TENSE
\tˈɛns], \tˈɛns], \t_ˈɛ_n_s]\
Definitions of TENSE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time
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taut or rigid; stretched tight; "tense piano strings"
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in or of a state of physical or nervous tension
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become tense or tenser; "He tensed up when he saw his opponent enter the room"
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increase the tension on; "tense a rope"
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make tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious;
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pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in `beat')
By Princeton University
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a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time
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taut or rigid; stretched tight; "tense piano strings"
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(phonetics) pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in `beat')
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in or of a state of physical or nervous tension
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become tense or tenser; "He tensed up when he saw his opponent enter the room"
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increase the tension on; "tense a rope"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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Stretched tightly; strained to stiffness; rigid; not lax; as, a tense fiber.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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Stretched tightly; strained to stiffness; rigid; not lax; as, a tense fiber.
By Noah Webster.
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Drawn tightly; not lax; severely strained; rigid; tense nerves.
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A change in the form of a verb, showing the time of the action expressed; a verb form which indicates a certain distinction of time by changing its form or by the help of auxiliaries.
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Tenser.
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Tensest.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
