28 July 2015
extant
[ek-stuh nt, ik-stant]
adjective
1. in existence; still existing; not destroyed or lost:
There are only three extant copies of the document.
2. Archaic. standing out; protruding.
Origin of extant
Latin
1535-1545; < Latin ex (s) tant- (stem of ex (s) tāns) standing out, present participle of exstāre, equivalent to ex- ex-1+ stāre to stand
Related forms
nonextant, adjective
Can be confused
extant, extent.
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Examples from the Web for extant
Contemporary Examples
Alas, CBS Entertainment chairman Nina Tassler has already said that if extant is a hit like Dome, it will return next year.
(Surprise! Halle Berry’s Career Is ‘Extant’, Jason Lynch, July 8, 2014)
“Today,” Deptula said, “the Russians have an extant significant advantage in their surface to air capabilities”.
(The Pentagon Isn’t Ready for a New Cold War, Jacob Siegel, March 19, 2014.
The only extant copy online is at a Bashar fan site called presidentassad.net.
(Asma-al-Assad Comes Out in Support of Syria’s Brutal Regime, Josh Dzieza, February 7, 2012)
Today’s quote
You can never win an argument with a negative person. The only hear what suits them and listen only to respond.
– Michael P. Watson
On this day
28 July 1586 – the humble and versatile potato introduced to the British Isles by Sir Thomas Harriot after it was brought to Europe from the Americas by the Spanish.
28 July 1866 – the United States recognises the metric system as a valid means of measurement.
28 July 1900 – Louis Lassing of Connecticut invents the hamburger.
28 July 1902 – birth of Albert Namatjira, Australian Aboriginal artist. Died 8 August 1959.
28 July 1914 – start of World War I when a Serbian nationalist, Gavrilo Princep, assassinated Austrian Prince Franz Ferdinand. At the time, Europe was comprised of two blocs, the Triple Entente (Britain, France and Russia) and the Triple Alliance (Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy). War escalated as each country came to the other’s aid following military responses to the assassination.
28 July 1928 – IX Olympiad opens in Amsterdam.
28 July 1945 – a United States Air Force B-25 Liberator bomber collides with the Empire State Building in New York. A 9.40am, the plane was flying from Bedford Army Air Field to Newark Airport. The pilot asked for clearance to land but was denied because of zero visibility as a result of heavy fog. Rather than turn around, the pilot continued on and became disoriented in the thick fog. The plane smashed into the building between the 78th and 80th floors, killing 14 people, including all on board the plane. One of the plane’s engines flew through the other side of the building, into the next block, falling 900 feet onto the roof of another building, causing a fire that destroyed a penthouse. The other engine and part of the landing gear plummeted down the elevator shaft.