "object.entity",
      "transferred.exchange",
      "someone.person",
      "exchange.trade",
      "payment.economic"
    ],
    "interaction": "give.transfer moves an object.entity via transferred.exchange, but lacks the reciprocal resource flow of pay.economic and avoids the quid-pro-quo of exchange.trade",
    "novel_properties": [
      "non-reciprocal transfer",
      "possessed item under new ownership",
      "absence of required payment"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "In 2023, the Mars Perseverance rover received a software update from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 2010 eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland disrupted air travel across Europe for six days.",
      "domain": "geology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Nobel Foundation awarded Malala Yousafzai the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize at age 17.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "products.goods",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "a gift is a kind of product"
    },
    {
      "id": "loss.economic",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "a gift is opposite of a loss"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "christmas.holiday"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "gift",
    "gifted",
    "gifting",
    "gifts"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "factual",
      "note": "Definition corrected for factual error: original did not require recipient (someone.person), and erroneously excluded exchange.trade and payment.economic which are essential contrasts. Added missing c"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-gift.present"
}