Look up: Tense

1. tense
   [adj] - in or of a state of physical or nervous tension 2. [adj] - (phonetics) pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in `beat`) 3. [adj] - taut or rigid 4. [n] - a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time 5. [v] - incr...
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2. Tense
   the form taken by a verb to indicate time (as in past-present-future)
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3. Tense
   Tense refers to the way the time of an action can be directly indicated in a verb by changing its form (i.e. morphologically). English only has two verb tenses - present tense 'I leave.' and past tense, 'I left.'. However, we have many other ways of creating the idea of tense by using auxiliary verb...
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4. tense
   a property of verbs relating primarily to the time at which the action or event denoted by the verb takes place. For example, past tense verbs, as in Sam left, describe events in the past.
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5. Tense
   A tense is a verb form that most often indicates time. English verbs have two basic tenses, present and past, and each of these can be simple or continuous. For example: present past I play (simple) I played (simple) I am playing (continuous) I was playing (continuous)Additionally, all these forms ...
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6. Tense
   Tense noun [ Old French tens , properly, time, French temps time, tense. See Temporal of time, and confer Thing .] (Gram.) One of the forms which a verb takes by inflection or by adding auxiliary words, so as to indica...
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7. Tense
   Tense adjective [ Latin tensus , past participle of tendere to stretch. See Tend to move, and confer Toise .] Stretched tightly; strained to stiffness; rigid; not lax; as, a tense fiber. « The temples were sunk,...
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8. tense
   Tight, rigid, or strained; characterised by anxiety and psychological strain. ... Origin: L. Tensus, pp. Of tendo, to stretch ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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9. tense
   noun a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time
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10. tense
    verb become stretched or tense or taught; `the bodybuilder`s neck muscles tensed;` `the rope strained when the weight was attached`
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11. 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. • (a.) Stretched tightly; strained to stiffness; rigid; not lax; as, a tense fiber.
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12. tense
    in grammar, a verbal category relating the time of a narrated event to the time of the speech event. In many languages the concept of time is ... [2 related articles]
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13. tense
    tense 1. Stretched tight; strained; taut. 2. Undergoing or showing mental stress or displaying nervous strain; anxious; apprehensive; jittery.
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14. tense
    Of programs, very clever and efficient. A tense piece of code often got that way because it was highly bummed, but sometimes it was just based on a great idea. A comment in a clever routine by Mike Kazar, once a grad-student hacker at CMU: 'This routine is so tense it will bring tears to your eyes...
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15. tense
    tense [O.Fr., from Lat.,=time], in the grammar of many languages, a category of time distinctions expressed by any conjugated form of a verb. In Latin inflection the tense of a verb is indicated by a suffix that also indicates the verb's voice, mood, person, and number. Tense specifies whether the v...
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16. tense
    Type: Term Pronunciation: tens Definitions: 1. Tight, rigid, or strained; characterized by anxiety and psychological strain.
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17. tense
    In grammar, the form a verb takes to indicate action in the present, past, or future (`I work; I worked; I will work`). These tenses can each be divided up into simple, continuous, and perfectforms, and a fourth form of future tenses known as future in the past
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