present

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noun

ADJECTIVE

▪ Christmas, holiday (AmE)

▪ anniversary, birthday, graduation (esp. AmE), house-warming, wedding

▪ going-away (esp. AmE), leaving (esp. BrE)

▪ unwanted (esp. BrE)

▪ Customers may return unwanted presents in exchange for vouchers.

VERB + PRESENT

▪ buy

▪ get, receive

▪ bring sb, give sb, send sb

▪ exchange

▪ At Christmas, family and friends exchange presents.

▪ hand out

▪ Santa Claus handed out presents to the children.

▪ wrap

▪ open, unwrap

PREPOSITION

▪ present for

▪ a present for my daughter

▪ present from, present to

▪ It's a present to us all from Granny.

PHRASES

▪ make sb a present of sth

▪ My nephew loves this bike so I'm going to make him a present of it.
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verb

ADVERB

▪ clearly, well

▪ The arguments were well researched and clearly presented.

▪ attractively, neatly

▪ briefly

▪ The papers are only briefly presented here.

▪ graphically

▪ The results are presented graphically in Figure 2.

▪ orally, visually

▪ The results can be presented visually in the form of a graph.

▪ formally

▪ The launch is to be formally presented to trade partners in early summer.

VERB + PRESENT

▪ aim to, attempt to, seek to, strive to, try to

▪ We have tried to present both sides of the debate.

▪ be designed to

▪ Hotel brochures are designed to present the most attractive aspects of the hotel.

▪ fail to

▪ This book fails to present her story in a coherent manner.

PREPOSITION

▪ as

▪ He likes to present himself as a radical politician.

▪ for

▪ These two techniques are presented for illustration only.

▪ to

▪ He presented the information to his colleagues.
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adj.

VERBS

▪ be

▪ remain

ADVERB

▪ ever

▪ the ever present risk of pollution

▪ physically

▪ Simply to be physically present was all that was required.

▪ naturally

▪ Bacteria are naturally present in the environment.

PHRASES

▪ past and present

▪ a list of all club members, past and present

Present is used with these nouns: ↑century, ↑circumstance, ↑climate, ↑context, ↑crisis, ↑decade, ↑epoch, ↑era, ↑form, ↑generation, ↑impasse, ↑incarnation, ↑inhabitant, ↑occupant, ↑owner, ↑parliament, ↑phase, ↑position, ↑predicament, ↑preoccupation, ↑prime minister, ↑regime, ↑research, ↑situation, ↑state, ↑study, ↑tense, ↑whereabouts, ↑work

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présent — présent, ente 1. (pré zan, zan t ) adj. 1° Qui est dans le lieu où l on est ou dont on parle. • Il [le roi] parla encore une autre fois fort bien de M. Colbert sur cette matière des finances, M. Seignelay présent, PELLISSON Lett. hist. t. I,… … Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré
present — pre·sent 1 /pri zent/ vt 1: to lay before a court as an object of consideration present a complaint present ed a defense of insanity 2: to make a presentment of (an instrument) pre·sen·ta·tion /ˌprē ˌzen tā shən, ˌpre , zən / … Law dictionary
present — [prez′ənt; ] for v. [ prē zent′, prizent′] adj. [OFr < L praesens, prp. of praeesse, to be present < prae , before (see PRE ) + esse, to be (see ESSENCE)] 1. a) being at the specified or understood place; at hand; in attendance b) existing… … English World dictionary
Present — ist eine belgische Avantgarde Rock Gruppe, die von Roger Trigaux (Gitarre, Keyboards, Vocals) 1979 gegründet wurde.[1] Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Geschichte 2 Mitglieder (Stand 2011) 3 Ehemalige Mitglieder u … Deutsch Wikipedia
Present — Pres ent, a. [F. pr[ e]sent, L. praesens, entis, that is before one, in sight or at hand, p. p. of praeesse to be before; prae before + esse to be. See {Essence}.] [1913 Webster] 1. Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Present — Pres ent, n. [Cf. F. pr[ e]sent. See {Present}, a.] 1. Present time; the time being; time in progress now, or at the moment contemplated; as, at this present. [1913 Webster] Past and present, wound in one. Tennyson. [1913 Webster] 2. pl. (Law)… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Present — Pre*sent , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Presented}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Presenting}.] [F. pr[ e]senter, L. praesentare, fr. praesens, a. See {Present}, a.] 1. To bring or introduce into the presence of some one, especially of a superior; to introduce… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
present — Ⅰ. present [1] ► ADJECTIVE 1) being or occurring in a particular place. 2) existing or occurring now. 3) Grammar (of a tense or participle) expressing an action now going on or habitually performed, or a condition now existing. ► NOUN 1) ( … English terms dictionary
present — pre‧sent [prɪˈzent] verb [transitive] 1. to make a speech introducing an idea, plan etc to be considered: • a lack of evidence presented by prosecutors present something to somebody • The company has until July to restructure its debt and present … Financial and business terms
Present — Présent Cette page d’homonymie répertorie les différents sujets et articles partageant un même nom … Wikipédia en Français
present — [adj1] existing; at this time ad hoc, already, at this moment, begun, being, coeval, commenced, contemporaneous, contemporary, current, even now, existent, extant, for the time being, going on, immediate, in duration, in process, instant, just… … New thesaurus

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