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/prˈɛzənt tɛns/ Listen

adjective

Present adj.

Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; opposed to absent. "These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you."

Now existing, or in process; begun but not ended; now in view, or under consideration; being at this time; not past or future; as, the present session of Congress; the present state of affairs; the present instance. "I'll bring thee to the present business"

Not delayed; immediate; instant; coincident. "A present recompense." "A present pardon." "An ambassador... desires a present audience."

Ready; quick in emergency; as a present wit. (R.)

Favorably attentive; propitious. (Archaic) "To find a god so present to my prayer."

Present tense (Gram.), the tense or form of a verb which expresses action or being in the present time; as, I am writing, I write, or I do write.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Present tense" Quotes from Famous Books

... of the verb "to beat" the present tense is given in full. In the past and future tenses, one example in the first person singular is thought sufficient, because any required person and number in each tense can be obtained by following the ...

— The Wiradyuri and Other Languages of New South Wales • Robert Hamilton Mathews

... in the present tense, lends in the conditional mood, keeps you in the subjective, and ruins ...

— More Toasts • Marion Dix Mosher

... also for the present verbs of the first conjugation and proceed to the second. Belle, I will now select for you to conjugate the prettiest verb in Armenian; not only of the second, but also of all the four conjugations; that verb is siriel. Here is the present tense:—siriem, siries, sire, siriemk, sirek, sirien. You observe that it runs on just in the same manner as hntal, save and except that the e is substituted for a; and it will be as well to tell you that ...

— The Romany Rye • George Borrow

... muse is hard beset, For something followed such as never yet Was writ or sung, by human voice or hand, Save those that tell old tales from Fairyland. "Miracles do not happen:"—'t is plain sense, If you italicize the present tense; But in those days, as rare old Chaucer tells, All Britain was fulfilled of miracles. So, as I said, the great doors opened wide. In rushed a blast of winter from outside, And with it, galloping on the empty air, A great green giant on a great green mare Plunged like a tempest-cleaving thunderbolt, ...

— Gawayne And The Green Knight - A Fairy Tale • Charlton Miner Lewis