0 past simple and past participle of tend
1 to be likely to behave in a particular way or have a particular characteristic:
2 to care for something or someone:
Children tend to get unsettled if you keep on changing their routine.
Paintwork on the corner of a stairway tends to get nicked and scratched.
The British traditionally tend not to display much emotion in public.
Up until the twentieth century, regulations regarding marital fitness tended to follow the common-law rules on the capacity of parties to contract.
In general, receptive-field size tended to increase as the depth of the electrode tip increased.
The results of these structural changes have tended to be contradictory.
