A Topical Dictionary: Search for existing

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English

Pronunciation

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Verb

existing

Adjective

that exists, or has existence, especially that exists now

Translations

Czech: existující
Finnish: olemassa oleva

fr:existing hu:existing ja:existing pl:existing ta:existing te:existing vi:existing

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English existing \existing\ adj.
1. having existence or being or actuality; as, much of the
beluga caviar existing in the world is found in the Soviet
Union and Iran. Opposite of nonexistent. [Narrower
terms: active, alive; extant, surviving] Also See:
extant.

Syn: existent.
[WordNet 1.5]

2. Present. Opposite of absent.
[WordNet 1.5]

3. Presently existing; as, the existing system.
[WordNet 1.5]

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Exist \Ex*ist"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Existed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Existing.] [L. existere, exsistere, to step out or forth,
emerge, appear, exist; ex out + sistere to cause to stand, to
set, put, place, stand still, fr. stare to stand: cf. F.
exister. See Stand.]
1. To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or
real being, whether material or spiritual.
[1913 Webster]

Who now, alas! no more is missed
Than if he never did exist. --Swift.
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To conceive the world . . . to have existed from
eternity. --South.
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2. To be manifest in any manner; to continue to be; as, great
evils existed in his reign.
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3. To live; to have life or the functions of vitality; as,
men can not exist in water, nor fishes on land.

Syn: See Be.
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WordNet existing
adj 1: having existence or being or actuality; "an attempt to
refine the existent machinery to make it more
efficient"; "much of the beluga caviar existing in the
world is found in the Soviet Union and Iran" [syn: existent]
[ant: nonexistent]
2: existing in something specified; "depletion of the oxygen
existing in the bloodstream"
3: presently existing; "the existing system"

Moby Dictionary
actual , alive , around , as is , being , contemporaneous , contemporary ,
current , existent , extant , fresh , immanent , immediate , in being ,
in effect , in existence , in force , instant , latest , living , modern ,
new , on foot , present , present-age , present-day , present-time ,
prevalent , running , subsistent , subsisting , that be , that is ,
topical , under the sun , up-to-date , up-to-the-minute