tense
— Adjective
– English
～ in or of a state of physical or nervous tension
tense
— Adjective
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～ pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in `beat')
tense
— Adjective
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～ taut or rigid; stretched tight; "tense piano strings"
tense
— Verb
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～ become stretched or tense or taut; "the bodybuilder's neck muscles tensed"; "the rope strained when the weight was attached"
tense
— Verb
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～ become tense, nervous, or uneasy; "He tensed up when he saw his opponent enter the room"
tense
— Verb
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～ cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious; "he got a phone call from his lawyer that tensed him up"
tense
— Verb
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～ increase the tension on; "alternately relax and tense your calf muscle"; "tense the rope manually before tensing the spring"
tensed
— Adjective
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～ having inflections to indicate tense
tensely
— Adverb
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～ in a tense manner; "he sat down tensely"
tenseness
— Noun
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～ the physical condition of being stretched or strained; "it places great tension on the leg muscles"; "he could feel the tenseness of her body"
tenseness
— Noun
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～ (psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense; "he suffered from fatigue and emotional tension"; "stress is a vasoconstrictor"
tensile strength
— Noun
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～ the strength of material expressed as the greatest longitudinal stress it can bear without tearing apart
tensile
— Adjective
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～ capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out; "ductile copper"; "malleable metals such as gold"; "they soaked the leather to made it pliable"; "pliant molten glass"; "made of highly tensile steel alloy"
tensile
— Adjective
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～ of or relating to tension; "tensile stress"; "tensile pull"
tensimeter
— Noun
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～ a manometer for measuring vapor pressure
tensiometer
— Noun
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～ a measuring instrument for measuring the surface tension of a liquid
tensiometer
— Noun
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～ a measuring instrument for measuring the tension in a wire or fiber or beam
tensiometer
— Noun
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～ a measuring instrument for measuring the moisture content of soil
tension
— Noun
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～ (physics) a stress that produces an elongation of an elastic physical body; "the direction of maximum tension moves asymptotically toward the direction of the shear"
tension
— Noun
– English
～ the action of stretching something tight; "tension holds the belt in the pulleys"