tense
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taut or rigid; stretched tight "tense piano strings" -
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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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cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious "he got a phone call from his lawyer that tensed him up" -
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become tense, nervous, or uneasy "He tensed up when he saw his opponent enter the room" -
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increase the tension on "alternately relax and tense your calf muscle","tense the rope manually before tensing the spring" -
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become stretched or tense or taut "the bodybuilder's neck muscles tensed"," "the rope strained when the weight was attached" -
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a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time
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Tense
Stretched tightly; strained to stiffness; rigid; not lax; as, a tense fiber. "The temples were sunk, her forehead was tense , and a fatal paleness was upon her."
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Time. See temps. -
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In grammar: Time. -
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One of the forms, or sets of forms, which a verb takes in order to indicate the time of action or of that which is affirmed: extended also to forms indicating the nature of the action as continued, completed, and the like. In English this is effected either by internal vowel change, as in sing, sang, lead, led; by terminational inflection, as in love, loved; or, in verb-phrases, by means of auxiliary words, as in did love, have loved, will love. -
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Being in a state of tension; stretched until tight; strained to stiffness; rigid; not lax: often used figuratively. -
tense
To make tense or taut.
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tens time in grammar, the form of a verb to indicate the time of the action. -
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tens strained to stiffness: rigid
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary OF. tens, properly, time, F. temps, time, tense. See Temporal of time, and cf. Thing
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary L. tensus, pa.p. of tendĕre, to stretch.
It's true the missile crisis was full of tense moments. timesleader.com
The tense relationship with a major trade partner. chicagotribune.com
Sierra Leone tense ahead of 'extremely delicate ' election Saturday. thestar.com
Turkey said Sunday that it had scrambled fighter jets along its increasingly tense border with Syria after Syrian helicopters were detected close to the two nations' long frontier. latimes.com
A lizard, an unhinged roommate and a kidnapped single mom make up Diana Wagman's tense 'The Care and Feeding of Exotic Pets.'. latimes.com
But if you want something sharp and tense, "You Don't Want to Know" is a book you don't want to read. clermontsun.com
The race for mayor is getting tense. foxillinois.com
Election Day is here and the race for mayor is getting tense. foxillinois.com
Despite a tense campaign, US Rep Keith Ellison easily won re-election to represent the 5th Congressional District in Congress. monticellotimes.com
Sierra Leone tense ahead of ' extremely delicate' election Saturday. thestar.com
El Paso,TX — There were some tense moments Wendesday afternoon after an apartment complex caught fire. ktsm.com
The Selectboard, Town Manager Barbara Sondag and the town's department heads, battled through a detailed, and sometimes tense, four hour meeting Saturday morning to try to reduce the proposed fiscal year 2014 budget. reformer.com
Sheffield Wednesday goalkeeper Chris Kirkland was hit in the face and then shoved to the ground by a Leeds United fan during a tense 1-1 draw at Hillsborough on Friday night. socceramerica.com
Y ou didn't need to listen to the words to know how tense things have become at the Scott County Courthouse. startribune.com
In "The Heiress," which opens on Broadway next month, the Sloper household is as tense as it is beautifully furnished. nj.com
In this paper we have discussed a logic-based approach to modeling temporal information, and in particular, information about tense and aspect.
Generating models for temporal representations
On the inference side we have provided a first-order theory which, although inspired by work on English, seems general enough to provide analyses of tense and aspect in other languages.
Generating models for temporal representations
We show that any transversally complete Riemannian foliation F of dimension one on any possibly non-compact manifold M is tense; namely, (M , F ) admits a Riemannian metric such that the mean curvature form of F is basic.
Tenseness of Riemannian flows
This is a partial generalization of a result of Dom´ınguez, which says that any Riemannian foliation on any compact manifold is tense.
Tenseness of Riemannian flows
Any Riemannian foliation on a closed manifold is tense.
Tenseness of Riemannian flows
In the silence that followed, Gaddon's tense breathing was the only sound. "The Monster" by
So the Bunch returned tensely to Jarviston, with more time to sweat out. "The Planet Strappers" by
Long before the court began its sitting, the air was hot and tense with eager curiosity. "The Day of Judgment" by
When he resumed his voice was pitched lower, but was very tense. "The Fire People" by
With every muscle tense they whirled the handles up and down like human engines. "The Young Railroaders" by
Only the boy, peering through the knothole, was tense and vibrant. "Frank of Freedom Hill" by
It carried, too, to the other side of the street, and the girl saw faces grow suddenly tense; noted the stiffening of bodies. "'Firebrand' Trevison" by
Alan waited tensely while MacIntosh crossed the room again, drew out the contents of the tube, and scanned them. "Starman's Quest" by
Walking fast, tense and ready to spring at all times, their eyes never still for an instant. "Deathworld" by
ON TENSES IN GENERAL. "A Handbook of the English Language" by
My body tired but tense
Hovers 'twixt vague pleasure
And tremulous confidence.
In April's tender weather
I let my tense hands hold
All they could gather of love.
(Dauntless when the foe they fac'd)
Vein and muscle bounded through,
Tense his Helot sinews brac'd.
There's hope and joy on every page;
A cheer, a clarion call to Youth,
A hymn, a comforter to Age:
All's there that I was meant to be,
My part divine, the God in me.
Aziza whom I adore,
And, waking, after the night,
I am weary with dreams of you.
Every nerve in my heart is tense and sore
As I rise to another morning apart from you.
Despite my close and tense endeavour,
When many an important word
Was lost and gone forever;
Though, unlike others at the play,
I never whispered: "wha'd'd she say?"