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verb (used without object)

to be disposed or inclined in action, operation, or effect to do something: The particles tend to unite.

to be disposed toward an idea, emotion, way of thinking, etc.: He tends to be overly optimistic. Her religious philosophy tends toward pantheism.

to lead or conduce, as to some result or resulting condition: measures tending to improved working conditions; Governments are tending toward democracy.

to be inclined to or have a tendency toward a particular quality, state, or degree: This wine tends toward the sweet side.

(of a journey, course, road, etc.) to lead or be directed in a particular direction (usually followed by to, toward, etc.): a path tending toward the beach.

Origin:
1300–50; Middle English tenden < Middle French tendre < Latin tendere to stretch, extend, proceed

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verb (used with object)

to attend to by work or services, care, etc.: to tend a fire.

to look after; watch over and care for; minister to or wait on with service: to tend the sick.

Nautical. to handle or attend to (a rope).

verb (used without object)

to attend by action, care, etc. (usually followed by to).

Verb phrase

tend on/upon, Archaic. to attend or wait upon; minister to; serve: She tended on the sick and dying with infinite compassion.

Origin:
1300–50; Middle English tenden, aphetic variant of attend

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tend

"attend to," early 14c., aphetic of M.E. atenden (see attend).

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Idioms & Phrases

tend to

Apply one's attention, as in We should tend to our business, which is to teach youngsters. This term uses tend in the sense of "attend." [1300s]
Be disposed or inclined, as in We tend to believe whatever we are told. This term uses tend in the sense of "have a tendency." [c. 1600]

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"The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful. The Greeks engendered the chimera, a monster with heads of the lion, the dragon and the goat; the theologians of the second century, the Trinity, in which the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost are inextricably tied; the Chinese zoologists, the ti-yiang, a vermilion supernatural bird, endowed with six feet and four wings, but without a face or eyes; the geometers of the nineteenth century, the hypercube, a figure with four dimensions, which encloses an infinite number of cubes and has as its faces eight cubes and twenty-four squares. Hollywood has just enriched this vain museum of horrors: by means of an artistic malignity called dubbing, it proposes monsters that combine the illustrious features of Greta Garbo with the voice of Aldonza Lorenzo."

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