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Tending

noun

1.

The work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something. Synonyms: aid, attention, care. "The old car needs constant attention"

adjective

1.

(usually followed by 'to') naturally disposed toward. Synonyms: apt, disposed, given, minded. "I am not minded to answer any questions"

Tend

verb

(past & past part. tended; pres. part. tending)

1.

Have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined. Synonyms: be given, incline, lean, run. "These dresses run small" , "He inclined to corpulence"

2.

Have care of or look after.

3.

Manage or run.

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"Tending" Quotes from Famous Books

... to the financial arrangements of his individual institution. This fact was the suspension of specie payments by the State banks, resulting from the non-intercourse act, the suspension of the old bank, and the combined causes tending to produce a derangement of the currency of the country. It was then a matter of great doubt with him how he should preserve the integrity of his own institution, while the other banks were suspending their payments; but the credit of his own bank was effectually ...

— Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made • James D. McCabe, Jr.

... hundred years ago if I was ever upty about this here flower job," he answered in an undertone to Everett as he turned his attention to the rose-bushes at which his apprentice had been pegging away. "At weddings and bornings and flower tending man is just a worm under woman's feet and he might as well not even hope to turn. All ...

— Rose of Old Harpeth • Maria Thompson Daviess

... glorious truth that through simple faith in the atoning blood of Christ salvation is gained—that it is their own, and that the right motive of action must be through love and obedience to Him who has already saved them. All the forms and ceremonies in which they indulge are but will-worship, tending to obscure their view of Him, and to destroy their ...

— Clara Maynard - The True and the False - A Tale of the Times • W.H.G. Kingston

... considerations—of a different kind, it is true, but tending in the same direction—seems to have been overlooked. Not only is it true that the general plan of construction of animals and plants has been the same in all recorded time as at present, but there are particular kinds ...

— Time and Life • Thomas H. Huxley

... movement tending toward an object does not touch the double form. Thus, in saying that a thing is admirable, we start from a multitude of physical centres whose sense we are to determine. When this sense is known, understanding the point of departure, ...

— Delsarte System of Oratory • Various

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