The term first appeared in wide use shortly after the turn of the 20th century and has been used since in roughly its present meaning.
These verbs have acquired an independent, present tense meaning.
Sometimes the intransitive form of a perfect has a present meaning.
"Patrick is awesome," Thomas said, his use of the present tense meaning he didn't view this as any kind of aberration.
In oral societies, Crain writes, "words have their present meanings but no older ones.
NO, it's merely the origins of its present meaning.
It is used with present or occasionally even future meaning.
This word originated sometime in the 19th century the word "Tango", but not yet its present meaning.
He had 487 stolen bases from 1888 through 1897, and 107 more after the statistic was redefined to its present meaning in 1898.
