Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to present
Participle: presented
Gerund: presenting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | present |
| you | present |
| he;she;it | presents |
| we | present |
| you | present |
| they | present |
Perfect
| I | have presented |
| you | have presented |
| he;she;it | has presented |
| we | have presented |
| you | have presented |
| they | have presented |
Past
| I | presented |
| you | presented |
| he;she;it | presented |
| we | presented |
| you | presented |
| they | presented |
Pluperfect
| I | had presented |
| you | had presented |
| he;she;it | had presented |
| we | had presented |
| you | had presented |
| they | had presented |
Future
| I | will present |
| you | will present |
| he;she;it | will present |
| we | will present |
| you | will present |
| they | will present |
Future Perfect
| I | will have presented |
| you | will have presented |
| he;she;it | will have presented |
| we | will have presented |
| you | will have presented |
| they | will have presented |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | present |
| you | present |
| he;she;it | present |
| we | present |
| you | present |
| they | present |
Perfect
| I | have presented |
| you | have presented |
| he;she;it | have presented |
| we | have presented |
| you | have presented |
| they | have presented |
Imperfect
| I | presented |
| you | presented |
| he;she;it | presented |
| we | presented |
| you | presented |
| they | presented |
Pluperfect
| I | had presented |
| you | had presented |
| he;she;it | had presented |
| we | had presented |
| you | had presented |
| they | had presented |
Conditional
Present
| I | would present |
| you | would present |
| he;she;it | would present |
| we | would present |
| you | would present |
| they | would present |
Perfect
| I | would have presented |
| you | would have presented |
| he;she;it | would have presented |
| we | would have presented |
| you | would have presented |
| they | would have presented |
Imperative
| you | present |
| we | Let's present |
| you | present |
Verbs conjugated like 'present'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'present'
preset,
prevent,
resent,
copresent,
crescent,
peent,
prævent,
pre-set,
precept,
preen,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere
- accord, assign, award, bestow, confer, contribute, deliver, do, donate, give, give away, grant, hand, hand in, hand over, minister, pass, provide, turn in
- give
- bestow, confer, donate, endow, grant
- submit
- afford, furnish, offer, proffer, yield
- show
- display, exhibit, manifest, expose, introduce
- perform
- act, enact, imitate, impersonate, personate, represent
Antonyms
- give
- receive, accept, keep, retain
- submit
- resist, fight, withstand, obstruct
- show
- hide, obscure, disguise, mystify
- perform
- fail, neglect, miss, spoil
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1303, "existing at the time," from O.Fr.
present (11c.), from L.
præsentem (nom.
præsens) "present, immediate, prompt," from prp. of
præesse "be before (someone or something), be at hand," from
præ- "before" +
esse "to be." Meaning "being there" is from 1340. As a grammatical tense, recorded from 1388.
Presently is c.1380 as "immediately," but by 1566 it had relaxed into "sooner or later."
Present-day "contemporary" is attested from 1887.
2. From Middle English presenten, from Old French presenter, from Latin praesentāre (“to show”), from praesent-, praesens, present participle of praeesse (“be in front of”). See: Old French '
presenter', Latin '
praesentō'.
Sample Sentences
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[...] comparing notes in whispers. After throwing up a few rockets and firing signal guns in the hope of being hailed from the land, or at least of seeing a light—but without any other sight or sound presenting itself—it was determined to send a boat on shore. It was amusing to observe how very kind some of the passengers were, in volunteering to go ashore in this same boat: for the general good, of [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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When I landed in America, I could not help being strongly impressed with the contrast their Custom-house presented, and the attention, politeness and good humour with which its officers discharged their duty.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] because I am sure that nothing but senseless custom and want of thought would reconcile us to the liveries and badges we are so fond of at home. Secondly, because the absence of these things presents each child to the visitor in his or her own proper character, with its individuality unimpaired; not lost in a dull, ugly, monotonous repetition of the same unmeaning garb: which is really an [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] feel the motions of my fingers with one hand, and holding out the other he tried to imitate them, laughing most heartily when he succeeded. Laura was by, interested even to agitation; and the two presented a singular sight: her face was flushed and anxious, and her fingers twining in among ours so closely as to follow every motion, but so slightly as not to embarrass them; while Oliver stood [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] the river just in the dusk of twilight. The gray mist of evening, rising slowly from the river, enveloped her as she disappeared up the bank, and the swollen current and floundering masses of ice presented a hopeless barrier between her and her pursuer. Haley therefore slowly and discontentedly returned to the little tavern, to ponder further what was to be done. The woman opened to him the door of a [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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Single shuffle, double shuffle, cut and cross-cut; snapping his fingers, rolling his eyes, turning in his knees, presenting the backs of his legs in front, spinning about on his toes and heels like nothing but the man 's fingers on the tambourine; dancing with two left legs, two right legs, two wooden legs, two wire [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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He laid down his paper, and went into the kitchen, and started, quite amazed at the sight that presented itself:—A young and slender woman, with garments torn and frozen, with one shoe gone, and the stocking torn away from the cut and bleeding foot, was laid back in a deadly swoon upon two chairs. [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] right the contrary; and then I took right hold, and jined the church,—I did now, fact, ” said John, who had been all this time uncorking some very frisky bottled cider, which at this juncture he presented.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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At one of the periodical meetings of the inspectors of this prison, a working man of Philadelphia presented himself before the Board, and earnestly requested to be placed in solitary confinement. On being asked what motive could possibly prompt him to make this strange demand, he answered that he had an [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] upon the table with an apology from the landlord that he feared it was n't ‘fixed properly. ’ And I recollect once, at a stage-coach dinner, overhearing a very stern gentleman demand of a waiter who presented him with a plate of underdone roast-beef, ‘whether he called that, fixing God A’mighty 's vittles ? ’
(American Notes for General Circulation)