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verb tɛndtɛnd 1no object, with infinitive Regularly or frequently behave in a particular way or have a certain characteristic. 有某种倾向；往往会 written language tends to be formal 书面语往往正式。 her hair tended to come loose 她的头发容易松散。 Example sentencesExamples - George's adoration of his small children tended to evaporate as they grew older.
- Your work tends not to employ direct political messages.
- These rolls were rather fragile, so they tended to become damaged.
- Rather than finding the deserters, the army tends simply dismiss them in their absence.
- Popular though these titles are, their appeal tends to be limited to a particular culture.
- They tend not to be frequenters of high-art institutions.
- They tended to live beyond their means, and on one occasion barely avoided bankruptcy.
- The primary carer tends frequently to be the mother and therefore the law favours the mother.
- Photocopies of handwritten notes look scrappy and tend not to be valued.
- You tend not to go out partying and clubbing till 2am.
- Some cultures also tend not to make eye contact.
- My personal network tends to be limited to people in similar fields to me.
- Very obese people tend not to exercise.
- Historians during the 20th century tended overwhelmingly to write about single countries - almost always their own.
- People in the West tend not to read books in languages other than their own.
- We tend not to reapply sun cream frequently enough.
- People tend not to like to wait.
- I write most of my stuff late at night and tend not to spend a lot of time editing it.
- People tended not to save email messages.
- Winning entries tend musically to sound rather similar.
Synonyms be inclined, be apt, be disposed, be prone, be liable, have/show a tendency, be likely, have a propensity - 1.1tend to/towardsno object Be liable to possess or display (a particular characteristic)
易于，趋于 Walter tended towards corpulence 沃尔特有发胖的趋势。 Example sentencesExamples - The meeting tended towards the mundane.
- The script tends towards melodrama.
- Everything that tends towards mutual understanding must be encouraged.
- Here vegetation tends towards dark and spiky lushness.
- They tend toward dark complexions and dark hair.
- He was tending towards crankiness.
- Your answers to the questions indicate that you tend toward being a Director.
- The day was a morbid grey, and tending towards chilly.
- His clientele tend toward having cultivated tastes.
- My partner tends towards political pessimism.
- Custom-made furniture for kitchens and bathrooms tends towards the traditional, but with a contemporary twist.
- His other stories tend towards an intentional fuzziness.
- Too many of the characterizations tend towards the stereotypical.
Synonyms incline, lean, swing, veer, gravitate, be drawn, move favour show a preference for, be biased North American trend - 1.2no object, with adverbial Go or move in a particular direction.
走向；趋向 fire is hot and tends upwards Example sentencesExamples - Who controls events, and in which direction do they tend?
- Her taste has tended towards men with bicep measurements bigger than their IQ.
- They bounced along the cracked road, the cyclist careful not to tend too near the Harbor Center tower.
- You know the direction in which American policy in this region should be tending.
- When I get food, I've been tending towards organic.
- His past five albums have tended towards themes which are familiar to country music fans.
- He supports his body by putting his foot forward in the direction in which the center of gravity tends.
- I know people around me would tend in that direction.
- History did not tend simply upward or simply downward but in both directions at once.
- We are confident that, in the long run, things tend upward.
- It's hard to talk about her without tending into the language of the mythical.
- Her roles to date have been varied, though she tends towards characters who are powerful, capable or magnetic.
- The arguments always tend in the same direction.
- Alan winced at the direction in which his thoughts were tending.
- All these questions tend in a particular direction.
- She tends toward the sentimental, but most of her films at least have some form of character development.
- 1.3tend toMathematics no object (of a variable) approach a given quantity as a limit.
the orbit tends to infinity Example sentencesExamples - The requirements of perfect competition are that there must be very large, tending to infinite, numbers of producers and of consumers.
- As time tends to infinity both the variance and the total number tends to zero.
OriginMiddle English (in the sense 'move or be inclined to move in a certain direction'): from Old French tendre 'stretch, tend', from Latin tendere. Rhymesamend, append, apprehend, ascend, attend, befriend, bend, blend, blende, commend, comprehend, condescend, contend, defriend, depend, emend, end, expend, extend, fend, forfend, friend, impend, interdepend, lend, mend, misapprehend, misspend, offend, on-trend, Oostende, Ostend, perpend, portend, rend, reprehend, scrag-end, send, spend, subtend, suspend, tail end, transcend, trend, underspend, unfriend, upend, vend, weekend, wend verb tɛndtɛnd [with object]1Care for or look after; give one's attention to. 照顾，照料；照管；护理 Varela tended plants on the roof 瓦勒拉照管屋顶的植物。 no object ambulance crews were tending to the injured Example sentencesExamples - Caring for livestock or tending the land seems an idyllic lifestyle.
- The man next door tends his weeds with care.
- Trees grow more quickly here, and they cost less to plant, tend, and harvest.
- They spend countless hours each summer planting, tending and enjoying their gardens.
- She took a keen interest in flowers and plants, tending them with great care and fondness.
- The workers take on the responsibility of cultivating the ground and tending the crops.
- He had no land to cultivate nor crops to tend.
- Both men work hard in tending their crops and caring for the animals, especially their cow.
- These pitches are definitely not a pretty sight, and they most certainly are not tended with loving care.
- The oaks were planted in special soil and tended carefully during cultivation.
- She and her husband regularly tended the small plot at the crematorium where the ashes of her parents are buried.
- You will find some of the cleanest and best tended beaches on the west coast.
- Someone had to plant the trees and tend them until the coffee beans reached maturity.
- The very basis of growing plants is tending the soil itself.
- Local people have shown great community initiative by tending by planting, watering and looking after the flower beds.
- While most of the graves are lovingly tended, many others are overgrown, unkempt and desecrated.
- You must have a familiarity with the character and history of the land you tend.
- His gardens are tended with skill and care, and his home is neat.
- Part of a doctor's vocation is to tend the sick with care and conscientiousness.
- She and husband Paul have lovingly tended the garden at their home.
Synonyms look after, take care of, care for, minister to, attend to, see to, wait on, cater to watch over, keep an eye on, mind, protect, watch, guard nurse, nurture, cherish maintain, cultivate, keep, manage - 1.1US Direct or manage; work in.
〈美〉经营，管理；在…工作 I've been tending bar at the airport lounge 我一直在机场休息厅经营酒吧。 Example sentencesExamples - She tends bar at a posh dance club by night and works at a record store by day.
- I was tending bar that night.
- My dream has always been to tend bar at a beachfront resort.
- Casual work was easy enough to find, even if I did have to tend bars or wait tables.
- The two met a decade ago when he was tending bar.
- I spent many years tending bar in a nightclub before my husband and I decided to open our own place.
- Instead of putting up with condescending comments from customers at the bar she tended, she began to challenge them.
- She eats at the restaurant about three times a week,and also buses tables and tends bar.
- I chattered for 10 minutes with the girl tending the bar.
- Too many people who tend bar think of it as something to do while waiting for their big career break.
- He still spends his days tending bar, surrounded by smokers.
- She was tending bar, being snappy to customers.
- After a week's vacation, he plans to go back to tending bar.
- Some aspiring movie stars tend bar to make ends meet.
- She manages a restaurant downtown and tends bar once a week.
- They like to hire rugged, macho-looking guys to tend bar.
- He stopped to talk to the owner who was tending the bar.
- He acknowledged the woman tending bar with a simple nod.
- The room was almost deserted except for the man tending the bar.
- She ordered an ice water from the man tending the bar.
- 1.2archaic Wait on as an attendant or servant.
〈古〉侍候；服侍 the man that tended the carpenter no object Enid tended on him there Example sentencesExamples - The suicide bombers believe that a place in paradise awaited him, 70 virgins waiting to tend their every need.
- I will be able to tend upon you regularly for the next week but after that my time will be divided.
Derivativesnoun ˈtɛnd(ə)nsˈtɛndəns mass nounarchaic The provision of care or attention to someone. the tendance of the good-natured landlady The plants are safely in the ground now where I will let nature take its course rather than watch them wither in their pots under my tendance.
OriginMiddle English: shortening of attend. verbtɛndtend 1no object, with infinitive Regularly or frequently behave in a particular way or have a certain characteristic. 有某种倾向；往往会 no object, with infinitive written language tends to be formal 书面语往往正式。 her hair tended to come loose 她的头发容易松散。 Example sentencesExamples - We tend not to reapply sun cream frequently enough.
- People tend not to like to wait.
- Popular though these titles are, their appeal tends to be limited to a particular culture.
- George's adoration of his small children tended to evaporate as they grew older.
- People in the West tend not to read books in languages other than their own.
- They tend not to be frequenters of high-art institutions.
- They tended to live beyond their means, and on one occasion barely avoided bankruptcy.
- Very obese people tend not to exercise.
- You tend not to go out partying and clubbing till 2am.
- Your work tends not to employ direct political messages.
- Winning entries tend musically to sound rather similar.
- I write most of my stuff late at night and tend not to spend a lot of time editing it.
- These rolls were rather fragile, so they tended to become damaged.
- Rather than finding the deserters, the army tends simply dismiss them in their absence.
- Photocopies of handwritten notes look scrappy and tend not to be valued.
- People tended not to save email messages.
- Historians during the 20th century tended overwhelmingly to write about single countries - almost always their own.
- The primary carer tends frequently to be the mother and therefore the law favours the mother.
- My personal network tends to be limited to people in similar fields to me.
- Some cultures also tend not to make eye contact.
Synonyms be inclined, be apt, be disposed, be prone, be liable, have a tendency, show a tendency, be likely, have a propensity - 1.1tend to/toward Be liable to possess or display (a particular characteristic)
易于，趋于 Walter tended toward corpulence 沃尔特有发胖的趋势。 Example sentencesExamples - The day was a morbid grey, and tending towards chilly.
- The script tends towards melodrama.
- My partner tends towards political pessimism.
- Custom-made furniture for kitchens and bathrooms tends towards the traditional, but with a contemporary twist.
- Your answers to the questions indicate that you tend toward being a Director.
- His other stories tend towards an intentional fuzziness.
- He was tending towards crankiness.
- The meeting tended towards the mundane.
- Here vegetation tends towards dark and spiky lushness.
- His clientele tend toward having cultivated tastes.
- Too many of the characterizations tend towards the stereotypical.
- Everything that tends towards mutual understanding must be encouraged.
- They tend toward dark complexions and dark hair.
Synonyms incline, lean, swing, veer, gravitate, be drawn, move - 1.2 Go or move in a particular direction.
走向；趋向 the road tends west around small mountains Example sentencesExamples - All these questions tend in a particular direction.
- They bounced along the cracked road, the cyclist careful not to tend too near the Harbor Center tower.
- We are confident that, in the long run, things tend upward.
- Her taste has tended towards men with bicep measurements bigger than their IQ.
- She tends toward the sentimental, but most of her films at least have some form of character development.
- Alan winced at the direction in which his thoughts were tending.
- He supports his body by putting his foot forward in the direction in which the center of gravity tends.
- I know people around me would tend in that direction.
- Who controls events, and in which direction do they tend?
- When I get food, I've been tending towards organic.
- Her roles to date have been varied, though she tends towards characters who are powerful, capable or magnetic.
- History did not tend simply upward or simply downward but in both directions at once.
- The arguments always tend in the same direction.
- It's hard to talk about her without tending into the language of the mythical.
- His past five albums have tended towards themes which are familiar to country music fans.
- You know the direction in which American policy in this region should be tending.
- 1.3tend toMathematics Approach (a quantity or limit)
the Fourier coefficients tend to zero Example sentencesExamples - As time tends to infinity both the variance and the total number tends to zero.
- The requirements of perfect competition are that there must be very large, tending to infinite, numbers of producers and of consumers.
OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘move or be inclined to move in a certain direction’): from Old French tendre ‘stretch, tend’, from Latin tendere. verbtɛndtend [with object]1Care for or look after; give one's attention to. 照顾，照料；照管；护理 Viola tended plants on the roof 瓦勒拉照管屋顶的植物。 no object for two or three months he tended to business 他照看生意两三个月了。 Example sentencesExamples - She took a keen interest in flowers and plants, tending them with great care and fondness.
- The very basis of growing plants is tending the soil itself.
- He had no land to cultivate nor crops to tend.
- His gardens are tended with skill and care, and his home is neat.
- They spend countless hours each summer planting, tending and enjoying their gardens.
- These pitches are definitely not a pretty sight, and they most certainly are not tended with loving care.
- The workers take on the responsibility of cultivating the ground and tending the crops.
- Trees grow more quickly here, and they cost less to plant, tend, and harvest.
- The oaks were planted in special soil and tended carefully during cultivation.
- While most of the graves are lovingly tended, many others are overgrown, unkempt and desecrated.
- Local people have shown great community initiative by tending by planting, watering and looking after the flower beds.
- Someone had to plant the trees and tend them until the coffee beans reached maturity.
- You will find some of the cleanest and best tended beaches on the west coast.
- You must have a familiarity with the character and history of the land you tend.
- Part of a doctor's vocation is to tend the sick with care and conscientiousness.
- She and husband Paul have lovingly tended the garden at their home.
- Caring for livestock or tending the land seems an idyllic lifestyle.
- The man next door tends his weeds with care.
- Both men work hard in tending their crops and caring for the animals, especially their cow.
- She and her husband regularly tended the small plot at the crematorium where the ashes of her parents are buried.
Synonyms look after, take care of, care for, minister to, attend to, see to, wait on, cater to - 1.1US Direct or manage; work in.
〈美〉经营，管理；在…工作 I've been tending bar at the airport lounge 我一直在机场休息厅经营酒吧。 Example sentencesExamples - Some aspiring movie stars tend bar to make ends meet.
- The two met a decade ago when he was tending bar.
- She manages a restaurant downtown and tends bar once a week.
- She tends bar at a posh dance club by night and works at a record store by day.
- She eats at the restaurant about three times a week,and also buses tables and tends bar.
- The room was almost deserted except for the man tending the bar.
- I was tending bar that night.
- Instead of putting up with condescending comments from customers at the bar she tended, she began to challenge them.
- After a week's vacation, he plans to go back to tending bar.
- Too many people who tend bar think of it as something to do while waiting for their big career break.
- She was tending bar, being snappy to customers.
- He acknowledged the woman tending bar with a simple nod.
- Casual work was easy enough to find, even if I did have to tend bars or wait tables.
- He still spends his days tending bar, surrounded by smokers.
- My dream has always been to tend bar at a beachfront resort.
- I spent many years tending bar in a nightclub before my husband and I decided to open our own place.
- He stopped to talk to the owner who was tending the bar.
- They like to hire rugged, macho-looking guys to tend bar.
- She ordered an ice water from the man tending the bar.
- I chattered for 10 minutes with the girl tending the bar.
- 1.2archaic Wait on as an attendant or servant.
〈古〉侍候；服侍 Example sentencesExamples - The suicide bombers believe that a place in paradise awaited him, 70 virgins waiting to tend their every need.
- I will be able to tend upon you regularly for the next week but after that my time will be divided.
OriginMiddle English: shortening of attend. |