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Word Meanings - SURVIVING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Remaining alive; yet living or existing; as, surviving friends; surviving customs.

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  • PRESENT
    one, in sight or at hand, p. p. of praeesse to be before; prae before 1. Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent. These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. John xiv. 25.
  • PRESENTIVE
    Bringing a conception or notion directly before the mind; presenting an object to the memory of imagination; -- distinguished from symbolic. How greatly the word "will" is felt to have lost presentive power in the last three centuries. Earle. --
  • PRESENTANEOUS
    Ready; quick; immediate in effect; as, presentaneous poison. Harvey.
  • EXTANT
    extare, exstare, to stand out or forth; ex out + stare to stand: cf. 1. Standing out or above any surface; protruded. That part of the teeth which is extant above the gums. Ray. A body partly immersed in a fluid and partly extant. Bentley. 2. Still
  • FORTHCOMING
    Ready or about to appear; making appearance.
  • PRESENTLY
    1. At present; at this time; now. The towns and forts you presently have. Sir P. Sidney. 2. At once; without delay; forthwith; also, less definitely, soon; shortly; before long; after a little while; by and by. Shak. And presently the fig tree
  • PRESENTER
    One who presents.
  • EXISTENT
    Having being or existence; existing; being; occurring now; taking place. The eyes and mind are fastened on objects which have no real being, as if they were truly existent. Dryden.
  • PRESENTIMENT
    Previous sentiment, conception, or opinion; previous apprehension; especially, an antecedent impression or conviction of something unpleasant, distressing, or calamitous, about to happen; anticipation of evil; foreboding.
  • PRESENTIATE
    To make present.
  • SURVIVAL
    Any habit, usage, or belief, remaining from ancient times, the origin of which is often unknown, or imperfectly known. The close bearing of the doctrine of survival on the study of manners and customs. Tylor. Survival of the fittest. See Natural
  • PRESENTIAL
    Implying actual presence; present, immediate. God's mercy is made presential to us. Jer. Taylor. -- Pre*sen"tial*ly, adv.
  • PRESENTEE
    One to whom something is presented; also, one who is presented; specifically , one presented to benefice. Ayliffe.
  • PRESENTIMENTAL
    Of nature of a presentiment; foreboding. Coleridge.
  • SURVIVOR
    The longer liver of two joint tenants, or two persons having a joint interest in anything. Blackstone. (more info) 1. One who survives or outlives another person, or any time, event, or thing. The survivor bound In filial obligation for some term
  • CURRENTNESS
    1. The quality of being current; currency; circulation; general reception. 2. Easiness of pronunciation; fluency. When currentness with staidness, how can the language . . . sound other than most full of sweetness Camden.
  • SURVIVANCE; SURVIVANCY
    Survivorship. His son had the survivance of the stadtholdership. Bp. Burnet.
  • CURRENT
    of curre, corre, F. courre, courir, to run, from L. currere; perh. 1. Running or moving rapidly. Like the current fire, that renneth Upon a cord. Gower. To chase a creature that was current then In these wild woods, the hart with golden horns.
  • SURVIVENCY
    Survivorship.
  • PRESENTABLE
    1. Capable or admitting of being presented; suitable to be exhibited, represented, or offered; fit to be brought forward or set forth; hence, fitted to be introduced to another, or to go into society; as, ideas that are presentable in
  • DIRECT CURRENT
    A current flowing in one direction only; -- distinguished from alternating current. When steady and not pulsating a direct current is often called a continuous current. A direct induced current, or momentary current of the same direction as the
  • JAPAN CURRENT
    A branch of the equatorial current of the Pacific, washing the eastern coast of Formosa and thence flowing northeastward past Japan and merging into the easterly drift of the North Pacific; -- called also Kuro-Siwo, or Black Stream, in allusion
  • PHASING CURRENT
    The momentary current between two alternating-current generators when juxtaposed in parallel and not agreeing exactly in phase or period.
  • ALTERNATING CURRENT
    A current which periodically changes or reverses its direction of flow.
  • PERCURRENT
    Running through the entire length.
  • NONPRESENTATION
    Neglect or failure to present; state of not being presented.
  • REPRESENTABLE
    Capable of being represented.
  • TOTIPRESENT
    Omnipresence. A. Tucker.
  • OMNIPRESENTIAL
    Implying universal presence. South.
  • SELF-EXISTENT
    Existing of or by himself,independent of any other being or cause; -- as, God is the only self-existent being.
  • REPRESENTANT
    Appearing or acting for another; representing.
  • IRREPRESENTABLE
    Not capable of being represented or portrayed.
  • NONEXISTENT
    Not having existence.
  • SNEAK CURRENT
    A current which, though too feeble to blow the usual fuse or to injure at once telegraph or telephone instruments, will in time burn them out.

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