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tense English

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What does tense mean?
Definitions in simple English

tense

Tightly stretched. Make sure that the net is as stretched as tense as possible for maximum coverage. Stressed; nervous. How odd it was that he was a very courageous boy, yet he became very tense when he was being asked to dance.

tense

Tense is a grammatical system of verb forms that usually shows past, present, or future time. Unlike French, English only has two tenses: past and present. A tense is one of the verb forms marked by the tense system. The verb cut is spelled the same in both tenses. In popular language, a tense is often used to refer to any verb form including tense, aspect, mood, and voice. Shouldn't this be in the progressive tense?

tense

To make or become tense.

tense

a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time taut or rigid; stretched tight tense piano strings in or of a state of physical or nervous tension pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in 'beat') (= tense up) 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 increase the tension on alternately relax and tense your calf muscle tense the rope manually before tensing the spring (= strain) become stretched or tense or taut the bodybuilder's neck muscles tensed; the rope strained when the weight was attached

Synonyms tense synonyms

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Topics tense topics

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Conjugation tense conjugation

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tense · verb

Examples tense examples

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Simple sentences

A tense is the way we speak about time.
You can speak about the future in the English language, and this is usually called the future tense. But many linguists (people who study languages) will tell you that the English language does not actually have a future tense.
What Jane said made the atmosphere less tense.
It's very interesting that in Chinese the concept of tense does not exist.
Tom's meeting with his boss was very tense.
I am always tense before I get on an airplane.
Which endings does this verb have in the present tense?
The government's financial situation is tense.
Tom often uses humor to defuse tense situations.
Tom looks tense.
Tom seems tense.
This sentence is in the present tense.
My back is tense.
There was a tense silence, when the curtain fell.
There was a tense atmosphere in the room.
There's no need to be that tense.
I always feel tense.
The situation seemed very tense and dangerous.
The atmosphere in Washington became very tense.
In the most thrilling moment, everyone looked very tense.
You're so tense.
You're too tense.

Movie subtitles

It's still tense because of the incident.
Now, try not to tense your muscles.
You fainted because you're in a tense and volatile situation.
You just get tense inside. Understand?
On the first one, tense your muscles from head to toe pull your bellies in hard, yell as loud as you can.
Tense irritability, nervousness.
Because flying is like adrenaline to tense pilots.
Besides, he's tense, nervous as a cat, works all the time.
The crowd is tense.
Speaking of the changed Mr. Carpenter in the present tense. he's now running around with a model from your own office.
Don't look so tense.
I'd be so tense, I wouldn't have fun either!
You can't be this tense all the time if you want to be a cop.
Doc is sort of tense.
The situation is tense. There is fear of further unrest.
I was using the subjunctive instead of the past tense.
The crowd is tense. It is indeed a solemn occasion.
Now that only a few hours separate us from our great destination, a tense agitation fills the air.
When I'm tense or.
Darling, don't tense your hands.
We've all been a little tense lately.
But we were so tense and melodramatic this day.
You've got to tense the gluteal muscles, dear.
If you don't tense the gluteal muscles why, your whole alignment is off.
Oh, tense the gluteal muscles, did you say?
Tense.
Gotta tense.
It is this crosspiece that acts as both the bones supporting the body of the biwa as well as its heart. if this crosspiece was merely straight and stiff and everything was tight and tense you wouldn't get much sound from it.
No need to get so tense.
I was tense.
Your relations with the victim were even pretty tense.
You speak about me as- as if you were reading my obituary- as we might speak of Madame de Pompadour - in the past tense.
But you have been thinking Of me in the past tense.
This is the most tense moment.
You look all tense.
I'm very tense and upset.
Am I tense?
Oh, Monta-san, you look so tense.
You've never been so tense about a planetoid before.
It was kind of tense back there.
Yes, you seem.. I don't know. You seem tense.

News and current affairs

In the absence of a community-based approach, interactions with law-enforcement authorities are now limited to tense, conflict-ridden situations, reinforcing the confrontational atmosphere between rebellious youth and the police.
PARIS - Earlier this week, following days of tense discussions, the new government in Athens reached an agreement with its eurozone creditors that includes a package of immediate reforms and a four-month extension of the financial assistance program.
They were more often in moods that they described as hostile, angry, anxious, and tense.
Despite the gathering's pageant-like appearance, the atmosphere was undoubtedly tense.
The situation remains tense and fluid.
Both the West and the Arab rulers need to realize that the tense equation between the incumbent regimes and political Islam is not necessarily a zero-sum game.
For example, the two parties are now engaged in tense negotiations to amend the Presidential and Vice-Presidential Election and Recall Law to avert any repeat of the current confused circumstances surrounding the current recount.
Hostility on the football pitch merely reflects the existing tense relations between the two countries, which carry the weight of a painful history.
As a result, relations among regional actors remain tense.
In this tense climate, the northern candidate, Alassane Ouattara, a Muslim and former senior official at the International Monetary Fund, was denied the right to run in the 2005 presidential election.
Russia's heavy-handed pressure on Georgia and its support of secessionist movements in South Ossetia and Abkhazia, two unrecognized republics within Georgia, inflames passions and risks destabilizing the already tense Northern Caucasus.
These issues remain as relevant today, with Varoufakis out of government, as they were when he was tirelessly advocating for them during visits to European capitals and in tense late-night negotiations in Brussels.
NEW DELHI - Ernest Hemingway's collection of stories, Men without Women, examines tense gender relationships.
In an effort to end a tense standoff, the US brokered a deal in which both countries agreed to withdraw their maritime vessels from the area.
Of course, Kenya had lived through tense electoral periods before, and few people who know Africa were blind to the many difficulties the country continued to face.
It will be prolonged and occasionally very tense, but eventually result in appreciation of the renminbi.
In this tense setting, it comes as no surprise that the question of whether anti-Semitism has returned to France, after a seven-decade hiatus, is making international headlines.
The Kremlin's handling of the affair is indicative of the tense state of US-Russia relations.
Muslim-Christian relations are tense all over the world, but nowhere are they more inflamed than in Nigeria, the most populous country where Christians and Muslims exist in roughly equal numbers.
Almost inevitably, or so it seems, the idea of Pakistan has been usurped, which is why Pakistan's friends have so often become its masters, and why Pakistan continues to remain fragile, insecure, and tense.
As the structural causes that have pushed these countries into near permanent states of crisis seem unlikely to be resolved anytime soon, there problems may well become linked to Latin America's tense relations with the US.
Ever since I left Romania for exile in 1986, my returns have been rare and tense.
Indeed, it is our belief that the recent death sentences could mark the onset of an avalanche of highly doubtful Court rulings in Tibet, which could lead to a worrying number of executions in that tense and troubled region.
Whether or not their relationship is in fact neighborly, rather than tense and confrontational, is of critical importance to both.
All of this worsens an already tense situation.

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