Definition of tenses Tenses
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Wiktionary 
- tenses (Noun)
Plural of tense.
Part of speech
🔤WordNet
NounPlural: tenses |
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| tense - a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time | ||
| grammatical category, syntactic category (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties | ||
| present tense, present a verb tense that expresses actions or states at the time of speaking | ||
| aorist a verb tense in some languages (classical Greek and Sanskrit) expressing action (especially past action) without indicating its completion or continuation | ||
| past tense, past a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past | ||
| future tense, future bulk commodities bought or sold at an agreed price for delivery at a specified future date | ||
| continuous tense, imperfect, imperfect tense, progressive tense, progressive a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going | ||
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| tense - cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious; "he got a phone call from his lawyer that tensed him up" | ||
| strain, tense up | ||
| make relaxed, unlax, unstrain, unwind, loosen up, relax reverse the winding or twisting of; "unwind a ball of yarn" | ||
| tense up, tense cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious; "he got a phone call from his lawyer that tensed him up" | ||
| affect act physically on; have an effect upon; "the medicine affects my heart rate" | ||
| stretch, extend extend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body; "Stretch your legs!"; "Extend your right arm above your head" | ||
| tense - become tense, nervous, or uneasy; "He tensed up when he saw his opponent enter the room" | ||
| tense up | ||
| decompress, unwind, loosen up, slow down, unbend, relax restore to its uncompressed form; "decompress data" | ||
| change state, turn undergo a transformation or a change of position or action; "We turned from Socialism to Capitalism"; "The people turned against the President when he stole the election" | ||
| tense - increase the tension on; "alternately relax and tense your calf muscle"; "tense the rope manually before tensing the spring" | ||
| modify, alter, change make less severe or harsh or extreme; "please modify this letter to make it more polite"; "he modified his views on same-gender marriage" | ||
| tense - become stretched or tense or taut; "the bodybuilder's neck muscles tensed;" "the rope strained when the weight was attached" | ||
| strain | ||
| tighten become tight or tighter; "The rope tightened" | ||
Adjectivetense, tenser, tensest |
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| tense - in or of a state of physical or nervous tension | ||
| relaxed without strain or anxiety; "gave the impression of being quite relaxed"; "a relaxed and informal discussion" | ||
| agitated troubled emotionally and usually deeply; "agitated parents" | ||
| uneasy relating to bodily unease that causes discomfort | ||
| wound up, aroused (of persons) excessively affected by emotion; "he would become emotional over nothing at all"; "she was worked up about all the noise" | ||
| cliff-hanging, nail-biting, suspenseful, suspensive (of a situation) characterized by or causing suspense | ||
| taut pulled or drawn tight; "taut sails"; "a tight drumhead"; "a tight rope" | ||
| antsy, fidgety, fretful, itchy nervous and unable to relax; "a constant fretful stamping of hooves"; "a restless child" | ||
| edgy, high-strung, highly strung, uptight, jittery, jumpy, overstrung, restive, nervy being in a tense state | ||
| electric affected by emotion as if by electricity; thrilling; "gave an electric reading of the play"; "the new leader had a galvanic effect on morale" | ||
| isotonic of or involving muscular contraction in which tension is constant while length changes | ||
| nervous easily agitated; "a nervous addict"; "a nervous thoroughbred" | ||
| strained showing signs of mental and emotional tension; "her voice was strained as she asked the question" | ||
| unrelaxed nor relaxed; "his life was drawing to a close in baffled zeal and unrelaxed strain"- U.B.Phillips | ||
| tense - taut or rigid; stretched tight; "tense piano strings" | ||
| lax emptying easily or excessively; "loose bowels" | ||
| tight affected by scarcity and expensive to borrow; "tight money"; "a tight market" | ||
| overstrung too tightly strung; "an overstrung archery bow" | ||
| tense - pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in `beat') | ||
| lax emptying easily or excessively; "loose bowels" | ||
| phonetics the branch of acoustics concerned with speech processes including its production and perception and acoustic analysis | ||
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Wiktionary
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- tense (n.)
One of the forms which a verb takes by inflection or by adding auxiliary words, so as to indicate the time of the action or event signified; the modification which verbs undergo for the indication of time. - tense (a.)
Stretched tightly; strained to stiffness; rigid; not lax; as, a tense fiber.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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tense
Showing signs of stress or strain; not relaxed. -
tense
The grammatical construct of the time in which a sentence acts. -
tense
To cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious. -
tense
To become stretched or tense or taut.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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tense
tens, n. time in grammar, the form of a verb to indicate the time of the action. [O. Fr. tens (Fr. temps)—L. tempus, time.] -
tense
tens, adj. strained to stiffness: rigid.—adv. Tense′ly.—ns. Tense′ness, state of being tense; Tensibil′ity, Tensil′ity, quality of being tensile.—adjs. Ten′sible, Ten′sile, capable of being stretched.—ns. Ten′sion, act of stretching: state of being stretched or strained: strain: effort: strain in the direction of the length, or the degree of it: mental strain, excited feeling: a strained state of any kind; Ten′sion-rod, a rod in a structure holding together different parts; Ten′sity, tenseness: state of being tense.—adj. Ten′sive, giving the sensation of tenseness or stiffness.—n. Ten′sor, a muscle that tightens a part. [L. tensus, pa.p. of tendĕre, to stretch.]
