To be gifted meaning in English

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Definition

to be gifted (in/at doing something): to be good, talented, skilled, proficient (at doing something) idiom

Icarus is very gifted with numbers. Give him any two numbers and he can multiply them in seconds.

Bruno is gifted at negotiating, the police once stopped him for speeding and Bruno left with a cup of coffee and without a ticket.

Examples

"Because the problem has persisted, I asked a friend of mine, who is very gifted with computers, if there was anything he could do."
"Icarus is a seriously awkward human being with some bizarre compulsive disorders, but he is quite gifted with numbers."

Exercise 1

Choose the TRUE statements from the list below.

There may be more than one correct answer! Choose all that apply.

Polly has invited her friend to come and look at Delavigne's network.

Polly's friend will be replacing the computers at Delavigne with new ones.

Polly does not know the telephone number for Tech Support.

Polly writes that men sometimes behave like dogs.

Choose the TRUE statements from the list below.

There may be more than one correct answer! Choose all that apply.

Polly has invited her friend to come and look at Delavigne's network.

This statement is not true. Polly asks Bob's permission before accepting her friend's offer to come and inspect the network. Polly has not yet accepted her friend's offer.

Polly's friend will be replacing the computers at Delavigne with new ones.

This statement is not true. Polly writes that her friend is "gifted with computers", but this does not indicate that he will be replacing the computers with new ones. "To be gifted" is an expression which means that someone is "talented", and has nothing to do with material gifts.

Polly does not know the telephone number for Tech Support.

This statement is true. Polly writes: "I would appreciate if you gave me the telephone number of our Tech Support contractors". This indicates that she does not know the number.

Polly writes that men sometimes behave like dogs.

This statement is true. Polly writes: "I know how territorial men can be, like dogs". She is expressing that men can act in the same way as dogs.

Exercise 2

Listen to the audio, then fill in the blanks with the missing terms.

Bruno: Icarus is a seriously human being with some bizarre compulsive , but he is quite with numbers. Icarus will be giving us a financial analysis of this past year momentarily.

Listen to the audio, then fill in the blanks with the missing terms.

Bruno: Icarus is a seriously awkward human being with some bizarre compulsive disorders , but he is quite gifted with numbers. Icarus will be giving us a financial analysis of this past year momentarily.

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