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This means that the search for a formula of European cooperation in connection with the League of Nations, far from weakening the authority of this latter must and can only tend to strengthen it, for it is closely connected with its aims.
Aristide Briand

Meaning of "tend" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD TEND

From Old French tendre, from Latin tendere to stretch.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF TEND

tend  [tɛnd] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TEND

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Tend is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb tend in English.

WHAT DOES TEND MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Tend

Tend may refer to: ▪ Attend ▪ Bartend, to serve beverages behind a bar ▪ Tend and befriend, a behavioural pattern exhibited by human beings and some animal species when under threat ▪ Looking after trees, a part of silviculture.

Definition of tend in the English dictionary

The first definition of tend in the dictionary is to have a general disposition ; be inclined. Other definition of tend is to have or be an influence ; be conducive. Tend is also to go or move.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO TEND

PRESENT

Present
I tend
you tend
he/she/it tends
we tend
you tend
they tend
Present continuous
I am tending
you are tending
he/she/it is tending
we are tending
you are tending
they are tending
Present perfect
I have tended
you have tended
he/she/it has tended
we have tended
you have tended
they have tended
Present perfect continuous
I have been tending
you have been tending
he/she/it has been tending
we have been tending
you have been tending
they have been tending
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I tended
you tended
he/she/it tended
we tended
you tended
they tended
Past continuous
I was tending
you were tending
he/she/it was tending
we were tending
you were tending
they were tending
Past perfect
I had tended
you had tended
he/she/it had tended
we had tended
you had tended
they had tended
Past perfect continuous
I had been tending
you had been tending
he/she/it had been tending
we had been tending
you had been tending
they had been tending
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will tend
you will tend
he/she/it will tend
we will tend
you will tend
they will tend
Future continuous
I will be tending
you will be tending
he/she/it will be tending
we will be tending
you will be tending
they will be tending
Future perfect
I will have tended
you will have tended
he/she/it will have tended
we will have tended
you will have tended
they will have tended
Future perfect continuous
I will have been tending
you will have been tending
he/she/it will have been tending
we will have been tending
you will have been tending
they will have been tending
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would tend
you would tend
he/she/it would tend
we would tend
you would tend
they would tend
Conditional continuous
I would be tending
you would be tending
he/she/it would be tending
we would be tending
you would be tending
they would be tending
Conditional perfect
I would have tend
you would have tend
he/she/it would have tend
we would have tend
you would have tend
they would have tend
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been tending
you would have been tending
he/she/it would have been tending
we would have been tending
you would have been tending
they would have been tending
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you tend
we let´s tend
you tend
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to tend
Past participle
tended
Present Participle
tending
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TEND


ascend
əˈsɛnd
attend
əˈtɛnd
bend
bɛnd
blend
blɛnd
boyfriend
ˈbɔɪˌfrɛnd
defend
dɪˈfɛnd
depend
dɪˈpɛnd
end
ɛnd
extend
ɪkˈstɛnd
friend
frɛnd
girlfriend
ˈɡɜːlˌfrɛnd
intend
ɪnˈtɛnd
lend
lɛnd
pretend
prɪˈtɛnd
recommend
ˌrɛkəˈmɛnd
send
sɛnd
spend
spɛnd
trend
trɛnd
vend
vɛnd
weekend
ˌwiːkˈɛnd

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TEND

tench
tendance
tendencially
tendencies
tendencious
tendenciously
tendenciousness
tendency
tendential
tendentially
tendentious
tendentiously
tendentiousness
tender
tender loving care
tender offer
tenderable
tenderer
tenderfoot
tenderhearted

WORDS THAT END LIKE TEND

amend
at an end
at the sharp end
best friend
come to an end
comprehend
descend
dividend
front-end
high-end
in the end
legend
resend
suspend
the end
to the bitter end
transcend
unfriend
world without end
year end

Synonyms and antonyms of tend in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «TEND»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «tend» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of tend

Translation of «tend» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TEND

Find out the translation of tend to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of tend from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «tend» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

倾向于
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

tender
570 millions of speakers

English

tend
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

करते हैं
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

يَنْزَعُ إِلَى
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

клониться
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

tender
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ঝোঁক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

avoir tendance à
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Cenderung
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

tendieren
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

傾向がある
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

경향이 있다
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Cenderung
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

có xu hướng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

முனைகின்றன
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कल
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

eğiliminde
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

tendere
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

skłonić się
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

мати тенденцію
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

a avea o tendință spre
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

τείνω
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

geneig
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

vårda
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

føre
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of tend

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TEND»

The term «tend» is very widely used and occupies the 5.587 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TEND» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «tend» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «tend» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about tend

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10 QUOTES WITH «TEND»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word tend.
1
Aravind Adiga
Indians mock their corrupt politicians relentlessly, but they regard their honest politicians with silent suspicion. The first thing they do when they hear of a supposedly 'clean' politician is to grin. It is a cliche that honest politicians in India tend to have dishonest sons, who collect money from people seeking an audience with Dad.
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Jean Alesi
You tend to think that there is a big gap between F1 and everything else. F1 is where all the fantastic drivers are, so you just don't know how good you are until you get there.
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Timothy Garton Ash
Canadians tend to be a bit more religious than most Europeans - though not more than the Poles or Ukrainians. Most important, their attitude to immigration and ethnic minorities is more positive than that of most Europeans.
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Hayley Atwell
I think American guys tend to be a bit more forward, a bit more chatty and open than the Brits. The Brits seem to have a darker sense of humor, though I have met some Americans who have adopted bits of the British dry sense of humor as well.
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W. H. Auden
All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
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Julie Bishop
It is a fact that governments tend to put in place policies and strategies in response to current scenarios.
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Aristide Briand
This means that the search for a formula of European cooperation in connection with the League of Nations, far from weakening the authority of this latter must and can only tend to strengthen it, for it is closely connected with its aims.
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Emily Browning
I tend to over-analyse things. I'm not the type of person to flip a coin and let things happen.
9
Augusten Burroughs
I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in.
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Billy Campbell
I tend to get comfortable with the dialogue and find out who the person is in the script and try to hit that. People are sort of independent of their occupations and their pastimes. You don't play a politician or a fireman or a cowboy - you just play a person.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TEND»

Discover the use of tend in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tend and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Why Black People Tend to Shout: Cold Facts and Wry Views ...
"A refreshing and biting commentary on life in America as seen by a Black man."-Alvin Poussaint,M.D.
Ralph Wiley, 1991
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Tend My Flock: Sustaining Good Pastoral Care
Tend My Flock is a companion and guide for ordained and lay ministers seeking to live their pastoral ministry well, amid all the complexities and pressures of contemporary society.
Kate Litchfield, 2006
3
Tend the Olive, Water the Vine: Globalization and the ...
This book examines the complexities of these negotiations in a particularly complicated and volatile context (Palestine) and a particularly "hot" development field (early childhood development).
Rachel Christina, 2006
4
Freeconomics: Do consumers tend to discriminate pay-models ...
The paper describes major aspects of the “New Economy” to understand the situation in this global and interlinked sector, which favors intangible things.
Felix Baumann, 2013
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Why you look like you whereas I tend to look like me
Gives a brief biography of Gregor Mendel, describes his experiments with crossing peas, and explains in rhyme what his results revealed about heredity in humans.
Charlotte Pomerantz, 1969
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Aromatherapy: To Heal and Tend the Body
Therapeutic use of essential oils by premier authority in the field. Case studies and charts included.
Robert Tisserand, 1988
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Managing Business Complexity : Discovering Strategic ...
Tightly coupled architectures tend to be easier to work with but less scalable than the other architectures. Tightly coupled architectures tend to be simpler than the other styles. They tend to have fewer required modules than the other styles, ...
Center for Complex Adaptive Agent Systems Simulation Argonne National Laboratory Michael J. North Deputy Director, Center for Complex Adaptive Agent Systems Simulation Argonne National Laboratory Charles M. Macal Director, 2007
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Deaf Tend Your: Non-manual Signals in American Sign Language
Examples and a discussion of the non-manual aspects of ASL.
Byron Bridges, Melanie Metzger, 1996
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How to Tend a Grave
GOLD MEDAL WINNER— Moonbeam Awards, mature issues
Jocelyn Shipley, 2012
10
Communicating Across Cultures
future. focus. (e.g.,. middle-class. European. Americans),. however,. tend. to. deemphasize the past, move forward boldly to the immediate future, and strongly emphasize the importance of "futurism" (e.g., the glorification of the "youth" culture ...
Stella Ting-Toomey, 1999

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TEND»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term tend is used in the context of the following news items.
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Poor schools tend to punish, not help, students
Poor schools with more black and minority students tend to punish students rather than seek medical or psychological interventions for them, according to new ... «Futurity: Research News, Jul 15»
2
Apical and Tend to Bring Intelligent and Reliable People Detection …
The current implementation of ART focused on home security enables Tend to solve a major pain point in cloud camera services: the unacceptable high rate of ... «PR Newswire UK, Jul 15»
3
Female serial killers tend to be serial monogamists
... including her own mother and grandson. After parsing the data, we found that female serial killers do tend to possess a number of unique characteristics. «Quartz, Jun 15»
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Mothers tend to quit workforce earlier
“Women who earn well tend to marry well too. Their husbands' incomes are enough for them so when they become full time mothers, they lose the will to work. «The Star Online, Jun 15»
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University of Minnesota trains new nurses to tend to veterans
For the first time, the University of Minnesota School of Nursing is graduating a group of nurses skilled in tending to the health needs of the nation's veterans. «Minneapolis Star Tribune, May 15»
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Insider: Pacers tend to their own business, with big defense
The conclusion of the Brooklyn Nets-Toronto Raptors game played inside the Bankers Life Fieldhouse home locker room on Friday night, if anyone cared to ... «Indianapolis Star, Apr 15»
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No Joke, U.S. Treasuries Tend to Rally in the Month of April
U.S. government securities have advanced in the period every year from 2010 to 2014, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. One theory for the gain is that ... «Bloomberg, Mar 15»
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Science says people with this personality type tend to be chronically …
San Diego State University psychologist Jeff Conte has found that people with achievement-oriented, hard-charging “Type A” personalities tend to be on time ... «Business Insider Australia, Feb 15»
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Low birth weight and preeclampsia tend to reoccur in the next …
The study, titled Like Mother, Like Daughter—Low Birth Weight and Preeclampsia Tend to Reoccur at the Next Generation looked at the perinatal information of ... «Medical Xpress, Feb 15»
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Things tend to go Juventus' way - Nainggolan
Radja Nainggolan admits Juventus seem to get lucky when it comes to refereeing decisions, though he insists they would deserve the Scudetto should they ... «Goal.com, Jan 15»

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