 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
existing
adjective
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"
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Exist \Ex*ist"\, verb (used without an object) [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.
Who now, alas! no more is missed
Than if he never did exist. --Swift.
To conceive the world . . . to have existed from
eternity. --South.
2. To be manifest in any manner; to continue to be; as, great
evils existed in his reign.
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}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
existing \existing\ adjective
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.
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From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
37 Moby Thesaurus words for "existing":
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
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