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Present

adjective

1.

Temporal sense; intermediate between past and future; now existing or happening or in consideration. "Articles for present use" , "The present topic" , "The present system" , "Present observations" Antonyms: future, past.

2.

Being or existing in a specified place. "Present at the wedding" , "Present at the creation" Antonym: absent.

noun

1.

The period of time that is happening now; any continuous stretch of time including the moment of speech. Synonym: nowadays. "He lives in the present with no thought of tomorrow"

2.

Something presented as a gift.

3.

A verb tense that expresses actions or states at the time of speaking. Synonym: present tense.

verb

(past & past part. presented; pres. part. presenting)

1.

Give an exhibition of to an interested audience. Synonyms: demo, demonstrate, exhibit, show. "We will demo the new software in Washington"

2.

Bring forward and present to the mind. Synonyms: lay out, represent. "We cannot represent this knowledge to our formal reason"

3.

Perform (a play), especially on a stage. Synonyms: represent, stage.

4.

Hand over formally. Synonym: submit.

5.

Introduce. Synonym: pose.

6.

Give, especially as an honor or reward. Synonym: award.

7.

Give as a present; make a gift of. Synonyms: gift, give.

8.

Deliver (a speech, oration, or idea). Synonym: deliver.

9.

Cause to come to know personally. Synonyms: acquaint, introduce. "Introduce the new neighbors to the community"

10.

Represent abstractly, for example in a painting, drawing, or sculpture. Synonym: portray.

11.

Present somebody with something, usually to accuse or criticize. Synonyms: confront, face. "He was faced with all the evidence and could no longer deny his actions" , "An enormous dilemma faces us"

12.

Formally present a debutante, a representative of a country, etc..

13.

Recognize with a gesture prescribed by a military regulation; assume a prescribed position. Synonym: salute.

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"Present" Quotes from Famous Books

... capita GDP below $200. Agriculture and fishing are the main economic activities. Cashew nuts, peanuts, and palm kernels are the primary exports. Exploitation of known mineral deposits is unlikely at present because of a weak infrastructure and the high cost of development. The government's four-year plan (1988-91) has targeted agricultural development as the top priority. GDP: exchange rate conversion - $162 million, per ...

— The 1992 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... was smoking a cigarette on the lawn with a sporting peer. A man to whom tobacco is a necessity cannot be always on guard; but it is quite possible that in the present state of Lady Lesbia's feelings Smithson would have had no restraining influence had he been ever so watchful. To what act in the passion drama had her love come to-night as she floated round the room, with her head inclined towards her lover's ...

— Phantom Fortune, A Novel • M. E. Braddon

... island signifies safety in calm, and yet danger in storm; in a tempest the sailor rejoices that he is not near it; even if previously bound for it, he puts about and steers for the open sea. Often if he seeks it he cannot reach it. The present writer spent a winter on the island of Fayal, and saw in a storm a full-rigged ship drift through the harbor disabled, having lost her anchors; and it was a week before she again ...

— Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic • Thomas Wentworth Higginson

... a party of men were sent to cut better approaches to the ford across the Barwan at Mr. Parnell's station. Ascertained the longitude of the junction of the rivers Macquarie and Darling at our present camp to be 147 deg. 33' 45" E., by actual measurements connected with my former surveys of the colony. Mr. Kennedy had chained the whole of the route from Bellaringa, and I had connected his work with latitudes observed at almost every encampment, and after determining ...

— Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia • Thomas Mitchell

... flood to the height of about twelve feet, when the river would still be confined within its secondary banks, and not overflow the rich lands that border it. Its proper width in times of flood would be from six to eight hundred feet, its present and usual width is about two hundred feet. The blue gum trees in the neighbourhood were extremely fine, whilst that species of eucalyptus, which is vulgarly called the apple tree, and which we had not seen since we quitted the eastern coast, again made its appearance on ...

— Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales • John Oxley

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