in use
now
instant
bestow
confer
running
employed
modern-day
contemporary
pre-viewed
now for
date
visible
usance
time being
using
monochronic
live
now-a-days
current year
funct
fashionable
neo-
actually
postdiction
living
valid
utilization
die
utilisation
salvage
hell
will
usage
exercise
employment
use
nowaday
usta
puncept
offer up
conditioned
vogue
adiaphora
versatile
aforementioned
beforementioned
mine
actualistic
used
existent
get
up-to-date
fresh
present
nonce
present imperfect
utilized
Bohemond
Pelagius
Wikipedia
historic present
present historic
narrative present
current
dramatic present
establish
found
standard
proleptical
base
ground
pressingly
and all
contemporarily
simple present
nowness
issue
at one time
on tap
in every sense of the word
hic et nunc
occurrent
utilise
hodiern
orthotypography
heretofore
in use
now
instant
running
employed
modern-day
contemporary
pre-viewed
visible
monochronic
live
now-a-days
funct
fashionable
living
valid
nowaday
conditioned
versatile
aforementioned
beforementioned
actualistic
used
existent
up-to-date
fresh
present
utilized
current
standard
proleptical
on tap
occurrent
hodiern
actually
pressingly
contemporarily
in every sense of the word
heretofore
date
usance
time being
using
now
current year
postdiction
utilization
utilisation
usage
exercise
employment
use
nowaday
puncept
vogue
adiaphora
nonce
present imperfect
historic present
present historic
narrative present
dramatic present
simple present
nowness
hic et nunc
orthotypography
bestow
confer
die
salvage
will
offer up
get
Wikipedia
establish
found
base
ground
issue
utilise
adj
noun
- The present time.
- The state of not paying attention to the future or the past.
- A particular instant in time, as perceived at that instant.
intj
conj
adv
- Used to indicate a context of urgency.
- Sometimes; occasionally.
- Used to address a switching side, or sharp change in attitude from before. (In this usage, now is usually emphasized).
- At the present time.
- Used to introduce a point, a qualification of what has previously been said, a remonstration or a rebuke.
- At the time reached within a narration.
- Differently from the immediate past; differently from a more remote past or a possible future; differently from all other times.
adj
- Present; current; extant.
- Very quickly and easily prepared.
- Of the current month.
- Occurring immediately; immediate; present.
- Lasting for a short moment; momentary; short-lived.
noun
- A single, usually precise, point in time.
- A beverage or food which has been pre-processed to reduce preparation time, especially instant coffee.
- A very short period of time; a moment.
adv
adj
- Present, current.
- Extending by a slender climbing or trailing stem.
- Of a horse, having a running gait; not a trotter or pacer.
- Consecutive (much more commonly expressed by an adverb; see below).
- Continuous; ongoing; keeping along step by step.
- Moving or advancing at a run.
- Having a continuous design or pattern.
- Discharging snot or mucus.
- Flowing; easy; cursive.
- Discharging pus.
prep
noun
- The act of running errands.
- That which runs or flows; the quantity of a liquid which flows in a certain time or during a certain operation.
- The discharge from an ulcer or other sore.
- The activity of running as a form of exercise, as a sport, or for any other reason.
- The action of the verb to run.
adv
noun
- the present
- the specified day of the month
- a participant in a date
- a meeting arranged in advance
- the particular day, month, or year (usually according to the Gregorian calendar) that an event occurred
- a particular day specified as the time something happens
- sweet edible fruit of the date palm with a single long woody seed
verb
noun
noun
adj
- of current relevance
- in current use or ready for use
- highly reverberant
- charged with an explosive
- elastic; rebounds readily
- abounding with life and energy
- charged or energized with electricity
- capable of erupting
adj
- actually being performed at the time of hearing or viewing
- exerting force or containing energy
- possessing life
verb
- be an inhabitant of or reside in
- lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style
- continue to live and avoid dying
- support oneself
- have life, be alive
- have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations
- pursue a positive and satisfying existence
adv
adj
adj
- Related to the current topic, or presented within context, relevant.
- Well grounded or justifiable, pertinent.
- Of an argument: whose conclusion is always true whenever its premises are true.
- Genuine - as distinguished from efficient or regular - sacrament.
- Of a formula or system: such that it evaluates to true regardless of the input values.
- Acceptable, proper or correct; in accordance with the rules.
verb
- followed by of; general use
- To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
- followed by to as an indication of direct cause (like from)
- To be mortified or shocked by a situation.
- To fail to evoke laughter from the audience.
- To yearn intensely.
- To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.
- To stop working; to break down or otherwise lose "vitality".
- To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.
- followed by from; general use, though somewhat more common in the context of medicine or the sciences
- To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
- To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death).
- followed by for; often expressing wider contextual motivations, though sometimes indicating direct causes
- To expire at the end of the session of a legislature without having been brought to a vote.
- To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.
- To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
- To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated.
- To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).
- To lose a game.
- To be or become hated or utterly ignored or cut off, as if dead.
- followed by with as an indication of manner
noun
- A device for cutting into a specified shape.
- The cubical part of a pedestal; a plinth.
- A mold for forming metal or plastic objects.
- An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals.
- A device used to cut an external screw thread. (Internal screw threads are cut with a tap.)
- Any small cubical or square body.
- An isohedral polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and used in games of chance.
- An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit.
verb
- to put to use.
- to rescue.
- To make new or restore for the use of being saved.
- To apprehend and execute (a suspected criminal) without trial.
- To perform summary execution.
noun
- The similar rescue of property liable to loss; the property so rescued.
- The money from the sale of rescued goods.
- Summary execution, extrajudicial killing.
- The rescue of a ship, its crew and passengers or its cargo from a hazardous situation.
- The ship, crew or cargo so rescued.
- The compensation paid to the rescuers.
- Anything put to good use that would otherwise have been wasted, such as damaged goods.
intj
- Used to emphasize.
- Used to express discontent, unhappiness, or anger.
- Used to introduce an intensified statement following an understated one; nay; not only that, but.
name
verb
noun
- A place or situation of great suffering in life.
- A place for gambling.
- An extremely hot place.
- Used as an intensifier in phrases grammatically requiring a noun.
- In certain games of chase, a place to which those who are caught are carried for detention.
- Something extremely painful or harmful (to)
adv
verb
- Used to express the future tense, sometimes with some implication of volition when used in the first person. Compare shall.
- To choose or agree to (do something); used to express intention but without any temporal connotations (+ bare infinitive), often in questions and negation.
- To instruct (that something be done) in one's will.
- To bequeath (something) to someone in one's will (legal document).
- Expressing a present tense with some conditional or subjective weakening: "will turn out to", "must by inference".
- To exert one's force of will (intention) in order to compel, or attempt to compel, something to happen or someone to do something.
- To be able to, to have the capacity to.
- To habitually do (a given action).
- To wish, desire (something).
noun
- One's intention or decision; someone's orders or commands.
- Firmity of purpose, fixity of intent
- The act of choosing to do something; a person’s conscious intent or volition.
- One's independent faculty of choice; the ability to be able to exercise one's choice or intention.
- A formal declaration of one's intent concerning the disposal of one's property and holdings after death; the legal document stating such wishes.
noun
- the act of using
- the activity of exerting your muscles in various ways to keep fit
- systematic training by multiple repetitions
- a task performed or problem solved in order to develop skill or understanding
- (usually plural) a ceremony that involves processions and speeches
- an action, often used negatively and without consequences
verb
noun
- the act of using
- what something is used for
- a particular service
- (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing
- (psychology) an automatic pattern of behavior in reaction to a specific situation; may be inherited or acquired through frequent repetition
- exerting shrewd or devious influence especially for one's own advantage
- (law) the exercise of the legal right to enjoy the benefits of owning property
verb
- put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose
- take or consume (regularly or habitually)
- use up, consume fully
- seek or achieve an end by using to one's advantage
- avail oneself to
- habitually do something or be in a certain state or place (use only in the past tense)
noun
adj
- Having varied uses or many functions.
- Capable of doing many things competently.
- Being a switch; capable of taking either a dominant or a submissive role.
- Changeable or inconstant.
- Capable of taking either a penetrative (top) or receptive (bottom) role in anal sex.
- Capable of moving freely in all directions.
pron
- Used predicatively.
- Used absolutely, set off from the sentence.
- Used substantively, with an implied noun.
- Used otherwise not directly before the possessed noun.
noun
- Any source of wealth or resources.
- A type of firework that explodes on the ground, shooting sparks upward.
- A passage dug toward or underneath enemy lines, which is then packed with explosives.
- The cavity made by a caterpillar while feeding inside a leaf.
- An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels.
- A device intended to explode when stepped upon or touched, or when approached by a ship, vehicle, or person.
- A machine or network of machines used to extract units of a cryptocurrency.
verb
- To sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area).
- To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine.
- To dig a tunnel or hole; to burrow in the earth.
- To earn new units of cryptocurrency by doing certain calculations.
- To pick one's nose.
- To damage (a vehicle or ship) with a mine (an explosive device).
- To ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means.
- To dig into, for ore or metal.
- To remove (rock or ore) from the ground.
verb
- To have. See usage notes.
- To be. Used to form the passive of verbs.
- To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal); to effect retribution.
- To cause to become; to bring about.
- To kill.
- To receive.
- To be able, be permitted, or have the opportunity (to do something desirable or ironically implied to be desirable).
- To getter.
- To obtain; to acquire.
- To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).
- To begin (doing something or to do something).
- To adopt, assume, arrive at, or progress towards (a certain position, location, state).
- To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).
- To cause to do.
- To fetch, bring, take.
- To become, or cause oneself to become.
- To understand. (compare get it)
- To catch out, trick successfully.
- To find as an answer.
- To hear completely; catch.
- To be told; be the recipient of (a question, comparison, opinion, etc.).
- Used with a personal pronoun to indicate that someone is being pretentious or grandiose.
- To go, to leave; to scram.
- To become ill with or catch (a disease).
- To measure.
- To cover (a certain distance) while travelling.
- To perplex, stump.
- To cause to come or go or move.
noun
adj
- Newly produced or obtained; recent.
- Invigoratingly cool and refreshing.
- Rested; not tired or fatigued.
- Without salt; not saline.
- In a raw or untried state; uncultured; unpracticed.
- Sexually aggressive or forward; prone to caress too eagerly; overly flirtatious.
- Not dried, frozen, or spoiled.
- Disobedient or rude, as of a child.
- Youthful; florid.
- Still green and not dried.
- Good, fashionable.
- Rude, cheeky, or inappropriate; presumptuous; disrespectful; forward.
noun
- A stream or spring of fresh water.
- A rush of water, along a river or onto the land; a flood.
- The mingling of fresh water with salt in rivers or bays, as by means of a flood of fresh water flowing toward or into the sea.
verb
- To rebore the barrel of a rifle or shotgun.
- To freshen up.
- To update.
- To pack (fish) loosely on ice.
- To flood or dilute an area of salt water with flowing fresh water.
- to give birth to a calf.
- To become stronger.
- To renew.
adv
adj
- Relating to now, for the time being; current.
- Located in the immediate vicinity.
- Attentive; alert; focused.
- Neither for or against (used in voting to express abstention)
- Relating to something a person is referring to in the very context, with a deictic use similar to the demonstrative adjective this.
verb
- To come forward, appear in a particular place or before a particular person, especially formally.
- To nominate (a member of the clergy) for an ecclesiastical benefice; to offer to the bishop or ordinary as a candidate for institution.
- To put (something) forward in order for it to be seen; to show, exhibit.
- To offer (a problem, complaint) to a court or other authority for consideration.
- To give a gift or presentation to (someone).
- To offer oneself for mental consideration; to occur to the mind.
- To give (a gift or presentation) to someone; to bestow.
- To bring (someone) into the presence of (a person); to introduce formally.
- In omegaverse fiction, to have one's secondary sex (alpha, omega, or beta) become apparent, typically at puberty.
- To deliver (something abstract) as though as a gift; to offer.
- To hand over (a bill etc.) to be paid.
- To appear or represent oneself (as having a certain gender).
- To make clear to one's mind or intelligence; to put forward for consideration.
- To put on, stage (a play etc.).
- To come to the attention of medical staff, especially with a specific symptom.
- To appear (in a specific way) for delivery (of a fetus); to appear first at the mouth of the uterus during childbirth.
- To act as presenter on (a radio, television programme etc.).
- To point (a firearm) at something, to hold (a weapon) in a position ready to fire.
- 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.
noun
noun
adj
verb
- Used intransitively.
- Used with an object denoting the information sought or obtained.
- Used with an object denoting the specific article consulted.
name
- A main-belt asteroid (No. 274301).
- The community that develops the Wikipedia encyclopedia.
- A free-content online encyclopedia founded in 2001, collaboratively developed over the World Wide Web in a number of languages.
noun
adj
noun
- a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated
- the ideal in terms of which something can be judged
- a board measure = 1980 board feet
- the value behind the money in a monetary system
- an upright pole or beam (especially one used as a support)
- any distinctive flag
adj
verb
- use as a basis for; found on
- situate as a center of operations
- use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes
noun
- installation from which a military force initiates operations
- lowest support of a structure
- a place that the runner must touch before scoring
- the bottom or lowest part
- (anatomy) the part of an organ nearest its point of attachment
- a lower limit
- the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained
- a support or foundation
- a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA)
- any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water
- the bottom side of a geometric figure from which the altitude can be constructed
- the most important or necessary part of something
- (numeration system) the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place
- the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end
- (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
- the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area
- the principal ingredient of a mixture
- a flat bottom on which something is intended to sit
- (electronics) the part of a transistor that separates the emitter from the collector
adj
verb
- use as a basis for; found on
- fix firmly and stably
- confine or restrict to the ground
- place or put on the ground
- instruct someone in the fundamentals of a subject
- bring to the ground
- hit or reach the ground
- throw to the ground in order to stop play and avoid being tackled behind the line of scrimmage
- (baseball) a hit that travels along the playing field.
- cover with a primer; apply a primer to
- connect to a ground
noun
- the solid part of the earth's surface
- a rational motive for a belief or action
- the loose soft material that makes up a large part of the land surface
- a relation that provides the foundation for something
- a position to be won or defended in battle (or as if in battle)
- the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground
- material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use)
- a relatively homogeneous percept extending back of the figure on which attention is focused
- a connection between an electrical device and a large conducting body, such as the earth (which is taken to be at zero voltage)
- (art) the surface (as a wall or canvas) prepared to take the paint for a painting
- the first or preliminary coat of paint or size applied to a surface
verb
- To deliver for use.
- To rush out, to sally forth.
- To deliver by authority.
- To flow out, to proceed from, to come out or from.
- To extend into, to open onto.
- To send out; to put into circulation.
- To turn out in a certain way, to result in.
- To come to a point in fact or law on which the parties join issue.
noun
- Income derived from fines levied by a court or law-enforcement officer; the fines themselves.
- A point of law or fact in dispute or question in a legal action presented for resolution by the court.
- The action or an instance of a company selling bonds, stock, or other securities.
- Any financial instrument issued by a company.
- The production or distribution of something for general use.
- A psychological or emotional difficulty, (now informal, figurative and usually euphemistic) any problem or concern considered as a vague and intractable difficulty.
- Offspring: one's natural child or children.
- The outflow of a bodily fluid, particularly (now rare) in abnormal amounts.
- The entire set of something; all of something.
- The distribution of something (particularly rations or standardized provisions) to someone or some group.
- The entire set of some item printed and disseminated during a certain period, particularly (publishing) a single printing of a particular edition of a work when contrasted with other print runs.
- The action or an instance of sending something out
- A small incision, tear, or artificial ulcer, used to drain fluid and usually held open with a pea or other small object.
- The means or opportunity by which something flows or comes out
- Anything in dispute, an area of disagreement whose resolution is being debated or decided.
- A single edition of a newspaper or other periodical publication.
- Any question or situation to be resolved
- The loan of a book etc. from a library to a patron; all such loans by a given library during a given period.
- Progeny: all one's lineal descendants.
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