tensing
present participle oftense
| 单词 | tensing |
| 释义 | tensing present participle oftense tense verb[IorT] uk/tens/us/tens/(alsotense up)If you oryourmusclestense,yourmusclesbecomestiffandtightbecause you arefrightenedornervous, or arepreparingyourself to do something: Don't tenseyourshoulders, justrelax. I couldfeelmyself tense up as hetouchedmyneck. tensed up verynervousandworriedandunabletorelaxbecause of something that is going tohappen: Youseemall tensed up. Are you stillwaitingfor thatcall? Tight and tightening
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Anxious and worried GrammarTypes of nouns A noun refers to a person, animal or thing. Some examples are:…Examplesoftensingtensing In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. There are others where in certain circumstances (markedtensing, for instance) finiteness cannot be attributed to non-verbal predicators. From theCambridge English Corpus Her long-standing habit oftensingthe lower back muscles was too ingrained for her to develop strength in her lower abdomen. From theCambridge English Corpus We stop ourselves from expressing a feeling bytensingthe muscles that oppose the movement that would express the feeling. From theCambridge English Corpus Place of articulation, manner of articulation, voicing, fronting, raising, rounding andtensing, where applicable, can bond or dissociate norms. From theCambridge English Corpus They accompany overalltensingof the limbs, clenching the fists, or other spasmodic movements. From theCambridge English Corpus The two dictators avoidedtensingthe rope too much not only because they professed a sort of mutual admiration. From theCambridge English Corpus This paper, however, will limit the discussion to the postlexical application of thetensingrule between phonological words, and after a lenis obstruent. From theCambridge English Corpus For example, anger often motivates the instantaneous production of an angry face or thetensingof arm and leg muscles. From theCambridge English Corpus The facial contortions of a person in pain would seem to contribute little to the escape or suppressive functions of body contortions andtensingelsewhere in the body. From theCambridge English Corpus Structures above the glottis, such as the ventricular or false vocal folds, may also be involved, including a generaltensingof the laryngeal (and related) musculature. From theCambridge English Corpus Our account presupposes that once the derivational relationship was established, there could exist pairs where there is no voweltensingsince the underlying vowel in both words would be tense. From theCambridge English Corpus Rather, they are systematically related to aspects of his generally superior learning and use of regular pasttensing, and very likely to aspects of his quantitatively superior competence. From theCambridge English Corpus Or even if one accepts his data, they raise the question of why such basictensingprocesses should show such strong individual differences among normal subjects. From theCambridge English Corpus Fluoride has an effect on the latter, which has the immense and amazing capacity to keeptensingand flexing. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 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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