tend
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /tɛnd/
tend (tends, present participle tending; past and past participle tended)
- (legal, Old English law) To make a tender of; to offer or tender.
- (followed by a to-infinitive) To be likely, or probable to do something, or to have a certain habit or leaning. [from the mid-14th c.]
- They tend to go out on Saturdays.
- It tends to snow here in winter.
- (intransitive) To contribute to or toward some outcome.
- French: avoir tendance à
- German: tendieren zu
- Italian: tendere, essere probabile, propendere
- Portuguese: tender
- Russian: име́ть тенденция
- Spanish: tender
tend (tends, present participle tending; past and past participle tended)
- (with to) To look after (e.g. an ill person.) [from the early 14th c.]
- We need to tend to the garden, which has become a mess.
- To accompany as an assistant or protector; to care for the wants of; to look after; to watch; to guard.
- Shepherds tend their flocks.
- There's not a sparrow or a wren, / There's not a blade of autumn grain, / Which the four seasons do not tend / And tides of life and increase lend.
- To wait (upon), as attendants or servants; to serve; to attend.
- c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act II, scene i]:
- Was he not companion with the riotous knights / That tend upon my father?
- (obsolete) To await; to expect.
- (obsolete) To be attentive to; to note carefully; to attend to.
- Being to descend / A ladder much in height, I did not tend / My way well down.
- (transitive, nautical) To manage (an anchored vessel) when the tide turns, to prevent it from entangling the cable when swinging.
- (to look after) care for, minister to, nurse, see to, take care of
- (to accompany as an assistant) guard, look after, watch
- (to wait upon) See also Thesaurus:serve
- (to await) See also Thesaurus:wait for
- (to be attentive to) attend to
- (to manage when the tide turns)
- German: sorgen für
- Italian: avere cura di, accudire, curare, dedicarsi
- Portuguese: cuidar de
- Russian: уха́живать
- Spanish: cuidar de, ver por, velar por
- Italian: accudire, vegliare, preoccuparsi
tend (tends, present participle tending; past and past participle tended)
Translations- Italian: infiammare, accendere
- Russian: поджигать
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