" tense "

[Adjective]  | "tense" | \ ˈten(t)s \

1: stretched tight : made taut : rigid

2: feeling or showing nervous tension

3: marked by strain or suspense

Origin: 1668 ;

 Borrowed from Latin tensus, from past participle of tendere "to extend outward, stretch, spread out" {mat|tender:3|};

[Adjective]  | "hy*per*tense" | \ ˈhī-pər-ˌten(t)s \

1: extremely or excessively tense

2: affected with hypertension : hypertensive

Origin: 1898 ;

[Verb]  | "tense" 

1: to make tense

2: to become tense

Origin: 1676 ;

 Derivative of {see: |tense:1|tense:1};

[Noun]  | "tense" 

1: a distinction of form in a verb to express distinctions of time or duration of the action or state it denotes

2: a set of inflectional forms of a verb that express distinctions of time

3: an inflectional form of a verb expressing a specific time distinction

Origin: 14th century ;

 Middle English tens, borrowed from Anglo-French tens, temps "time, moment, season, tense," going back to Latin tempus "period of time, season, tense" {mat|tempo|};

[Noun]  | "past tense" 

1: a verb tense expressing action or state in or as if in the past:

2: a verb tense expressive of elapsed time (such as wrote in "on arriving I wrote a letter")

3: a verb tense expressing action or state in progress or continuance or habitually done or customarily occurring at a past time (such as was writing in "I was writing while he dictated" or loved in "their sons loved fishing")

Origin: 1729 ;

[Noun]  | "present tense" 

1: the tense of a verb that expresses action or state in the present time and is used of what occurs or is true at the time of speaking and of what is habitual or characteristic or is always or necessarily true, that is sometimes used to refer to action in the past, and that is sometimes used for future events

Origin: 15th century ;

[Noun]  | "future tense" 

1: a verb tense that is used to refer to the future

[Noun]  | "perfect tense" 

1: a verb tense that is used to refer to an action or state that is completed at the time of speaking or at a time spoken of

[Noun]  | "progressive tense" 

1: a verb tense that is used to refer to an action or a state that is continuing to happen

[Adjective]  | "tense" 

[Verb]  | "tense"