tend¹ /tend/

1. To attend to, take care of
2. To mind
3. To watch over or stand by and perform services for or connected with
4. To minister to, wait upon
5. To escort (Shakespeare)

1. To pay attention (with to, esp US)
2. To wait on, attend to (with on, upon; old)
3. To attend, hearken (Shakespeare)
4. To be in waiting or readiness (Shakespeare)
5. To wait, attend (Shakespeare)

tenˈdance noun

1. Tending
2. Expectation (Spenser)
3. Attendants collectively (Shakespeare)

tenˈded adjective

tenˈder noun

1. A person who tends
2. A small craft that attends a larger
3. A carriage attached to a locomotive to carry fuel and water

tend out on (US)

To attend or attend to

tend² /tend/

1. To be apt or prone (to do something)
2. To move or incline in some direction
3. To be directed to any end or purpose
4. To conduce

tenˈdence or tendenz /ten-dentsˈ/ noun (German)

Tendency (esp in composition, tendentious)

tenˈdency noun

1. A trend, drift, inclination
2. Proneness
3. A faction within a particular political movement

tendenˈtious, also tendenˈtial or tendenˈcious adjective

1. Purposely tending or angled
2. With an object
3. Biased, esp towards controversy

tendenˈtiously adverb

tendenˈtiousness noun

• boundary condition
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• boundary layer
• boundary-layer control
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• boundary rider
• boundary riders
• bound-bailiff
• bound-bailiffs
• bounded
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• bounder
• bounders
• bounding
• boundless
• boundlessness
• boundlessnesses
• bounds
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• bound water
• bouned
• bouning
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• bounteous