Talk:present

Medical

As a verb, I have heard it said that residents in US hospitals "present" their cases to the attending for it to be signed off on or check upon. Anyone know if this is significant enough to add to the definition? [[user:joshuajohnlee|Josh Lee_{[[user_talk:joshuajohnlee|TALK]]}]] 14:04, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

it is absolutely standard to say "this patient presents with such-and-such". Seems to me the intransitive sense is missing? Robert Ullmann 14:09, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

A missing legal sense?

Webster 1913 has this, of which I can't make much sense: "(legal, in the plural) Present letters or instrument, as a deed of conveyance, a lease, letter of attorney, or other writing; as in the phrase, "Know all men by these presents," that is, by the writing itself, "per has literas praesentes"; in this sense, rarely used in the singular." Equinox ◑ 04:46, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

Pronunciation

According to J. Chr. Wells’s pronouncing dictionary, “present” as a noun in the sense of “military stance” has late stress, or, in other words, is pronounced as the verb, i. e. [pri'zent]. I therefore think that the two senses of what is now the entry “present 2” should be distinguished: I mean, there should be two different entries. Thank you. 62.98.223.180 11:19, 15 November 2017 (UTC)

And the pronunciations should be added, of course. Furthermore, in the sense of “military stance” the noun isn’t used in the plural, if I’m not mistaken. 62.98.223.180 11:23, 15 November 2017 (UTC)

Female-presenting

Re special:diff/51044856, maybe we can offer an actual quotation or reference? For instance https://thenextweb.com/opinion/2018/12/14/tumblrs-female-presenting-nipples-language-isnt-semantics-its-oppression/ or NYT or Guardian which however don't focus so much on the term itself. Nemo 17:12, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

The train to Bath was approaching Platform 3

According to the Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, page 80,

In The train to Bath was approaching Platform 3 the approaching is present relative to the time in the larger construction. 

What meaning of present is used here? What "larger construction" does it refer to? -Backinstadiums (talk) 11:15, 5 October 2019 (UTC)

• It's a present participle, here used to construct a past continuous tense. SemperBlotto (talk) 13:50, 5 October 2019 (UTC)

Sense 1, "relating to now". Equinox ◑ 13:54, 5 October 2019 (UTC)

presently: soon

What meaning does presently come from when meaning "soon"? --Backinstadiums (talk) 12:44, 8 December 2019 (UTC)

[countable; singular; usually: the + ~]

[countable;  singular; usually: the + ~]
The present time:  If there's work to be done, there's no time like the present.
(Grammar) The present tense: Put that verb into the present.
Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English

--Backinstadiums (talk) 19:33, 18 January 2020 (UTC)

deleted entry in translations Turkish hazır

Senses 4,5 and 8 somewhat describes it, yet no such translation tables for this senses. Either way, sense isn't `present time` See hazır Probably it was meant hâlihazırda. Flāvidus (talk) 18:32, 17 October 2023 (UTC)