tending
present participle oftend
| 单词 | tending |
| 释义 | tending present 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 Examplesoftendingtending In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. In summary, we have three outputs: afforestation area, reforestation area, and junior-foresttendingarea, and one input: total expense in silviculture. From theCambridge English Corpus It is objective, factual, formal, official, sometimestendingto hostility. From theCambridge English Corpus As before, the stress saturates,tendingat large times to a position-independent value, away from the boundary. From theCambridge English Corpus The deflection would result in resistancetendingto return the system to its initial position. From theCambridge English Corpus The lift force is in a directiontendingto increase e, and so in a pure liquid a vertical line of two bubbles is unstable. From theCambridge English Corpus All the project's interviewers observed muchtendingof people as children: wiping hands, fixing bibs, and putting food directly into their mouths. From theCambridge English Corpus Jobbers and workers found that, step by painful step, their material interests, social experience and political perceptions weretendinggradually and unevenly to converge. From theCambridge English Corpus Tendingto focus above, under, or behind particular events like the one described, however, it leaves important political aspects unseen. From theCambridge English Corpus Patients exhibit 'lateropulsion', a prominent strong motor disturbancetendingto push both the patient and the eyes to the side of the lesion. From theCambridge English Corpus With an incomplete understanding of ecological information, accounting for futuretending, goal-directed behavior can be a daunting task. From theCambridge English Corpus Yes madam; whiletendinghis flocks, some of them strayed and fell over a precipice. From theCambridge English Corpus There are indications from the familial correspondence we have studied that it wastendingtowards disappearance even in the late 15th century. From theCambridge English Corpus Nothing definitive, but it all suggests that things aretendingin a direction that is perfectly awful. From theCambridge English Corpus Rural and urban children can and do contribute to family budgets bytendinganimals, harvesting crops, becoming apprentices, and working in shops. From theCambridge English Corpus This study has illustrated the special individual needs of older spouses in atendingrelationship. 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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