📖 T — The English dictionary · page 13

tend — Everyday, meaning 1: To usually do something or often be a certain way.↗ e.g. "I tend to get tired in the afternoon."↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To look after someone or something.↗ e.g. "tend the garden", "tend a wound".↗ Example: I tend to wake up early.↗ · Cats tend to sleep a lot.↗ · Grandad tends his vegetable garden every day.↗ · The nurse tended the cut on my knee.↗ · Plants tend to grow towards the light.↗ · The shepherd tended his sheep on the hill.↗ · I tend them carefully; I never miss one.↗ · While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep; for she tended them.↗ (Torah GEN.29.9, JPS 1917)↗ · It tends to be used of things that are marvelous, miraculous, or otherwise supernatural and extraordinary, i.e. that which defies the human ability to do or understand and must therefore be divine, e.g. [Deuteronomy 28:59], [Psalm 118:23], [Psalm 139:6].↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · Save Thy people, and bless Thine inheritance; and tend them, and carry them for ever.↗ (Writings PSA.28.9, JPS 1917)↗ · The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but every one that is hasty hasteth only to want.↗ (Writings PRO.21.5, JPS 1917)↗ · Tend Thy people with Thy staff, the flock of Thy heritage, that dwell solitarily, as a forest in the midst of the fruitful field; let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.↗ (Prophets MIC.7.14, JPS 1917)↗

tendency — Everyday, meaning 1: If you have a tendency to do something, you often do it or are likely to do it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A general direction in which something is changing or moving; a trend.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (maths) «Central tendency»: the middle or typical value of a set of data (mean, median, mode).↗ Example: He has a tendency to talk too fast when he is nervous.↗ · Cats have a tendency to sleep a lot.↗ · Prices have a tendency to rise every year.↗ · The mean, median and mode are measures of central tendency.↗ · Iron has a tendency to rust when it gets wet.↗ · There is a tendency for children to eat more sweets at Halloween.↗ · Evil tendencies are shown in early life.↗

tender — Everyday, meaning 1: Soft and easy to cut or chew (tender meat).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Painful when touched (a tender bruise).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Gentle, kind and loving (a tender smile).↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Young and not experienced (at a tender age).↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (formal verb) To offer or give something formally (tender your resignation, tender money).↗ Everyday, meaning 6: (noun) A formal offer to do a job for a price.↗ Everyday, meaning 7: (noun) A small boat that carries people to a bigger ship, or a wagon behind a steam train carrying coal.↗ Everyday, meaning 8: «Legal tender»: money that must be accepted in payment.↗ Early Modern English, meaning 1: Young, soft or delicate; in the first sentence it means a young calf, and in the third it means young, soft grass.↗ Example: Cook the carrots until they are tender.↗ · My knee is still tender where I fell.↗ · She gave the puppy a tender pat.↗ · He started piano at the tender age of four.↗ · Please tender the exact fare.↗ · The builders put in a tender for the new school.↗ · Coins and notes are legal tender.↗ · We took a tender from the cruise ship to the shore.↗ · From the old roots shot forth new tender stems.↗ · And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetched a calf tender and good, and gave it unto the servant; and he hastened to dress it.↗ (Torah GEN.18.7, JPS 1917)↗ · My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew; as the small rain upon the tender grass, and as the showers upon the herb.↗ (Torah DEU.32.2, JPS 1917)↗ · The man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil against his brother, and against the wife of his bosom, and against the remnant of his children whom he hath remaining; (Torah DEU.28.54, JPS 1917)↗ · His flesh is tenderer than a child's; he returneth to the days of his youth; (Writings JOB.33.25, JPS 1917)↗ · Who redeemeth Thy life from the pit; who encompasseth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies; (Writings PSA.103.4, JPS 1917)↗ · The LORD is good to all; and His tender mercies are over all His works.↗ (Writings PSA.145.9, JPS 1917)↗ · And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetched a calf tender and good, and gave it unto the servant; and he hastened to dress it.↗ (Torah GEN.18.7, JPS 1917) · Oh, how tender and wearied her little feet were!↗ (Andersen's Fairy Tales) · My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew; as the small rain upon the tender grass, and as the showers upon the herb.↗ (Torah DEU.32.2, JPS 1917)

tenderly — Everyday, meaning 1: Tenderly means gently and with love or kindness.↗ Example: She kissed the baby tenderly.↗ · "Come, little one," he said tenderly.↗ · He held the bird tenderly in his hands.↗ · Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly unto her.↗ (Prophets HOS.2.16, JPS 1917)↗

tenderness — Everyday, meaning 1: Tenderness is gentle love and kindness, softness of feeling.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Tenderness can mean soreness of the body when touched.↗ Example: She felt great tenderness for her brothers.↗ · My arm has a tenderness after the fall.↗ · He spoke to her with tenderness.↗

tendon — Everyday, meaning 1: A tendon is a strong, tough band of tissue in the body that joins a muscle to a bone.↗ Example: A tendon joins muscle to bone.↗ · The Achilles tendon is at the back of your heel.↗ · The footballer hurt a tendon in his knee.↗ · You can feel the tendons in your wrist when you move your fingers.↗ · Warming up helps prevent tendon injuries.↗ · Tendons are strong but not very stretchy.↗ · The doctor said the tendon needs rest to heal.↗

tendril — Everyday, meaning 1: A tendril is a thin, curly, thread-like part of a climbing plant that wraps around things to help the plant climb, as on peas, grapes and cucumbers.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A tendril can be a thin curl of something that looks like that, such as a tendril of hair or a tendril of smoke.↗ Example: The pea plant's tendrils curled around the stick.↗ · Grapevines climb using tendrils.↗ · A tendril of hair escaped from her ponytail.↗ · Tendrils of smoke rose from the campfire.↗ · We watched a cucumber tendril wrap around the string over a week.↗ · Tendrils of fog crept across the playing field.↗ · In the spooky story, tendrils of ivy covered the old door.↗ · A Goat, passing by, nibbled its young tendrils and its leaves.↗ · And she had strong rods to be sceptres for them that bore rule; and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she was seen in her height with the multitude of her tendrils.↗ (Prophets EZK.19.11, JPS 1917)↗ · And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose tendrils might turn toward him, and the roots thereof be under him; so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs.↗ (Prophets EZK.17.6, JPS 1917)↗

tenement — Everyday, meaning 1: A tenement is a large old building divided into many flats, especially one that was crowded and often poor, as in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dublin or New York in the past.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (Scotland) A tenement is any block of flats several floors high with a shared stair (a close).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A tenement can also mean the body that a spirit lives in, an old-fashioned or poetic use.↗ Example: Many families lived in crowded tenements in Victorian Glasgow.↗ · Our great-great-grandparents had one room in a tenement.↗ · The tenement had a shared toilet on each landing.↗ · Gran grew up in a tenement flat in Edinburgh.↗ · New York's tenements were full of new immigrants.↗ · The old tenement has been turned into smart flats.↗ · The Russian peasants have very confused ideas about the local habitation of the disembodied spirit, after its former tenement has been laid in the grave.↗

tenfold — Everyday, meaning 1: Tenfold means ten times as much or as many: «Sales grew tenfold».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: As an adjective, tenfold means having ten times the size, or having ten parts: «a tenfold increase».↗ Example: The number of visitors grew tenfold: from 50 to 500.↗ · There was a tenfold increase in bikes at school.↗ · His kindness was repaid tenfold.↗ · The price went up tenfold in ten years.↗ · Under the microscope, the cell looked tenfold bigger.↗ · A tenfold rise in rain caused floods.↗ · The grass and the grain began to sprout with tenfold vigor and luxuriance, to make up for the dreary months that had been wasted in barrenness.↗

tenner — Everyday, meaning 1: (UK, Ireland, Australia, NZ, informal) A tenner is ten pounds, ten euros or ten dollars, or a banknote worth ten.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) A tenner can also mean the number ten in some games or prizes.↗ Example: Gran gave me a tenner for my birthday.↗ · That T-shirt only cost a tenner.↗ · Can you lend me a tenner till Friday?↗ · I paid with a tenner and got 3 pounds change, so it cost 7 pounds.↗ · Two tenners make twenty pounds.↗ · He found a tenner on the pavement.↗

tennis — Everyday, meaning 1: Tennis is a sport for two or four players who hit a small ball over a net with rackets on a court.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Table tennis is a different game played on a table with small bats and a light ball.↗ Example: We play tennis in the park after school.↗ · Pass me the tennis racket.↗ · The tennis ball bounced over the net.↗ · Wimbledon is a famous tennis tournament.↗ · In tennis, «love» means zero.↗ · She hit the ball hard with her tennis racket.↗ · They played doubles tennis, two against two.↗ · My brother plays table tennis at the club.↗ · ‘Sire, this morning we were all playing tennis in the court, the prince and this gentleman with the rest, when there broke out some dispute about the game.↗

tenon — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A piece of wood cut to stick out so that it fits into a slot, used to join two pieces of wood.↗ Example: Each board had two tenons, joined one to another.↗ (Torah EXO.36.22, JPS 1917)↗ · Two tenons shall there be in each board, joined one to another; thus shalt thou make for all the boards of the tabernacle.↗ (Torah EXO.26.17, JPS 1917)↗ · And he made forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards: two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons.↗ (Torah EXO.36.24, JPS 1917)↗

tenor — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: The general meaning or sense of something, or the way it goes.↗ Example: And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Write thou these words, for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.'↗ (Torah EXO.34.27, JPS 1917)↗ · And thou shalt do according to the tenor of the sentence, which they shall declare unto thee from that place which the LORD shall choose; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they shall teach thee.↗ (Torah DEU.17.10, JPS 1917)↗

tenrec — Everyday, meaning 1: A small mammal from Madagascar that often looks like a hedgehog or a shrew; some kinds have spines.↗ Example: The tenrec looks like a tiny hedgehog.↗ · Tenrecs live only in Madagascar and a little of Africa.↗ · The streaked tenrec rattles its spines to talk.↗ · A tenrec is not a hedgehog, even though it looks like one.↗ · Some tenrecs swim in streams like little otters.↗ · The zoo has a lowland tenrec in the night house.↗

tense — Everyday, meaning 1: Nervous, worried and unable to relax (I felt tense before the test).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Stretched tight; not relaxed (tense muscles).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Making people feel nervous or full of suspense (a tense moment in the film).↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To make your muscles tight (tense your arms).↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (grammar) Tense: the form of a verb that shows time — past, present or future (I walked, I walk, I will walk).↗ Example: I always feel tense before a spelling test.↗ · Breathe slowly and let your tense shoulders relax.↗ · «Ran» is the past tense of «run».↗ · Write your story in the past tense.↗ · The last minute of the match was very tense.↗ · Tense your muscles, then let them go floppy.↗ · The cat tensed, ready to jump.↗ · The watcher stood beside, staring with his tense face and unwinking, lidless eye.↗

tension — Everyday, meaning 1: Tension is a feeling of worry or nervousness, when people are stressed or not getting on.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In science, tension is the pulling force in a rope, string or wire when it is stretched tight.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Tension is tightness, like in a muscle.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: In stories, tension is the exciting feeling that something is about to happen.↗ Example: There was tension in the room before the results were read out.↗ · The tension in the rope held the boat.↗ · Surface tension lets a pond skater walk on water.↗ · The writer builds tension with short sentences.↗ · Stretching helps to ease tension in your neck.↗ · There was some tension between the two teams.↗ · Tighten the string to increase the tension.↗

tent — Everyday, meaning 1: A tent is a shelter made of cloth or nylon, held up by poles and ropes, that you put up when you go camping.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A big tent is used for a circus or a party (a marquee).↗ Early Modern English, meaning 1: A dwelling made of cloth stretched over poles, where a family lived.↗ Example: Each tent holds 4 people.↗ · 20 campers need tents.↗ · They put up 6 tents.↗ · How many tents are needed for 18 children?↗ · We hammered the tent pegs into the ground.↗ · The circus put up a huge striped tent.↗ · Rain pattered on the tent all night.↗ · Zip the tent shut to keep out the mosquitoes.↗ · "Well, if your business be not pressing, tarry awhile in my tent."↗ · And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond Migdal-eder.↗ (Torah GEN.35.21, JPS 1917)↗ · Go say to them: Return ye to your tents.↗ (Torah DEU.5.30, JPS 1917)↗ · And Laban felt about all the tent, but found them not.↗ (Torah GEN.31.34, JPS 1917)↗ · Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them?↗ (Writings JOB.4.21, JPS 1917)↗ · Now Israel had fled every man to his tent.↗ (Prophets 2SA.19.9, JPS 1917)↗ · And where is the tent wherein the wicked dwelt?'↗ (Writings JOB.21.28, JPS 1917)↗ · And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond Migdal-eder.↗ (Torah GEN.35.21, JPS 1917) · He rose and stalked to the tent-door.↗ (Irish Fairy Tales) · And Laban felt about all the tent, but found them not.↗ (Torah GEN.31.34, JPS 1917)