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Exists vs Existing - What's the difference?

exists | existing |

As verbs the difference between exists and existing

is that exists is (exist) while existing is .

As an adjective existing is

that exists, or has existence, especially that exists now.

exists

English

Verb

(head)
  • (exist)

    • Anagrams

    *

    exist

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to be; have existence; have being or reality
  • * 2012 , The Unicode Consortium, The Unicode Standard: Version 6.1 – Core Specification , ISBN 978-1-936213-02-3, page 12:
    • Various relationships may exist between character and glyph:
  • * 2012 , The Unicode Consortium, The Unicode Standard: Version 6.1 – Core Specification , ISBN 978-1-936213-02-3, page 19:
    • , regardless of whether those characters also existed in other character encoding standards.
  • * 2012 , The Unicode Consortium, The Unicode Standard: Version 6.1 – Core Specification , ISBN 978-1-936213-02-3, page 55:
    • , which will be treated either as an update of the existing character encoding or as a completely new character encoding.

    Synonyms

    * be

    Derived terms

    * existence * existent * existential * existentialist * existentialism * existentially

    Related terms

    * coexist * coexistence * preexist * preexistence

    External links

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    Anagrams

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    existing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • That exists, or has existence, especially that exists now.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= The attack of the MOOCs , passage=Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.}}

    Synonyms

    * existent

    Anagrams

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