Tend

What do we mean by tend?

To have a tendency. intransitive verb

To be disposed or inclined. intransitive verb

To move or extend in a certain direction. intransitive verb

To have the care of; watch over; look after. intransitive verb

To manage the activities and transactions of; run. intransitive verb

To be an attendant or servant. intransitive verb

To apply one's attention; attend. intransitive verb

See tind.

To reach out; offer; tender.

To move or be directed, literally or figuratively; hold a course.

To have a tendency to operate in some particular direction or way; have a bent or inclination to effective action in some particular direction; aim or serve more or less effectively and directly: commonly followed by an infinitive: as, exercise tends to strengthen the muscles.

To serve, contribute, or conduce in some degree or way; be influential in some direction, or in promoting some purpose or interest; have a more or less direct bearing or effect (upon something).

Synonyms To incline, lean, verge, trend.

To conduce.

Obsolete past participle of teen.

To attend; wait upon as an assistant or protector; guard.

To look after; take care of; have the charge, care, or supervision of: as, to tend a machine; to tend a flock; to tend a sick person.

To be attentive to; attend to; be mindful of; mind.

To wait upon so as to execute; be prepared to perform.

Nautical, to watch, as a vessel at anchor, at the turn of tides, and cast her by the helm, and by some sail if necessary, so as to keep turns out of her cable.

(Old English law) To make a tender of; to offer or tender.

(followed by a to-infinitive) To be likely, or probable to do something, or to have a certain habit or leaning.

To contribute to or toward some outcome.

A bit gay, a bit stylish. Kind of inbetween. Urban Dictionary

Sugar coating masturbation. A strong inclination, resulting in masturbating, due to a surge of hormones erupting in ones body. Urban Dictionary

Keeping the hair of the pubic region in check. Also known as tending (to) the crops/garden. Urban Dictionary

Using your hand to cup your balls as a makeshift suspensory or scrotal support to keep from rupturing yourself from grunting and forcing out an unusually large turd or from constipation.Can also be used to protect balls from over-spray in wicked projectile diarrhea situations.In this scenario the ball sack is pulled up between the legs,safely sheltered from splatter and back-splash. Urban Dictionary

Going to the bar with the intention of picking up a hot chick...then going home with a fat girl. Urban Dictionary

Goal-tending, in basketball, is the act of blocking the ball right before it goes in the basket. Hole-tending is right before you stick your dick in a girls pussy or asshole and she rejects the insertion Urban Dictionary

1. To prevent a male friend or associate from getting some action. 2. Any such attempt to prevent a male friend or associate from getting some action. Urban Dictionary

To take care of a baby and watch him/her. Urban Dictionary

Well-tended: a well-kept, tidy, good-looking place such as a garden or house. Urban Dictionary

1. to go to the bathroom to pee 2. sexual gratification via vagina from either the owner of vagina or other Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to tend:
tend.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word tend:
necked, plump, fliers, retracted, wary, tails, prefer, emphasize, rounded, weak, rely, birds, fewer, aggressive, whereas, larger, fly, nest, exhibit, less, higher, occur, smaller, grow, vary, seed, expensive, focus, toward, favor, fairly, follow, avoid, wings.

Words that rhyme with tend:
end, bend, friend, lend, attend, amend, trend, recommend, contend, extend, spend, transcend, send, blend, commend, portend, comprehend, intend, pretend, apprehend, append, suspend, descend, condescend, offend, mend, dividend, depend, expend, ascend, defend, unbend, fend, weekend, wend, befriend, godsend, impend, misspend, overspend, outspend, penned, distend, girlfriend, abend, bookend, boyfriend, yearend, back end, scend, dead end, denned, yenned, rear end, shend, downtrend, overextend, pitchblende, mende, bitter end, hornblende, front end, tail end, blende, backend, uptrend, reoffend, ende, best friend, in the end, fag end, arend, tight end, hende, kenned, loose end, tag end, wende, west end, exboyfriend, without end, split end, no end, sheet bend, butt end, townshend, lady friend, hind end, wallsend, becket bend, riverbend, gable end, carrick bend, rende, extra dividend, next friend, equalizing dividend, stock dividend, landsend, goodfriend.

Adjectives that are often used to describe tend:
disagree.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective tend:
befriend, andbefriend.

Consonant match to tend:
tuned, toned, turned, tanned, tined, tinned, tunned, teind, towned, tunde.

Words that sound like tend:
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