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UK
/tˈɛndɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈtɛndɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈtɛndɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
(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
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the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something
the old car needs constant attention
no medical care was required
How To Use tending In A Sentence
- Their children were mostly of high school age or attending university which required a great deal of money.
- Advertisers pretending to be private individuals will be liable to prosecution.
- Construction here would include offices, retail and hotels with the objective of integrating the docklands with the city centre and extending its functions to the east.
- Of course the appendix has always been subject to inflammation, just as it is now, but in former years the disease we call appendicitis bore various names, depending upon the diagnostic skill of the attending physician. Appendicitis
- But it means you get this style of performance across the board that is people inhabiting characters rather than pretending to be people. Times, Sunday Times
- Guardian International correspondent Jonathan Steele called Bush's and Blair's denial of the horrors attending the Iraq civil war "Panglossian" - referring to the ever optimistic Dr. Pangloss of Voltaire's novel Candide who, at every disaster, proclaims that ours is the best of all possible worlds. Surge to Purge: The 80% Solution in Iraq
- His hobbies included tending the many trees in his garden, hillwalking, classical music, opera and photography. Times, Sunday Times
- Finally, a small number of participants discussed their experiences with gender-bending - that is, pretending to be of the opposite sex - during an online sexual encounter.
- She emotionally recalls what it was like as a teenager running into her homeless dad on the streets and pretending she didn't know him.
- But the matron still expected me to work and I was forced to hop around the wards tending to my patients.