present
IPA: prˈɛzʌnt
noun
- The current moment or period of time.
- (grammar) The present tense.
- A gift, especially one given for birthdays, Christmas, anniversaries, graduations, weddings, or any other special occasions.
- (military) The position of a soldier in presenting arms.
verb
- To bring (someone) into the presence of (a person); to introduce formally.
- (transitive) To nominate (a member of the clergy) for an ecclesiastical benefice; to offer to the bishop or ordinary as a candidate for institution.
- (transitive) To offer (a problem, complaint) to a court or other authority for consideration.
- (transitive, now rare) To charge (a person) with a crime or accusation; to bring before court.
- (reflexive) To come forward, appear in a particular place or before a particular person, especially formally.
- (transitive) To put (something) forward in order for it to be seen; to show, exhibit.
- (transitive) To make clear to one's mind or intelligence; to put forward for consideration.
- (transitive) To put on, stage (a play etc.).
- (transitive, military) To point (a firearm) at something, to hold (a weapon) in a position ready to fire.
- (reflexive) To offer oneself for mental consideration; to occur to the mind.
- (intransitive, medicine) To come to the attention of medical staff, especially with a specific symptom.
- (intransitive, medicine) To appear (in a specific way) for delivery (of a fetus); to appear first at the mouth of the uterus during childbirth.
- (intransitive, with "as") To appear or represent oneself (as having a certain gender).
- (transitive) To act as presenter on (a radio, television programme etc.).
- (transitive) To give a gift or presentation to (someone).
- (transitive) To give (a gift or presentation) to someone; to bestow.
- (transitive) To deliver (something abstract) as though as a gift; to offer.
- (transitive) To hand over (a bill etc.) to be paid.
- (intransitive, zoology) To display one's female genitalia in a way that signals to others that one is ready for copulation. Also referred to as lordosis behaviour.
- (fandom slang) In omegaverse fiction, to have one's secondary sex (alpha, omega, or beta) become apparent, typically at puberty.
adjective
- Relating to now, for the time being; current.
- Located in the immediate vicinity.
- (obsolete) Having an immediate effect (of a medicine, poison etc.); fast-acting.
- (obsolete) Not delayed; immediate; instant.
- (dated) Ready; quick in emergency.
- (obsolete) Favorably attentive; propitious.
- Relating to something a person is referring to in the very context, with a deictic use similar to the demonstrative adjective this.
- Attentive; alert; focused.
- (politics) Neither for or against (used in voting to express abstention)
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Examples of "present" in Sentences
- The problem is the presentation.
- At present, the notes are scrappy.
- It is also present in the cerebellum.
- At present, the station is unattended.
- Is the presentation of the reference correct
- The past is the present, and the present is the future.
- The foundations exist to the north of the present shops.
- From the present stem are formed the _present_, _imperfect_, and
- None of the current devices presents the cosmetic appearance of a living eye.
- The object of the present invention is a direct current operated electromagnet.
- The first award was presented in 2000 and it wasn't presented to this huckster.
- + -- _He promised me a present = A present was promised me_ (regular) = _I was promised a present_ (idiomatic).
- The pronoun _I_ should always be capitalized, and should, when used as part of a compound subject, be placed second; as, _James and I were present, not I and James were present_.
- "Well," she said, "that's all -- at present"; it had suddenly occurred to her that apprehension was a good thing; "_at present_," she repeated darkly; "and Blair, remember; thieves go to hell."
- The principal parts of the Latin verb are the _first person singular of the present indicative_, the _present infinitive_, the _first person singular of the perfect indicative_, and _the perfect passive participle.
- [Footnote: If the present ends in _e_, the _e_ is dropped when _ed_ is added; as, lov_e_, lov_ed_; believ_e_, believ_ed_.] +An _Irregular Verb_ is one that does not form its past tense and past participle by adding _ed_ to the present+.
- All that you mean to say, therefore, is that the present state of the system is defined by equations into which differential coefficients enter, such as _ds_ | _dt_, _dv_ | _dt_, that is to say, at bottom, _present_ velocities and _present_ accelerations.
- He rightly thinks that the weakness of our _present_ units is _the_ real weakness: he thinks we are far more in need of drafts than of fresh units; he suggests that a rider be sent now to insist that the estimates in yesterday's cable were only made on the assumption that my present force is kept up to strength.