{
  "id": "present.gift",
  "term": "present",
  "sense": "gift",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 17,
  "arena": "present",
  "domain": "emergence",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "an object given to a person",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "object.entity",
      "give.transfer",
      "human.person",
      "given.premise",
      "people.social"
    ],
    "interaction": "When an object is transferred through a social premise of giving, it becomes a present.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "occasioned exchange",
      "social significance",
      "recipient-imputed value"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "In 2023, Gitanjali Rao received the 3D-printed 'Young Scientist Award' trophy from Discovery Education at the national finals in Orlando.",
      "domain": "education"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Mars Perseverance rover carried a silicon chip inscribed with 10.9 million names to Mars in 2021.",
      "domain": "space"
    },
    {
      "text": "On December 25, 1971, President Nixon gave Chairman Mao a porcelain swan figurine during the Shanghai summit.",
      "domain": "diplomacy"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "gift.present",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "loss.economic",
      "note": "contrasts-with",
      "type": "contrasts-with"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "present",
    "presented",
    "presenting",
    "presents"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "factual",
      "note": "Definition was factually incomplete without acknowledging the social context and informational premise of 'givenness' fundamental to the concept of 'present' as distinct from mere object transfer."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-present.gift"
}