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Definition of exist in English: existverb ɛɡˈzɪstɪɡˈzɪstɪɡˈzɪst [no object]1Have objective reality or being. dossiers existed on almost everyone of prominence there existed no organization to cope with espionage Example sentencesExamples - Moreover, it seems that the objects exist independently of the mathematician.
- The lottery win seemed like conclusive proof that Kiron existed, but in reality, it was no proof at all.
- It was equivalent to saying that gravity did not exist on Earth and then proving it, right in front of her eyes.
- As far as I know no similar analysis of party organizations exists for ethnicity.
- According to one physicist reality only exists because we think it does.
- This strange phenomena that exists in everyone is widespread all over the world.
- Whether or not the object of a thought exists, it cannot be the case that a thought has no content, that its content is nothing.
- There is a sense of a world existing objectively, outside the emotional dynamics of the drama.
- It was fun to see new and wonderful things, things that could never exist in reality.
- Today every object that existed yesterday is older than it was yesterday.
- Being honest, kind and humane are good ideals to live by whether God exists or not.
- These organizations still exist and try to function despite a general lack of funds.
- The gulf exists objectively and has only deepened as a result of their behaviour.
- Again, it is surprising that the most attractive faces do not even exist in reality.
- The discovery suggests that life could exist on planets very different from Earth.
- You had a group of reporters who wanted to prove that the weapons existed because everyone else said that they did not.
- No basis exists for an objection related to paying the taxes or to the level of the taxes to be paid.
- In other words, knowledge is always of a reality that exists independently of knowers and perceivers.
- Some objects, now existing in scattered parts of the globe, are brought together.
- What use is an instrument that keeps sending back images of objects that can't possibly exist?
Synonyms live, be alive, be living, have life, breathe, draw breath be, have being, have existence, be extant - 1.1 Occur or be found, especially in a particular place or situation.
two conflicting stereotypes of housework exist in popular thinking Example sentencesExamples - So I'm going to put it all to the back of my mind for a few days, and carry on as though the situation doesn't exist.
- Meanwhile real hip hop remains in the underground existing beneath the line of sight of the masses.
- A similar rule exists throughout Europe and it is important that everyone respects it.
- How on earth did the Commission allow so undemocratic a situation to exist?
- The culture is still developing and exists in a continuous process of change and renewal.
- Geist was not limited only to high culture, it also existed in popular culture and what we now call mass culture.
- Yet a sense of fractured identity, of cultural confusion, continues to exist.
- But he adds the situation still exists where there are huge areas covered by one hub.
- This is the situation that exists between Hawaii and the continental United States.
- The situation that existed at present was a danger to motorists and pedestrians.
- The need for any warning exists most clearly in situations like those in the cases just considered.
- Lastly, we cannot ignore the tensions in the Gulf, where a warlike situation exists.
- Yet that perception exists in the popular imagination, as our poll so depressingly illustrates.
- The new police signified a move away from a degree of popular control that had existed in some places over parish constables.
- A similar situation exists in the amount of traffic trying to use York.
- There exists sympathy for the situation, but hardly sympathy for the characters.
- This still existed under the Popular Unity government and continued oppressing the poor.
- The worst possible situation is that which existed in the United States and in the Iraqi prison.
- My friend said that the common law situation still exists under the current legislation.
- The same common law defence of lawful correction currently exists in New South Wales.
Synonyms prevail, occur, be found, be met with, be in existence remain, obtain, continue, last, endure be the case
2Live, especially under adverse conditions. a minority of people exist on unemployment benefit alone how am I going to exist without you? Example sentencesExamples - I don't want you to get the idea that I exist on takeaways and ready meals, because I don't.
- We exist on donations and all volunteers are drawn mainly from local churches.
- Middle class professionals are now rare as everyone exists from day to day, just surviving.
- The question is whether we can regard one of them as so abnormal that she is not able to exist on her own.
- Are we making it so easy for them to exist on begging that they feel no need to do any work?
Synonyms survive, subsist, live, stay alive, support oneself, eke out a living, eke out an existence manage, make do, keep going, struggle along, scrape by, keep one's head above water, make ends meet informal get by, keep the wolf from the door
Origin Early 17th century: probably a back-formation from existence. consist from Late Middle English: Fron Latin consistere ‘stand firm or still, exist’, sistere ‘set, stand (still), stop’, also the source of assist (Late Middle English) originally ‘take your stand’; desist (Late Middle English) ‘stand down, stop’; exist (early 17th century) ‘come into being’, literally ‘stand out’; insist (late 16th century) ‘stand upon [an argument]’; and resist (Late Middle English) ‘stand back or against’.
Rhymes assist, cist, coexist, consist, cyst, desist, enlist, gist, grist, hist, insist, list, Liszt, mist, persist, resist, schist, subsist, tryst, twist, whist, wist, wrist Definition of exist in US English: existverbɪɡˈzɪstiɡˈzist [no object]1Have objective reality or being. there existed no organization to cope with espionage remains of these baths still exist on the south side of the Pantheon Example sentencesExamples - The gulf exists objectively and has only deepened as a result of their behaviour.
- It was fun to see new and wonderful things, things that could never exist in reality.
- What use is an instrument that keeps sending back images of objects that can't possibly exist?
- This strange phenomena that exists in everyone is widespread all over the world.
- These organizations still exist and try to function despite a general lack of funds.
- In other words, knowledge is always of a reality that exists independently of knowers and perceivers.
- Some objects, now existing in scattered parts of the globe, are brought together.
- You had a group of reporters who wanted to prove that the weapons existed because everyone else said that they did not.
- According to one physicist reality only exists because we think it does.
- No basis exists for an objection related to paying the taxes or to the level of the taxes to be paid.
- Again, it is surprising that the most attractive faces do not even exist in reality.
- As far as I know no similar analysis of party organizations exists for ethnicity.
- There is a sense of a world existing objectively, outside the emotional dynamics of the drama.
- Whether or not the object of a thought exists, it cannot be the case that a thought has no content, that its content is nothing.
- The discovery suggests that life could exist on planets very different from Earth.
- Moreover, it seems that the objects exist independently of the mathematician.
- It was equivalent to saying that gravity did not exist on Earth and then proving it, right in front of her eyes.
- The lottery win seemed like conclusive proof that Kiron existed, but in reality, it was no proof at all.
- Today every object that existed yesterday is older than it was yesterday.
- Being honest, kind and humane are good ideals to live by whether God exists or not.
Synonyms live, be alive, be living, have life, breathe, draw breath - 1.1 Be found, especially in a particular place or situation.
two conflicting stereotypes of housework exist in popular thinking today Example sentencesExamples - Lastly, we cannot ignore the tensions in the Gulf, where a warlike situation exists.
- Yet a sense of fractured identity, of cultural confusion, continues to exist.
- Yet that perception exists in the popular imagination, as our poll so depressingly illustrates.
- A similar rule exists throughout Europe and it is important that everyone respects it.
- Meanwhile real hip hop remains in the underground existing beneath the line of sight of the masses.
- The need for any warning exists most clearly in situations like those in the cases just considered.
- There exists sympathy for the situation, but hardly sympathy for the characters.
- This still existed under the Popular Unity government and continued oppressing the poor.
- A similar situation exists in the amount of traffic trying to use York.
- But he adds the situation still exists where there are huge areas covered by one hub.
- The new police signified a move away from a degree of popular control that had existed in some places over parish constables.
- The same common law defence of lawful correction currently exists in New South Wales.
- Geist was not limited only to high culture, it also existed in popular culture and what we now call mass culture.
- My friend said that the common law situation still exists under the current legislation.
- So I'm going to put it all to the back of my mind for a few days, and carry on as though the situation doesn't exist.
- The culture is still developing and exists in a continuous process of change and renewal.
- This is the situation that exists between Hawaii and the continental United States.
- The situation that existed at present was a danger to motorists and pedestrians.
- The worst possible situation is that which existed in the United States and in the Iraqi prison.
- How on earth did the Commission allow so undemocratic a situation to exist?
Synonyms prevail, occur, be found, be met with, be in existence
2Live, especially under adverse conditions. only a minority of people exist on unemployment benefits alone how am I going to exist without you? Example sentencesExamples - The question is whether we can regard one of them as so abnormal that she is not able to exist on her own.
- Middle class professionals are now rare as everyone exists from day to day, just surviving.
- We exist on donations and all volunteers are drawn mainly from local churches.
- I don't want you to get the idea that I exist on takeaways and ready meals, because I don't.
- Are we making it so easy for them to exist on begging that they feel no need to do any work?
Synonyms survive, subsist, live, stay alive, support oneself, eke out a living, eke out an existence
Origin Early 17th century: probably a back-formation from existence. |