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# confer

«confer» in Mova's school dictionary: **To talk together and share ideas before deciding…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (confer, confers, conferred, conferring)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (formal) To talk together and share ideas before deciding something: the judges conferred. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/confer/#m1)

2) (formal) To give someone an honour, title, right or prize: the university conferred a degree on her. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/confer/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

A formal word in meetings, sport and ceremonies; in quizzes teams "confer" before answering. In everyday talk people say "talk it over" or "discuss". Phrases: confer with, confer on, no conferring (in quizzes).

### examples

- The referees conferred before giving the penalty. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/confer/#x1)
- The team conferred and chose their answer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/confer/#x2)
- (formal) The headteacher conferred with the parents. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/confer/#x3)
- The Queen conferred a knighthood on the scientist. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/confer/#x4)
- In the quiz, no conferring is allowed in round one! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/confer/#x5)
- (formal) The award confers the right to free entry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/confer/#x6)
- He reigned for a long time, conferring several benefits upon his brother. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/confer/#x7)

### note

Double r in the past: conferred, conferring. Noun: conference (a big meeting). Stress on the second syllable: con-FER. Formal; usually "discuss" or "give" is simpler.

### In the corpora

- [And he conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the priest; and they following Adonijah helped him.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «confer» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/confer/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.