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Exists vs Is - What's the difference?

exists | is |

As verbs the difference between exists and is

is that exists is third-person singular of exist while is is third-person singular of be.

As a noun is is

plural of lang=en.

exists

English

Verb

(head)
  • (exist)
  • Anagrams

    *

    exist

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to be; have existence; have being or reality
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  • Various relationships may exist between character and glyph:
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  • , regardless of whether those characters also existed in other character encoding standards.
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  • , 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

    Anagrams

    * * ----

    is

    English

    (IS)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl), from (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . The paradigm of "to be" has been since the time of Proto-Germanic a synthesis of four originally distinct verb stems. The infinitive form "to be" is from .

    Alternative forms

    * 's

    Verb

    (head)
  • (be)
  • He is a doctor. He retired some time ago.
    Should he do the task, it is vital that you follow him.
    It all depends on what the meaning of is is. - (Bill Clinton)
  • See also

    * am * are * art * be * been * beest * being * was * wast * were * wert

    Statistics

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    Etymology 2

    .

    Noun

    (head)
  • remember to dot your is
    Usage notes