Word Meanings - STANDER-BY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who stands near; one who is present; a bystander.

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• BYSTANDER
  One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting. He addressed the bystanders and scattered pamphlets among them. Palfrey. Syn. -- Looker on; spectator; beholder; observer.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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
• STANDSTILL
  A standing without moving forward or backward; a stop; a state or rest.
• PRESENTIALITY
  State of being actually present. South.
• PRESENT VALUE; PRESENT WORTH
  The principal which, drawing interest at a given rate, will amount to the given sum at the date on which this is to be paid; thus, interest being at 6%, the present value of 6 due one year hence is 0.
• PRESENTIENT
  Feeling or perceiving beforehand.
• PRESENTIFICAL
  Presentific.
• PRESENTATION
  exhibition; representation; display; appearance; semblance; show. Under the presentation of the shoots his wit. Shak. 3. That which is presented or given; a present; a gift, as, the picture was a presentation. (more info) 1. The act of presenting,
• PRESENTNESS
  The quality or state of being present; presence. "Presentness of mind in danger." Clarendon.
• PRESENTATIVE
  Having the right of presentation, or offering a clergyman to the bishop for institution; as, advowsons are presentative, collative, or donative. Blackstone. 2. Admitting the presentation of a clergyman; as, a presentative parsonage. Spelman.
• NONPRESENTATION
  Neglect or failure to present; state of not being presented.
• REPRESENTABLE
  Capable of being represented.
• OMNIPRESENTIAL
  Implying universal presence. South.
• TOTIPRESENT
  Omnipresence. A. Tucker.
• REPRESENTANT
  Appearing or acting for another; representing.
• IRREPRESENTABLE
  Not capable of being represented or portrayed.
• RE-PRESENTATION
  The act of re-presenting, or the state of being presented again; a new presentation; as, re-presentation of facts previously stated.
• REPRESENTATIVELY
  In a representative manner; vicariously.
• CORSEPRESENT
  An offering made to the church at the interment of a dead body. Blackstone.
• MISREPRESENTATION
  Untrue representation; false or incorrect statement or account; -- usually unfavorable to the thing represented; as, a misrepresentation of a person's motives. Sydney Smith. Note: In popular use, this word often conveys the idea of intentional
• MULTIPRESENT
  Being, or having the power to be, present in two or more places at once.