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Tends meaning
third-person singular simple present indicative of tend
Using Tends
- The main meaning on this page is: third-person singular simple present indicative of tend
- In the example corpus, tends often appears in combinations such as: tends to, it tends, that tends.
Context around Tends
- Average sentence length in these examples: 31.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 11 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Tends
- In this selection, "tends" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 31.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, travel, surface and ice stand out and add context to how "tends" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include as h tends to zero and action and tends to stabilize. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "tends" sits close to words such as panic, approve and muscle, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with tends
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Softer ice tends to slow speeds, while harder ice tends to lead to faster times. (15 words)
It tends to go down before the economy starts to decline, and it tends to go up before the economy starts to recover. (23 words)
But in countries where overall voter participation tends to be high, turnout among the younger age group tends to be high, as well. (23 words)
This is a subtlety that tends to escape today’s so-called free speech warriors, a group that reaches into government, which focuses on new restrictions to punching down, and tends to see fewer problems with rules that might prevent people punching up. (43 words)
Fair warning though: Pet hair tends to cling to the upholstery, and I've noticed the fabric on the front end of the seat tends to pill quite quickly, but this is a great deal on an excellent chair. (39 words)
Many beach adapted species (such as coconut palms) have a fine root system and large root ball which tends to withstand wave and wind action and tends to stabilize beaches better than other trees with a lesser root ball. (39 words)
Example sentences (20)
Fair warning though: Pet hair tends to cling to the upholstery, and I've noticed the fabric on the front end of the seat tends to pill quite quickly, but this is a great deal on an excellent chair.
The first quarter for us, you will tend to see gross margins be pretty strong because it tends to be more – our first quarter tends to be more heavily weighted towards parts and consumables.
It tends to go down before the economy starts to decline, and it tends to go up before the economy starts to recover.
On the flip side, this tends to make the car exhibit some body roll and over uneven roads, the car tends to feel bouncy.
This is a subtlety that tends to escape today’s so-called free speech warriors, a group that reaches into government, which focuses on new restrictions to punching down, and tends to see fewer problems with rules that might prevent people punching up.
But in countries where overall voter participation tends to be high, turnout among the younger age group tends to be high, as well.
First, we have the obvious reasons for the business being exposed to cyclicality as travel tends to fall in the discretionary spending camp -- most travel tends to scale down dramatically in downturns (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
One of the biggest differences between them though, is that Aquaman tends to fight his own, specific foes, while Namor tends to battle it out with general Marvel characters.
It is well-established that prosecutors have an obligation to disclose to the defense information that tends to exculpate the accused () or that tends to impeach the credibility of the government’s witnesses (Giglio v. United States).
After regrouping the terms, the right-hand side becomes: : Because ε(h) and η(k h ) tend to zero as h tends to zero, the first two bracketed terms tend to zero as h tends to zero.
Another difference in musical styles is fiddling tends to produce rhythms focused on dancing, with associated quick note changes, whereas classical music tends to contain more vibrato and sustained notes.
It is called an asymptotic cone, because the distance to the cone of a point of the surface tends to zero when the point on the surface tends to infinity.
Many beach adapted species (such as coconut palms) have a fine root system and large root ball which tends to withstand wave and wind action and tends to stabilize beaches better than other trees with a lesser root ball.
One of the central characteristics is that anthropology tends to provide a comparatively more holistic account of phenomena and tends to be highly empirical.
Primary tillage such as ploughing tends to produce a rough surface finish, whereas secondary tillage tends to produce a smoother surface finish, such as that required to make a good seedbed for many crops.
Small-scale gardening and farming, for household food production or small business production, tends to use the smaller-scale methods above, whereas medium- to large-scale farming tends to use the larger-scale methods.
Softer ice tends to slow speeds, while harder ice tends to lead to faster times.
Suppose that the curve tends to infinity, that is: : A line ℓ is an asymptote of A if the distance from the point A(t) to ℓ tends to zero as t → b. citation, §8.
When rates move higher, the bond part of a convertible bond tends to move lower, but the call option part of a convertible bond moves higher (and the aggregate tends to move lower).
According to the charity’s founder, local boy Tommy McGrory, Loud ‘n’ Proud was always driven by more than just ‘getting kids off the streets’, which is the narrative that tends to attach itself to projects like his.
Common combinations with tends
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- tends to 217×
- it tends 16×
- that tends 14×
- which tends 12×
- and tends 8×
- this tends 7×
- he tends 5×
- travel tends 3×
- history tends 3×
- also tends 3×