Word Finder - presented

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To bring (someone) into the presence of (a person); to introduce formally.

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to present an envoy to the king

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To nominate (a member of the clergy) for an ecclesiastical benefice; to offer to the bishop or ordinary as a candidate for institution.

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To offer (a problem, complaint) to a court or other authority for consideration.

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To charge (a person) with a crime or accusation; to bring before court.

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To come forward, appear in a particular place or before a particular person, especially formally.

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To put (something) forward in order for it to be seen; to show, exhibit.

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To make clear to one's mind or intelligence; to put forward for consideration.

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To put on, stage (a play etc.).

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The theater is proud to present the Fearless Fliers.

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To point (a firearm) at something, to hold (a weapon) in a position ready to fire.

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To offer oneself for mental consideration; to occur to the mind.

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Well, one idea does present itself.

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To come to the attention of medical staff, especially with a specific symptom.

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The patient presented with insomnia.

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To appear (in a specific way) for delivery (of a fetus); to appear first at the mouth of the uterus during childbirth.

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(with "as") To appear or represent oneself (as having a certain gender).

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To act as presenter on (a radio, television programme etc.).

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To give a gift or presentation to (someone).

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She was presented with an honorary degree for her services to entertainment.

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To give (a gift or presentation) to someone; to bestow.

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To deliver (something abstract) as though as a gift; to offer.

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I presented my compliments to Lady Featherstoneshaw.

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To hand over (a bill etc.) to be paid.

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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.

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(of a group) Having a specified presentation, or a presentation with specified properties.

If they presented a united front, Tessa might back up.

Princess presented them with a healthy foal, without complications or assistance.

Circumstances had merely presented the perfect opportunity.

We had little choice but to wait and see if the weekend presented any answers.

Fortunately the day presented little of our precise criteria.

Once beyond access to the river below, the seldom-used path presented an unbroken cover of fresh white, now blanketed in more than a foot of fresh powder, as it followed the large pipe toward the reservoir.

Fred O'Connor was off to the post office, but before leaving, he ceremoniously presented Martha with thirty dollars and a smothering hug.

If she possessed a smile, she never presented it for public display.

He never questioned if Julie knowledge presented any kind of threat.

He was then deluged with petitions urging him to call it together, and this agitation was opposed by Sir George Jeffreys and Francis Wythens, who presented addresses expressing "abhorrence" of the "Petitioners," and thus initiated the movement of the abhorrers, who supported the action of the king.

It is a mirror which no stone can crack, whose quicksilver will never wear off, whose gilding Nature continually repairs; no storms, no dust, can dim its surface ever fresh;--a mirror in which all impurity presented to it sinks, swept and dusted by the sun's hazy brush--this the light dust-cloth--which retains no breath that is breathed on it, but sends its own to float as clouds high above its surface, and be reflected in its bosom still.

She had always claimed that he would listen if she presented an opposing opinion.

In 1757 he presented a telescope to the king, so accurately driven by clockwork that it would follow a star all night long.

Betsy's loving boss presented the most difficulty but she used the excuse her new husband was transferred to New Hampshire.

The scene was so familiar; abduction, outlined by Betsy, facts presented, Quinn and Howie removing to their basement sanctuary while we waited and Martha recorded.

Ooh's and aah's rang around the small patio as various goodies were presented for general perusal.

As she suspected he would, Alex presented her with a fluffy white kitten with bright green eyes less than two weeks after Sam gave her the puppy.

Addresses were presented to him at Southampton, Birmingham and other towns; he was officially entertained by the lord mayor of London; at each place he pleaded the cause of his unhappy country.

The first recorded headmaster after the foundation of the college, John Melton, had been presented by Wykeham to the mastership of this hospital in 1393 shortly before his retirement.

When he reached Benares and presented his demands, the raja rose in insurrection, and the governor-general barely escaped with his life.

With nine other peers he presented a petition to the king in November, praying for the meeting of parliament, of which Charles took no notice.

Virginius presented himself with his daughter before the tribunal of Appius, who, refusing to listen to any argument, declared Virginia to be a slave and the property of Marcus.

Godollo is the summer residence of the Hungarian royal family, and the royal castle, built in the second half of the 18th century by Prince Anton Grassalkovich, was, with the beautiful domain, presented by the Hungarian nation to King Francis Joseph I.

The wild and inaccessible character of the country, the fierce and lawless disposition of the people, the difficulties presented by their language and their complex social institutions, and the inability of the Turkish authorities to afford a safe conduct in the remoter districts, combine to render Albania almost unknown to the foreign traveller, and many of its geographical problems still remain unsolved.

The small hens presented a great diversity of plumage.

But as time progressed, his obvious reluctance to propose marriage presented a far more difficult problem.

There he presented himself to the grand master of the Maltese order as Count Cagliostro, and curried favour with him as a fellow alchemist, for the grand master's tastes lay in the same direction.

But when my teacher presented me with a canary, my cup of happiness overflowed.

Other ancient writers, however, speak of his visit to the underworld; according to Plato, the infernal gods only " presented an apparition" of Eurydice to him.

Long ago the view that this gas might be the source of the combined nitrogen found in different forms within the plant, was critically examined, particularly by Boussingault, and later by Lawes and Gilbert and by Pugh, and it was ascertained to be erroneous, the plants only taking nitrogen into their substance when it is presented to their roots in the form of nitrates of various metals, or compounds of ammonia.

This great work was begun in July 1708, and the completed maps were presented to the emperor in 1718.

In order not to confound the innocent with the guilty, Torquemada published a declaration offering grace and pardon to all who presented themselves before the tribunal and avowed their fault.

He now stood forth as her champion; Mary took refuge with him at Dunbar, presented him, among other estates, with the castle there and the chief lands of the earldom of March, and made him the most powerful noble in the south of Scotland.

The Public Library building is Romanesque and elaborately ornamented; the building was presented to the city by James P. Baxter; in the library is the statue, by Benjamin Paul Akers (1825-1861), of the dead pearl-diver, well known from Hawthorne's description in The Marble Faun.

He presented a famous report in the Constituent Assembly on the organization of the army, but is better known by his eloquent speech on the 28th of February 1791, at the Jacobin Club, against Mirabeau, whose relations with the court were beginning to be suspected, and who was a personal enemy of Lameth.

Several preliminary incursions had been already made, when in 1521 an opportunity presented itself for a more extended expedition.

In the same year the duke of Northumberland presented the Cambridge observatory with a fine object-glass of 12 in.

His first attempt, made in the same year, at the Dolcoath mine in Cornwall, failed in consequence of an accident to one of the pendulums; a second attempt in 1828 was defeated by a flooding of the mine, and many years elapsed before another opportunity presented itself.

His younger daughter married a subaltern in a line regiment, belonging to the lesser nobility; as ennobled by marriage (according to the liberal rule of this particular court), she was duly "presented."

In 1741 he received his first public distinction in being admitted a member of the Academy of Sciences, to which he had previously presented several papers, including a Memoire sur le calcul integral (1739).

The best account of the life and writings of Alembert is contained in Condorcet's Eloge, presented to the Academy and published in 1784.

So intensely aristocratic (hence his nickname 6 AoXoiSopos, "he who rails at the people") was his temperament that he declined to exercise the regal-hieratic office of 1 3avLAeus which was hereditary in his family, and presented it to his brother.

Rumours of this gigantic scheme reached Constantinople, and as Catherine's menacing attitude left little doubt as to her aggressive intentions the Porte presented an ultimatum and finally declared war (1787).

Miller, delivered to the South Carolina railroad in 1834, presented a feature which has remained characteristic of American locomotives - the front part was supported on a four-wheeled swivelling bogie-truck, a device, however, which had been applied to Puffing Billy in England when it was rebuilt in 1815.

The reports are subsequently included in a Blue-book and presented to parliament.

In 1887 a committee reported that the coupler question was the " knottiest mechanical problem that had ever been presented to the railroad," and over 4000 attempted solutions were on record in the United States Patent Office.

Xavier complied, merely waiting long enough to obtain the pope's benediction, and set out for Lisbon, where he was presented to the king, and soon won his entire confidence, attested notably by procuring for him from the pope four briefs, one of them appointing him papal nuncio in the Indies.

While these aspects of Israel's relation to Yahweh are emphasized by the Ephraimite prophet, the larger conceptions of Yahweh's character as universal Lord and the God of righteousness, whose government of the world is ethical, emphasized by the prophet of Tekoah, are scarcely presented.

At the festival Chthonia, a cow (representing, according to Mannhardt, the spirit of vegetation), which voluntarily presented itself, was sacrificed by three old women.

Her character and these incidents of her life presented an attractive subject to the Greek tragic poets, especially Sophocles in the Antigone and Oedipus at Colonus, and Euripides, whose Antigone, though now lost, is partly known from extracts incidentally preserved in later writers, and from passages in his Phoenissae.