tense meaning

[tɛns]

WTense

Tense may refer to: Grammatical tense, a grammatical category expressing the time when a state or action denoted by a verb occurs Tense–aspect–mood, a set of grammatical categories frequently referred to as "tense" in traditional grammar Tenseness, a phonological quality frequently associated with vowels and occasionally with consonants

NounPLtenses
1. (grammar) Any of the forms of a verb which distinguish when an action or state of being occurs or exists.
  1. The basic tenses in English are present, past, and future.
VerbSGtensesPRtensingPT, PPtensed
1. (grammar) VT To apply a tense to.
  1. tensing a verb
AdjectiveCOMtenserSUPtensest
1. Showing signs of stress or strain; not relaxed.
  1. You need to relax, all this overtime and stress is making you tense.
More Examples
1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
  - A child familiar with past tenses formed with "-ed" overregularizes by saying "goed" instead of "went".
  - A tense standoff between demonstrators and police continued overnight.
  - One can feel the threatening energy of the thought-forms left in the room after a tense fight.

Meaning of tense for the defined word.

Grammatically, this word "tense" is an adjective. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, a transitive verb.

Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
1. Adjectives
2. Nouns
  - Countable nouns
3. Verbs
  - Transitive verbs

Difficultness: Level 2

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Definiteness: Level 8

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