presenting
- 1Present participle and gerund of present.
The researcher is presenting her latest findings at the conference next week.
Presenting in front of a large audience makes many people nervous.
Note
The -ing form carries every use of the verb, so its object decides the meaning. Presenting findings is showing them; presenting a guest to a host is a formal introduction; presenting a complaint puts it before a court or other authority. With a reflexive pronoun it means appearing formally: presenting oneself before a panel. The church sense survives in the gerund as well: presenting a candidate for a benefice is nominating them.
She was presenting herself before the committee at nine o'clock sharp.
He spent the evening presenting the new ambassador to the other guests.
presenting is a form of present
present, verb: To put something forward so that it can be seen; to show or exhibit it. Full entry
- Spelling
- present → presenting: add -ing
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