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The current moment or period of time.
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The present tense.
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A gift, especially one given for birthdays, Christmas, anniversaries, graduations, weddings, or any other special occasions.
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The position of a soldier in presenting arms.
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to stand at present
verb
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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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The document in which the word presents appears.
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Know all men by these presents...
Examples of presents in a Sentence
There were several presents for herself.
I had many lovely presents given to me.
They had a pretty Christmas-tree, and there were many pretty presents on it for little children.
Below Bakel the river passes through flatter country and presents a series of great reaches.
They extend to more than a score of natural groups of birds, and nearly each of them presents some peculiar characters.
The party set out about the 16th of February 1249, with letters from King Louis and the papal legate, and rich presents, including a chapel-tent, lined with scarlet cloth and embroidered with sacred pictures.
Romanus was taken prisoner and conducted into the presence of Alp Arslan, who treated him with generosity, and terms of peace having been agreed to, dismissed him, loaded with presents and respectfully attended by a military guard.
From every dispute which he had with the central authorities at Paris he emerged victorious; and he took care to assure his ascendancy by sending presents to the Directors, large sums to the nearly bankrupt treasury and works of art to the museums of Paris.
The surrounding country presents many scenes of beauty.
As it is, so much of them as we have are of considerable importance; for, in this unfortunately unfinished memoir, he describes in some detail the several differences which the sternum in a great many different groups of his Tropidosternii presents, and to some extent makes a methodical disposition of them accordingly.
The male, however, is a veritable pigmy beside the female, and during copulation presents the appearance of a parasite attached to her abdomen.
Cortes in 1519 is said to have received cotton garments as presents from the natives of Yucatan, and to have found the Mexicans using cotton extensively for clothing.
But a verbal lease presents this disadvantage that, if it is unperformed and one of the parties denies its existence, it cannot be proved by witnesses.
His history of the Atabegs was written about 1200, and it presents in a light favourable to Zengi and Nureddin, but unfavourable to Saladin (who thrust Nureddin's descendants aside), the history of the great Mahommedan power which finally crushed the kingdom of J erusalem.'
Robert de Clary, a knight from Picardy, who presents the nonofficial view of the Crusade, as it appeared to an ordinary soldier.
The range from the same point of view presents a singularly uniform outline, having the appearance of an unbroken wall; in reality, however, it is traversed by a number of deep ravines (wadis), of which the most important are the Yabis, the Ajlun, the Rajib, the Zerka (Jabbok), the Hesban, and the Zerka Ma`in.
The remarkable life-history of one species, Linguatula taenioides, has been worked out in detail and presents a close analogy to that of some Cestodes.
Even after the lapse of so great a time the city is still in its glory, and as seen from the river it presents a scene of great picturesqueness and grandeur.
The benzene nucleus presents a remarkable case, which must be considered in the formulation of any complete theory of valency.
Official receptions are held on it, and private visits paid; friends congratulate one another, and presents are given; new clothes are put on, and the graves of relatives are visited.
The information which it furnishes, in spite of a legend intended to lead us to believe that it presents us with the results of Portuguese explorations up to the year 1493, is of more ancient date.
Gastaldo (1548) presents us with a map of Italy, which, except as to nomenclature, differs but little from that of Ptolemy, although on the Portolano charts the peninsula had long since assumed its correct shape.
Coronelli (1623), and intended as presents to Louis XIV.
The plateau, known as the Ogaden plateau, everywhere presents the same monotonous aspect of a boundless steppe clothed with a scanty vegetation of scrubby plants and herbaceous growths.
The cape, which faces north and east, presents on its northern face a nearly vertical wall of rock rising from the sea to a height of 900 ft.
The serfs were bought, sold, and given in presents, sometimes with the land, sometimes without it, sometimes in families and sometimes individually, sale by public auction being alone forbidden, as " unbecoming in a European state."
The narrative presents a number of difficulties, which early commentators sought to solve with more ingenuity than success.
Our description of the Roman Catacombs cannot be more appropriately introduced than by St Jerome's account of his visits to them in his youth, already referred to, which, catacombs after the lapse of above fifteen centuries, presents a of Rome.
In this are included the expenses of the administration of both the central and provincial departments of the finance ministry, the mint, charitable allowances, expenses and presents in connexion with the holy cities (£T121,410), pension funds of state officials (£7628,038), administrative allowance made to the agricultural bank (ET225,380) and various other expenses.
No other items in the budget call for special remark, but in order that the information given may be complete, each head of expenditure is shown separately below, and the budget for 1910-1911, as first placed before the Turkish parliament, presents the following picture, from which it may be observed that the public debt absorbs 26% of the revenue, war service 38% and civil services 36%.
Timur did not cross into Europe, and contented himself with accepting some trifling presents from the Greek emperor.
The Turks succeeded in surrounding Peter the Great near the Pruth, and his army was menaced with total destruction, when the Turkish commander, the grand vizier Baltaji Mahommed Pasha, was induced by the presents and entreaties of the empress Catherine to sign the preliminary treaty of the Pruth (July 21, 1711), granting terms of peace far more favourable than were justified by the situation of the Russians.
Hertslet's Treaties Regulating the Trade, ez'c., between Great Britain and Turkey (London, 1875) presents a summary of all the principal treaties between Turkey and other states; see also Gabriel Effendi Noradounghian, Recueil d'actes internationaux de l'empire ottoman, 1300-1789, t.
What followed presents perhaps the finest instance of tlNapoleonic method.
From the north this range, which is only partly explored, presents a somewhat regular series of snowy crests.
The blood rains through the platform on to the priest below, who receives it on his face, and even on his tongue and palate, and after the baptism presents himself before his fellow-worshippers purified and regenerated, and receives their salutations and reverence.
The outer surface of many of the species presents likewise the most exquisite sculpture, heightened by brilliant shades, or spots of green, red, yellow and bluish black.
The histology of Brachiopods presents some peculiar and many primitive features.
The general theory of the resultant of k homogeneous equations in k variables presents no further difficulties when viewed in this manner.
The basin thus presents interesting problems. The existence of wide valleys where the small upper waters of the Cherwell, Evenlode and Coln now flow, the occurrence of waterborne deposits in their beds from the northwest of England and from Wales, and the fact that the Thames, like its lower southern tributaries which pierce the North Downs, has been able to maintain a deep valley through the chalk elevation at Goring, are considered to point to the former existence of a much larger river, in the system of which were included the upper waters of the present Severn, Dee and other rivers of the west.
The great Arthropod class, the Crustacea, presents to the zoologist at the present day an immense range of forms,.
The central plateau is a plain whose surface presents "rounded, flat-topped hills and low ridges and reefs of limestone," with narrow intervening valleys.
Rising from the sea-shore like an amphitheatre, Bastia presents an imposing appearance, which is enhanced by the loftiness of its houses; it has, however, little of architectural interest to offer.
The style of Joel is clear (which hardly favours an early date), and his language presents peculiarities which are evidences of a late origin.
From the violence of tyranny, and the rapine of a disorderly banditti, by which this district long suffered, as well as from shocks of earthquakes, the villages have a ruinous and dilapidated appearance; and, with the exception of a few fields in their neighbourhood, the country presents a rocky and sandy waste, with in many places scarcely a show of vegetation.
The Waverley Market for vegetables and fruit presents a busy scene in the early morning, and is used for monster meetings and promenade and popular concerts.
It presents a markedly medieval appearance.
The great age of Scholasticism presents, indeed, a substantial unanimity upon this vexed point, maintaining at once, in different senses, the existence of the universals ante rem, re and post rem.
Hungary, unlike Austria, presents a remarkable geographical unity.
This immense tract of low land, though in some, parts covered with barren wastes of sand, alternating with marshes, presents in general a very rich and productive soil.