Tend
[tend] or [tɛnd]
Definition
(verb.) manage or run; 'tend a store'.
(verb.) have care of or look after; 'She tends to the children'.
(verb.) have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined; 'She tends to be nervous before her lectures'; 'These dresses run small'; 'He inclined to corpulence'.
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Definition
(v. t.) To make a tender of; to offer or tender.
(v. t.) To accompany as an assistant or protector; to care for the wants of; to look after; to watch; to guard; as, shepherds tend their flocks.
(v. t.) To be attentive to; to note carefully; to attend to.
(v. i.) To wait, as attendants or servants; to serve; to attend; -- with on or upon.
(v. i.) To await; to expect.
(a.) To move in a certain direction; -- usually with to or towards.
(a.) To be directed, as to any end, object, or purpose; to aim; to have or give a leaning; to exert activity or influence; to serve as a means; to contribute; as, our petitions, if granted, might tend to our destruction.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Watch, guard, keep, protect, attend, accompany, nurse, take care of, wait on.
v. n. [1]. Attend, wait, serve, be attendant.[2]. Incline, lean, verge, trend, make, be directed.[3]. Conduce, contribute, lead.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Nurture, guard, watch, manage, serve, keep, aid, incline, verge, lean, aim,contribute, conduce, attend,[See PERTINACITY]
ANT:Betray, desert, abandon
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Definition
v.i. to stretch aim at move or incline in a certain direction: to be directed to any end or purpose: to contribute.—n. Ten′dency direction object or result to which anything tends: inclination: drift.
v.t. to accompany as assistant or protector: to take care of to be attentive to to wait upon so as to execute.—ns. Ten′dance (Spens.) state of expectation: (Shak.) act of waiting or tending also persons attendant; Ten′der a small vessel that attends a larger with stores &c.: a carriage attached to locomotives to supply fuel and water.
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Examples
- A struggle for existence inevitably follows from the high rate at which all organic beings tend to increase. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Homologous parts tend to vary in the same manner, and homologous parts tend to cohere. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- If we are discouraged it is because we tend to identify statecraft with that official government which is merely one of its instruments. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- And what numberless and powerful causes tend to destroy these rare natures! Plato. The Republic.
- Short of use made of them, they tend to segregate into a peculiar world of their own. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Sir, said Mr. Helstone, collecting all his dignity--sir, the great knowledge of man is to know himself, and the bourne whither his own steps tend. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The action and reaction thus constantly at work, tend to give accelerating impulse to invention, and are continually enlarging its sphere of operations. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Mr. Crawley had tended that otherwise friendless bedside. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The shepherds that tended them were the very pictures of Joseph and his brethren I have no doubt in the world. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- But in music there was nothing which tended to that good which you are now seeking. Plato. The Republic.
- I make no allowance for innumerable feelings and circumstances that may have all tended to good. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- While the benefits derived were not directly pecuniary in their nature, they were such as tended to strengthen commercially the position of the rightful owners of the patents. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Upon his return to England, he was led to make a number of experiments, all of which tended to confirm the observation. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- I took him to my own room, had a good bed made for him, dressed his wounds, and tended him myself, until he got fairly on his feet again. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Hence, the canon of Natura non facit saltum, which every fresh addition to our knowledge tends to confirm, is on this theory intelligible. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Play tends to reproduce and affirm the crudities, as well as the excellencies, of surrounding adult life. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It likewise tends to increase the direct action of the physical conditions of life, in relation to the constitution of each organism. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- But the withdrawal alters the stimuli operating, and tends to make them more consonant with the needs of the organism. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Man selects only for his own good; Nature only for that of the being which she tends. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- On the contrary, it tends to suppress them, just because they are deviations from what is current. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The increase of stock, which raises wages, tends to lower profit. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The air in the long arm is pressing upon the mercury in that arm, and is tending to force it up the short arm. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- In tending her patient, and in thinking of the wonderful escapes of the day before, her second day passed away not too slowly with Amelia. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Dobbin was already in the room, good-naturedly tending his patient of the night before. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Looking at his face, I longed to know his exact opinions, and at last I put a question tending to elicit them. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Near the bottom of the apparatus is a bellows O, which contains a spring tending to keep the lever N, with which it is connected by a rod X, in the position shown. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- But the stronger the current through the coil, the stronger will be the force tending to rotate the coil, and hence the less effective will be the hindrance of the twisting string. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- She had to draw upon this thought, as upon some fiery stimulant, to keep up her part in the scene toward which Rosedale was too frankly tending. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
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