to tense

تعريف to tense في الإنجليزية الإنجليزية القاموس.: Showing signs of stress or strain; not relaxed; Any of the forms of a verb which distinguish when an action or state of being occurs or exists
The basic tenses in English are present, past, and future.; To make or become tense; strained to stiffness; {a} stretched, stiff; {n} a distinction of time; time; If your body is tense, your muscles are tight and not relaxed. A bath can relax tense muscles. + tenseness tense·ness If you feel a tenseness around the eyes, relax your muscles; in or of a state of physical or nervous tension; taut or rigid; stretched tight; "tense piano strings"; the form taken by a verb to indicate time (as in past-present-future); Indicates the time frame for verb action, past, present or future, and whether the action occurred at a point in time (a simple tense) over time (a progressive tense) or before another event (a perfect tense); increase the tension on; "tense a rope"; a property of verbs relating primarily to the time at which the action or event denoted by the verb takes place For example, past tense verbs, as in Sam left, describe events in the past; (L tempus time) the grammatical encoding of time, e g , past tense; {f} pull taught, stretch tight; make anxious or nervous; become anxious or nervous; become tight, contract; become tense or tenser; "He tensed up when he saw his opponent enter the room"; pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e g , the vowel sound in `beat'); pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles e; If you are tense, you are anxious and nervous and cannot relax. Dart, who had at first been very tense, at last relaxed. + tensely tense·ly She waited tensely for the next bulletin + tenseness tense·ness McKay walked slowly toward this screen, feeling a growing tenseness; a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time; verbs often change their form according to when the action they describe happens They may be in the past tense ('the library was closed on Monday', 'the library closed early'), the present ('the library is open') or the future ('the library will open tomorrow'); a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time make tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious; become tense or tenser; "He tensed up when he saw his opponent enter the room"; (tense) In grammar, tense refers to the form a verb can take to indicate the time and duration of whatever is specified by that verb; The tense of a verb group is its form, which usually shows whether you are referring to past, present, or future time. tense up to make your muscles tight and stiff, or to become tight and stiff. In grammar, an inflected form of a verb indicating the time of a narrated event in relation to the time at which the narrator is speaking. Time is often perceived as a continuum with three main divisions, past, present, and future, defined in relation to the time when the event is described. Other categories, including mood and aspect, may further specify the action as definite or indefinite, completed or not completed, lasting or nonlasting, and recurring or occurring once; the form taken by a verb to indicate time (as in pastpresentfuture); Any of the forms of a verb which distinguish when an action or state of being occurs or exists. The basic tenses in English are present, past and future. English also has perfect tenses (present perfect, past perfect and future perfect) and progressive tenses; If your muscles tense, if you tense, or if you tense your muscles, your muscles become tight and stiff, often because you are anxious or frightened. Newman's stomach muscles tensed Jane tensed her muscles to stop them from shaking. Tense up means the same as tense. When we are under stress our bodies tend to tense up Tense up the muscles in both of your legs; make tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious; One of the forms which a verb takes by inflection or by adding auxiliary words, so as to indicate the time of the action or event signified; the modification which verbs undergo for the indication of time; {i} inflection, verbal "time" (Grammar); pulled taut, without any slack; The form of a verb which indicates the time of the action; 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 tense atmosphere at the talks After three very tense weeks he phoned again; a distinction of form in a verb to express distinctions of time Just because a verb has tenses does not mean it is up tight; stretch or force to the limit; "strain the rope"; Stretched tightly; strained to stiffness; rigid; not lax; as, a tense fiber; the form of a verb that indicate time or duration of the action or state expressed by the verb English has five tenses: present, progressive, past, perfect, and future The progressive and perfect tenses may be combined with each other and with the present or past or future to form compound tenses, such as the present perfect progressive: I have been standing; Present, Perfect (identified with SVUX), Imperfect (identified with "ba"), Pluperfect, etc; the vowel sound in `beat' in or of a state of physical or nervous tension; {s} strained, taut, rigid, nervous, stressful