(grammar) The historical present tense.

(grammar) The historical present tense.

(grammar) The present tense as used when referring to real past events, to add immediacy to what is being said or written. / (grammar) The present tense as used when writing a fictional narrative.

plural of Christmas present

(military) A position of salute in the manual of arms in which the gun is held in both hands vertically in front of the body, with the muzzle upward and the trigger side forward.

(military) To adopt such a position.

(grammar) A proposed inflectional class of the Proto-Indo-European verb, characterized by accent on the root in all of the person-number forms.

(grammar, in reference to other languages) The present tense in the conditional mood.

(grammar) present continuous

Present everywhere at the same time; omnipresent.