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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

existing en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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  • /ɪɡˈzɪstɪŋ/

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) That exists, or has existence, especially that exists now.
    • In his favour, Beeching declared that he supported carrying on with the existing modernisation projects, but that the rest of the business needed root and branch reform. 2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 52:
    • Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete. 2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:

Deriveds

nonexisting · pre-existing · unexisting

Synonyms

existent

Translations (35)

tr mevcut (that exists) · hu meglevő (that exists) · hu meglévő (that exists) · fi olemassa oleva (that exists) · hu létező (that exists) · sq është (that exists) · ro existent (that exists) · nb eksisterende (that exists) · nl bestaande (that exists) · ar مَوْجُود (that exists) · sq a (gheg) (that exists) · es existente (that exists) · hy գոյական (that exists) · ru существу́ющий (that exists) · it esistente (that exists) · az mövcud (that exists) · id adanya (that exists) · el υπάρχων (that exists) · de bestehend (that exists) · fr existant (that exists) · de existierend (that exists) · ca existent (that exists) · cmn 現有 /现有 (that exists) · pl istniejący (that exists) · eo efektiva (that exists) · tr varolan (that exists) · az var olan (that exists) · cmn 現存 /现存 (that exists) · cs existující (that exists) · ja 現在の (that exists) · pt existente (that exists) · sk existujúci (that exists) · mi tīariari (that exists) · uk існу́ючий (that exists) · da eksisterende (that exists)

existing en · VERB

Pronunciation

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  • /ɪɡˈzɪstɪŋ/

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of exist
    form of exist