have

To possess, own.

• I have a house and a car.

To hold, as something at someone's disposal.

• Look what I have here—a frog I found on the street!
• Do you have the key?

To include as a part, ingredient, or feature.

• The stove has a handle. The shirt has sleeves.
• The words cow and dog have three letters.
• A government has three branches: the executive, legislative, and judicial.

Used to state the existence or presence of someone in a specified relationship with the subject.

• I have two sisters.
• She doesn’t have any friends.
• I have a really mean boss.

To consume or use up (a particular substance or resource, especially food or drink).

• I have breakfast at six o'clock.
• You've already had five drinks!
• She's had more than enough time already.

To undertake or perform (an action or activity).

• Can I have a look at that?
• He's having a tantrum about it.
• I’m going to have a bath now.

To be scheduled to attend, undertake or participate in.

• What class do you have right now? I have English.
• Fred won’t be able to come to the party; he has a meeting that day.
• I have a lot of work to do.

To experience, go through, undergo.

• We had a hard year last year, with the locust swarms and all that.
• He had surgery on his hip yesterday.
• I’m having the time of my life!

To be afflicted with, suffer from.

• He had a cold last week.

Used in forming the perfect aspect.

• I have already eaten today.
• Mom's gone real mad, she has.
• The universe is expanding and has been since its beginning.

Used as an interrogative verb before a pronoun to form a tag question, echoing a previous use of 'have' as an auxiliary verb or, in certain cases, main verb. (For further discussion, see the appendix English tag questions.)

• They haven’t eaten dinner yet, have they?
• Your wife hasn’t been reading that nonsense, has she?
• He has some money, hasn’t he?

See have to.

• I have to go.

To give birth to.

• The couple always wanted to have children.
• My wife is having the baby right now!
• My mother had me when she was 25.

To obtain.

• The substance you describe can't be had at any price.

To engage in sexual intercourse with.

• He’s always bragging about how many women he’s had.

To accept as a romantic partner.

• Despite my protestations of love, she would not have me.

To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.

• They had me feed their dog while they were out of town.
• Her very boyfriend is the person the criminal has do most of her dirty deeds.
• The floor has had oil dropped all over it.

To cause to be.

• He had him arrested for trespassing.
• I'd better have my watch repaired today: tomorrow I have to have my hair cut before having pictures taken for my passport.
• The lecture’s ending had the entire audience in tears.

A wealthy or privileged person.

One who has some (contextually specified) thing.

A fraud or deception; something misleading.

• They advertise it as a great deal, but I think it's a bit of a have.

A hawthorn.