present

/ˈprɛz(ə)nt/

US pronunciation

American sound/ˈprɛz(ə)nt/

present

Syllables: 2 syllables
Stress: 1st syllable stress
Vowel: Schwa vowel
Ending: Clear final sound

pre - sent -> present

Myanmar meaning

(adj) ရှိနေ (n) လက်ဆောင် (v) တင်ပြ

Full entry

present¹ /'preznt/ adj

၁။ (က) ~ (at sth) (ရောက်) ရှိနေ[သော]။ Were you present when the news was announced? ❍ The mistake was obvious to all (those) present. ❍ Everybody present welcomed the decision. ❍ There were 200 people present at the meeting. (ခ) ~ (in sth) ပါရှိနေ [သော]။ a machine which measures how much radioactivity is present (in the atmosphere) ❍ Analysis showed that traces of arsenic were present in the body. ❍ The threat of war is still present. Compare ABSENT ၁
၂။ လက်ရှိ။ the present situation /difficulties / arrangements ❍ the present owner/ occupant of the house ❍ a list of all the club members, past and present ❍ You can't use it in its present condition. ❍ If prices continue to increase at the present rate…
n (usu the presnt) [sing] (က) ပစ္စုပ္ပန်။ ယခု။ ပစ္စက္ခ။ artists of the past, present and future ❍ an escape from the harsh realities of the present. (ခ) (grammar ) ပစ္စုပ္ပန်ကာလ။
❏ at present[IDM] လောလောဆယ်။ I'm afraid I can't help you just at present.
❏ present company excepted[IDM] (ပြစ်တင် ဝေဖန်ရာ၌ လက်ရှိပရိသတ် အကျုံးမဝင်ကြောင်း စကားခံသောအားဖြင့်) ကျွန်တော် ဒီပရိသတ်ကိုတော့ မဆိုလိုပါ။ People tend to drink too much at parties, present company excepted, of course.
❏ the present day n [sing] မျက်မှောက်ခေတ်။ ယနေ့။ This custom has survived to the present day. ❍ present day experiences/fashions/life.
❏ present participle n (grammar ) (ဤအဘိဓာန်၌ pres p ဟုအတိုကောက် သုံးသည်။ )"-ing" နှင့်အဆုံးသတ်သော ကြိယာ။ ဖြစ်ဆဲပြ ကြိယာသဏ္ဌာန်။ Compare VERBAL NOUN
❏ the present perfect n [sing] (grammar ) (has, have နှင့်တွဲ၍) လတ်တလောဖြစ်ခဲ့သည်ကိုပြသည့် ပစ္စုပ္ပန်ကာလပြ ကြိယာသဏ္ဌာန်။
❏ the present tense n [sing] (grammar ) (ဤအဘိဓာန်၌ pres t ဟုအတိုကောက် သုံးသည်။ ) ပစ္စုပ္ပန်ကာလပြ ကြိယာ သဏ္ဌာန်။ The verb is in the present tense. Compare PAST n ၃

present² /'preznt/ n

လက်ဆောင်။ birthday/ Christmas/wedding presents ❍ This book was a present from my brother. ❍ He liked my old typewriter so much. I made him a present of it ( ie gave it to him).
/prÇ'znt/ v
၁။ ~ sb with sth; ~ sth (to sb) လက်ဆောင်ပေး သည်။ ပေးအပ်သည်။ A local celebrity presented the prizes. ❍ Colleagues presented the retiring chairman with a gold watch/presented a gold watch to the retiring chairman.
၂။ (က) ~ sth(for sth); ~ sth (to sb) ပြသည်။ တင်ပြသည်။ တင်သွင်းသည်။ present one's passport at the border ❍ Several interesting papers were presented at the conference. ❍ a well-presented analysis ❍ present one's designs for approval/consideration ❍ They presented a petition to the gvernor. (ခ) ~ sth/sb/oneself as sth …အဖြစ် ပုံဖမ်းသည်၊ မျက်နှာပန်းပြသည်၊ အသွင်ဆောင်သည်။ He likes to present himself as the saviour of his people. ❍ The country presents a modern, go-ahead face to the world.
၃။ (က) ~ sb with sth; ~ sth (to sth) ရင်ဆိုင်စေသည်။ ရင်ဆိုင်ရသည်။ Your request presents (us with) certain problems. ❍ Army life presents many difficulties / challenges / opportunities to the new recruit. ❍ The President has suddenly been presented with a crisis.
(ခ) ~ itself (to be) (အခွင့်အလမ်း၊ အဖြေစသည် အလိုလို) ပေါ်ပေါက်လာသည်။ ပေါ်သည်။ A new problem suddenly presented itself.
၄။ (က) (ရေဒီယို၊ ရုပ်မြင်သံကြား အစီအစဉ်) တင်ဆက်ပေးသည်။ He used to present a gardening programme on BBC. (ခ) အများပြည်သူ အတွက် ဖျော်ဖြေမှု အစီအစဉ် တင်ဆက်သည်။ The National Theatre is presenting a new production of "Hamlet". ❍ Starlight Productions present the Chinese Children's Choir in concert.
(ဂ) စတင်ကြော်ငြာ ရောင်းချသည်။ Acme Fashions present their new range of children's clothing.
၅။ ~ sb (to sb) (fml) (ရာထူးဂုဏ်သိန်ကြီးသူထံ လေးလေးစားစား) မိတ်ဆက်ပေးသည်။ May I present my fiance (to you)?
၆။ ~ oneself at, for, in, etc sth (fml ) တက်ရောက် သည်။ တက်သည်။ You will be asked to present yourself for interview. ❍ I have to present myself in court on 20 May.
၇။ ~ sth (to sb) (fml ) (လေးစားစွာ) အကြောင်းကြားသည်။ present one's apologies/compliments/greetings (to sb).
၈။ (ငွေပေးချေရန်၊ ထုတ်ပေးရန်ပြေစာ၊ ချက် လက်မှတ်စသည်) တင်သည်၊ ပေးပို့သည်။ Has the builder presented his bill yet? ❍ The cheque was presented (ie at a bank) on 21 March.
❏ present arms [IDM] (စစ်သည်များ) သေနတ် မြှောက် အလေးပြုသည်။
❏ presenter n (ရေဒီယို၊ ရုပ်သံ) အစီအစဉ် တင်ဆက်သူ။

More examples

The present situation cannot be allowed to continue.
In his present emotional state, he is capable of doing anything.
The present owners purchased the farm in 1976.
[the present day] : The history of Scotland from the 16th century to the present day
The 550 researchers in the present study have published a total of 6490 papers.
I wasn’t present when Dr Allott examined Clare.
[present at] : Among those present at the ceremony were the ambassador and his wife.
The chemicals obviously kill any bacteria present.
[present in] : Both kinds of nucleic acid are present in all cells.

Synonyms

there, here, in attendance, at hand, near, nearby, accounted for, acquaint, acquaint with, ad hoc, adduce, advance, allege, already, appear, around, arrive, at this moment, attend, attendant, available, award, begun, being, benefaction, benevolence, bestow, boon, bounty, bring about, cast, cause, cite, coeval, come up with, commenced, communicate, compliment, confer, contemporaneous, contemporary, current, declare, depict, describe, devote, display, do, do the honors, donate, donation, dowry, endowment, entrust, even now, exhibit, existent, existing, existing time, expose, expound, extant, extend, favor, fix up, for the time being, furnish, get together, gift, gifting, give, give an introduction, give away, giveaway, going on, goodie, grant, gratuity, hand out, hand over, handout, here and now, hereabouts, hitherto, hold out, immediate, impart, imply, in duration, in process, in this direction, in view, infer, instant, intimate, introduce, introduce; demonstrate, just now, kick in, largess, largesse, lay, lay on, lump, made the scene, make a pitch, make known, manifest, modern, mount, nonce, now, nowadays, offer, offering, on board, on deck, on hand, on the spot, on this spot, on-the-spot, open to view, organize, perform, pitch, portray, pose, present day, present moment, present-day, produce, proffer, prompt, proposition, put at disposal, put forth, put forward, put on, raise, ready, recount, relate, render, report, represent, roll out, show, show up, stage, stake, started, state, submit, suggest, tender, the time being, there with bells on, these days, this day, this day and age

Antonyms

abandon, absent, away, away from, conceal, cover, decrease, deny, destroy, distant, fail, far, farther away, fight, former, future, gone away, hide, in the distance, late, loss, neglect, not here, off, old, old-fashioned, past, previous, refrain, refuse, stop, subdue, take, take back, to one side, turning aside, withhold