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| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | tense up |
| Type of | turn, change state |
| Derivation | tensor, tension |
He tensed up when he saw his opponent enter the room.
tense::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | grammatical category, syntactic category |
| Has types | future tense, aorist, imperfect, imperfect tense, past, past tense, perfect, perfect tense, perfective, perfective tense, present, present tense, progressive, progressive tense, continuous tense, future |
tense::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Derivation | tenseness |
tense::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Derivation | tensity, tenseness |
tense piano strings.
Examples of tense
tense
Other parts of the country were still tense after a weekend of political unrest.
From the online.wsj.com
The meetings were tense at times, with the leaders calling the report one-sided.
From the freep.com
We are going through a very tense period, and that is why I am really concerned.
From the telegraph.co.uk
It was a tense 2 minutes as my obstetrician tried to locate my baby's heartbeat.
From the newscientist.com
Despite building a 5-1 lead, there were some tense moments late for the Red Sox.
From the timesunion.com
Foster, already a veteran of these tense late dramas, never looked like missing.
From the independent.co.uk
They were expected to debate the proposals at a tense public meeting last night.
From the telegraph.co.uk
O'Hagan was in and out, the atmosphere was tense and I got nowhere with Assange.
From the guardian.co.uk
Note the passive voice, the present tense, the phrasing, the pace, the response.
From the guardian.co.uk
- A grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time
- In or of a state of physical or nervous tension
- Strain: become stretched or tense or taut; "the bodybuilder's neck muscles tensed;" "the rope strained when the weight was attached"
- Increase the tension on; "alternately relax and tense your calf muscle"; "tense the rope manually before tensing the spring"
- Pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in `beat')
- Taut or rigid; stretched tight; "tense piano strings"
- Become tense, nervous, or uneasy; "He tensed up when he saw his opponent enter the room"
- Cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious; "he got a phone call from his lawyer that tensed him up"
- Tense is a grammatical category that locates a situation or action in time, that indicates when the situation or action takes place.Bernard Comrie, Aspect, 1976:6: the semantic concept of time reference (absolute or relative), ... may be grammaticalised in a language, i.e. ...
