Tense definitions

Tense

1) About to freak out 2) Agitated 3) All keyed up 4) All wired up 5) All wound up 6) Angst-ridden 7) Anxiety-filled 8) Anxiety-ridden 9) Anxious 10) Aroused 11) Can be past or present 12) Can be past present or future 13) Clenched 14) Cliff-hanging 15) Close to cracking 16) Constricted 17) Distraught
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Tense

1) Agitated 2) Aoristic 3) Constricted 4) Edgy 5) Haggard 6) Harassed 7) High-strung 8) In a state 9) Jittery 10) Jumpy 11) Nervous 12) Nervy 13) On edge 14) Overstrung 15) Perfective 16) Pumped 17) Restive 18) Stressed 19) Suspenseful 20) Suspensive 21) Taut 22) Tight 23) Uneasy 24) Unrelaxed 25) Upset
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tense

Inflections in a verb to indicate when the action took place
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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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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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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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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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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, her forehead was tense , and a fatal pale...
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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 indicate the time of the action or event signified; the ...
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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 verbs or other structures that indicate the time of an...
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tense

Type: Term Pronunciation: tens Definitions: 1. Tight, rigid, or strained; characterized by anxiety and psychological strain.
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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] - increase the tension on 6. [v] - become tense or t...
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tense

tense 1. Stretched tight; strained; taut. 2. Undergoing or showing mental stress or displaying nervous strain; anxious; apprehensive; jittery.
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Tense

the form taken by a verb to indicate time (as in past-present-future)
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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 can be perfect (with have): present perfect past p...
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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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tense

noun a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time
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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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Tense

The dominant verb-tense in which the main story is told
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tense

1) A reference to the point in time at which an action takes place from the stance of the speaker. Three common tenses which are frequently formally marked on verbs are past, future and present with the latter normally being the unmarked case. Languages may also have further divisions such as a remote past or a distant future and may use additional...
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tense

[TEKS ELAR vocabulary] a category of verbs used to express distinctions of time
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