We found 43 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word tense:
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 General (30 matching dictionaries)
- tense: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
- tense, tense: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
- tense: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
- tense: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
- Tense: Wiktionary [home, info]
- tense: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
- tense: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
- tense: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
- tense: Dictionary.com [home, info]
- tense (adj.), tense (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
- tense: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
- tense: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
- Tense (disambiguation), Tense (grammar), Tense (linguistics), Tense (phonetics), Tense: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
- tense: Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs [home, info]
- Tense: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
- tense: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
- tense: Rhymezone [home, info]
- tense: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
- tense: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
- tense: MyWord.info [home, info]
- tense: All About Homonyms [home, info]
- tense: Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition [home, info]
- tense: The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy [home, info]
- tense: Free Dictionary [home, info]
- tense: Hutchinson Dictionaries [home, info]
- tense: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
- tense: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
- tense: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
- tense: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
- tense: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info]
Art (5 matching dictionaries)
- Tense: Glossary of English Grammar Terms [home, info]
- tense: Linguistic Glossary [home, info]
- tense: Literary Criticism [home, info]
- -tense: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements [home, info]
- Tense: Lexicon of Linguistics [home, info]
Business (2 matching dictionaries)
- TENSE: Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition [home, info]
- Tense (disambiguation), tense: Legal dictionary [home, info]
Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
- tense: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing [home, info]
- Tense (disambiguation), tense: Encyclopedia [home, info]
Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
- tense: online medical dictionary [home, info]
- tense: Medical dictionary [home, info]
Religion (1 matching dictionary)
- tense: Postmodern Bible Dictionary [home, info]
Science (1 matching dictionary)
- Tense: Biological Sciences Dictionary [home, info]
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Quick definitions (tense)
▸ noun: a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time
▸ verb: make tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious;
▸ verb: become tense or tenser ("He tensed up when he saw his opponent enter the room")
▸ verb: increase the tension on ("Tense a rope")
▸ verb: stretch or force to the limit
▸ adjective: taut or rigid; stretched tight ("Tense piano strings")
▸ adjective: pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in `beat')
▸ adjective: in or of a state of physical or nervous tension
▸ U.S. pronunciation (credits)
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