bring
brɪŋ
A glass of water and a wave of stress arrive the same way
The picture Something that was over there travels to where you are standing. Bring moves something toward where I am; take moves it away from where I am.
Where the picture shows up in bring
-
an object comes to me
Can you bring me a glass of water?
kən juː brɪŋ miː ə ɡlæs əv ˈwɔːtər
Could I get a glass of water?
A glass of water crosses the room from the kitchen to your seat.
-
you carry it to my side
Bring your ID card tomorrow.
brɪŋ jʊr ˌaɪˈdiː kɑːrd təˈmɑːroʊ
Have your ID with you tomorrow.
The card in your pocket travels here with you tomorrow.
Moving away from here is take; moving toward the listener is bring.
-
weather arrives with it
The rain brought cooler air.
ðə reɪn brɔːt ˈkuːlər er
The rain cooled the air down.
A rain cloud moves through and drags cool air in behind it.
-
a feeling arrives with it
This job brings me a lot of stress.
ðɪs dʒɑːb brɪŋz miː ə lɑːt əv stres
This job is a lot of stress.
Every day the job walks in with a bundle of stress under its arm.
-
a topic comes up to the table
Can I bring up one more thing?
kən aɪ brɪŋ ʌp wʌn mɔːr θɪŋ
May I raise one more point?
A topic sitting at the bottom rises up onto the table.
A buried subject gets pulled up into the conversation.
All of it in one picture
Bring is an arrow pointing inward. Move a glass to me and it is fetching; move your card here with you and it is bringing it along; let a cloud drag cool air in and it is a change of weather; let a job drag a feeling in and it is stress; lift a topic onto the table and it is raising a point. Nothing here is a new meaning — it is the same inward trip, made by water, a card, weather, a feeling, and a subject.