Real Dictionary

present being somewhere
If someone is present at an event, they are there.
If something, especially a substance or disease, is present in something else, it exists within that thing.

present existing or happening now
You use present to describe things and people that exist now, rather than those that existed in the past or those that may exist in the future.
singular noun: The present is the period of time that we are in now and the things that are happening now.

present gift
countable noun: A present is something that you give to someone, for example at Christmas or when you visit them.

present in American English
being at the specified or understood place; at hand; in attendance

present in American English 1
adjective: being, existing, or occurring at this time or now; current

present in American English 2
noun: a thing presented as a gift; gift
transitive verb: to furnish or endow with a gift or the like, esp. by formal act

present in British English 1
adjective: in existence at the moment in time at which an utterance is spoken or written
noun

present in British English 2
verb: to introduce (a person) to another, esp to someone of higher rank

present verb uses
verb: If you present someone with something such as a prize or document, or if you present it to them, you formally give it to them.