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tend English

Meaning tend meaning

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tend Verb

— If something tends to be true, it is often or usually true. The streets are very confusing in Tokyo and people tend to get lost. A clearly typed paper does tend to get a better mark. If we can't understand something, we tend to ignore it. Of course, millions of dollars in targeted advertising does tend to increase sales. — If you tend something, you watch and take care of it. The children often help with chores, including cutting the grass and tending the garden. — If mathx/math tends towards mathy/math, mathx/math is usually mathy/math. My artwork tends towards the modern. — If you tend bar, you work at a bar selling drinks. — If something tends in a particular direction, you generally moves in that direction. The price of gold has tended upward for about three years.

tend

— verb (= incline, run) have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined She tends to be nervous before her lectures These dresses run small He inclined to corpulence — verb have care of or look after She tends to the children — verb manage or run tend a store

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Topics tend topics

What do people use tend to talk about?
Language and thought Think Mind

Think about
Language and thought Think

Tendency
Work and occupation Animal husbandry

Tend herds in fields
Daily life Fire

Tend a fire

  • What words refer to keeping a fire burning?
    tend a fire
Work and occupation Agriculture

Tend a field

Conjugation tend conjugation

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tend · verb

Examples tend examples

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Simple sentences

We tend to make mistakes.
I tend to look at the pictures before reading the text.
We tend to use more and more electric appliances in the home.
We tend to associate politicians with hypocrisy.
I tend to catch colds.
Tend to your own affairs.
Young people tend to think so.
Young people tend to complain about everything.
Women tend to live longer than men.
Boys tend to look down on their sisters.
Philosophers tend to have little contact with the outside world.
Japanese women tend to look tiny and delicate.
Sick people tend to be pessimistic.
Eggs tend to go bad in summer.
Boys tend to look down on their younger sisters.
We tend to think that our time is our own only on Sundays and holidays.
Fruits tend to decay soon.
We tend to forget that exercise is a key to good health.
Janet, tend to the baby, please.
We tend to use English when we see a foreigner.
Many young men tend to commit the same errors.
Many Americans are uncomfortable with silence, and they tend to regard silence in a conversation as a signal that they need to start talking.
One of the important differences between Japanese and Americans is that Japanese tend to choose a safe course in life, while Americans choose to explore and challenge life.

Movie subtitles

We tend to assume that our civilization, the one that's dominated the world for so long, will last for ever.
We tend to assume that it was Western technology that trumped the East. in particular, the technology that went on to produce the industrial Revolution.
Valencia was involved, and, with her, things tend to get complicated.
When you're in your 20s, you tend to feel like you're invincible, which can lead to getting into bad situations. for some very dumb reasons.
When punters get the rave on, I tend to switch off.
I tend to lose mine.
But I do know you Americans tend to fall for easy explanations.
Be diligent and wise Tend candle and fire Our clock has struck ten.
Observe the eagerness with which the devils tend to the fire under the cauldrons!
Now, you mind your own business and let me tend to my own.
Can you tend a moment?
Morgan will tend to the fire.
Father, will you and Eleanor wait right over there while I tend to the bags?
I even tend to be more benevolent with women.
Well I'll have to tend to that.
You just tend to minding your own business.
Now you run right along and tend to your sheep.
I'll tend to you later.
Go on, tend your bell.
I'll stay. Tend to the horses.
Students tend to run away when the school they run from has teachers who scare them.
It would be better if all weren't watching the play. -I'll tend to that.
Tend to your work, girls.
Tend to knitting.
Reference to the father's police record may tend to undermine the child's parental respect.
But nerds tend to be really good Ju-Ji-Mon players, so the other kids are, like, scared to play there.
I tend to stand people up.
Tend to the horses.
Miss Polly told me to go along and tend to my own business.
Can't you tend to work and leave a body in peace?
Tend to knitting. I'll play cards.
Who's Katzenjammer and where does he tend bar?

News and current affairs

Indeed, our research shows that when mutual-recognition agreements include restrictive rules of origin, intra-regional trade increases - at the expense of trade with other countries - and that developing countries tend to suffer most.
Surveys promoted by the BBC tend to show the reverse.
Debt crises tend to come out of the blue, hitting countries whose debt trajectories simply have no room for error or unplanned adversity.
As Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff have shown in their book This Time is Different, over the long sweep of history, post-crisis recoveries in output and employment tend to be decidedly subpar.
When violence erupts in water-starved regions such as Darfur, Sudan, political leaders tend to view the problems in narrow political terms.
What markets seem to have forgotten is that post-bubble, post-financial-crisis recoveries tend to be anemic.
Since even the smallest states have two senators, this leads to overrepresentation of lightly populated Western states that tend to vote Republican.
Eurozone politicians tend to believe that it is possible to regain competitiveness by carrying out reforms, undertaking infrastructure projects, and improving productivity, but without reducing domestic prices.
Investments tend to follow recovery, as there is so much underutilized capital around.
Muslim countries do tend to be characterized by lower levels of inequality and crime (a good proxy for social exclusion) than other countries at similar stages of economic development, such as those in Catholic Latin America.
In particular, creative industries, such as animation, arts, design, and software - which are mostly based on individual skills and talent - tend to be more resilient to conflict than others.
It makes sense to think that when state authorities enforce strict codes of behavior, people tend to rebel and move away from officially sanctioned religious institutions.
Supporters of democracy tend to be less religious, more secular, more tolerant of others, more critical of public-sector performance, and more concerned with Western cultural invasion.
If there is a perception that prices will be higher in the future, then prices will tend to be higher today.
National supervisors always tend to minimize problems at home.
So even good, critical questions or well-sourced data unearthed by citizen investigators tend to be regarded as radioactive to highly educated formal journalists.
Surveys promoted by financial firms tend to show that trust in them has not diminished much, and that people continue to trust them even more than they do the National Health Service or the BBC.
Growth driven by high commodity prices is also susceptible to busts, for similar reasons. Commodity prices tend to move in cycles.
When Muslims form a minority, they have tended to co-exist peacefully with other religions, but where their populations are substantial (as in Nigeria), they tend to assert themselves.
People tend to pay cash for goods and services, however costly.
Instead, they tend to anticipate the endgame, or at least one potential scenario, namely the unraveling of the entire crisis-containment structure.
First and most importantly, these equilibrium rates are based on a theoretical model where long run current account balances tend toward zero.
During the last harvest, when 100-degree heat forced him, his wives, and his mother to stop picking cotton after a few hours, he returned to his compound to tend to his ducks.
But we tend to retain into adulthood the same views of God that we formed in childhood.
Yes, the euro can tend toward dollar parity.
Bank league tables have been with us for a while, and now tend to be based on capital strength, rather than asset volume, which is an improvement of sorts, but still not very meaningful.

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