Tending

Definitions: Tending

Tending

Adjective

1. (usually followed by `to') naturally disposed toward; "he is apt to ignore matters he considers unimportant"; "I am not minded to answer any questions".

Noun

1. The work of caring for or attending to someone or something; "no medical care was required"; "the old car needed constant attention".

Date "tending" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Tending

Domain	Definitions
Food & Agriculture	Generally, any operation carried out for the benefit of a forest crop or an individual thereof at any stage of its life. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Tending

Synonyms: apt(p) (adj), disposed(p) (adj), given(p) (adj), minded(p) (adj), tending(p) (adj), aid (n), attention (n), care (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Tending

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Tendency	Adjective: tending; Verb: conducive, working towards, in a fair way to, calculated to; liable; subservient; (instrumental); useful; subsidiary; (helping).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Tending

Specialty definitions using "tending": Amphitrite ♦ Bar, bathotonic reagent, BLENDER II, BOLTER HELPER, brim buster, brim plater, brim pouncer, BRIM PRESSER I, BRIM-POUNCING-MACHINE OPERATOR, By-the-way ♦ CAMP TENDER, CELL MAKER, chalcophile, CMI centrifuge, COATING-MACHINE OPERATOR II, compressive force, compressive loading, contour stitcher, contra doping, cross assimilation, crush movement ♦ décantation, doping compensation ♦ fast-brim pouncer, FILLING-MACHINE SET-UP MECHANIC, Finger-stall, FLASH-DRIER OPERATOR, forest residues, freezer assistant ♦ groundwood ♦ HEAD OPERATOR, SULFIDE ♦ ICE CREAM FREEZER ASSISTANT ♦ kick crank ♦ LIQUEFACTION-AND-REGASIFICATION-PLANT OPERATOR, logging residues, longseam-machine operator ♦ MATTRESS MAKER, Maxwell's rule, MVA-REACTOR OPERATOR, HEAD ♦ overdoping ♦ POT-ROOM SUPERVISOR, PREPLEATER, PROCESSOR HELPER, PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR, PROFILE-STITCHING-MACHINE OPERATOR, pushing force ♦ REPAIRER II, RIVETING-MACHINE OPERATOR II, rotary vibrating tippler, runstitching-machine operator ♦ SAMPLER-TESTER, savanna forest, savanna woodland, savannah forest, savannah woodland, Seebeck effect, SOCIAL WORKER, DELINQUENCY PREVENTION, SUGAR-REPROCESS OPERATOR, HEAD, SUPERVISOR, CURED-MEAT PACKING, SUPERVISOR, RIDES, SUPERVISOR, SCOURING PADS ♦ total pressure, TURNING-MACHINE-OPERATOR HELPER ♦ Una Serranilla ♦ WAD-BLANKING-PRESS ADJUSTER, wedge theory, WHEEL-MILL OPERATOR, wracking force ♦ yielding arch. (references)

Etymologies containing "tending": Additory, Admissive ♦ Depurgatory, Deviatory, Discontentive, Distasteive ♦ frustrative, Furthersome ♦ Healful ♦ Oscillative ♦ Polary, Pulsive ♦ Sublative. (references)

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Modern Usage: Tending

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Come with me. My garden needs tending. (Batman & Robin; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman)
Movie/TV Titles	Tending Towards the Horizontal (1989)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Tending

Domain	Title
Books	Tending Lives: Nurses on the Medical Front (reference) Tending Roses (reference) Tending the Earth, Mending the Spirit: The Healing Gifts of Gardening (reference) Tending the Heart of Virtue: How Classic Stories Awaken a Child's Moral Imagination (reference) Tending to Virginia: A Novel (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Tending

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Photo Album: Tending

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Employee tending one of several incinerators located at CDC.Credit: CDC.		Tending tide gages by float plane.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.
	Tending a tide gage by plane Plane off of PIONEER.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.		Tending the return of the longline. Plate VIII, print 6. In: "Results of the Scientific Campaigns of the Prince of Monaco." Vol. 89.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.
	Masked booby - Sula dactylatra - tending nest.Credit: Small World.		Hispanic children tending goats on their farm.Credit: USDA.
	Tending our foothillsEnvironmental EducationFour Rivers Field OfficeLSRDLower Snake River District.Credit: Barry Rose.		D. Jones Tending Snare.Credit: Alaska Historical Image Library.
	U.S. American National Red Cross Hospital No.1, Paris, France. : Nurse tending to an American patient.Credit: National Library of Medicine.		[Nurse tending to little boy in bed].Credit: National Library of Medicine.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Tending

Author	Quotation
Abraham Lincoln	We must ask where we are and whither we are tending.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Tending

Author	Date	Quotation
John Locke	1690	But if a long train of abuses, prevarications and artifices, all tending the same way, make the design visible to the people, and they cannot but feel what they lie under, and see whither they are going; it is not to be wondered, that they should then rouze themselves, and endeavour to put the rule into such hands which may secure to them the ends for which government was at first erected; and without which, ancient names, and specious forms, are so far from being better, that they are much worse, than the state of nature, or pure anarchy; the inconveniencies being all as great and as near, but the remedy farther off and more difficult. (Second Treatise of Government)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Tending

Title	Author	Quote
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded	Carroll, Lewis	But the moving body, ever tending to fall, needs constant support, if it is to move in a true horizontal line.
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	All progress is tending towards the solution.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Tending

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		While small and medium firms tend to concentrate on the local market, the large firms are tending towards global market policies. (references)
Economic History	Taiwan	Overall growth in import market value ticked in also at 31%. Imported grapes enjoy market differentiation from local grapes; the latter tending to have a slightly more sour taste and tough skin. (references)
Trade	Ukraine	Amid all this uncertainty, large companies are tending to remain very cautious until the GOU delivers a clear policy on the future of the free economic zones. (references)
Women	Pakistan	Police are reluctant to take the complaint and sometimes are abusive toward the victim; the courts do not have consistent standards of proof as to what constitutes rape and what corroboration is required; and judges, police, and prosecutors are biased against female rape victims, tending towards a presumption of female consent and the belief that women lie about such things. (references)
Worker Rights	Korea	Amnesty International reports that forced labor, such as logging and tending crops, is common among prisoners. (references)
	Niger	The majority of rural children regularly worked with their families from a very early age--helping in the fields, pounding grain, tending animals, getting firewood and water, and other similar tasks. (references)
	Belgium	The ICFTU report added that civil court judges often ruled in the employers' favor without giving a hearing to the unions, tending to end strikes under the threat of massive fines and prohibit picketing. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: Tending

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
James Monroe	1817-1825	The pillage thus taken they carry to their lurking places, and dispose of afterwards at prices tending to seduce the neighboring population.
John Quincy Adams	1825-1829	To the suggestions repeated in the report of the Secretary of the Navy, and tending to the permanent improvement of this institution, I invite the favorable consideration of Congress.
Franklin Pierce	1853-1857	Every measure tending to strengthen the fraternal feelings of all the members of our Union has had my heartfelt approbation.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Tending

"Tending" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 97.61% of the time. "Tending" is used about 376 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	97.61%	367	14,753
Noun (singular)	1.86%	7	133,076
Noun (proper)	0.53%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	376	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Tending

Expression using "tending": tending to slide backwards. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "tending": tending-to-fat.
	Ending with "tending": aphid-tending, bird-tending, machine-tending.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Tending

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
bar tending	38
bar school tending	38
goal tending	18
hockey goal tending	12
goal history tending	4
grave services tending	4
bar course tending	3
goal instruction tending	3
bar recipe tending	2
machine robot tending	2
goal hockey ice tending	2
bar guide tending	2
flair tending	2
bar supply tending	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Tending

Language		Translations for "tending"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		趋向 (gravitate, Gravitated, Gravitating, tend, Tended, trend, Trended, Trending). (various references)

Danish		pleje (attend, grooming, nurse, tend to). (various references)

Dutch		verplegingsmaatregelen. (various references)

Finnish		hoito (administration, attendance, care, growing, management, nursing, raising, rearing, stock farming, stockrearing, therapy, treatment). (various references)

French		travaux culturaux, soins sylvicoles, soins culturaux, opérations culturales, entretiens culturaux. (various references)

German		Pflegemaßnahmen. (various references)

Hungarian		felügyelés, ellátás (accommodations, alimentation, attendance, catering, electrification, fare, logistics, maintenance, providing, provision, scaling, service, supply, sustenance). (various references)

Indonesian		ambekan (tending to sulk). (various references)

Italian		operazioni colturali (crop management practices, cultivation, cultural practices), cure al soprassuolo. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		�'�育 (care). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ぶいく (care). (various references)

Korean		감 (going, Persimmon, sense). (various references)

Pig Latin		endingtay

Portuguese		tratamentos/cuidados culturais. (various references)

Scottish		cuallach (herding or tending cattle, society). (various references)

Spanish		cuidados culturales. (various references)

Swedish		skötsel (attendance, care, conduct, cultivation, farming, grooming, maintenance, management, nursing, operation, working), beståndsvård. (various references)

Turkmen		ideg (care, surveillance). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Tending

Derivations
	Words ending with "tending": attending, bartending, coattending, coextending, contending, distending, extending, goaltending, hyperextending, intending, mistending, overextending, portending, pretending, protending, subtending, superintending, unpretending. (additional references)
	Words containing "tending": goaltendings. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Tending" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Gendin, jending, ntending, tenain, tendant, tenden, tendint, tendion, terding, tindings, tondino. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Tending"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "tending" (pronounced te"nding)
6	t e" n d i ng	attending, contending, extending, intending, overextending, portending, pretending.
5	-e" n d i ng	amending, apprehending, ascending, bending, blending, commending, comprehending, condescending, defending, depending, descending, ending, expending, fending, impending, lending, mending, misspending, offending, pending, recommending, relending, rending, sending, spending, suspending, transcending, trending, unbending, unending, vending, wending.
4	-n d i ng	abounding, astounding, banding, binding, blinding, bonding, bounding, branding, commanding, compounding, confounding, corresponding, defunding, demanding, disbanding, expanding, expounding, finding, founding, freestanding, funding, grandstanding, grinding, grounding, handing, hounding, landing, longstanding, masterminding, minding, misunderstanding, nonbinding, notwithstanding, outspending, outstanding, overfunding, overspending, pounding, rebounding, refunding, reminding, rescinding, resounding, responding, rounding, sanding, sounding, spellbinding, standing, stranding, surrounding, underfunding, understanding, unwinding, upstanding, winding, withstanding, wounding.
3	-d i ng	abiding, acceding, according, adding, affording, aiding, alluding, applauding, avoiding, awarding, backsliding, balding, bedding, beheading, beholding, bidding, biding, bleeding, blockading, boarding, bombarding, braiding, breading, breeding, brooding, budding, building, cascading, ceding, cheerleading, chiding, clouding, codding, coding, coinciding, colliding, colluding, conceding, concluding, confiding, cording, crowding, crusading, deciding, decoding, defrauding, degrading, deluding, denuding, deriding, discarding, disregarding, dividing, downgrading, downloading, dreading, eluding, encoding, eroding, evading, exceeding, excluding, exploding, extruding, fading, featherbedding, feeding, feuding, Fielding, flooding, folding, forbidding, foreboding, forwarding, gadding, gilding, girding, Gladding, gliding, goading, Godding, grading, guarding, guiding, handholding, heading, heeding, heralding, herding, hiding, hoarding, holding, impeding, imploding, inbreeding, including, interceding, intruding, invading, joyriding, kidding, kneading, lading, landholding, lauding, leading, loading, madding, marauding, masquerading, Melding, misleading, misreading, molding, moulding, needing, nodding, nonbuilding, outbidding, overbuilding, overcrowding, overloading, overriding, padding, parading, persuading, pervading, pleading, plodding, preceding, precluding, presiding, proceeding, prodding, proofreading, protruding, providing, pudding, punctuating, raiding, railroading, reading, rebuilding, receding, recording, Redding, Reding, regarding, rereading, residing, retarding, retreading, rewarding, ridding, riding, rodding, safeguarding, scaffolding, scalding, scolding, seceding, seeding, serenading, shading, shedding, shepherding, shielding, shipbuilding, shredding, shrouding, siding, skateboarding, skidding, sledding, sliding, spearheading, speeding, spreading, stampeding, striding, subsiding, succeeding, superseding, threading, tiding, trading, treading, unfolding, unloading, unyielding, upgrading, upholding, voiding, wading, warding, wedding, weeding, welding, wielding, Wilding, withholding, Wooding, wording, yielding.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Tending

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: denting.
	Words within the letters "d-e-g-i-n-n-t"
	-1 letter: dentin, ending, ginned, indent, intend, nidget, tinged, tinned.
	-2 letters: deign, dinge, inned, teind, tined, tinge.
	-3 letters: deni, dent, diet, dine, ding, dint, dite, edit, gent, gied, gien, nide, nine, nite, tend, tide, tied, tine, ting.
	-4 letters: den, die, dig, din, dit, end, eng, ged, gen, get, gid, gie, gin, git, inn, net, nit, ted, teg, ten, tie, tin.
	-5 letters: de, ed, en, et, id, in, it, ne, ti.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-g-i-n-n-t"
	+1 letter: denoting, enditing, indigent, trending, untinged.
	+2 letters: attending, decanting, dementing, destining, detaining, extending, indenting, indigents, indulgent, integrand, intending, tendering.
	+3 letters: anteceding, antedating, bartending, contending, datelining, decentring, demounting, denaturing, denegation, denudating, depainting, descanting, designment, destaining, dethroning, detonating, detraining, dipnetting, dissenting, distending, emendating, grindstone, ingredient, integrands, mistending, outgrinned, portending, pretending, protending, stringendo, subtending, thundering, untreading.
	+4 letters: adventuring, antagonized, coattending, coextending, constringed, deaminating, decentering, delineating, denegations, denervating, denigrating, denigration, designating, designation, designments, determining, disentangle, documenting, enlightened, fecundating, goaltending, grindstones, headhunting, identifying, indenturing, indigestion, indignities, indulgently, ingredients, interceding, invaginated, lightninged, outspending, reindicting, reinducting, sedimenting, tenderizing, tragedienne, underacting, undereating, underrating, undertaking, undertaxing, undeviating, unsteadying, unthreading.
	+5 letters: androgenetic, antispending, decongesting, decongestion, decrementing, definitizing, degenerating, degeneration, delaminating, demonetizing, denigrations, denitrifying, denominating, deracinating, desalinating, designations, disentailing, disentangled, disentangles, disentitling, disinfecting, disinfesting, disinterring, disinvesting, disorienting, freestanding, ganglionated, goaltendings, guanethidine, heartrending, heterodyning, indigestions, interbedding, interchanged, interdicting, interfolding, intergrading, interlarding, interlending, intermingled, kindergarten, meningitides, nondepleting, nonirrigated, outdesigning, predestining, thunderingly, tragediennes, transcending, trendsetting, typefounding, undercoating, undercutting, underletting, understating, undertakings, underwriting, undesignated, ungentrified, ungerminated, unintegrated, unpretending.
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