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existing 音标拼音: [ɪgz'ɪstɪŋ] 存在的 存在的 existing现有的 existing现存 existing adj 1: presently existing; " the existing system" 2: 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" [ synonym: { existent}, { existing}] [ ant: { nonexistent}] 3: existing in something specified; " depletion of the oxygen existing in the bloodstream" Exist \ Ex* ist"\, v. i. [ 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. [ 1913 Webster] Who now, alas! no more is missed Than if he never did exist. -- Swift. [ 1913 Webster] To conceive the world . . . to have existed from eternity. -- South. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To be manifest in any manner; to continue to be; as, great evils existed in his reign. [ 1913 Webster] 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}. [ 1913 Webster]
existing \ existing\ adj. 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. [ WordNet 1. 5] 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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