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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (3)

1. presently existing;
- Example: "the existing system"

2. having existence or being or actuality;
- Example: "an attempt to refine the existent machinery to make it more efficient"
- Example: "much of the beluga caviar existing in the world is found in the Soviet Union and Iran"
[syn: existent, existing]

3. existing in something specified;
- Example: "depletion of the oxygen existing in the bloodstream"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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" [syn: existent, existing] [ant: nonexistent] 3: existing in something specified; "depletion of the oxygen existing in the bloodstream"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

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