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• tense — tense1 [ tens ] adjective * 1. ) making you feel nervous and not relaxed, usually because you are worried about what is going to happen: a tense meeting/situation a tense silence: There was a tense silence as everyone waited for his reaction. a… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• tense — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun ADJECTIVE ▪ future, past, present ▪ verb VERB + TENSE ▪ use ▪ form …   Collocations dictionary

• tense — tense1 [tens] adj [Date: 1600 1700; : Latin; Origin: stretched , from the past participle of tendere; TEND] 1.) a situation in which you feel very anxious and worried because of something bad that might happen →↑tension tense… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• tense — I UK [tens] / US adjective Word forms tense : adjective tense comparative tenser superlative tensest * 1) a) making you feel nervous and not relaxed, usually because you are worried about what is going to happen a tense situation/atmosphere a… …   English dictionary

• tense — [[t]te̱ns[/t]] tenses, tensing, tensed, tenser, tensest 1) ADJ GRADED A tense situation or period of time is one that makes people anxious, because they do not know what is going to happen next. This gesture of goodwill did little to improve the… …   English dictionary

• tense — [tens] adj I 1) making you feel nervous and not relaxed a tense situation[/ex] 2) feeling nervous and not relaxed He was too tense to sleep.[/ex] 3) stretched tight tense muscles[/ex] II noun [C/U] linguistics tense [tens] a form of a verb that… …   Dictionary for writing and speaking English

• situation — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ general, overall, whole ▪ current, immediate, present ▪ international, local, national …   Collocations dictionary

• situation — sit|u|a|tion W1S1 [ˌsıtʃuˈeıʃən] n 1.) a combination of all the things that are happening and all the conditions that exist at a particular time in a particular place ▪ I explained the situation. in a ... situation ▪ She coped well in a difficult …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• tense calm — calm situation which is likely to explode, calm before the storm …   English contemporary dictionary

• tense silence — calm situation which is likely to explode, calm before the storm …   English contemporary dictionary

• Grammatical tense — is a temporal linguistic quality expressing the time at, during, or over which a state or action denoted by a verb occurs.Tense is one of at least five qualities, along with mood, voice, aspect, and person, which verb forms may express.Tenses… …   Wikipedia