present
目前,现在,当前
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Definitions
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- : being, existing, or occurring at this time or now; current: increasing respect for the present ruler of the small country.
- : at this time; at hand; immediate: articles for present use.
- : Grammar. noting an action or state occurring at the moment of speaking or writing: Knows is a present form in He knows that.noting or pertaining to a tense or other verb formation with such meaning.
- : being with one or others or in the specified or understood place: to be present at the wedding.
- : being here: Is everyone present?
- : existing or occurring in a place, thing, combination, or the like: Carbon is present in many minerals.
- : being actually here or under consideration: the present document; the present topic.
- : being in the mind; recollected: The memories were still present to her mind.
- : focused on or involved in what one is doing at a particular moment; attentive: When you’re talking to someone, be present instead of thinking about something else.
- : Obsolete. mentally alert and calm, especially in emergencies.
- : Obsolete. immediate or instant: present payment.
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- : the present time: She has one foot in the present and one foot in the future.
- : Grammar. the present tense.a verb formation or construction with present meaning.a form in the present.
- : presents, Law. the present writings, or this document, used in a deed of conveyance, a lease, etc., to denote the document itself: Know all men by these presents that . . . .
- : Obsolete. the matter in hand.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
We’re pleased to be present in so many relationships this year, even more so than before.
Republicans, by many accounts, aren’t even considering the arguments being presented in the trial.
We should request that staff conduct a feasibility study and to present the results of that study to this committee by the end of the year.
In five years of Insights puzzles, we’ve tried to present questions that lived up to the column’s name.
He was a tough guy, but also admired and respected by his players and most in the media, present company included.
In his view, a writer has only one duty: to be present in his books.
Angelina Jolie was able to seemingly glide into the Vatican on Thursday to present her new film ‘Unbroken.’
Disordered eating is also linked to higher rates of depression and anxiety, both in the present and in the future.
In the middle of all of that past suffering and present-day conflict, this Cosby bomb was dropped.
The account goes some way in showing just how present the Quds and other forces are in Iraq at this point in time.
But Mrs. Dodd, the present vicar's wife, retained the precious prerogative of choosing the book to be read at the monthly Dorcas.
The Rev. Alonzo Barnard, seventy-one years of age, accompanied by his daughter, was present.
Several pioneers familiar with the facts of the tragedy at the time of its occurrence were also present.
Bacteria, when present in great numbers, give a uniform cloud which cannot be removed by ordinary filtration.
At present, Louis was too self-absorbed by the struggles within him, to look deep into what was passing around him.