tense

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
发音 tĕns

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The property of indicating the point in time at which an action or state of being occurs or exists. uncountable
    — Dyirbal verbs are not inflected for tense.
  2. An inflected form of a verb that indicates tense. countable
    — English only has a past tense and a non-past tense; it has no future tense.
  3. A grammatical aspect. countable,proscribed
  4. A verb form or construction indicating a combination of tense, aspect, and mood. countable,proscribed
    — The "simple present" tense in English can have several meanings.
动词 v.
  1. To apply a tense to. transitive
    — tensing a verb
  2. To make tense. transitive
  3. To become tense. intransitive
    — The driver and the man shouted angrily at each other and I tensed, ready for violence. But soon everyone in the tap-tap joined in, capping remarks, joking, telling chicken and goat stories.
形容词 adj.
  1. Showing signs of stress or strain; not relaxed.
    — You need to relax, all this overtime and stress is making you tense.
  2. Characterized by strain (on the nerves, emotions, etc). (Compare charged.)
    — Chi stops, but her eyes continue to pierce right through me and into Karima. A tense moment later, she drops her eyes back to the terminal and scans the data once more. The showdown is over, at least for the moment.
  3. Pulled taut, without any slack.
  4. Produced with relative constriction of the vocal tract.

词形变化

tenses plural tenses present,singular,third-person tensing participle,present tensed participle,past tensed past tenser comparative tensest superlative tenses present,singular,third-person tensing participle,present tensed participle,past tensed past

词汇关系

衍生词
absolute tense aorist tense compound tense conditional tense continuous tense future tense hodiernal tense imperfect tense past historic tense past imperfect tense past tense perfect tense pluperfect tense present tense preterite tense primary tense progressive tense relative tense secondary tense simple tense supine tense tensal tenseless hypertense tensely tensen tenseness tense vowel tensible tensification tensor ultratense overtense untense tense up
相关词
See: Category:en:Tenses tend tension tent intense

词源

词源 1
From Middle English tens, from Old French tens (modern French temps), from Latin tempus. Doublet of tempo and tempus.
词源 2
Borrowed from Latin tēnsus, one form of the past participle of tendō (“stretch”).
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