tended
past simple and past participle oftend
| 单词 | tended |
| 释义 | tended past simple and past participle oftend tend verb uk/tend/us/tend/tendverb(BE LIKELY)B2[I] to belikelytobehavein aparticularway or have aparticularcharacteristic: [+ to infinitive]We tendtogetcoldwintersandwarm,drysummersin thispartof thecountry.
Possible and probable
tendverb(CARE)[T]formal tocarefor something or someone: Hecarefullytended hissunflowerplants. Thenursegentlytended the patient'scutsandbruises. to take care of someone or something
Medical treatment: treating & caring for people
Phrasal verbtend tosomeone/something Examplesoftendedtended In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Up until the twentieth century, regulations regarding marital fitnesstendedto follow the common-law rules on the capacity of parties to contract. From theCambridge English Corpus In general, receptive-field sizetendedto increase as the depth of the electrode tip increased. From theCambridge English Corpus The results of these structural changes havetendedto be contradictory. From theCambridge English Corpus On the other hand, people who have studied neural network models havetendedto neglect symbol manipulation. From theCambridge English Corpus Our target article had two major themes, and commentatorstendedto focus on one or the other. From theCambridge English Corpus Diseases are consequently a potentially important contributor to yield collapse, especially as rapeseed area hastendedto increase. From theCambridge English Corpus In addition to the milking, the izinceku alsotendedto the king's oxen and fetched water for the king in gourds. From theCambridge English Corpus In the present study, tunnel length in maizetendedto increase with age of the plant, while larval weight per cm tunnel produced decreased. From theCambridge English Corpus The average for each grade was a negative value; however, the fourth and sixth graders' averagestendedto approach zero. From theCambridge English Corpus In general, it is clear that the women who married youngertendedto have lower age-specific fertility rates. From theCambridge English Corpus These findingstendedto revert to normal in the third month of illness. From theCambridge English Corpus Early training programs in cultural competencetendedto rely on categorical constructs that lumped patients together by their "typical" cultural values, customs, and beliefs. From theCambridge English Corpus This suggests that seed predatorstendedto be more host-specific in 1998 than in 1996. From theCambridge English Corpus Small squeeze and (especially) tighten basal segmenttendedto occur more often early in copulation. From theCambridge English Corpus As already noted, early levels of excess mortalitytendedto be found in the 1 to 4 years age group. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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