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1. (adj.) tense
stretched tight, as a cord, fiber, etc.; drawn taut; rigid.
2. tense
in a state of mental or nervous strain; high-strung:
a tense person.
3. tense
characterized by a strain upon the nerves or feelings:
a tense moment.
4. tense
(of a speech sound) pronounced with the muscles of the speech organs relatively tense, as the vowel (ē) in seat.
5. (v.i.) tense
to make or become tense.
6. (n.) tense
a category of verbs or verbal inflection serving chiefly to specify the time of the action or state expressed by the verb.
7. tense
a set of such categories or constructions in a particular language.
8. tense
the time, as past, present, or future, expressed by such a category.
Etymology: (1275–1325; ME tens < MF < L tempus time, tense)
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| Definition of 'tense' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (adj) tense
a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time
2. (adj) tense
in or of a state of physical or nervous tension
3. (adj) tense
pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in `beat')
4. (verb) tense
taut or rigid; stretched tight
"tense piano strings"
5. (verb) strain, tense
become stretched or tense or taut
"the bodybuilder's neck muscles tensed;" "the rope strained when the weight was attached"
6. (verb) tense
increase the tension on
"alternately relax and tense your calf muscle"; "tense the rope manually before tensing the spring"
7. (verb) tense, tense up
become tense, nervous, or uneasy
"He tensed up when he saw his opponent enter the room"
8. (verb) tense, strain, tense up
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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1. (adjective) tense
worried or anxious
I'm feeling a little tense.
2. tense
causing sb to feel worried or anxious
a tense moment/situation/time
3. tense
(of muscles) tight and often sore
tense neck muscles
4. (noun) tense
a form of a verb that shows when sth takes place
the past/future/present tense
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (adj) tense
stretched tightly; strained to stiffness; rigid; not lax; as, a tense fiber
2. (noun) tense
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
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The New Hacker's Dictionary |
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1. tense
Of programs, very clever and efficient. A tense piece of code often
got that way because it was highly tuned, but sometimes it was just based
on a great idea. A comment in a clever routine by Mike Kazar, once a
grad-student hacker at CMU: “This routine is so tense it will bring
tears to your eyes.” A tense programmer is one who produces tense
code.
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Sense: a form of a verb that shows the time of its action in relation to the time of speaking
a verb in the past/future/present tense.
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 Afrikaans: tyd |
 Arabic: صيغَة تَدُل على زَمان حُد |
 Bulgarian: глаголно време |
 Brazilian: tempo |
 Czech: čas |
 German: die Zeitform |
 Danish: tid; -tid |
 Greek: (γραμματική) χρόνος |
 Spanish: tiempo |
 Estonian: ajavorm |
 Farsi: زمان |
 Finnish: aikamuoto |
 French: temps |
 Hebrew: מָתוּחַ |
 Hindi: क्रिया का काल |
 Croatian: glagolsko vrijeme |
 Hungarian: igeidő |
 Indonesian: kala |
 Icelandic: tíð |
 Italian: tempo |
 Japanese: 時制 |
 Korean: 시제 |
 Lithuanian: laikas |
 Latvian: (gramatikā) laiks |
 Malay: kala |
 Dutch: tijd |
 Norwegian: tid, tempus |
 Polish: czas |
 Portuguese: tempo |
 Romanian: timp |
 Russian: время |
 Slovak: čas (slovesný) |
 Slovenian: glagolskičas |
 Serbian: vreme |
 Swedish: tempus, tidsform |
 Thai: กาล (เป็นรูปของกริยาแสดงเ |
 Turkish: fiil zamanı, kip |
 Taiwanese: (動詞的)時態 |
 Ukrainian: час |
 Urdu: فعل کا زمانہ |
 Vietnamese: thời của động từ |
 Chinese: （动词的）时态 |
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