英语词汇“tend”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

WORD ORIGINtend

Origin:

1, 3, 5 1300-1400 Old French tendre ‘to stretch’, from Latin tendere2, 4 1100-1200 attend

VERB TABLE

tend

Simple Form
Present	I, you, we, they	tend
	he, she, it	tends
Past	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	tended
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have tended
	he, she, it	has tended
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had tended
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will tend
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have tended

Continuous Form
Present	I	am tending
	he, she, it	is tending
	you, we, they	are tending
Past	I, he, she, it	was tending
	you, we, they	were tending
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have been tending
	he, she, it	has been tending
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been tending
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be tending
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been tending

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES

It tends to be the brighter kids who get all the teacher's attention.
Jose was outside tending the garden when the fire broke out.
Mom was usually busy tending to my younger sisters.
What tends to happen is that the poorest families end up in the worst housing.
Young children tend to get sick more often than adults.

EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS

Departments with an eye to the ratings tend to appoint established researchers with proven records, rather than younger, unpublished candidates.
First, he tends to have relatively better visual-spatial abilities.
In other words, your transcription tends to become more phonemic without being systematically so.
Jose Aburto Cortez, 57, was outside tending the garden when the fire broke out.
Smaller, start-up companies last year tended to be in the business of technology.
Such people tend to perform marginal tasks and to enter and leave the workforce at random intervals.
The process of distillation tends to alter the aroma to a degree.

Longman Language Activatorwhen something is true about most situations, people, or events► in general/generally/in most cases

use this to say that something is usually true: · Women generally live longer than men.· In general, jobs for temporary workers are low-paid.· In general, students who get regular exercise do better in school.· Inner-city schools generally achieved lower exam grades than other schools.· Car theft is an increasingly common crime, and in most cases the offender is under 18.

► generally speaking/as a rule

especially spoken use this to introduce a statement about what usually happens or is true: · Generally speaking, bright colors make people feel happier.· As a rule, French wines are more expensive than those from Eastern Europe.

► mostly

use this to say that something is true about most people, things, or occasions: · I drink sugar-free colas, mostly.· The students here are mostly Swiss and German, but sometimes we get a few Japanese, too.· He mostly writes novels, but he's published a book of poetry too.

► most of the time

especially spoken use this to say that something usually happens: · Our two-year-old is happy most of the time, but he wakes up from his naps in an awful mood.· Most of the time people vote for the party that offers them financial advantages.

► on the whole/by and large

use this to say that something is true most of the time but not every time: · By and large, print is easier to read than handwriting.· The candidates that the party selected tended, on the whole, to be middle-aged, male, and white.· Despite their age, the paintings are, on the whole, in very good condition.

► for the most part

especially written use this to say that something is true in most cases: · The cell chemistry of these insects is, for the most part, poorly understood.· Ethnic minorities have struggled to retain their cultural identity, and have for the most part succeeded.

► tend

if something tends to happen, it usually happens or is true, but not always: tend to happen/do something: · Young children tend to get sick more often than adults.· What tends to happen is that the poorest families end up in the worst housing.tend to be somebody who/that: · It tends to be the brighter kids who get all the teacher's attention.

ways of saying what someone or something often does► tend to do something

to often do a particular thing, and be likely to do it: · Dave tends to arrive late, so don't worry yet.· The problem with this model of car is that the gearbox tends to seize up.· My father tends to interfere too much in other people's business.· Recent studies show that girls tend to be better at languages than boys.

► have a tendency to do something

to often do something and be more likely to do it than other people or things are: · Divorced people have a tendency to live with new partners rather than marry again.· It's poor quality cloth, with a tendency to shrink.· Eliott's family has a tendency to put on weight, and so his parents enrolled him in a special gym for kids.

► be inclined to do something

if someone is inclined to do something, they do it fairly often or are fairly likely to do it, especially because they have a particular type of character: · Victor is inclined to be somewhat domineering.· Middle-class victims of crime are more inclined to contact the police.

► have a habit of doing something

use this when you are warning someone that something has happened before and is likely to happen again: · Be careful not to annoy the boss. He has a habit of losing his temper.· We shouldn't rule out a Democrat victory yet. These things have a habit of changing just when you least expect it.

► be apt to do something

formal to often do something or be likely to do something, especially at a particular time or in a particular situation: · He was apt to get very upset when things went wrong.· The pond was apt to dry up during summer.

COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► also

· It also tends to be grown locally so that less fuel is wasted on transporting it.· They also tend to be physically removed from the world around them.· The very presence of the media also tends to alter the relationships between the political and social institutions which they link up.· Community colleges also tend to have stronger ties to businesses than do either high schools or four-year institutions.· Rents also tend to be higher, particularly for smaller premises, and this differential has, if anything, increased.· Babies born to women who did not abstain from drinking during pregnancy also tend to exhibit abnormal sleep patterns after birth.· Much buying takes place under contract and this also tends to limit the search and investigation of alternative suppliers.· The fact that people who stop smoking also tend to gain weight muddles the conclusions on weight and longevity even more.

NOUN► group

· At staff functions at Burleigh, little groups tended to form.· These groups tend to locate in the older urban cores as a result of factors examined earlier.· Focus on certain muscle groups for sports that tend to overuse specific muscles.· The losing group tends to splinter: conflicts come to the surface; blame is allocated.· Such groups tend to treasure their secrets.· Reviews in both groups tend to be very full and by authorities on their subjects.· But he is also respected by groups that tend to gravitate toward the Democratic Party.

► people

· The frequency of published reports has actually declined since 1960 because people tend to dismiss loud explosions as merely military sonic booms.· Male speaker Most burglars prefer to go to an empty house and elderly people tend to be at home all day.· Do hearing people tend to occupy more influential positions in technology than do deaf people?· Most people tend to do better work-or at least to enjoy it more-when they work for some one who likes them.· They are not taking things lying down as many other Third World people tend to do.· About his inability to build a chair, Jasper observed that people tend to get tired of chairs.

► woman

· Their cultural background is that of a small rural community where women tend to go out with family members or neighbours.· I think women tend to be more accepting and open.· In women, warts tend to go unnoticed unless they are quite large.· Since women voters tend to decide late in the campaign, one wrong remark can cost a candidate dearly.· With the arrival of a child a woman tends to see herself as parent first and partner second.· In spite of the protection offered by equal opportunity laws, women tend to be overlooked and receive fewer promotions.· Men and women both tend to put on weight in middle-age, when exercise becomes less frequent.· In hunting and gathering societies, men hunted and women gathered while tending hearth and children.

PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► tend to do something

Bill tends to talk too much when he's nervous.
Dave tends to arrive late, so don't worry yet.
It tends to rain a lot during the winter.
My father tends to interfere too much in other people's business.
Recent studies show that girls tend to be better at languages than boys.
The problem with this model of car is that the gearbox tends to seize up.
Elizabeth Dole, on the other hand, tends to keep her own moderate views bottled up inside.
He died while tending to plague victims.
Hodgskin expounded a minimalist conception of the state, insisting that government tended to shackle the energies and liberties of individuals.
However; the defiant child also tends to have a little better postural control than the overly sensitive child.
Just beyond the crest they will tend to accumulate, for the effect of the wind is felt less here.
Modern planting tends to be done in large blocks, not for shelter, but as a crop in its own right.
Since costs tend to rise inexorably, attempts to stabilize public spending have essentially meant cuts in actual services.
The long-wave school tends to see historical phases more cyclically, and to encounter repetitions and similarities between cycles.

► tend towards something► tend bar

Scott tended bar part-time while going to college.
After high school, Medville found herself looking at a future on welfare or tending bar.
Albert was tending bar, but the thirsty were three-deep in front of him.
He pays the rent by tending bar and working for a couple of unlicensed moving companies.
In August she took a weekend job tending bar.
Jack, though he had tended bar in his time, was not required to do manual labor.